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ROUND 1 Rowrah

The bike was running but only just. The exhaust is just to peaky, not allowing us to get into let alone stay in the powerband.

ROUND 2 Rowrah

Same feeble excuse, but at least we finished the race.

ROUND 3 Rowrah

Saturday

Race report - R D Scott

Arrived at the circuit for 4.30am the gate was locked (Why do they do this?). Two vehicles already there including Acme asleep, the bastards. Gates opened at 8.15am, cheers mate!

Strategy was that the Warriors would race with Acme for the meeting, the fastest bike of the two on the Saturday would be the race bike. Our bike had the top-end miss fire, again. The bike would take off as it went into the power-band and then miss fire badly in the top third of the power band, it is fast. The more I tried to ride through it the worse it got. We changed jets and carb. We even tried Piston Broke's with no success. Diagnosis – sucking air through a seal, Mmmmmmmmm? The engine was meant to have had a complete rebuild?

Acme decided to seize their nice new barrel after only 8 laps. Time to swap engines. Eventually with a few adaptations (gaskets to raise the barrel) the bike runs. Martin takes it out again and told to be 'gentle'. The bike is under geared (sounds familiar). We have only ½ hour of practice left for everyone to have a go. The pegs are set too far back and both feet are grounding badly. Front is tucking-in. Gearing is again out at the end of practice. Gearing is changed at a guestimate.

The choice is simple, Acme's bike will be raced on Sunday.

Saturday night: usual beer, food, more beer, the Cabin, more beer, cards, Caribbean cigarettes, more beer, sleep.

Sunday

Ouch! My head hurts. Coffee, coffee, etc….. Start to work preping the bike. Rear is too soft, Front tyre is 20 psi. Front & rear set to 26 psi. Someone has the bright idea of swapping the tacho 15mins before the start. Why do we always do this? We end up changing Acme's mechanical for our electrical, why? This was to prove a bad move, and we end up near the back of the queue for the Le Mans start.

Race starts, usual smoke, noise, pushers dodging riders and riders dodging pushers. Note: best time for a dump is then, the loo's were empty (people - yes, crap - no. ed.). We were running 15-16th (ish) with Martin and I riding, dropping to 23-24th with Keith and the 'salad-dodger' (Andy) riding.

Our fastest lap was high 1:02 by Martin. Our average was about 1:06-1:07's. Piston Broke got down to a high 0:57 (we have the same engine).

Someone fell off and the bottom of the hill at the fast left hander (one corner before the pit exit). They got back on and left a trail of oil along the racing line all around the circuit, nice!. Six bikes came a cropper at the place where he had fallen off before the race was red flagged. The Race was delayed for over ½ hour before a restart. Some idiot turned off my fuel tap and I was stranded on the parade laps.

A bit of dicing and I was back in it. Three laps later, off at the 2nd hairpin on the cement dust. Damage Report: brake lever (never replaced, rode with half of it) and smashed tacho (still worked but in a sorry state). We eventually worked our way back into it.

The right peg decided to rotate about its axis. Came in, tightened it up, 3 laps later same again. Right leg jammed under brake cylinder. Keith has the final ¼ hour (we later find out that he would rather not). I couldn't ride any longer my foot was v.painful (soft shandy drinker, ed.). I tell Keith about the problem and that we can't fix it, he insists on trying. At this point the bike behind us is only 1 lap behind. He tightens it, a few laps later same problem. So he decides to ride around making it obvious to the Marshals that we have a problem. Black Flag – in we come. Temp fix again, few laps later end of race.

Klingon Warriors finish our first full race since? I think Blyton in 1997? (on someone else's bike - ed.)

Sunday Night: beer, Euro football, food, beer, iffy foreign backy, beer, sleep. It was cold that night, for the girls anyway (I told you not to leave them out under the bike awning, ed)

Round 4 - TyCroes

The final two weeks before the last race were frantic panic to get the engine bolted together. There was hardly anything to do to the chassis except for fitting a gear change lever. Just in case the Kawasaki engine would not work, last year's Honda engine was prepared as a spare. We were also fed up with taking the caravan halfway up England and Wales so we took the tent this time with the bikes strapped to the rack on the back of the car we managed an average of 80 miles an hour up to Anglesey leaving at 2 on Saturday morning.

Saturday

We got to the circuit in bright sun and set up the tents, waiting for Dean to arrive from the B&B. As the bike had not been run since the summer we were desperate to get things started however bearing in mind the luck we've had all season the Kx engine wouldn't run off choke. We tried just about everything to get it running including altering all the previous carb settings. But with the scratch races dawning we had no option but to put the Honda engine into the frame. Unbelievably this engine that hadn't even been set up properly ran perfectly and produced plenty of power, even enough to pull strongly up the hill after the main straight.

The Klingon Warriors were back in business again.

Sunday

Race day Dean kicked the race off for us, and with quick rider changes and fuel filler stops we maintained a position in the mid-teens with a high of 13th for four hours. Then our luck ran out we had to stop for a broken gear change lever (thanks to Andy's welding), and the exhaust fell off twice. This put us back to 17th. We then spent the remainder of the race trying to claw back our positon. At the end of the six hours we were amazed to finish 14th overall and 7th in class which matched our best position since we've been racing.

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