10-08-2014, 07:34 AM
This was before we started the Throttlemonkey website or later the original forum (2005).
Three of us (Bill, Kev and I) started to do trackdays. I went on a pretty quiet Ducati forum (v-twins.cc) and chatted with Yella and Rocket on there and eventually bumped into them at trackdays. It was Croft where I met Yella for the first time if memory serves me right. It should have been Mallory on my 996 with DSC (Ductai Sporting Club) for my first ever track day but I couldn't make the day and had to sell my place so didn't go to that one.
Back then, I was meeting people and arranging meeting up again by text and email. That all got too complicated so I put a 'Throttlemonkey' website up and posted dates of trackdays we were going to along with TDO and prices. I added reports once we'd done them. We painted our three bikes up red and got 'Throttlemonkey' stickers on them. It got folks attention and we started to get people joining us on the days just for the craic.
Once we had 6-10 folks meeting up regularly I decided to start the forum in 2005. The rest, as they say, is history and now we are back again!
Three of us (Bill, Kev and I) started to do trackdays. I went on a pretty quiet Ducati forum (v-twins.cc) and chatted with Yella and Rocket on there and eventually bumped into them at trackdays. It was Croft where I met Yella for the first time if memory serves me right. It should have been Mallory on my 996 with DSC (Ductai Sporting Club) for my first ever track day but I couldn't make the day and had to sell my place so didn't go to that one.
Back then, I was meeting people and arranging meeting up again by text and email. That all got too complicated so I put a 'Throttlemonkey' website up and posted dates of trackdays we were going to along with TDO and prices. I added reports once we'd done them. We painted our three bikes up red and got 'Throttlemonkey' stickers on them. It got folks attention and we started to get people joining us on the days just for the craic.
Once we had 6-10 folks meeting up regularly I decided to start the forum in 2005. The rest, as they say, is history and now we are back again!
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Croft 2005, Cadwell 2006, Cadwell 2007