2013 biking goals and plans...2012 goals, how were they ?
So then, it's almost the end of the year....

Last year we had a simillar thread and i had 2 main goals...

1. To keep a bike for 12 months...
2. To do more socialising and more trackdays.

Obviously i failed point 1... Owning 3 bikes in 2012.
Point 2 though i did well, i did a few social rides, several trackdays

2013 : So that for me is again point 1.
Keep a bike for 12 months.

Other goals/plans are a Germany/Spa tour and trackday. REALLY looking forward to riding Spa. I should have done it about 5 years back but due to leaky fork seal i pulled out when we were there. So this year it's a big one to tick off the list.

I'm planning on Donny and Cadwell next year to go along with Spa date, possibly a Pembrey weekend.

I also want to do a weekend riding in Wales

Lastly, i want to do an off-road school.

I only rode my bike at 2 events last year.

Half day at Lydden Hill, and the Spanish crashfest.

I have to say, the company in Spain made the trip rather than the riding.

I didn't set any for 2012, but noteable events were Crashfest and nipping up the West Coast of Scotland on the SD.

For 2013

1. I want to go to the North West 200 on the Superduke

2. Finish my minitwin SV650 project and run it on the track (building the subframe at the moment). I figured out that it will cost less to build than crashing the superduke and it's something I can still have fun on.

Buy another SD.

last year was to do at least 5 track days managed 7 would of been more if the bike had of kept going, next years goals 1st was a slipper,done,forks reworked or increase air gap 4th race liscence 5th tyre warmers 6th 7th 8th 9th aint gonna hapen as I just dont earn enough, I also need to change the piece o shit base gaskets

Timely post/question Weeksy.

Just having a rare night on my own tonight because Amy"s taken the kids to her parents for the week. Left by myself to contemplate the last year over a bottle of wine and packet of illicit fags that I'm meant to have given up.

This year's been the worst biking year I've got on record since I started riding when I was 14. Not the fault of anything other than the result of having new twin babies on top of a three year old, running a growing, energy sapping, high stress design company and moving into a money-pit house that needs a lot of work doing to it.

This year I've managed to get in only two track days and I can count the number of decent Sunday rides on one hand. The summer blizzed by with the house move without me even trying to get out much and as autumn came along the demands on my time meant that even going out to fiddle with the bike became rare. The bike has suffered. Most of the battery problems are because I don't fire up the SD enough and actually ride it and I'm experiencing for the first time what happens when you don't actually use a bike - it starts to go wrong and when you do use it there are problems that seem to come that wouldn't have otherwise. I used to spend hours cleaning and messing about with my bikes, it's the time you find the problems and keep on top of them. But now it just sits in the garage getting lonely and neglected. Went out today to find it covered in condensation and damp and there's rust starting to form on parts that were perfect before. Breaks my heart. fook English winters with the cold and moisture, they're a bastard!! I'd have the SD in central heating if I could!!

I open the cupboard sometimes - where all my bike gear is. Dainese leathers, Arai, Daytona boots,etc. The smell of the leather and shit, it makes me want to weep. I just want to put it on. Once when I was drunk I did that, just put the kit on to see what it felt like. How sad is that!! Kitted up but no way to actually go out and ride.

Had to re-insure last week as policy had run out. I'm broke with the house move and everything but I have to keep on being legally insured so I can ride I can. Lucky I'm so fooking old and what not:lol: Only a couple of hundred quid so I'm still to go if the opportunity arrises.

Anyway, I see it as a moment in time. It's just not a good time to be saying to Amy about going out for hours at a time or taking days off work for track days. Little kids are very time consuming, 21 month old twins and a three year old take just about every single minute you have to look after, believe me. Those with kids will appreciate what I'm saying.

One day, maybe in2013 I will get some time for me and the SD back. Hope so. Maybe 2014

But my main goal of 2013 is to have to not sell the SD and all the accumulated kit and parts and shit for funds to live on. Please let me get through this time with the bike and gear intact!!!

TBH Bic, you're lucky you're not in Jail for crimes against good taste.

I'd consider your continued freedom a real result and cherish 2012 for that.

2012 wasn't too bad. Married my favorite riding buddy, did a decent amount of coaching, rode three new tracks (free), and dropped two seconds off my lap times...in the wrong direction. Didn't have much time for racing anyway what with working shifts every weekend. Went to first Moto GP race along with touring the Northeast US. Oh, and picked up a SDR cheap with low miles.

Next year...probably not racing, hopefully will have enough time off to do some coaching and trackdays, and at least justify keeping the race bikes around. Also taking a month off to tour the US for our honeymoon unless she gets a new better job and sets herself up to be my sugar momma. I'll also need to work on setting up the SDR with goodies and sponsors to race Pikes Peak in 2014. And of course enough time to enjoy and keep the ol' SD running. Looks like she'll be bringing in the new year dirty, cords showing, oil leaking, and in pieces. Rode hard and put away wet...minus oil that I drained and didn't have time to put back in.

I set no goals for motorcycling related activity in 2012.
well not goals persay, but events.
Utah for Superbikes, Laguna for GP, and rides to work and back through beautiful Ca. countryside.
I have failed misrably with the SD. I have not found the time to fix the instrument cluster-voltage regulating gremlin and have therefore rode the SD maybe a total of three hundred miles this last year.
She runs great but without the feel of reliability under me I do not rely on it as more than a cheap thrill.
I would have parted company with it two years ago if the money hit was'nt as bad as it would could be.
I am having much fun on my Scrambler and it has been a pleasure to try something in the waaay less challenging format.
I feel like I am lucky that the economy-value of the SD is such that it makes it much foolish to see it leave.
I have a treat that will come back to me in 2013 if I get off my lazy ass.
Texas Moto GP Laguna Seca and a month in Mexico are my bike related oportunities for next year and the SD for clearing the cobwebs on the weekends.

Save up enough money to buy the new SD to be announced at EICMA in November. Mission accomplished -
just one little problem KTM!!! When you've got the money its hard not to look at other brands ...

Stay upright...

2012...

Try to race and be competitive on an SDR

I won every round of the Thuderbikes I could enter and came second in the championship.

I crashed a couple of times on and of the track and came through with good results and times at the end of the year in Clubman 1000 superbikes.
Got a third place and a best of 4th overall.

Next year I want to win Clubman 1000 and be put up into the Superbikes.

My main plan for next year is to get married, once thats out of the way in May then my trackday year is awwwn!

Recover my confidence after my Silverstone tumble and finally break into fast group, should've done it before really but there has always been a reason not to. Next year I've just got to man up!

Main things I'm looking forward to are Cadwell Crashfest, hopefully a European Crashfest in October/November and getting back to Oulton Park. Need to get as much track action in as possible before possible family takes all my disposable income!

2012 has been a funny year really. Only got out on the bike twice on the road all year, once for service and once to see my Dad. Was getting more and more frustrated with road-riding.

Every single track event I went on was affected by rain in some way or another, this got frustrating so bought some wets. What a revelation! Managed to get my left knee down for the first time in the wet at Snetterton. Mental.. Managed to knock a few seconds off my laptimes as I gelled with the RC8 so that was good too.

Track year ended with a high speed drop at Silverstone. This made up my mind for me that Track riding is the only way for me now, if I came off at that speed on the road I wouldn't be here typing. Save for a couple very badly bruised ribs I'm fine.

Bike is now nearly rebuilt to track spec, I'll sort a rebuild thread when I have a spare hour.

In short this year the weather was shite, got my left knee down, missed out on Spanish crashfest, crashed and rebuilt bike. Full of ups and downs.

2013 will be better...

2012 Goals: Ride my ass off. Did it. Started in Feb with a street ride 800 miles south to meet with my riding buds who hauled our dirt bikes south of Death Valley to the Jaw Bone off road area. Road our local dirt bike riding area untill it closed for fire danger. Road Dual sport events and brought home some trophys and prizes. Put my car in the garage and road bikes to/from work with special rides on the weekends plus some week nights. Was holding off for the new Adventure to sell so I could pick up some rich kids old unused Adventure, but picked up a good 950 KTM Adventure and road the heck out of it. Another goal was to up date my stock SD cause it's a keeper. Got some Akro cans, solo seat, new map , lost the can in the ass.
Got a comment from my gal which still makes me think: "You riding motorbikes is more than a hobby" Happy Hangover

2012 has been somewhat disappointing. I sold the SD and bought an S1000RR. The day before my first and only track day of the year, I learned my bike was subject to a recall. Not a big deal mind you, only that it could grenade if ridden at higher temps or RPMs. It was supposedly fine unless ridden at the track. Doh.

Then there were other issues, like stalling while riding it in heavy traffic at 80 mph. (LA drivers are so courteous and move right out of your way when you have you flashers on.)

I had bought the S1000RR with the intention of doing more track days. That never happened.

For next year, I'm not making any plans. I was planning on attending the Texas MotoGP, but I really don't think that is going to happen. At this point, I'm still hoping the Myans were on to something and I never see 12/22/12.