A lot of photos to get through this time. Only took 444, so think
yerselves lucky.
1) Food Police Alert! Food Police Alert!! Only been here five minutes and already some folk (ahem, Paula and Tony) are at the deep fried scampi and chippy-chips. We are outrageously appalled, obviously. It's all we can do to resist 'phoning the Food
Police Hot Line.
2) See Vic? I'm not the only one who takes loads of shots of the fastest car on the hills every time I see it. Tony's taking one as well. And there's Scott Moran, in the background, chatting to a
journo-fella so it's a really interesting photo (oh yes).
3) We have been to five
hillclimb venues over the years and each one is different.
Gurston runs through farmland and where there's a farm there's bound to be an
olde barns to explore, and where there's a barn there's bound to be some hidden treasure. Here Tony has discovered an old rusting Rover V8 engine.
Hmmm, thinks David, now all we need is an
olde rusting
hillclimb car to put it in. Do a quick
resto-job and away we go!
4) Vicky is being tested to the limit. Two blatant violations of the Food Police Code of Conduct in one day. Do I ring 'em, or don't I?
5) Tony ponders another diabolically complicated example of motorcycle engines powering four wheels. We've grown used to single-engine variants. There's even a
Suzuki Hayabusa V8 that regularly makes the Top 12 Run Off. But this takes some beating.....................
6).................this one's got two
Hayabusa's running on a single crank (presumably). A straight eight across the 'frame'. It sounded good too. Like a deep-
throated two-stroke. Probably due to how high it can rev or something.
7) Some 'bikes just naturally draw you in. This was the first one we spotted when we arrived. Poor Vicky has to listen to David telling her that it was the 'bike that any self-respecting rider aspired to back in
the day. Especially those who could
only afford a Honda
SL125. It wasn't being ridden particularly quickly but then, having thought about it for a minute or so, it was being ridden a damn sight quicker than David would have managed. All things are relative, eh?
8) Vicky tells the rest of our little group to carry on without her: she could be some time.
9) A
stoppie in a car? Well, it has got a 'bike engine. This is Adam Steel in his
Martlet AS1 missing the sane braking point and indulging in some ridiculously late braking at The
Karousel. Of course he missed the apex yet, amazingly, he was still the fastest in the class! That's determination.
10) Zooming. Leaping. Steering. Landing. All in the same instant. All the time staying focused on
the next bend which, as it happens, it about 50 yards ahead. This is Martin Robbins on his 590cc
KTM cresting Deers Leap.
11) This is Paul Jarret doing roughly the same thing, but in a slightly less animated way, at the same place on his
Aprilia SXV500. So, which one was the quickest? Answer: Jarret. Robbins was third, about four tenths slower. Makes you wonder where he lost out, eh?
12) On the way back down we spotted this group of fellas swarming out of their nest in a handy tree. Not many folk hung around to count 'em all but, being brave, we did. 2, 376 if you were
wonderin'. So, all-in-all another great day out at a
hillclimb. Here's to the next one.
1) Food Police Alert! Food Police Alert!! Only been here five minutes and already some folk (ahem, Paula and Tony) are at the deep fried scampi and chippy-chips. We are outrageously appalled, obviously. It's all we can do to resist 'phoning the Food Police Hot Line.
2) See Vic? I'm not the only one who takes loads of shots of the fastest car on the hills every time I see it. Tony's taking one as well. And there's Scott Moran, in the background, chatting to a journo-fella so it's a really interesting photo (oh yes).
3) We have been to five hillclimb venues over the years and each one is different. Gurston runs through farmland and where there's a farm there's bound to be an olde barns to explore, and where there's a barn there's bound to be some hidden treasure. Here Tony has discovered an old rusting Rover V8 engine. Hmmm, thinks David, now all we need is an olde rusting hillclimb car to put it in. Do a quick resto-job and away we go!
4) Vicky is being tested to the limit. Two blatant violations of the Food Police Code of Conduct in one day. Do I ring 'em, or don't I?
5) Tony ponders another diabolically complicated example of motorcycle engines powering four wheels. We've grown used to single-engine variants. There's even a Suzuki Hayabusa V8 that regularly makes the Top 12 Run Off. But this takes some beating..................... 
6).................this one's got two Hayabusa's running on a single crank (presumably). A straight eight across the 'frame'. It sounded good too. Like a deep-throated two-stroke. Probably due to how high it can rev or something.
7) Some 'bikes just naturally draw you in. This was the first one we spotted when we arrived. Poor Vicky has to listen to David telling her that it was the 'bike that any self-respecting rider aspired to back in the day. Especially those who could only afford a Honda SL125. It wasn't being ridden particularly quickly but then, having thought about it for a minute or so, it was being ridden a damn sight quicker than David would have managed. All things are relative, eh?
8) Vicky tells the rest of our little group to carry on without her: she could be some time.
9) A stoppie in a car? Well, it has got a 'bike engine. This is Adam Steel in his Martlet AS1 missing the sane braking point and indulging in some ridiculously late braking at The Karousel. Of course he missed the apex yet, amazingly, he was still the fastest in the class! That's determination.
10) Zooming. Leaping. Steering. Landing. All in the same instant. All the time staying focused on the next bend which, as it happens, it about 50 yards ahead. This is Martin Robbins on his 590cc KTM cresting Deers Leap.
11) This is Paul Jarret doing roughly the same thing, but in a slightly less animated way, at the same place on his Aprilia SXV500. So, which one was the quickest? Answer: Jarret. Robbins was third, about four tenths slower. Makes you wonder where he lost out, eh?
12) On the way back down we spotted this group of fellas swarming out of their nest in a handy tree. Not many folk hung around to count 'em all but, being brave, we did. 2, 376 if you were wonderin'. So, all-in-all another great day out at a hillclimb. Here's to the next one.
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