BMF Peterborough

[Maverick]

Anybody going to the BMF this weekend? I am meeting up with two mates at the South Mimms service station between 7:00 and 7:30. Probably just going to "look" but could not promise the missus I would return empty topboxed

[YEN_POWELL]

I'll be there on both days. Watch out for number 47 in the moped endurance race in the main arena. You've got a 1 in 3 chance of seeing me make a prat out of myself. It's a 4 stroke so not as quick as some of the other Ronnie ring dings.

[Maverick]

Will do mate, I am the guy in the gerricke tent with all the jackets shouting "Mine they ALL MINE!!!!"

[YEN_POWELL]

Will do mate, I am the guy in the gerricke tent with all the jackets shouting "Mine they ALL MINE!!!!"

I used to do that until I realised everything I bought leaked very quickly afterwards. Still, it keeps one out of the rain.

[Maverick]

You obviously did not invest in the return rain suits

[squirrel]

I was going but, off to scotland on the 25th so dont wanna spend all my money, before i get there

[Lord Stig]

Looks like I might not make it to see Yen have a horrible accident after all... Not that I wanted to see that of course! I've spent a lot on the old AT recently, and I know I'll spend more if I go! I already have the MEMBA rallie tickets etc., but some times you have to sacrifice £22 to avoid the near certainty of spending £122! Still, I'm gutted; I was looking forward to this year's rally even as soon as last year's finished. Hmmph.

Stig

[Maverick]

Well made it in one piece there and back without spending to much money. Think I have well nearly everthing I could possibly want at this point in time biking related.

Picked up a Toureg jacket for £70 with no torns or rips. Apparently not completely waterproof but there is something I knew anyway.

Stormtrooper ALERT



We arrived in Peterborough failry early i.e. just after 8:00 and had to wait a fair while to get in since the gates only opened at 9:30.



Don't you just love friends who are comedians...



Good day out and enjoyed the "Wall of Death" and other various entertaining bits. Pity it rained 90% of the day untill we left again

[YEN_POWELL]

Lifted this from the dual sport site and have hopefully got all the swear words ou, sorry if it's a bit disjoiit was two separate posts.


On the Saturday it rained so so so so so so so so heavily I fear that the Millenium pants may have been accidentally washed whilst I was still encased in them. I've been biking a long time, but I can honestly say that Saturday was the worst weather I've ever ridden in. It was even coming through the fabric of our fishing umbrella. When it switched to hailstones I decide someone up there was seriously f*ck*ng with me. The amount of mud flung onto my goggles wrecked them in a few minutes. Spent 40 minutes on Sunday morning looking for replacement lenses as the others were scratched to b*ggery and virtually opaque. I looked like a bog monster at the end, every surface covered in clag. Except my Millenium pants, which are now spotless and good for another decade.


Alas, despite a stunning display of riding on the Saturday, our bike seized up its gearbox after 30 minutes today(race was to be an hour and a half long). Luckily the team next to us had a really big off. The bloke slid along on his visor which covered it in reddy/brown gritty mud, rendering him blind. He managed to crawl to the central grass where he collapsed for a little while, before walking to his chair in the centre looking very shaken up.

At the same time our bike slid to a halt at the entrance to the changeover spot. I ran and helped push the bike. "Pull the clutch in" I shouted to my mate, "this is hard to push". He did have the clutch in and I'd just pushed a bike 100 yards without the wheel actually turning. Shows you how slippery ground conditions were.

Now this this where the luck came in(I know I'm a callous bleeder). Once you're in the arena you have to stay until the end, so we had an hour of mud, dust and noise and no bike to ride. The bloke who'd fell off started compaining about his neck hurting, so an ambulance man, put his hands round the guys neck and lowered him to the floor, calling for a collar and board.

Being wise I realised they'd have to stop the race to let the amulance out. 1 minute later all the bikes got called in. Grabbing helmets, umbrella, tools and the moped we rushed for the newly opened exit at half a mile an hour (no rear wheel turning remember). We left a long drag mark across the grass as we pushed past the gate marshalls. Once outside we pulled the chain off and debated whether to push the bike back to our tents or chuck it in the skip (we've been racing it since 1982).

We pushed it back to the campsite, don't know if the others took it home as I left then and rode home.

[Lord Stig]

So it was a good day..... or wasn't it? Difficult to tell. How much of a massochist are you? Not that much, surely!

Time for a new 'ped??

Stig