Tefer - Keep that sticker in its wee pack and get back there
. It was 97 Euro for 4 laps, or 202 for 9. I went for the 4, which was enough for the first visit I think. I might go for the 9 next time as I know the score now. We used our phone sat nave. I have Nokia Drive, which was great but the GPS receiver on my phone is poor (Lumia 900).
I never repaired the clutch when I was away. My mate that I was travelling with is a pro mechanic of 27 years. He said nurse it home, and I did'sh. I had a spare clutch cable with me, but it was the entire unit. We did have to do a few roadside repairs though. Headlamp bulb, sat nav holder and one of my exhaust studs fell out. Had to use the bolt holding my sports camera mount which pissed me off. It was the only one I had to fit though. I did manage to get one from a Garage a couple of hundred Kilometres later, so not so bad.
As for the tool bags on the boat
, I guess every city has them and certain things attract them, like banging house music! Its just Glasgow has a fairly high ratio of mental people to normal people. Even normal people in Glasgow are a bit mental mind. You have to be with all those mental people everywhere
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Slimwilly, agreed. Italy is a bit far for a GP on a bike. I drove there last year in the car and it was E.A.S.Y. But a Saab 93 AERO 2L Turbo makes light work of 3000 miles. You count count the country's after a while as Kilometres become so small. Holland or Germany is a good shout though. Enjoy!
Nick, I might have been a little lucky with the clutch (or unlucky that it happened at all?), but I got it home and am now looking around for a new one. I will have to make something of the old one as it died one my First ever lap of the ring. That has to be a keeper. I got about 10GB of decent footage at high quality. Maybe 3 hours worth? I have not been through it all as I keep going back to my lap
. I had decided before hand that if I were lucky enough to get a recorded lap, no matter what was captured, I would not put it on the net. It seems unfair to go and experience that and then use that experience to assist in others not being able to do it for themselves. As it turned out there was a 2 car one bike accident on my 3rd and recorded lap. The bike was in the middle of the cars, chewed up and facing the wrong way with hundreds of people watching. On my next lap I seen the biker on his feet smoking at the other side of the track with a marshal. I tried not to think about it and carried on.