An update – Finally!

Sunday 23 June 2024

Having committed ourselves to a date to test the new fuel bike and get everyone together, we went to a Run What Ya Brung at Santa Pod. Bearing in mind that the bike was a new build so new to us, all checks had been made, the fuelling had been set as well as we could, before riding it in anger on the track! We fired it up on nitro, this has to be done at the track anyway due to the phenomenal noise of the thing, the restrictions we have at present on the fuel and also not wanting to scare or annoy our neighbours! I had not ridden a top fuel bike since 2011, being the first time riding one of these huge machines for a while I obviously was a little nervous! It was great having Lizz and Jake crewing for me along with good friends Dean and Dan, they organized themselves who was doing what, and let me know so that I could concentrate on what I needed to do. By the time we had checked over the bike and made adjustments needed, we had one shot at getting on the track, for only a burnout

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