It was off to watch the British round of the motocross sidecar clubman series at a local track just 20 mins away. Bit of an overcast day but at least the rain kept away apart from the odd drizzle. Don't often get the old chairs down here so i jumped at the chance to go and have a 'butchers' at them. I love the sidecars and basically got brought up with them when i was a kid back home in my old town of Reading. There was so much racing going on around that area in them days, and unquestionably the south east was a hive for sidecar crews which produced many british champions, whoops! i've 'gone into one' feeling all nostalgic, lets move on..........
The support racing had some go solo action going on as well with some twinshocks dotted about and a few local enduro riders trying their hand at a bit of motocross. Hannes Tanzer, John Robinson, Rose Disney, John Pitman, Barry Weeks to name a few all had a bash. In fact the last time i saw Barry Weeks race his chain snapped, and low and behold exactley the same thing happened when he tried to pull away on the start line in race one! Come on Barry buy a decent chain will ya, them Trago Mills specials ain't doing you much good are they?
Some quite good little battles going on out there on the track i could see and enjoyed watching it all. I stayed until the end and had a good day out and went home still thinking to myself (like i have for many years) that i really should get a sidecar and give that a go!
