Two More Bikes . . .

             A Velocette MAC, but I'm not sure what engine size, and a BMW ?900. 

More From Cadwell Park

Top pic is the view from Park Straight, the highest point on the circuit.  The start must be the lowest point.   

 

Cadwell Park (Sunday)

After a comfortable evening meal and night at the Brackenborough Hotel in Louth, we got to the circuit about 9.30.  It was cold and quite misty, and it looked as if racing might be delayed.  However, the mist cleared enough and it was soon sunny and hot. 

When I first saw this Morgan, I thought the pilot had just placed a helmet on the other seat to fool the scrutineers, but at Hall Bends I got eye contact with the tiny human being inside. 

                     One of Andy Molnar's Manx bikes.

The man and his machine, with a superb monochrome portrait of himself in the awning.

 We're looking forward to our next visit to Cadwell.

Cadwell Park (Saturday)

Ann, Peter and I went to the racing together, as there were queues at the petrol stations and Peter couldn't get any for his car or his scooter.  Saturday was mostly overcast and we started off at Hall Bends.  The Morgans competed in the sidecar events, so they had to carry a passenger.  The bikes were faster off the line but the Morgans turned in faster lap times.  Pic no. 2 is a Moto Morini V-twin; no. 4 is a Matchless; no. 5 the same Morgan; no. 6 a Triumph twin, one of the few non-BMW K-series sidecar combos.  In the last pic a geezer gets a push back to the pits after shunting his combo.  The day saw a lot of red flags but no serious injuries.  Cadwell as ever a magical location for bike fans and families alike. 

 

Lakenheath Fen

 Ann's RPS visit to RSPB Lakenheath Fen turned up four Hobbies, probably juveniles from their lack of orange 'trousers', industriously purging the skies of the shoals of dragonflies.  One I snapped was a Sparrowhawk.  I also saw Bearded Reedlings in the wild for the first time in many years.  The spider is Araneus marmora [no common English name].  I saw not one single Marsh Harrier, and even the post in Joist Fen was empty of its customary Cormorant.   

Circles

Sculpture, bikes and architecture at the Cambridge University Sidgwick Site, where nature is taking over after eighteen months of Covid disuse.

 

British Super Bikes (1)

 I went with Jim Bennett (no relation) to Bennetts BSB at Snetterton for the second practice and qualifying day.  Being used to Grade D events, this was crowded, but even during the BSB Race One we got places at the fence wherever we chose.  I enjoyed the pits photography more than the racing.  Everyone seemed cheerful and there was plenty of the craic.  

British Super Bikes (2)

Some more images from Snetterton.  I like the skid-pads on the bums of the sidecar passengers.