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Tom Worsley
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Date Posted: 11:07:29 04/01/03 Tue
RACING AT GURSTON - PLEASE READ!
Right then, it’s been a week or so since I read this message board – and I must admit I nearly fell asleep having to trawl my way through the masses of boring messages.
This message board should be re-named something like
“The European Union Bureaucratic Time-Absorbing Initiative; To Discuss, Maintain and Implement the Necessary Requirement For Scheduled Meetings when Monitoring and Assessing The Required Needs Of The Gravity-Sports Community, with the object being Maximise and Optimise the Time Spent Typing Crap and Hoping Other People Might Have To Read It”.
See – I’ve just invented the: -
“T.E.U.B.T.A.T.D.M.I.N.R.F.S.M.M.A.T.R.N.O.T.G-S.C.M.O.T.S.T.C.H.O.P.M.H.T.R”
Anybody want to become a member? There’s room on the committee…
Ok then, Pause for breath.
Back to the subject – Racing at Gurston: -
ANYBODY is welcome to come and ride with us at Gurston, ALL DISCIPLINES ARE WELCOME. Over the past year we have seen a mass of different machines - Streetluge, Stand-up, Buttboard, Gravity bikes…. even a top-flight million-dollar ‘Soapbox’ gravity racer run by the ‘Prodrive’ Subaru rally team!
We don’t care if you are a member of the I.G.S.A, G.B.S.A, G.B.A, …. C.I.A., R..S.P.C.A. – JUST COME AND RACE. Anybody is welcome to join us, just so long as they
Book in advance
Pay the requested fees
Treat the place and others with respect
Racers can be awarded SSSprint points, and then in their own time they can decide whether these are recognised by the BGSA, IGSA, GBA, or even the Brownies, as they wish….
Ding has been running races at Gurston since something like 1995? He set up SSSprint to provide a racing-series for enthusiasts of the then ‘new’ extreme sport of “Streetuge” to compete in. And to promote the sport in general.
Ding has been running at least 10 RACES PER YEAR at Gurston ever since. Each event will see at least five newcomers – that means that since 1995, Ding has introduced something like 400 newcomers to the sport. I know that the VAST MAJORITY of the U.K. racers reading this will count themselves among them. We race all year round, come rain or shine – we will be on the hill.
We run SSSprint without ANY meetings, without ANY votes – and without ANY hassle. That is the way we want to keep it. SSSprint has run at least 80 races since it began!
You can say what you want about Gurston as a race venue, but you ALL know that if it wasn’t for the safe and forgiving nature of the course - we would ALL be walking like Chalky by now. (No offence Chalky!). I personally don’t know of any better course to learn how to ride a luge. That said, if you push yourself to the limit, the hill can be just as challenging as any other.
The current Streetluge World Champion – Pete Elliot, AND the current Buttboard World Champion are both regular racers at Gurston, and I’ll bet that they have both ridden more roads than the rest of us put together.
Most recently we have seen Gravity bikes make an appearance on the hill – and they make a welcome addition to the racing. There is no ‘splinter group’, there is no conspiracy – just a group of bikers who want to race with us.
So, the door is open – come and race, just please don’t drown us with endless mind-numbing emails that bang on about so-called ‘Splinter Groups’. The only splinters at Gurston are in the deck of my Buttboard!
See you on the hill…
Tom.
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