Jurby South Road Races
May 17th
What a turn out 13 sidecars
including Dave Molyneux, Nick Crowe and World Champion Tim Reeves.
We changed a few bits since the
last meeting which was a Darley Moor where we had the overheating problems.
Starting with new air scoop into the Rad, New header tank with a high
pressure cap and a lower Celsius thermostat in the engine. First
practice was for newcomers but my stand in passenger Dave "THE ZONE" Bolton
hadn't rode all year we went out and did two laps so he could find his way
around and get used to the handles. Next was open practice. We
were still building up speed when we were overtaken by Reeves and Bolty
nearly got the eject seat over the front off the bike. 2 Laps later
the clutch started slipping so we pulled in before we did any damage.
We spent ages sorting out the clutch and checking over the entire bike ready
to rock and roll. Bolty was OK and just laughed off his little
mishap and he was all ready to go.
We had to start 10 seconds behind
with Dave Quirk as he is a Clubman license holder same as Bolty but this
time would be deducted at the end of the race. As Shaun dropped the
flag we couldn't see anyone they had done one. I took Quirky straight
away and chased on. At Balllavarran corner Geoff Smale overshot and we
dove up the inside 1 lap later we caught Alan Langton and then Neil Kelly
and Jason overshot so we weren't doing too bad. We had Ruth Laidlow
caught but then the bloody clutch went again but this time not dragging but
I couldn't move it at all. So the last 2 laps we just stayed behind
Ruth where on corrected time we actually finished ahead off. Overall
we came 7th. Not bad, not good but we got a few bits tested for TT in
7 days time.........
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