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Me and Mrs Weeksy

Mrs Weeksy on our 848

Me and Crust

Far from being a hero, and probably as close as my knee has ever got to the tarmac. But I like the photo, and it's Oulton Park.

Untitled by Colin, on Flickr

Old Hall, Oulton Park, late '90s on the Widowmaker (which was actually a quite brilliant bike).

I'll find a few more in a bit...

Some muppet behind me

A very unsuitable track bike

Wet K-D at Almeria on a more suitable track bike

This is the best I can find right now....

Only ever bothered with Photos at my first ever trackday and it wasn't very heroic esp with the bib Still lament letting my mate take the R6 and ruining it by leaving it in the garden, was a great cheap, capable bike.

Supermofo wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 9:38 am Only ever bothered with Photos at my first ever trackday and it wasn't very heroic esp with the bib Still lament letting my mate take the R6 and ruining it by leaving it in the garden, was a great cheap, capable bike.

They were very Japanese weren't they. They just did everything you wanted and needed from a bike, they went, stopped, turned, rode and started..

Great little things, i only had a fairly ropey one which Sunny and Muz then bought and made even more ropey.... but it just worked.

I haven't got any to hand of the BB on track (did my first ever TD on the Blue BB at Mallory on 7th December )

Anyway - overload of not very good track riding, but hey, I tried!

Ok, not track, start of a hill climb




First TD on the TLs, Very ginger! LOL. New to V-twins and still pretty new to track! I did so love that bike!!!




I bloody loved this dinky toy bike on track (well, on road too ) - so little top speed but I could run it to it's limit almost everywhere (freaked a couple of people out at a forum TD cos someone came over to find out what the bike was - he hadn't expected it to go through the bends as fast as it did cos it had so little speed on the straight )




I could lean it over, just never did stick my knees out . Sad really, but I got round without the knee down so . . . . . .






The closest I got to a wheelie at the "mountain"




Same bike in race plastic!! Very careful over the mountain but once no risk of the bars hitting my face I bloody loved Halls Bends!!!




Testing before the last race I did - so three or four days before losing my shoulder could manage fine on track but a gentle bimble home from a mates house and I throw the TLs in the back of an Astra








I was never the quickest and less so in a straight line, but often made up for in corners - although that created it's own problems when people thought I'd be as slow through corners as on the straights But when not upsetting people like that, I had a lot of fun!!


Part of the reason I fancy getting something more sporty then sensible is that I know a couple of people over here that track and or race (one sort of friend in the middle and a colleague that races, or used to!) and I do so really want to get some confidence back on track as I know that will help me on the road - not that I'll ever be particularly quick on the roads here, too many people don't understand what the white lines in the middle of the road mean

Here's a few at random, I've got 1000's of em.

weeksy wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 9:51 am They were very Japanese weren't they. They just did everything you wanted and needed from a bike, they went, stopped, turned, rode and started..

Great little things, i only had a fairly ropey one which Sunny and Muz then bought and made even more ropey.... but it just worked.

Yup, that R6 was way better than me. Sure I've ridden faster bikes but for my skill level it was perfect. The last year of doing track days we did about 6-7 I think and I was really gelled with it. Was properly pissed off when I saw the state my mate let it get in. I'd have much rather we'd sold it when he packed it in.

I loved my R6, bought it brand new in 1999 when I was 21, most of the early ones are fucked now, the cylinders score and knacker the engine.

It's what put me off getting another to relive my youth.

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 10:39 am I loved my R6, bought it brand new in 1999 when I was 21, most of the early ones are fucked now, the cylinders score and knacker the engine.

It's what put me off getting another to relive my youth.

Until it was left for 12 months and the carbs gummed up, which is what took it to my mates, it ran perfectly. At one point my mate and I were sharing it, him in the slow group, me in inters. Doing that so it was doing 40 mins on track at a time it used to burn about a litre of oil per track day. Once he got a GSXR1000 and it was just me on the R6 it burned hardly anything. So I think the engine was fine on it.