Hartland Quay Hillclimb, 2-10-22

[TLS-Moose]

A bit of a last-minute decision but decided to pop up to Hartland for the last NHCA hillclimb of the year. The weather Sunday morning, plus a companion without a roadworthy bike meant a trip out in the car ........... Can't upload the pics here as they're (way) too big for the sites size limits and I'm not going through the exercise of compressing them, but the album is here if you're interested - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 944&type=3

[Robbo87]

Good pic's there Moose. Takes me to when I raced there a couple of times back in the day on a Hillman Imp-engined outfit and a Suzuki X7. A fantastic location and a fearsome track that was very easy to get wrong!

[TLS-Moose]

Good pic's there Moose. Takes me to when I raced there a couple of times back in the day on a Hillman Imp-engined outfit and a Suzuki X7. A fantastic location and a fearsome track that was very easy to get wrong!

Thanks for the compliment, I quite enjoy taking the odd snap .....

Sadly, it was one of the lowest turnouts I've seen in a long while - apparently entries have been down all year, a combination of high fuel costs, etc., biting deep now and the weather forecast for Sunday was quite poor

Oh, and please don't get Layne going with talk of Imp engined outfits .......

[layne]

Yup.
Did it on our Windle imp and F2 GPX. And my Z650 and KDX.
Went over the bank on the Z by the paddock entrance. Stopped just 10 feet from the cliff edge.

[Robbo87]

Yup.
Did it on our Windle imp and F2 GPX. And my Z650 and KDX.
Went over the bank on the Z by the paddock entrance. Stopped just 10 feet from the cliff edge.

You didn't sell that Windle Imp to a character by the name of Mike Paddock from the Burnham-On-Sea area did you?

[layne]

Sorry I don’t know who bought it. That one was owned by my driver, Mike Hesford.

[layne]

This is me at 0:16 and 13:48

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=5u-i2d-XgEU

[Robbo87]

Nah, that's definitely not the outfit Mike Paddock and I raced. Ours was more like the next one along, except the chair was on the correct side in our case .

[Mervin]

This is me at 0:16 and 13:48

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=5u-i2d-XgEU

My old mate Nick Dodgson there no26 on a suzuki x7 , now living in Cheyenne USA , he emigrated with a £1000 20 odd years ago , now has 3 midas car repair franchises a used car sales lot and owns Cheyenne motorsports bike dealership

[layne]

That was the F2 GPZ/X 600.
Sorry for the confusion. It was just meant to show me going up the hill.
I’ll see if I can get some photos up of the Windle.

[Robbo87]

That was the F2 GPZ/X 600.
Sorry for the confusion. It was just meant to show me going up the hill.
I’ll see if I can get some photos up of the Windle.

That'd be good .

[graham22]

Funny someone should mention X7s.

My old X7 at 33 secs, my Dads old X7 at 1:48, which I bought back 23 years later from the chap riding it in the video.

My Dad on the YZ490 at 7:11 (no 73). I wasn't riding that meeting as broke my leg earlier that year, won the 250 class the year before but was watching at that meeting, very hungover from the night in the Wreckers (I think that's what the pub there is called).

Also think Paddy was racing the Imp before Layne started, must have been on the TZ soon after 1990?

[Robbo87]

I can't remember the exact year I raced that Imp-engined outfit at Hartland Quay with Mike Paddock, think it may have been around 1989/90-ish and yes, I too got wrecked at the Wreckers Bar! It was a brilliant night - I almost remember some of it .
As for the Suzuki X7, I borrowed Dave Little's a year or so later while I was in between grasstrack outfits. I took that X7 to H.Q. once and Fairoak (near Honiton) once; that was enough hill climbing for me, I got bored with too much hanging about and too-short tracks; I went back to my first love, the aforementioned grass outfits.

[layne]

Hi Graham. Nice to see you are still here.

Robbo, you could easily go grass tracking on the top section of Fairoak
Only trouble there with the 3 wheelers is lining up to get across the bridge.

[graham22]

Yep, still here Layne, watching from time to time.

Fair Oak, got really greasy after they re-surfaced it. Used to be fun though, bit of a shock right after Wiscomb.