After Brno the team headed to Germany for a two day test at Lausitzring - another track I like but completely different from the flowing Brno circuit. Lausitzring is a hard acceleration and hard braking track, lots of changes of direction and very physical. In the dry it’s a very grippy surface and you can just nail the throttle out of the corners.
It was great to get some testing time there so we can keep improving the bike for these types of circuits. Due to the rain on the second day we didn’t quite get everything that we wanted tested so I’m currently heading to
Silverstone to the official BSB test to hopefully finish off what we wanted to test before Brands.
It’s been a busy month with certainly very mixed fortunes both on and off the track. I am a little late writing this diary as my computer decided to destroy its hard drive, my car has been in the workshop getting a new water pump, my Playstation decided to stop working, Sandi’s push bike got stolen and I got my first speeding fine in Europe whist traveling from the Czech Republic to Germany. Okay, the last one was self-inflicted but the most painful event was, and is certainly going to be, the replacement of Sandi’s push bike, and I’m not referring to my hip pocket.
In Australia we have two good push bikes with all the gear and we bought our old mountain bikes to Europe to use. They were good bikes about ten years ago but now, with the new bike, Sandi’s enjoying the extra pace and passed me doing 60km/hr - slipstreaming a car going down the hill into Lugano!
On the way back, after cruising in my slipstream all the way, she then completely blew me away up the hill into Campione even after I had bought some semi-slicks for my MTB. I am going to have to get tough with her a make her do some work at the front for a change. Even better, instead of taking her on some nice relaxing holiday during the break in August, I have planned a five-day cycling tour around Switzerland to beat that over-enthusiasm out of her!
