Ring trip this weekend? Who is going.

[chachacha28]

Originally Posted by Dackelone

Is anyone else going on Sunday?

Im down to go saturday or sunday. It would be awesome if i could get my meth working before then. I think i have a bad ground on the solenoid. Im not spraying any meth, and i cant even get flow at wot in 7/5 command mode. Ill recheck everything on wednesday.

[Dackelone]

I don't think I can make it - I was just asking. I was just curious.

Btw... there is gonna be a lot of (NL)caravans in the clogging left lane(s) of the Autobahns - summer vacation time for them. Then comes the Germans later this month.

[Dackelone]

Originally Posted by Elsabor67

That guy that had the severe crash was part of a group of 13 bikes that crashed also due to some guy spraying collant from his busted car for about 100m on the track. The report says the guy died later that day due to his injuries.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...%2C447211.html

I just saw this on the Bridge to Gantry's website. I put two and two together... he was the bike rider who died at the Ring when you guys were there.

sad... RIP.


http://bridgetogantry.com/2/index.ph...mory-of-charly








In memory of Charly Csermak

Details

Charley, riding his big 1400 like a 600 a few days before his accident.

Big guy, bigger smiles. He was one of those people who always found the time to come over and say 'Hi'. Even if you were in a different country. He had the Nürburgring in his blood and motorcycles in his heart. He'll be missed by more people than I can count. I'm missing Charly already and he's only been gone a couple of days.

Charly passed away after an accident on the 'Ring last Saturday lunchtime. Like many motorcyclists before him he was the victim of a fluid spill.

He's not the first guy to meet his maker after a lap of the 'ring, and he certainly won't be the last. I'm not a masochist, the inherent danger of riding the 'Ring doesn't excite me.

It didn't excite Charly either, we spoke about it only a week before his tragic death. But what did excite him was the sheer thrill of riding his bike around the world's most beautiful and challenging racetrack. It's a feeling that even the fighter pilots envy as they fly through the heavens and look down on the little insect figures cascading around the racetrack below.

Nobody held a gun to Charly's head. Nobody forced him to ride his bike that day. And for that reason alone, I'm telling myself not to cry as I type this. But it's not working.

Charly loved his bikes, he loved travel and he loved making new friends. For him the whole of Europe was just outside his backdoor, with trips to the Stelvio and Lake Garda under the ZZR's back tyre already, and plenty more adventures planned for this summer.



I think he was a bit of a secret anglo-phile, to be honest. He was always bringing me his old copies of MCN, and pretty much refused to speak German with me. Though that could be because his English was excellent, and my German is pathetic...

His good friends at TAS in the UK recently became a second family, as he bought a ZX6R to keep over there. Just to enjoy some UK trackdays. The photo above was taken on his first visit to Cadwell, jumping the mountain like a pro. Though a quick scan through some of his older photos shows that Charly's ability to make motorcycles fly is something he's been working on for a while >>

I'm not going to go into the whys and wherefores of how Charly crashed, or how preventable his death was. Not yet. You can read the typically dry newspaper report here, if you want to.

I'd rather end this piece with a smile, which is exactly how I want to remember my friend Charly. With a smile.


CHARLY CSERMAK
1960-2012

[smellthebeans]

RIP fellow speed lover

[Mr Kleen]

They need to have separate days for the bikes.

[Elsabor67]

Originally Posted by Mr Kleen

They need to have separate days for the bikes.

That will never happen because at the Nordschleife, there are not as massive an ammount of bikes as there is cars.

And with the news of the 'ring moving to a liquidation arbitrator because of an impending bankruptcy, it throws a even bigger cloud of uncertainty as to what will happen next year. Specially with VLN, F1 running at the GP circuit next year and the 24hr race.

[iNAN3 SOLDi3R]

I agree with the damn bikes. Had a fucker in front of me on the 2nd lap that completely ruined my lap.

[Mr Kleen]

I've heard that the sun will abandon us on Saturday. If that isn't the case, anyone up for a lap on Sunday?

[I35it]

I will be going up on Sunday with a fellow BMW'er( 335is)