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GENERAL => MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE => Topic started by: Ken 12r on October 20, 2014, 04:37:50 PM

Title: October Elvington
Post by: Ken 12r on October 20, 2014, 04:37:50 PM

Well Tuesday is the last Uk meeting for this year and we should be on track at Elvington but......The remains of your recent Hurricane Gonzalo or whatever his name is might be arriving on our shores in about three hours.
The forecast is 6 hours rain and high winds followed by higher winds during the day.
I suppose the only good thing might be that it will mostly be a tailwind.
If anybody gets to run a report will follow   :shock: 8) :mrgreen:

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Mike-Nightrider on October 21, 2014, 03:47:39 AM

Good luck all  :tu:

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Ken 12r on October 21, 2014, 02:50:23 PM

Well the forecast was pretty accurate and it was very wet then very windy starting around 20mph and gusting to nearly double that later so a few bikes stayed in the trailers.
Jack Frost sneaked a 230 mph run in a quieter spell and Les Marsh managed a 220 mph run but once the wind started to veer slightly to the North it was very difficult to guide a bike straight at sub 200 mph speeds let alone any serious speed.
That's the end of our year which has been a good one with some excellent runs especially our new world record holder Becci and most people went home happy except poor Jack who had his ferry back to Ireland cancelled due to the weather.

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: MJ Williams on October 21, 2014, 09:53:47 PM

Crappy weather and 230? Mad respect :tu:

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Gixer les. on October 24, 2014, 03:44:05 PM

My best run Ken was a 225 but it was a bit hairy out there!
Thanks for sharing with everybody though, Cheers.

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Ken 12r on October 24, 2014, 04:09:22 PM

I did not get a copy of the times Les because I knew they were well down on normal,You did well to go over 200 given the conditions.

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Gixer les. on October 25, 2014, 02:16:52 PM

Cheers Ken, see you next year.

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: 05calibusa on October 26, 2014, 08:08:32 PM

Congrats all.  Sorry to hear that the bad weather came in.  Time to start getting them ready for next year.

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Mike-Nightrider on October 27, 2014, 12:53:53 AM

See you in 2015  :beechug:

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: Gixer les. on October 27, 2014, 03:50:09 AM

Top man Mike, hopefully see you there :tu:

Title: Re: October Elvington
Post by: HOS on October 27, 2014, 07:10:37 AM

Thanks for the update Ken.
I hope its another great race season in 2015  :tu: