Some new pics.
Last weekend was the VRRA season opener. If you checked out TinTops sidecar thread you'll know the weather was hit & miss, but there were lots of bikes registered to race. I was to race in the endurance Friday afternoon but it was eventually cancelled. Good thing, conditions were lousy, I got fifteen minutes of practise in and the back wheel broke loose too many times to be comfortable.
Cut to Sunday and I forced myself to make the second practise session in the rain, to keep the bike hot and get a feel for the Avons in the wet. My bump up class followed with puddles everywhere but a light rain diminishing. I finished 2nd as one of the front runners crashed at the half-way point.
Later the weather was great, dry track and temps were rising. In my regular class, P2 Middleweight and Heavyweight race together and I think there were twenty riders on the grid. I got a great start and three of us (a 750 and another CB550) got to the front. It was a great battle for several laps but I knew I could run faster, it's a tight track and tough to pass.
Eventually I got clear and won by eight seconds.....plus set a new lap record for the class.
Here we are waiting for everyone to show on pit road.
It was this close for a quite a while. I'm in the back there somewhere.
In class CB550's were 1-2-3.
