I reckon this could help in the next race season EBay item 180073933934
Coo. I've seen a lot worse for a lot more... Mark has been sending me lots of links to ex-Ambulance Leylands so I think he's trying to tell me that he doesn't like me or something. While I would love to buy something like this and use it, you need to spend a lot of nights in a £30 B&B to make up the difference. Plus the B&B is much more comfy, warmer and has a proper bathroom, and generally do much better brekkies. Plus I have nowhere to keep it and I think it would be sufficient grounds for a divorce if I parked that on the drive!
Nesh road racers innit? A tent or the back of an estate car and quick dump in a Turdis too good for them. Hill climb paddocks at two day meetings or the more out of the way venues are a colourful scene of canvas, interspersed with ingenious Trannebago conversions. I favour the air bed in the back of estate. No sponsorship see. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
We only do at most 7 weekends, and two of those (Brands and Snetterton) are close enough not to bother with being there the night before. Donington is a B&B less than half a mile away at £30 a night, at Oulton we found a brilliant farm house for the same and it was a five mile drive to the track, Castle Combe was a weekend so I did actually stay in my £30 tent for the night, having driven up the saturday morning, so that wasn't too bad. Cadwell is a B&B in Louth about 10 mins away, again at £30. Assen is a nice hotel just up the road which was very cheap anyway. I can understand that if you do this every weekend then it makes sense to buy a caravan/motorhome/transporter, especially if you can make use of it for holidays and the like, but otherwise a good B&B suits me just fine!
<rumbled> At Hartland Quay in the days before the lad arrived we would have a room in the Hartland Quay hotel. Very convenient for the pre-event piss up as the start line was next to the door of the outside ladies loo. When I was doing a full season I had an old campervan for four years. A sixteen year old Autohomes Camelot based on a Talbot Express 2.0 petrol. Even towing a trailer carrying two bikes it wasn't quite the mobile chicane that a caravan is, though TBH it was a bit of a slug up long steep hills. Even had a shower in the back. It also did service on family continental holiday trips with the Guzzi outfit on the trailer. I was lucky enough to have room to accommodate it, and it was also something of a money pit come MoT time. I miss it sometimes though. Nice to have somewhere to stand up in out of the rain to put on leathers. Never got round to rigging up the canvas extension on the side to act as workshop - super reliable, well sorted bike ;-) Which reminds me that I really must look in to acquiring a cheap quick erect 'gazebo' type thing this year. They are almost de rigueur in the paddock these days. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
Chap round the corner has one that is might impressive, and a hell of a lot easier to erect that my one with poles that slot together. I don't think they're cheap though, especially compared to my 14.99 one from Wilko, but certainly of much better quality. However, I'm getting lazy and keep paying the extra £25 for a garage instead - saves all the hassle of gazebo and stuff like that as well.
I have. It snowed quite heavily one year while we were there for the Transatlantic Races, in 1986 IIRC. Bloody freezing, and B&B would be far preferable than that.
Then you're either very deaf or somebody's snoring drowned out the planes from the airport next door!
You know, those big white things with wings that can really piss you off come bedtime. Much like panty liners. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
Large winged machines used for the transportation of people and goods over great distances at a far greater speed than is possible using other methods of transport.... But that's not important right now.
Champ says... Camping at Donington was ok, until 2000 when pissed up Geordies set fire to 15 out of the 16 chemical bogs on the campsite at 3am. The stench from the burning plastic, chemicals and half a ton of shit was indescribable, so I stopped camping there after that.
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty Late, I know, but can I just say: ROTFLMAO. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
