Ride around Silverstone for 24hrs!!!
- Thread starter Ian Raleigh
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keep your eyes on websites like this: http://www.45roadclub.co.uk/79-45rcnews ... -bike-ride and save yourself a fortune... 
As a local resident I can tell you there's often evening rides, etc around the full GP ciruit, that cost next-to-nowt to attend..
As a local resident I can tell you there's often evening rides, etc around the full GP ciruit, that cost next-to-nowt to attend..
RadNomad
Senior Retro Guru
Yes the RAF chose well when they built Silverstone; built on raised exposed topography, windy, desolate and pretty much flat. Just what you need for an airfield but probably not the most fun on a bicycle. I remember sitting in the old drafty startline grandstands in the early '80s watching SD1s and Capris in the Touring Car Championship, wrapped in blankets, sipping on their gloopy soup and freezing our nuts off. Would be good fun cycling a couple of laps but maybe not for 24hrs..
Old Ned
Old School Grand Master
NeilM":1c8w8vi1 said:
There are/were regular road races at Oulton Park. I raced there in the mid 60's. We tried it first week clockwise like the motors race but the finish was to short. Following events were anti-clockwise which was much better. I remember the hairpin having a very deep drop off the tarmac surface on the inside, very nasty if your front wheel got into it. I see now that it has been filled in with a rumble strip.
I've got a photo somewhere from the first ever bike race there. It chucked it down with rain!
Old Ned
Old School Grand Master
Old Ned":2mp2tvhi said:
Found it! I'm the one in the hat hydrating myself with the drips from the peak. Not sure who the others are but the guy next to me is wearing an Oldham Century jersey I think. All pre-helmet days of course.
I think the pits look a bit different now, this was 1966.
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Love Mallory grew up watching there. Inc bay city rollers!
