(10-08-2014, 07:34 AM)Kingy Wrote: 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!
The good old days kingy :-) going to Mallory on a track day with yella camping think it must have been the dsc one was pissed as a fart. Got up the next morning with a stinking headache. Never went out on track it was wet changed my tyres but felt so ruff. All yellas fault getting me drinking that smelly bow.
Going to Oulton on the srad I had for about 2 months, flamin bill charging it with 2 wires on the car battery. Being sent out for one session as it was too windy coming out of she'll bend and getting blown from one side of the track to the other with the front wheel in the air. Then they cancelled the day and said we had all had track time.
The first time out on the zx636 at track after farting about with allsorts of bikes and finally tok your advice at croft. Can remember the grin on my face coming into the pits for the first time I could not smile any harder. Did not sell the bike and was sat in my garage till may this year. I have since put it on the road and took it to Mallory and I bloody love it make me feel twelve again.
I still have a vtwins.cc t-shirt , also remember he tried to sell us that site when there was only us using it.