British Superbike School Levels 1 & 3 At Blyton Circuit, Lincs

Mine is a bit sub optimal at the moment tbh.

1. Side stand fouled number plate holder the first time I used it, bending the mounting bracket and also smashing the number plate light (currently replaced with a Heath Robinson arrangement consisting of a camping head torch and a reading light held on with cable ties). See (3) for the reason why.

2. Both of the ring/spring pin/clip thingies which secure the large locator pins at the rear chock and the front hinge worked loose and one fell out altogether.

3. The larger 10” wheels mean that I need to relocate my towing iron a fair bit higher as there’s not enough angle on the dangle to allow the end of the channel to reach the floor when it’s in “ramp mode” unless I park on a steep slope.

4. The edges of the front chock are very sharp and when I loaded my 900SS bobber on there the other week with the intention of riding it at the Bikeshed track day, it sliced a v shape chunk out of the tyre (this is why you’ll see from the pic that I’ve covered the chock with a wooly wash mitt).

5. Various other metal parts haven’t been finished very well and so also have sharp edges, including and especially the little clips into which the wiring locates on the edges of the channel, and they’ve cut my fingers open a few times.

I liked yours better as it was nicely broken in, none of the parts or fasteners fell off it and it didn’t keep slashing my tyres or my fingers.

 

Yes, it seems to have been an airfield.

Now that it’s no longer in the Hinge family, it’s owned by Ginetta, who I think use it for storing and testing their cars. Rapid Training were also running a training day there at the same time and I think a wheelie school uses it too.

 

It goes on ok if the ramp is fully down but this was when we were trying to get a bike on with a significant gap between the ramp and the road. Once I raise the towing iron I think it’ll be fine.

If you do have a spare number plate light that would be awesome thanks, but I’m going to call them on Monday about the ring spring pins or whatever they’re called falling out and will ask for one then, so if you don’t then it’s no biggie

 

It’s always a reassuring sign doing a rider skills day with an instructor whose leathers are covered in scuffs and holes (suggested slogan - “I’ve fallen off so you don’t have to”)

 

Nice one of me, then my son and Dan in the background.




My son.

And again.



All in all, it was a fantastic day which even despite the horrible cold and wet weather turned out to be enjoyable and educational.

 

It not that one unfortunately. It’s the number plate light with a clear lens which got broken.

 

Ah, they must have changed the design since you bought yours as mine has a stand-alone numberplate light

 

The bumps were making life interesting. If you look at the cable tie on the fork legs you can see that I was bottoming them out, probably because I am now riding harder than when I had the suspension set up this time last year when I was first returning to track riding. At one point when braking for that left at the end of the main straight the front tyre was chattering, quite possibly skipping across the surface, which was kind of "invigorating", so I gave the forks a bit more preload and compression damping over the lunch break!

That long back straight is awesome and that's where Dan was wincing at my braking because you're going at a fair old lick by the time you get there, and like you say the left is deceptively slow and kind of sucks you in.

Although it took me a long time to get there (3 hrs from Herts), I'd give Blyton another go, simply because I like to practise on circuits with lots of run off rather than gravel traps and tyre walls, just in case it all goes t!t's up. It kind of reminded me a bit of a Poundshop version of Bedford Autodrome (another anti-clockwise track surrounded by fields), and if the new owners put some money into it then it might be a competitor.