| Neal 'Champ' Champion: [Jurby '02] "The bike is not so much "fully fettled" as fully bodged. It's been crashed 5 times this year, and while it's been repaired each time, it's never as good as it was before. It will also be 'fresh' from the Pembrey 6 hour with not so much as an oil change. (thinks: I suppose I *could* change the oil...)." -- to which Neil Ronketti responded "We've not even got an engine to put the oil in yet" Cherie Christian: "I got boobies and they hurt like hell after about 5 minutes bouncing around - oooops, too much info" [Jurby '02] "I'd just made my return to racing after my big crash at Croix, and found myself to be at least 2 seconds off my ususal pace, riding a bike I don't know, on a circuit I don't know" James 'Doughnutboy' Dening: [Oulton '99] "Andy Bryant got me stoned off my tits last night." [Snetterton '02] "I'm rather chubby at the moment" [Cadwell '03] "I got my glove caught on the throttle." [Pre-Season '04] Nice try, but I'm *Very* pussed..shit, fucking keyboard thing is fucked,....and I'm in Israel, so there.... [James' response to an invitation to go road racing on the Isle of Man, after raving and frothing for days on end trying to get Adam C to go circuit racing -- Ed.] [Bishopscourt, NI '04] Dunno what happened, but my luck ran out. I blame the overbanded, cement-patched shite surface.... and a 5.5 hour old front tyre... ;-) Liam Drew: [Snetterton '01] "The bike just doesn't handle as nicely as the one I wrote off" Roger "Reg" Ford:
Reg: "I've not crashed at Chessons" [Brands '00] "For a moment, I thought everything was fine. Then it gradually dawned on me (time being measured in microseconds) that I was sliding on my fairing rather than turning on my tyres. The front had let go." Keith 'Mad Dog' McKay: [Jurby '02] "I forgot we had a qualifying tyre on" -- which lasted 15 minutes into a 2 hour race. Simon "Sol" Oliver: [Cadwell '00] "I forgot to brake" Neil 'The Rocket' Ronketti: "I lent the bike to James and it's not been the same since." "I forgot to scrub in the front tyre." -- after breaking his wrist at the first corner of the first lap of the first practise session. Neil 'McCrashy' McCready: [after binning it at Brands in front of the cameras]
McCrashy: "I thought I could make it round the wide line." [after discovering that Ms. Cherie had posted a faster lap than him] "Was it damp? Was my bike doing the CBR200-200-300 trick? Had I got an oil leak? Was the engine overheating? And (being only the 4th ever round of the champs) was it also one of my first ever trips round Brands? "
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