Practice- 18th January 2009

I was looking for a place this week to get some bike time in and do a bit of practicing.
There was a couple of options open, one being the moto x track at Cheddar and the other at Rogershill raceway.

The plan was to travel up and meet Mark Tucker at one of the venues so we could both have a good day out riding and i would try my best to keep up with him!!!

Sods law then as on Saturday night And after us both doing a bit of homework, we found out that both practice sessions at both tracks had been cancelled, yes, you guessed it, because of the weather!
Luckily for me, Mark had a plan 'B'!

So come Sunday morning i set off for the drive up to Devon to the Tuckers residence. A quick coffee and a chat with Debbie and their son Richard (who'd just come back from riding in The Tough One!) and we set off for another drive to some private woods for some practice.

The weather had broken for us and we were greeted by lovely sunshine when we arrived.
With us being the only 2 there, we had the woods at our mercy.
Got changed, fired up the bikes and followed Mark around for a sighting lap.
A nice little course it was too, only about 3 miles long, but loads of roots, a couple of steep hills, some slippery fire roads, and a nice little water crossing thrown in as well.

That was it then, and the next time i saw him was after a couple of laps when he blasted past me in the woods on his RM 250 'Eddy' replica to lap me!! I did try to hang on to his tail pipe, but that only lasted for about 100 yds! (well he is in the champ/expert class, the bugger)

After a couple of hours on the bikes we called it a day and headed back for a coffee and a chat before i headed back home.

Thanks to Mark and Debbie for their hospitality and enjoyable day.

I seem to be on a bit of a 'crusade' at the moment and i hope to riding for the next 5 weeks consecutively! All over the place as well, Bloody mad or what?