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BRANDS BSB: NEWS, GOSSIP AND INTRIGUE

Node4 Yamaha's Dan Linfoot was on heat all weekend, desperately trying to chat up anything that moved. It all came to nought however, as he spent the weekend all alone in his caravan. Fellow Supersport racer Dan Cooper reckons, 'He hasn't got it in him anyway'...


Colin Wright accidentally showed his feminine side while in conversation with the editor on Friday night. He was talking to a lady who had done a huge cross-stitch of Michael Rutter and revealed that he too had made a foray into the world of cross-stitch, saying that he started one 25 years ago but never finished it. Which he followed up with: "Why did I just say that?" Why indeed, Colin...


Leon Camier, who walked away with all three races at the weekend, also celebrated his 23rd birthday just before the event. His friends got him a cake in the shape of a caterpillar but the Kent youngster struggled to count how many slices he need to cut.

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Giacomo Agostini, the man Rossi calls the grestest ever rider, showed more than a passing interest in blonde Fen girl Jo Alexander in the bar at the Thistle on Saturday night. Jo, who is a combine harvester hydraulic engineer, had been pestering BSB riders for their autographs all evening but was out-pestered herself by Ago who appeared very taken by her backside. This didn't seem to bother her boyfriend one bit but he did go a bit purple when a certain two-time WSB Champion got in on the action.


Speaking of Agostini, he was so shocked at the disarray in Michael 'Big Vern' Howarth's MV Agusta garage that instead of standing about when a front wheel had to be changed, he got down on his hands and knees and did it himself.


A motorhome driver got the shock of his life when he went to clean out a BSB rider's RV before Brands. Among the various bits and bobs left lying around, he found a helmet bag stuffed with porn. Good effort.


One of the Pirelli-liveried Yamaha R1s, which roll out before the BSB races, came back covered in dust with bits of gravel sticking out everywhere. When asked, a long-haired BSB official said it broke down before promptly starting it and riding it away.


On Friday, a man who works for Piaggio and, therefore, Aprilia was seen scurrying about the garages presumably in an effort to drum up interest in getting some of the gorgeous RSV4s on the grid for next year.


Now either Paul Smart's classic TR750 is incredibly heavy or the old boy needs to go on a diet as the editor very nearly had a heartie trying to push start the thing twice before the classic parade on Sunday.


Apparently, one rider was offered a Rolex if he managed to stop Leon Camier winning the third BSB race on Sunday and keep Colin Wright's win tally down to 99. Oh well, back to the Casio it is then.


Michael Rutter now only needs to replace Michael Howarth on the MV Agusta to have ridden with every manufacturer on the BSB grid this year. And a subsequent go on a Ducati somwehere will mean every decent marque in the world. That's some record for a season.


Do you know which BSB team manager got so annoyed with a rider that he turned a funny colour and chucked a chair right across a motorway service area? We do...

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Josh Brookes' hat is too big for his head. Fact.


Karl Harris was so ill over the race weekend, he threw up in his lid twice and it dribbled onto the tank of his Hydrex Honda. So I suppose the lovely Kate Martin had to clear that up. Nice.


In a little less than five weeks, Stuart Easton will become a dad for the first time. His mum is, apparently, taking some of his old clothes out so they fit the baby...

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