Dragstalgia 2025

Sunday 29 June 2025

Finally managed to stop grinning long enough to write a race report!! Dragstalgia 2025 It's been a while.......... For a few years now, Andy Lambert has offered me his awesome Prostock bike to ride, after my few attempts on Claire Rules and Richard Gipps stockers, someone must have seen potential or giggle factor! If you don't know me, I used to race in Comp and Funny bike, and won the Championship in 2013, and been a "borrower" of race bikes, or sometimes, even offered a ride! Then Covid, total knee replacement, and recovery - 4 years down the line, Andy asked me again - He, being unable to ride due to a shoulder injury that he's still waiting for an op for, told me this year I had no choice! Now, I'm not the size for a ProStock bike, Nostalgia, or otherwise anymore, but really wanted to have a try, so yes! I then had to convince Bois that Dragstalgia was a great idea, so "Give me your card, Bois, I'll enter you now, and can you bring both bikes please" whilst in the bar !! Bois was going to see Linkin Park at Wembly with his girls, so the Read more

Festival of Power 2025

Sunday 20 April 2025

I wasn’t 100% for the Thursday test day. We'd been to Prague for Lizz’s “significant” birthday and managed to bring back Norovirus as a souvenir - it wiped both of us out for a few days. By race week we were mostly recovered, but definitely still feeling the effects. Jake and Esther arrived Wednesday night, and Jake and I got up early Thursday to set up our pit area for the weekend. The girls followed later with food and supplies for the weekend. With everything set up, we chilled for a few hours and prepared the bike. Once the rest of the crew arrived we made a plan for starting the bike first thing in the morning, we all got some sleep ahead of Friday's action. Friday morning, we ran into a bit of nitro mischief. Even though the bike had sounded great just two weeks earlier, it now didn’t want to idle properly. We took our time resetting the barrel valve and idle settings. We weren’t in a rush to make the first qualifier - this is about testing, not chasing points (yet). We also got some excellent advice from seasoned friends in the paddock, including multiple European champion Read more

2025 Nitro Diaries

Monday 31 March 2025

Over the winter, real life and work took priority. In between the daily grind, the bike was stripped and cleaned. We relocated a few components for easier access and maintenance, and did our best to balance the setup. I'm really happy with how the bike stands now. We removed the fuel distribution blocks, stainless hard lines. These were replaced with showerhead fittings and equal-length braided lines to help improve fuel distribution - fingers crossed this addresses our persistent fueling issues at idle. I made the decision to skip the season opener at Santa Pod for a few personal reasons, but we did manage to make time to attend the Yam Yam test day the Monday after the event. It was a well-organized session and gave us a great opportunity to fire up the bike on nitro post-rebuild. We had a productive day: got the timing set and sorted out a couple of minor fuel leaks. Unfortunately, during testing, oil pressure dropped, halting our progress. We went through the oiling system piece by piece - lines, components, everything - and eventually traced the issue to a faulty fitting. Once replaced, all was well again. The troubleshooting took longer than we expected, Read more