As you may have noticed, the blog has gone quiet, quite quiet.
Partially, I have been a little busy (thankfully, finally!) here in Melbourne, between work and grad applications. I haven't been blogging much, or otherwise spending heaps of time online without a reason.
Mainly, I haven't been riding!
I did do WSBK at Phillip Island a couple of weekends ago, which was pretty good - stayed at a place rented off friends of friends, actually got to visit Cowes and wander around the Island a little. The racing was incredible! - Especially the supersport (Aussie's 2 and 3 in the end, but that wasn't decided until halfway down the straight). It's convinced me of the merits of WSBK, which I might just get in to watching this year.
Compared to MotoGP? Well it was annoying that I couldn't recognise any of the riders - though if you need me to tell you about a WSBK weekend you probably wouldn't recognise all the MotoGP riders either, would you? As for the atmosphere? I have not heard anyone yet that favours the MotoGP weekend, but I think WSBK is overhyped. There are far fewer people, and as much as that makes it easier to get a good seat on race day, it is nowhere near the spectacle. It is novel being able to ride around the track, and to oggle all the machinery on display is great, but to be honest it doesn't factor into the weekend all that much. I think, being able to move around and still actually see means if you could only attend one day, WSBK might have more value, but if you can do more of the weekend - and can wander around on Friday or Saturday instead - nothing beats the GP.
So - not riding much;
looking forward to the start of the GP season.
Thank you for hanging in with me in these times, lean for all of us (and now that I have some work that should hopefully be changing).
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