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Old 08-Sep-2013, 22:00
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That's good going & good to know you can still do well even when carrying a bit more weight than some of the featherweights.
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Old 10-Sep-2013, 10:25
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That's good going & good to know you can still do well even when carrying a bit more weight than some of the featherweights.

i'm nearly 16 stone now, I can usually run near the front,, but weight is huge disadvantage, i'm usually the slowest down the straights.

bradders not a light fella and he was propper fast too.
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Old 11-Sep-2013, 14:12
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Not expecting to be a front runner, as long as i'm competitve enough to have a few dices with people thru' the race & not get left for dead on the start line I'll be happyish.
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Old 12-Sep-2013, 10:58
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Not expecting to be a front runner, as long as i'm competitve enough to have a few dices with people thru' the race & not get left for dead on the start line I'll be happyish.

pretty much everyone has someone at about their level and usually someone just ahead to try to catch.. (unless your Dave Woods or Tom Halifax)
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Old 12-Sep-2013, 13:17
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Sounds good to me. Just waiting to see where HT decide to go next year although I suppose i don't need to do full season.
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Old 12-Sep-2013, 14:43
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Not expecting to be a front runner, as long as i'm competitve enough to have a few dices with people thru' the race & not get left for dead on the start line I'll be happyish.

Never mind the two racing snakes who have won their respective championships, all they have is; speed, energy, skill, youth, a lack of fear and the ability to buy slim Italian off the peg leathers that fit perfectly.
Whereas we have science on our side;
speed = distance x time; well I know with the amount of times I overrun corners, get on the wrong line and generally wader round the tracks I am covering more distance than they are, and at my age time seems to fly past, so it stands to reason the speed is good.
Then of course there is E=MC2; so if Energy is Mass x Speed (of light) squared....well many of us have pleanty of that mass stuff, so the combined mass and speed of everyone else is.....well, bloody staggering!
So I think the reason that these two have just buggered off into the the distance is that they have to, because if they slowed down at all, they would get flattened by speeding mass following them!
So come and join the speeding mass and have fun with us on the back seats!
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Old 12-Sep-2013, 15:12
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Never mind the two racing snakes who have won their respective championships, all they have is; speed, energy, skill, youth, a lack of fear and the ability to buy slim Italian off the peg leathers that fit perfectly.
Whereas we have science on our side;
speed = distance x time; well I know with the amount of times I overrun corners, get on the wrong line and generally wader round the tracks I am covering more distance than they are, and at my age time seems to fly past, so it stands to reason the speed is good.
Then of course there is E=MC2; so if Energy is Mass x Speed (of light) squared....well many of us have pleanty of that mass stuff, so the combined mass and speed of everyone else is.....well, bloody staggering!
So I think the reason that these two have just buggered off into the the distance is that they have to, because if they slowed down at all, they would get flattened by speeding mass following them!
So come and join the speeding mass and have fun with us on the back seats!
love it, I wonder what the combined i.q. of a full DD grid is?
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Old 12-Sep-2013, 18:39
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love it, I wonder what the combined i.q. of a full DD grid is?

Somewhere between 20 and 36 depending how many are out there


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Old 13-Sep-2013, 08:54
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love it, I wonder what the combined i.q. of a full DD grid is?

I've got one of those i.q. thingys, my Mum and Dad gave it as a birth day present, but to be honest have not really used it, especially when racing when I just leave it at home!
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