Two wheels or Four? Introducing a new BTG scribe
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Category: Motorcycles
- Created on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:04
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:04
- Written by Andy
The BridgeToGantry editorial team has just doubled in size! Say "Hallo" to Herr Path...
Two wheels or four? Clearly the answer is "fwo", because we all have our personal ideas of what constitutes a good giggle. Up until now the two wheeled side has been a bit light on BTG. That is about to change....
Our 2012 role-models
Stick about and you’ll read about motorcycle projects, the odd tyre review, suspension articles, going fast, going slow. There might even be a new bike review if we’re lucky enough to find somebody else naive enough to let us 'borrow' one.
You might even read about some successes (and hopefully not too many failures). Sometimes we might happen across the truth, but mostly we’ll lie and exaggerate so as not to show anyone else up. Hopefully we’ll inform some and entertain many, win the cup and get the girl. But on balance, simply avoiding any libel proceedings or unintended helicoptor rides will define 2012 as a roaring success.
Is there any interest in motorbikes on the Nordschliefe?
No clearly there is not. Any visit to watch the track will see the odd bus, a van, even some loon in a camper skimming the waste water outlet on the kerbs. A motorised sofa. So many GT3RS’s with identical ‘GT3’ posh number plates will also turn up. Which was more exciting than the day we burgled the bank in Kelberg!
Imagination stagnation.
Then there are the various leagues of shitbox car racing; which league you compete in is purely wallet dependant. You pays yer money and decide how slow you want to go. Occasionally even bona fide tourists travel all the way from Mayen in Astra diseasel estates and drive a lap without a rollcage or even racing gloves(!). Other places can warn you of the perils of driving without gloves. But no one comes on bikes anymore. Apart from one sunny day when 9000 duck-footers turned up for the Gottesdienst (That's April 1st this year, so us car drivers can avoid it - DL).
That’s 100% clear then; so little interest there’s no need to even spell-check this article. It must have just been me who typed ‘ZX10 gyrocam’ into YouTube a quarter of a million times.
In the mean time there be a bit more winter fettling to be done. Pounds need to be shed from the bike and the rider. The bike I will introduce on this site will provide hours of fun for the anoraks of internetland. I have also stopped eating wheat, mostly. Bloody stuff is in everything. Bananas are cheaper than titanium. But for 2012 there will be dual targets – less weight and more power. We could speculate about a sensible target for all this work. But sensible would be the wrong word. Bring on the summer.
Yours sincerely, Herr ‘Path, a.k.a. 2639, a.k.a. Andy Path
(a.k.a. "Did you see that bloody bike go past?! Jesus H. Christ!" - DL)
