That'll Be Me Off to Rockingham Then...

Brrrm! Brrrm! It's Alive! Aliiiiive!

Sourced a s/h radiator off eBay for 90 quid delivered
(Buy It Now!) and a headlight bucket with the arms (which
are 15 quid a piece new!) from a guy in the DSC for 45 quid
delivered.

The left-hand handle bar with switchgear turned up this
morning (25 quid delivered from a breaker I've used before
which I thought was an absolute steal as just a handle
bar is 85 quid new!) so I've spent the last hour fitting
that, running it up and checking for leaks then finally
fitting the trackday fairing.

Not too bad considering, and all sorted in a week. I'll
now pick up the left side, top fairing and headlight
that I need for road kit off ebay and maybe see if I
can get a decent (read: undented) tank off there too.
This one will always keep for trackdays.

Now to sling it up the track at Rockingham on friday...

 

Watch the fast left hander before the hairpin.
Dunno why but loads came a cropper there when I was there.
Including my mate on his GSXR600. He just slid off infront of me at
about 90-100mph.
Quite scary.

 

Excellent news.

'dat be Gracelands, definitely the corner with a bit of everything.
Rumour has it was named after the director who first landed his
Ferrari in the huge gravel trap.

Decreasing radius, blind crest and big negative camber thrown in to
eat you up if you apex early and run wide. But once you get used to
a late turn in you can get back on the throttle quite early.

I can thoroughly recommend the following hairpin for crash bung
testing.

 

That's the bugger.

Yeah, I think there were a few who crashed there aswell.

Six ish throughout the day AFAIR.

 

That'll be the one my mate Andy broke his leg at, and why
he wasn't too keen to sign up for the trackday then!

 

And I can recommend the 90 right hander two corners back as another bung
tester.

RUnning wide on the right hander at the end of the straight isn't
recommended either - that ground was rather rough :|