Trick or Treat Brands Hatch day

Motorcycling
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Left home at 6am yesterday with clear skies and lovely weather only to arrive at 7am at Brands in the pi$$ing rain

Started the first session with 3 sighting laps and on my 2nd lap after the sighting lap, I was coming down the main straight at 115mph (true speed) before braking to 70 for the dipped right hander and lost the rear end as I was doing an overtake .
Managed to catch the slide but by that time it was too late to try to steer back onto the track so I decided to steer it as straight as possible onto the gravel traps. I eventually did lose the bike but the traps had slowed me down to about 10 or 15mph so the bike and I were in good shape to joing the next session again. Only damage was a 4cm crack on the RHS side pod

I filmed 4 sessions when the rain stopped but the track was still soaking for the 1st 2 sessions.
The 3rd was pretty fast but the last session of the day I could get kneedown on almost all of the corners and overtook quite a few shocked sportbikes including a mate on an R1!!!
here are the vids…

PS sorry about the vibrations on the main straight. I wasnt alowed to use the suction cup so had to use the sticky pad which was mounted on a flimsy screen

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No vid of the ‘non-crash’ then? :stuck_out_tongue:

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decided not to film when it was raining cause it would egg me on and I’d crash:P

Shoulda just filmed it anyway. Gutted I didnt! that would have been the 1st vid I posted:D:laugh:

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Always entertaining, especially when bike and rider are undamaged! (or close enough)

All the best riders run out of road at least once :Whistling:

Will have a look at the (no non-crash) vids later!

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nice video’s jaime, dissapointed you don’t have the first session on there! Did you get a session with an instructor in the end?

hurry up and get in the fast group so we can have a play :cool:

my top speed according to race chrono was 113mph down the straight! go the 72hp!! ha ha

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very impressive speed for the HP bro!! How bout u join all the LB folk in the beginners group. maybe an LB only group? :slight_smile:

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happy to meet half way in inters… got to be a cheapy day in november we can do?

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Great videos Jaime :cool:

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NA. I’m done for the year mate :wink:

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Cheers dude. was fun making them :smiley:

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nice one(s) ! :wink:

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Nice work on overtaking the R6 in session 2. You caught him a lap earlier but picked your moment and made your pass, nice work.

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What lap times are you doing on the SV. :slight_smile:

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How about Sunday?

I think I might be going if the weather is decent.

http://www.nolimitstrackdays.com/acatalog/Brands061111.html

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i must say hats off to jamie he had a great day, put in some good laps and was always in good spirits even after the gravel incident, 100% commited to the day. thanks to Brian and the rest of the garage crew for a brilliant day.

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:blush: was a cracking day indeed! WOuld not havebeen as good if all te LBers werent there. I had no idea! I thought it was going to be 3 or 4 of us :smiley: