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KNOCKHILL 5/6 APRIL 2008

It has been a busy winter trying to get the sidecar changed over to GSXR 1000 K6 engines. This involved changing the engine cradle, the airbox to accommodate the double injectors and the fairing to accommodate the new airbox. Neil Miller and Alan Shand dedicated a week of their time to changing over the electrics and we are grateful to them for suffering all those cold evenings in the garage. To finish of the change over we borrowed Moray Firth Precision engineering’s workshop and Alan made a very neat job of grafting in some extra height to the fairing behind Kerr’s seat. MacGregors Industrial Supplies mixed up a colour matched paint and we got it sprayed in and you would never know the difference.

The team headed off on Friday night for the first lorry trip of the year. We were all quite excited about trying out all the changes even though the weather forecast did not make for good reading with a 98% chance of snow.

On Saturday we checked over the sidecar and got ready for our first practice in the afternoon. We were just ready to drive out of the awning when Kerr discovered he could not get any gears. What a disaster, the quickshifter had stopped working for no apparent reason even though we had it running up through the gears in the workshop. We checked all the connections and got it working again. We thought we were ready to race on Sunday and got signed on and scrutineered.

On Sunday morning we drew the curtains on the lorry at 7am to find that winter had descended once more and an inch of snow lay on the awning roof.

Sidecar racing or sledging – would have been better with a bobsleigh this weekend!

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