Thruxton British Superbikes

[Nik da Greek]

Just got in from a very soggy day at the British Superbike round down in distinctly non-sunny errrr whichever county Thruxton\'s in? Hampshire? Somewhere like that. Anyway, th\' boy Dickens instructed me yesterday to take some photos so I did and thought I\'d put some up for anyone who might like a look.

I\'ll put them up anyway whether you\'d like a look or not, and if you don\'t, you can just ignore them, yeah?

Good turnout even though the weather was bloody awful, and a really bizarre mix of bikes in the bike park...well, not really a bike park, more a sort of soggy muddy field :confused: Anarchic CCM supermoto in the foreground with prepsoterous ride height, for example....


Old skool Guzzi cool, this is the sort of bike I grew up wanting, but then I am old and I blame the Joe Barr Team comic strip...


Time was you\'d never have seen a Ducati out in weather like this, not because the riders are necessarily lightweight, but more because the electrics would fritz out in the rain and blow the bike up


Italian always sounds so exotic doesn\'t it? I don\'t think "Narrow-Head Evolution" quite has the same ring to it...


This was an odd one to find at a race meet...Harley thing with preposterous handlebar tassels and all. The dude must be crying into his Austosol after this chrome was left out in the Deluge all day!


Proving Barryboys style abominations aren\'t the sole preserve of cars.. I bring you terrible michelin man decal, logo colour-matched bar grips and most heinous of all.....Farbon clutch lever! The horror, the horror...poor SP2


Not a bad fleet of safety cars.. wouldn\'t mind a day job tooling around in GTR35s even if they do have silly stripes and flashing lights. They look sooooo slow though, even against the supersport 600cc bikes they\'re half a lap down on the first lap hahaha


Packed grandstands despite the shlte weather, we is hardcore us biker dudes lol. This isn\'t a really bad quality picture (arguably), that\'s rain!


Shakey Shane Byrne, quite literally in a class of his own.


Ben "the Elbow" Wilson proving how ridiculously far you can get a 600 on wets over even in a monsoon!


Yamaha America speedblock on yellow paintscheme, still the best colour to paint a Yamaha since we\'re not allowed Marlboro any more


You didn\'t want to be at the back, spray was a slight issue lol. At one point my mate Dave said "I wouldn\'t fancy riding around in this weather!" I had to point out we still had about 100 miles of riding around in this weather to get back home again. Mind you, these boys were a bit faster than us...


Harley one-make support race! Yes, that does say "Harley" and "race" in the same sentence. For those who associate Harleys with fat balding middle-aged bankers and accountants hitting the male menopause crisis, this should change your mind. Unbelievable how these boys get gurt big chunks of pig-iron to throw shapes like this, in the wet too!


Even some of the promo girls seemed of better kwol than the munters that infest Santa Pod and suchlike...I fell quite profoundly in lust with the one on the right here...


Mr Shane Byrne again. A bit good...



That\'s it really. I\'ve got trench foot and vibration white finger, but a top day out as always... you F1 guys probably wouldn\'t understand, this is a form of motorsport that involves overtaking people...oh I give up, ask yer dad!

Thanks for looking in, now go away

[Ada7]

Hmmmmm promo girls look nice :p
Dont envy you riding about in that weather. :o

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

Yeah, they were luvvvvvvvvly :InLove

[captainbizzaro]

Love Thruxton, did my single seater bit there and loved every second. Oh, and F1-did you not see Monaco?? Even though Button was robbed-who the hell thought allowing a tyre change in a red flag stoppage was a fair rule??

I digress...

Great selection of pictures though-cheers.

[Ada7]

I agree captain... button was robbed thanks to that tyre change

Adam