Boothy’s slowly getting the hang of it.
After well and truly wobbling round during my first outing on the FC350,1 decided that before I enter a race meeting I needed some more practice. So, for my second outing on the Husky, I headed over to Gale Common Motopark to get down and dirty. I wanted to take it seriously, so like the true professional that I am, I opted to stay in and have an early night, the night before I was due to ride. I didn’t think one glass of wine would hurt, but when one glass of wine turned into two bottles of Boothy’s special home-brewed power wine, it became a problem. Luckily the front door was unlocked when my mate arrived in the morning to pick me up (I was fast asleep on the kitchen floor), so after letting himself in, raiding my fridge and loading the husky into his van, he woke me up, bundled me into the motor and we were off. My hangover was reasonably well cured by a bacon, sausage and egg McMuffin, and after a few laps I was loving life on the 350. I instantly felt better than last time I’d ridden it - it really did feel like such an easy bike to ride. After a few sessions, I started to get the hang of how to ride an off-road bike again, and by lunchtime I was confident enough on the 350 to ask the mister in the office if I could be moved up to the fast group, to which he obliged. As the day went on, the track got bumpier and bumpier and more difficult with every lap. The bumps were, in some sections of the track, bad enough to send the whole bike into an uncontrollable weave, especially when trying to keep up with the pace of the ‘fast group’ boys.