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Showing posts with label English National Rally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English National Rally. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 July 2008

It started with a curse!

Brilliant idea! If I take my iPAQ with me on the National Rally I can upload lots of interesting(?) snippets to this blog, live and fresh as it happens (this is clever and I have seen Highwaylass do it)
I know it can be done because my first post was done this way.
So, having found myself at a loose end at the first checkpoint (I got there 1:1/2 hours before the start of the rally and nobody else was there) I extract said iPAQ with a flourish, and madly stab at the keyboard creating a truly wonderful narrative on my exploits at the driving skills 'tests' I had just completed (actually, 'completed' may be a little overstated?!)
When I send the above, it gets hijacked by the email fairy who promptly looses it (Tart!!)
when I try to recover my labour of love there is no sign of it, what's all that about?
I even took this picture to send with it,Could this be the reason the email Fairy consigned it to oblivion?

More to follow

Friday, 27 June 2008

Working tomorrow


Got to work tomorrow, still this gives me some time to prep the bike for the English National Rally and check I've got me route right.
Last time I did the rally I relied totally on the satnav and it had me zooming off in all directions less the correct ones! once I realised it had it in for me I gave it a stern talking to and checked the somewhat dodgy info I have inadvertently loaded into it and all was well, I cut it a smidge fine at the final check point though.
The picture is of my Triumph Trophy 1200 at Sutton Maddock check point at about 4am in the morning hence the blurry eyed photo.

This year is the first year on the rally for the Pan European and it's looking forward to it, should be a bit cheaper as well as the fuel consumption is better on the Pan than the Trophy, mind the cost of fuel has gone up you know! so it'll cost twice as much anyway. Still ones got to do what you can to keep up the fight for Global warming, and keep paying lots of tax to bail out the Government in it's time of need.