The saga of No9 is still ongoing....this is just the groundwork so you lot can understand how my bike and I are such mates and why I am a saddo on here..lol

After the crash..new riding skills needed.

I booked a TD in November at Cadwell Park. It was foggy and cold when I rode there. I have no pictures, no footage and cannot really remember it too well apart from it was wet and cold.

I was also thoroughly addicted and this was the start of a slippery slope indeed!!

this one should keep us entertained for a few months

My first trackday was wet! just made me want to do another one asap

As it happens..after my crash on the bike and my burgeoning lloydness on the original 400greybike forum I have decided to take my new found skills out on a trackday.

In between I went to a mobile dyno day.



It says 60.9. Hmm..std carbs and a chopped off can with ART can,

I mentioned my first TD..it was..non descript (in a literal sense) but it did sow the seed of trackriding in my head.

Before my next one...I managed to get an RS250 shock and sorted that out with a service and additional rebound shim from Mick Gardner racing. I was also made famous for 15 minutes as I was on the Radio 1 "Scott Mills" show. They used to do a session where they would phone your boss and get you the time off work. I was sorted with that and my boss said I did fuck all anyway..so I got some time off to go to my in laws and fit my RS250 shock (it took me about 4 hrs..lol)

Anyways..the moto was getting fettled. It deserved it. I was inspired by RichoneNZ, EddieHRCrider and also the usual UK suspects on the forum. *for you new guys..the forum was always a nice place, but seemed, in some ways, to be a technical hive of activity.

There was also an opportunity to buy a Yamamoto system. £50 on ebay. My first proper system.




So, come February, I booked another TD, again at Cadwell. This time, a mate of mine (we call him Jimmy Funster or Tin'ead, you CUNT

He had an SV650 at that time..
(styling at the pub in Glossop)


I did have some pics of our setting off - it was a funny session really. We rode over to Cadwell, it was fucking freezing and as we passed Hemswell Cliff our friend Tin'ead got a speeding flash and a 3pts/£60 jobbie...and I got feck all. Bonus!!

Apart from that, I have these pics for you to all indulge it and see my awesome, shite, novice style!!







I do like this pic (and have a printed one next to the pic I have of my first ACU test)


You have to say that the bike looks fucking cool eh?? 5yrs ago and representing a pukka livery and one of the original suzuka style fairings..

I love my bike.


So..No9..he became a crashed road bike and tranformed into a wannabe 400cc trackbike.

Then he had an upgraded Yamamoto, an RS250 shock, a 15/43 gearing and was blooded on 2 Cadwell trackdays - on which I was slow (but nailed Jimmy Funster on his SV big time..yeah!! )

This was all in the heady times of 2005/2006!!

You see people...it was all done before.

More to follow....this blag now is only 2006..the saga of No9 and the CMSMJ1 relationship with it and 400GB will be made clearer..

2006..well...more TD and some more fettling innit!!

Righty ho..

So, we rolled on the old NC. I was getting properly addicted to trackdays and I think I did probably 15 of the suckers in 2006

I did Silverstone, Croft, Cadwell

Croft


Cadwell (a few times)









I murdered some BT92s at Cadwell...




Silverstone (later in the year...new seat unit for TDs - and no lowers as mine had destroyed themselves on a road ride) Also, note the Coerce rearsets and the tyga carbon nose.









I broke my first Yamamoto



I fitted an HRC tray and no lid..with skinny filter








I got another Yamamoto...







In road trim, the bike looked so..



A dirty, well used and loved moto.

I remember the site back in the day and the engineering and ideas back then was something else and I'm glad to see the site is going back in that direction

all i can think when i see those riding pictures is....


norick abe

ChowderV4 wrote:all i can think when i see those riding pictures is....

norick abe

That long hair has got to be good for a couple more ponies...


Nice thread Mark!

We had a 400Greybike Cadwell Park meeting/trackday. It was the best we've had.

Members came from Cornwall, London and everywhere. We camped and had a few beers and then nailed the trackday. There must have been 20+ members and they had their friends, Great times...

NGneer stuck some stickers on everything...













(that is me with the back protector and awesome hairpiece...)

Check this out! Awesome bit of kit ridden by a Dutch chap as far as I recall..











Hipringle...you are famous lad!

NGneer...first kneedown!


no9 - I had flogged the tyga mudguard..it was not for me.



(this rider was called Chris - anyone remember him? He was a racer...that bike ran on 3 and he borrowed our V4s)










AliasOmega - still sticks his head in sometimes...


Nice moto..


Cilit-Bang - Or Anthony. Most of us have got a piece of ths bike - it got broken after he built it as he bouight a 999! I have the frame and swinger. Swnger is fitted to no9! The motor was sold to someone on here. Lots of little bits and bobs went adn did the rounds!

The old forum has his build thread..it is a good read.

Some great pics Mark. Loving this thread.

Yeah I remember the Trackday - I couldn't make it but some of the other Cornish Lads did.

The Nastro Azzuro rep is Tristan and I think he still has the bike but now lives in Plymouth.

The NC30 with No. 81 on is Billy, from Penzance, He is also my Sprayer (Bodyworks) and did a couple of bikes including the Stobart rep. He'd only just picked that NC30 up a week or so before!! Now rides a streetfightered GSXR 750 slingshot.

The RVF with white fairings and red decals, is Ant, Also from Penzance, he has since sold his bike and had a supermoto and R6 for a while.

Hopefully we (the 400GB forum) can do another trackday like this sometime?!