I might be doing this track day if anyone fancies it?

Has anyone been on the Internationail circuit at Rockingham on a 250 and rate it good or bad?

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I really enjoyed it. Long straight is a bit long really, though you can get flat out if you dare / have the right gearing. Was good practising Fookin hard stops at the end of the straight for the turn in.

Plenty of track to get round the big bikes in the corners too.
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i know a few peaple who went on track at the ford rs day and they enjoyed it
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watfordhorn wrote:I might be doing this track day if anyone fancies it?

Has anyone been on the Internationail circuit at Rockingham on a 250 and rate it good or bad?

Umm didnt I watch you and Tom riding the international circuit at Rockingham last year?

Haha, I went last year, thought I did the national with Tom

But your right, we did do the international...you coming then???

Afraid I wont be their, on holiday that week. Anyway my track bike is still not quite ready for action

Would have been good to see the mighty 28 blow them away around the Rockingham banking though!

wouldnt be the first time would it!!

oohhh, the International circuit...neve rhad the pleasure myself though I've done the National several times. That (the National) is a 250 hunting ground, there's zero excuse for anything getting past you buit this sounds like fun...if my bike survives the approaching 3 day on slaught (Anglesey races this Sat/Sun then Cadwell TD on Monday) I'll be up for this
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Good stuff, let me know next week before you book, I am not 100% yet but if there is at least one more two stroke there then I will be more interested.

Myself, Fontyy and Tom are booked....any other takers?

I´d be there if I wasn´t away on holiday, should be a good day.
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Cheers to Tom and Fontyyy (and Barry and Jon on their diesels) for another good day onthe track...almost incident free except for my exhausts cracking and the carbs overflowing, at least the new pistons and rings felt better!

Fontyyy, you will be pleased to know the bikes didnt fall off the trailer....although they did come close!!!!!

The two Air Ambulance visits were a little off putting but a great (cold) day. The RS250 held up well, shame I'm now broken. The aches and pains of hustling the bike about have taken their toll.

Looking forward to the next one

Leigh your bike is fast now, visably a good amount faster than it was at Cadwell. I couldn't even get near you though Rockingham Int most be one of the worst circuits in the country for showing up a difference in power (as well as being one of the worst circuits in the country full stop) as it's impossible to get a good run onto the oval and there's far to many places where you end up single file.

It would be interesting to run your bike either on the dyno or in a straight line race against any 250, it looked to easily have the legs on Tom's RS and that had enough power to get past me on the short straight between the last hairpin and the horrid flip flop flip chicane onto the oval.
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It did feel noticably better, and not much was pulling away from it down the back straight including some the big 1000s, it had the legs to pull past Jon on his 748 down that little straight . I am not sure if the slightly newer style RS pistons have had any effect?

I am quite interested to get it on the dyno again, maybe when I get the 300 set up over winter I will take it for a quick power run and see where it is at now.