BHPC racing

[Mr Larrington]

Edited highlights of the second fast race from inside Snoopy: https://youtu.be/4lpZqhOtZU4

[Von Broad]

Edited highlights of the second fast race from inside Snoopy: https://youtu.be/4lpZqhOtZU4

As demonstrated in the first race, Liam's got a very useful sprint to unleash on his competitors at the end there.

[Kim]

GCN take on the Usual Suspects with a 50cc moped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st57tiKsstk 

(click to show/hide)

Slash wins.

Mental note:  Snoopy needs some fresh timing tags.

[fd3]

That did not need a spoiler

[Mr Larrington]

Warning: contains traces of Barney.

[Kim]

Warning: contains traces of Barney.

He's not the same without audio...

[Mr Larrington]

Mr Comp. Sec. announces the 2024 calendar:

Sat 27 Apr Enerdale (Hull) 11-4
Sat 28 Apr Enerdale (Hull) 10-3
Sun 19 May Bath 11-4
Sat 1 Jun Gravesend 12:30-5pm
Sun 2 Jun Gravesend  11-3
Sun 23 Jun York 12-5
Sat 27 Jul Redbridge 11-4
Sun 28 Jul Hillingdon 11-4
16-18 Aug World Championships Betteshanger, Kent
Sat 14 Sep Rhyl  12-5
Sun 15 Sep Rhyl  11-4
Sat 12 Oct Darley Moor
Sun 13 Oct Darley Moor

Still one or two to come, and the vexèd question of how, absent the first event being Hillingdon, how the box of assorted crap gets from Larrington Towers to Hull.  Doubly so since Mr Woolrich's car just failed its MOT and is basically beyond economic repair chiz.

[Kim]

There's also the prospect of the AGM at Darley Moor in October, which could be rather bracing.  The provisional plan is to blag the use of the TurboNutterBastard motorcyclist training room on the Saturday evening, and award whatever trophies are not in contention.

I've added the dates to the YACF calendar.  If you're reading this in The Future, in case of changes the canonical list is at https://www.bhpc.org.uk/events/2024-races/

[Cudzoziemiec]

GCN take on the Usual Suspects with a 50cc moped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st57tiKsstk 

(click to show/hide)

Slash wins.

Mental note:  Snoopy needs some fresh timing tags.

That was silly, even by GCN standards. Pleasingly silly! Obviously at 20mph+ aero is king, so they should have removed the moped's mirrors. Proper racing motorcycles don't have them! Or a proper Vespa...

[Tim Hall]

GCN take on the Usual Suspects with a 50cc moped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st57tiKsstk 

(click to show/hide)

Slash wins.

Mental note:  Snoopy needs some fresh timing tags.

That was silly, even by GCN standards. Pleasingly silly! Obviously at 20mph+ aero is king, so they should have removed the moped's mirrors. Proper racing motorcycles don't have them! Or a proper Vespa...

Ob cycling: One of my tandem club friends, who sadly died a few years ago, won prizes, proper prizes for racing Lambrettas BITD. 

[Mr Larrington]

There's also the prospect of the AGM at Darley Moor in October, which could be rather bracing.  The provisional plan is to blag the use of the TurboNutterBastard motorcyclist training room on the Saturday evening, and award whatever trophies are not in contention.

In which case it'll be the second AGM I've missed since 1983 chiz.  The first being 1996 when I was in ABROAD getting married.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Back to the video for a sec, I noted large amounts of solar panels on the infield, or whatever the term is for the island of land inside a race track. Seems a good place to site them on land that otherwise wouldn't be doing much.

[Kim]

Looks like GCN have done a better edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1bjsOuk8s

(click to show/hide)

Slash still wins

(I assume that's Barney cameo-crashing the trike?)

[Wobbly John]

(I assume that's Barney cameo-crashing the trike?)

That reminds me, Barney had a cameo role in one of my videos from about 20 years ago, riding the ‘Spincycle’.

[Kim]

I've added the dates to the YACF calendar.  If you're reading this in The Future, in case of changes the canonical list is at https://www.bhpc.org.uk/events/2024-races/

Greetings from only a little bit in The Future!  Exciting news: The race meet on the 19th of May will now be at Shrewsbury, where the bottom corner is much less of An Bastard, and there are power sockets and a bus shelter for the facilitation of TEH TIEM TEEM.   

[Kim]

I've been distracted by the Worlds.  Registrations for the first event of the 2024 season, in Hull on the 27/28th of April, are open to members and non-members:

https://shop.bhpc.org.uk/race-signon

(Bring your own water.  The track is good, but there's a conspicuous absence of a tap.)