This weekend is a big double-header at Wakefield Park. St George Motorcycle Club is running Round 3 of their popular Honda/RJays sprint race series on the Saturday and than backing it up with the 4 Hour Teams Relay on the Sunday. I’ve been asked at the lat minute to commentate both days as regular mike-man, the evergreen David Curtis has had a fall and is in hospital with a banged-up knee. HUGE entry on the Saturday (over 140 riders) and 30 odd teams nominated for the relay on the Sunday, it’s going to be massive.
I came across this interesting article the other day about increasingly repressive anti-motorcycle legislation in various European countries. No I don’t know about you, but with the congestion and traffic problems that the European cities are experiencing, I’d have thought they’d be doing all they can to ENCOURAGE motorcycling rather than discourage it. It does seem that the EU heavies are standing back from this one just a bit and waiting for the various countries to make their own legislation first. Conspiracy theorists amongst us (he says, hiding his tinfoil hat) might suspect that they are going to wait until the states have done their worst and then then step in and make the new rules in each country mandatory right across the EU, but they wouldn’t do that, would they? MUCH.
I also came across this on the always entertaining visordown. It’s entitled “Don’t read this – it’s rubbish”, so, of course I did.
They also published this very tongue-in-cheek article on the WSBK crisis which certainly tickled my fancy. Actually, we used to have a series that worked on that principle. It was called the Australian Production Championship and, as well as the sprint races it also featured endurance races in almost every state, now THERE’s an idea!
In industry news, the GFC is still biting with worldwide sales of motorcycles rising by just 1.7% in the first half of 2011. And, with the American debt crisis yet to bite, don;t expect a huge improvement any time soon.
Finally, designer, Marko Petrovic has been slaving over his computer to generate “The Ghost”, his take on what BMW might do (they won’t) if they decided to turn the K1600 into a sports bike. Nice work, Marko.
