Good Friday Meet Herne Hill

Excellent day, bloody freezing. I left after the Motor-paced event which was a big crowd pleaser.

Very Very Very Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was about 6/7c for the qualifying heats!

Got to final of handicap and semis of the international sprint, not bad for an old bugger. Team mate Pete won the handicap and came third in the sprint.

Mark got some good experience at a big open meet and said he had a good day.

So good day all around for the brighton crew and the weather held off well appart from a couple of very quick showers that didnt really hold things up.

Lee

OK, Who else got rained on going home?

was so cold down there...missed the rain and hail and lightning and thunder on my way home, but it was a serious battle against the wind all the way to Belsize...

we were all in the prince regent, we escaped the rain...

it's your curse, DK.

I went on the swings, the slide, and the climbing frame, but got home before the ice storm.

Photos, not yet sorted or labelled:

http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x116/woolystuff/

i like pink lycra man, matchy matchy

I got home intact.

now I'm raidin' the fridge.

bacon, eggs, pasta..

all to make up for eating nothing all day, just drinkin beer.

brrrr

edit:

and good to see those I already know, and even better to meet those I didn't know, but I know now.
you are all beautiful people

Hailstorm hit me just south of tower bridge, got of and hid under some scaff. Perhaps I should HTFU.
Cold all day, but had loads of fun. Good racing, good people, good weather (just), what more could anyone want?
And 50:14 was spotted.

he certainly was

what was 50:14 riding?

Um, 50:14. Obviously.

no a all carbon litespeed racer

Thanks to hops for baking biscuits, they were great! Home safe and sound, just demolished an entire box of chocolate fingers, and now i'm off to bed.very

Nice meeting RPM, fixedfreak, cornelius (it's been a while buddy!), and of course everyone else. See y'all on sunday!

50:14 is coming to the party, he told me so.

I was doing so well on the way back...all smug and thinking...yeah...I TOTALLY timed this right...It chucked down on me from Wandworth to Putney (all uphill) and came close to getting blown over by some of the gusts. It was wierd seeing VB+1 as I came out of the Threshers near my house though. (me in USPS hat)..that was high on the unexpected scale.

Here are my sporadic pics from yesterday (apologies for NOT having a fish eye lens)

It was really outstanding to meet all of you in the flesh yesterday and at the drinks on Thursday night.

Thanks for the very warm welcome and the good company. Looking forward to Sunday.

totally brilliant day. the motorbike pace race was the highlight, pretty much the most amazing thing i've seen on the track ever.

thanks DT and hops for biscuits, pizza, bottom bracket removal service...

edit: and the gloves...

velocity boy OK, Who else got rained on going home?
+1 - but that weren't rain, it was hail.

it pissed the fuck down, so some of us decided to stay in the pub.
I think some of us stayed in the pub a little too long ;)

today I'm nursing a hangover and am amazed I got home without crashing or even losing a bar end plug

Somebody made the comment to me about the motor pace guys being just as big of Derny geeks as most of us are trackbike geeks...

http://imageevent.com/dernysportuk/janjonker

trampsparadise Somebody made the comment to me about the motor pace guys being just as big of Derny geeks as most of us are trackbike geeks...
http://imageevent.com/dernysportuk/janjonker

Speak to Al about the derny love.. :)

winston: Has he finished the bike? Are you guys still teaming up?

The photos I snapped are up here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buro9/sets/72157604195646490/

lol you fucked that up, my shoes are out of focus.. :)

Glad I dropped by...but man I didn't think I drunk that much...& My knees and the side of my face hurt for some reason...