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Kawasaki Day at the Ace Cafe

Posted by RHM on 22 April 2012
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Today was Kawasaki Day at the Ace Cafe London. It was also the Virgin London Marathon and where I live the roads close at 8.00am. Despite GT taking part in the marathon – she managed a 4:00:44 finish time! – I headed off before the road closures to the Ace Cafe for Kawasaki Day, celebrating 40 years.

Of course, 11 and 23 mile markers en route were too good to pass unnoticed so I hoisted celebratory wheelies as I drove through!

Getting to the Ace at 8.00am I grabbed a cuppa and breakfast and then decided to have the ZRX dyno’d again now I’ve put some miles on it and the results were very impressive: 163.2bhp and 98ft/lb which even beat some poor bloke with a shiny ZZR1400 and Akra pipes!

Here are some photos too:

Kawasaki Day Video

Posted by RHM on 6 May 2010
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Alan, a friend from the ZRXOC – where his nickname is sifu2 – sent me a DVD with his footage from Kawasaki Day at the Ace Café which I’ve ripped and uploaded (with his permission, of course). It’s on YouTube but also here:

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Castle Combe Trackday

Posted by RHM on 20 April 2010
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Yesterday I spent the day tearing around Castle Combe race circuit in Wiltshire on a Motorcycle Folly trackday.

To get it there, I’d hitched up the trailer to my Mazda RX-8R3 and “extreme towed” it to Castle Combe on Sunday evening. This took longer than it should have done due to all those mindless morons sitting blocking the middle lane on the M4 – they clearly don’t know (or don’t care) that cars towing trailers aren’t allowed into the outside overtaking lane. Twats!

Anyway, here are some shots of the bike and car after I’d loaded the bike onto the trailer at the end of the day:

I also shot some footage with my miniscule MUVI camera clipped to the collar of my leathers:

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