Engine Punk

We'd only just parked up when we spotted this fire engine red Guzzi The annual pilgrimage to Wiscombe got off to a good start. We hadn't even got out of the carpark when Pete Low and I spotted this bacon slicer Moto Guzzi that had turned up to watch. Funnily enough, Pete and I just been saying that one of the unmissable experiences at Wiscombe was the breakfast bap in the morning after camping under canvas. For greatest effect the egg should be slightly runny and ooze all the way down your forearm. This year I surpassed myself and managed to get egg all down my trousers and on my boots. High performance breakfast baps are indeed something "special" at Wiscombe. Must be the critical mass of all those vintage specials And here is one of those vintage specials - Wasp II (check?) - on opposite lock with cylinder heads akimbo at the recently resurfaced Martini Hairpin The weather was good, too, despite being wet for days on end beforehand. The car park and paddo...

Binky and Ginger contemplate Bishop's Wood before nailing it and going BOBO - Ball's Out, Brain Off I have a great deal of affection for this machine as this is what Team Robert campaigned in the 2005 and 2006 Land's End Trials. It belonged until recently to my mate Rob Robinson-Collins. That's him driving and that's me poised to do some rapid gymnastics to stop us crashing. The photo above was taken by Charlie Wooding (the official MCC photographer) on the 2005 event in Bishop's Wood near Wadebridge moments just before our finest five minutes. This remains one of my highs in a sporadic competition career. Career? I didn't get any money from it - I paid to do it. We just careered everywhere and it felt great, me, Rob and the Cox Triumph all doing our own thing and somehow going in roughly the same direction. On this section, we had to cross a steep forestry track at an angle and then blast up a sunken lane between the trees. We went BOBO - "...