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Leigh Goes To The Island Classic

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As some of you have picked up, the annual Island Classic was on the other weekend.
It's a meeting that I am grimly determined to attend year after year.
It's all for bikes from the 80's back..
It attracts former and current world champions from various forms of racing.
Matchless, Norton, Triumph, Vincent face off with the banshee 2 strokes from Japan.
Big bore fours from the 80s..
250cc hand grenades, sidecars..

This has the lot.

The pits are open all weekend for anyone to wander through. The riders are all willing to have a chat.

Robbie Phillis, Mal Campbell, Wayne Gardner, Shaun Giles, Steve Martin, Craig McMartin, Ryan Farquar, Jeremy McWilliams, Cam Donald.. The list rolls on.
I met and chatted with Stan Woods last year.

This was also my first time back on a bike since last April due to a broken collar bone I received in a truck crash.

Anyways, I've thrown a few thoughts, some absent-minded waffling and some photos together on a blog.

I hope you enjoy my mindless ramblings..

http://leanitover.blogspot.com/2011/01/climbing-out-of-hole.html
 
Oh..
More photos to come..
The sidecars and a wander through the pits..
 
Leigh is just a lucky lucky bastard, I had to choose between World Superbikes and Island classic this year and went for WSB. Next year I will be living 450km closer and doing my homework for a tilt at one of the smaller capacity classes at the 2013 Classic.
 
Did you happen to get any photos of Fyffy's big crash in turn 2 on his GSX? I'd love one to hang up at work!
 
In a flash of genius timing I managed to be on the opposite side of the track to every prang.
 
Dunger.. Yes, yes I am.
I live an hour from the Island.
I have a generous mate who lives there and opens his house to us reprobates for every meeting.

450 k's closer? Sounds like Horsham. I'll have to come over for a beer.
It's only four and a bit hours from here..
 
I have an update to do on my 450 build, then I plan on experiencing some visual pleasure from said blog...

You're all just lucky bast*&ds to me... I can't see any way of getting down there for WSBK, MotoGP, or the Island Classic any time even remotely soon, although I do hope to get to one of them one day.

I need to try to get out to the paperclip for the Aussie superbikes this year, haven't gotten out there for years either.
 
phillip island classic racing.....

phillip island classic racing.....

hi guys NO i did not go but several nut cases from my yamaha xs650 club of australia went and were racing their xs650 and also their side car set ups ... several of the xs650 WON .. surprise surprise ... but apparently it was a great time down there .. with loverly weather ... and a drink or 2 regards david :):):)
 
Racing an XS650 would put a smile on your face, I guess.
I know that just riding one at that particular mark in the revs will.
That nickname was well earned. :)
 
Leigh I've now got some great photos of Fyffy's crash but I can't upload photos so if you send me an email I'll send them to you to put up.Fyffy wrecked his frame,seat,bars etc and broke a finger while Karl Corpe fractured a vertebrae in his back.That's racing.My email is rob.par@bigpond.com.
 
Jeez..
Was that on Sunday?
Up around Siberia to Hayshed?
There was a decent prang up that way while we were at Turn 1
You got an email coming mate..
 
Thanks for the thread. Nice write up. A taste of down under on a winters day. Beer does save you.

cg
 
Thanks Charlie..
Feel free to go a-wandering through the blog.
It's pretty much my bike related adventures/disasters.
 
Leigh Did you get my email? Are you going to post the pics?
 
Leigh said:
I think I might throw my camera away and take up staring at wallpaper as a hobby.

This guy has some serious mojo..

http://www.deejay51.com/pi_int_challenge_2011.htm

http://www.deejay51.com/pi_classic_sidecar_2011.htm

http://www.deejay51.com/pi_classic_support_2011.htm

http://www.deejay51.com/pi_classic_pits_2011.htm
Click to expand...

This guy had to have had a press pass surely to get so close.

When I used to flag marshall at the paper clip, there were several times I had to tell the press guys to get up behind the concrete wall because they were so keen to get "that shot". There were many occassions they were closer to the action than I was, and I was able to wave a flag in the racers' faces!

Having said that, those photos are definitely rather awesome...
 
Just for Max, here are the pics of Laurie Fyffe's prang...

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