I’ve done that a few times at the indoor place near Chippenham. It was amazing fun but I fkd myself right up, and it also left my then 16 year old son with a concussion after the little (well, 6’3”) f*cker tried to go round the outside of me at the end of the straight, so I just let the brakes off and put him in the wall.
I can beat that! I highsided* my eBike about this time last year so badly that it needed a new rear wheel, motor and sensor set doing this sort of foolishness. Just cos you grow old doesn't mean you need to grow up. * It wasn't a proper "power" high side. I was using the rear brake to back it in on a gravel path and I think I overdid it, so the rear wheel dug in then flipped the bike (and me).
Problem now solved, leathers with stretch panels and an adjustable waist on my Rukka jacket! Racing and circuits? Not allowed, since last time on track (carting on a fastish track in 2018) I got myself T boned in round two. Somehow I had qualified 3rd out of twelve, which included several “youngsters” and expd carters. Not wanting to lose ground on the first corner, lost traction due to the cold tyres, backed off to regain grip and “wallop”. I am convinced it was my “best mate” who gave a sympathy vote by hitting every pothole in the road heading home with his stupid low profile tyres and hard suspension. While I winced and complained like a little girl. Painful is broken ribs. He then asked if I was still out for a few beers that night. What a Knobend. Took a couple of months to recover properly.
I love a bit of karting and usually do ok at arrive and drive events. My eldest son has a real feel for it and he finished (IIRC) 3rd in the last one we did at Rye House last summer ahead of some young guys who were clearly racers, or at least they had all the racing gear. We did look into getting him into karting when he was a pre-teen but unfortunately my ex-wife and I were broke at the time and I also couldn't afford the time cost as I was studying. The girlf, on the other hand, is comically useless at it and the one and only time me, my sons and her all went (indoor) karting as a group resulted in the session being abandoned on the first lap and people getting their entry fee refunded after she forgot to brake at the end of the main straight, submarined the tyre wall and broke the track. Some of the floor had lifted and dislodged part of the ceiling underneath it so you could actually see into the room below. They eventually managed to fix it and get people back on track but it took them the best part of an hour by which time half the other drivers had got fed up waiting and sacked it off. It sounds funny now, but it wasn't at the time because it happened right in front of me and all I saw was her ploughing straight on at full pelt to disappear under the tyres with her upper half and head getting bent back over the rear of the kart at a horrible angle. I thought she'd broken her neck tbh. Luckily she used to do a lot of gymnastics until her 20s, she's only mid-30s now and she's still into fitness, so she's more or less made of rubber and all she suffered was a badly sprained ankle.
You can spend A LOT of wedge karting. Even when I was a kid people where throwing 120+k a season at it. And that was ages ago. It's madness really.
Yep. Back then we couldn't have afforded even 10% of that outlay. He then got into boxing but sadly stopped going when me and his mum broke up and didn't go back to it again until his late teens. Although he is very handy and his then coach (an Olympic silver medallist) reckoned he was one of the best youngsters he'd coached in ages as though he's only a lightweight he's got a right hand like a super-middleweight plus very good head and foot work, a combination of school, life events and other stuff meant he couldn't maintain much continuity of training. He finally started to get some stability in his life a couple of years ago and really put the work in, but just as he was getting ready to take proper fights, Covid hit and lockdown totally screwed that pooch. It's probably too late for him now as he's knocking on the door of 21. Although both Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder and a few other fighters have started around that age, it always seems to be heavyweights who do ok as late bloomers rather than the lower weight guys.
What the hell is going on here ? Is this the official Ducati branch of Weight Watchers that I've accidentally stumbled into ? I'm going to quote from the Bard of Salford .... According to John Cooper Clarke , he was walking through town one day and somebody shouted " Hey Clarkey you fat bastard , get back on the smack "
According to John Cooper Clarke , he was walking through town one day and somebody shouted " Hey Clarkey you fat bastard , get back on the smack " Brilliant, never heard that before.
If you're a fan , have a search on youtube for recent live stuff JCC ( or Dr Clarke , as we should now call him .... ) has still got it in spades when he's on form . There's a lot of youtube stuff is from mobile phones , but there are also some good quality live clips . Some of his current rants are about being refused a disabled parking badge , and two characters called Bongo and The Hedge ( apparently members of a popular Irish band , with a Messiah complex ). Northern weddings are another favourite of his .... An inexperienced young chap on his honeymoon gets panicked and calls his dad for advice ... " Dad , she says she's a virgin , what should I do ? " Father ... " Pack your bags and run , if she's not good enough for her own family she's not good enough for ours " Sorry , what was the topic again ?
