Well, its Monday 23rd May and I only have 19 days till I'm off on my trip, where has the time gone!
My new tyres are on the bike and they are now bedded in after a wet trip to the Northwest 200 road races in Northern Ireland. What a weekend that was. Wall to wall rain, cannot remember the last time I got so wet doing nothing.
We started off by spending an hour sheltering under the grandstand trying to keep a little bit dry before we moved up to our seats in the grandstand.
Rain eased for a bit and they managed to get race 1 off and and running, however, just before the start of race 2, and with the rider on the grid, there was a bomb scare in the paddock and everyone in the paddock was evacuated to a field for nearly an hour whilst the Police made searches. In the meantime further rains came over which meant more sheltering.
Nothing was found during the search so eventually race 2 was able to commence, however just before the end of lap 1, Ryan Farquhar's bike engine blew, spreading oil all over a section of the circuit along the coast road....further delays whilst oil cleared up, and yes, further rain.
Eventually the rider went out for another stab at starting race 2 but it was decided that, following a sighting lap, the circuit was still too slippy where the oil had gone down, so further delays whilst they made further attempts to clear up, and yes, more rain!!
In the end the organisers decided it was unsafe to hold further races, so meeting abandoned, and yes, it rained all the way back to the B and B.
So all in all the weekend consisted of 1 shortened race and 1 further lap, hope next year is a bit better.
TT starts on Saturday so fingers crossed for a nice dry 2 weeks.
As you can see from the picture above, Jed is getting all excited about his trip and is busy planning his route out. He says that he is really looking forward to it and has been busy practising the many languages that he will need in order to communicate for us both. He also promises plenty of photos providing he can find Wi-fi set ups.
