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    Re: Phase One trailing in Spain!

    Posted by Mike's Diary on October 29, 2009, 11:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Phase One trailing in Spain!"
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    Anon, As a rough guide RB organises and the people who go pay for most of it - but still get the most amazing value holiday as anyone who's ever been on the annual Phase One jolly will testify! It's all personal as it's a holiday anyway so nothing to do with the race team budget as Age says. Not that the entire thing would cover the rider budget I imagine!
    Martin, despite falling off 3 times as opposed to zero on the pedal bike it was indeed a hell of a lot less painful! It was a bit of a last minute decision to go I think and the places went almost immediately.
    Actually - that makes me wonder if maybe it was nearly chopped due to budget reasons after all! It was brilliant anyway and Denise and I will certainly be on the list to go if it happens again next year!

    Statistics:
    Any bike beginning with H (Honda, Husky) will not break down at all!
    Any bike beginning with K (Kawasaki) will suffer lots of minor niggles and crash damage but never fail to finish.
    Any bike beginning with K (KTM) will suffer a failure which will require a limp home for repairs which in 50% of cases will mean it's out for the rest of the holiday!
    It doesn't matter what letter your bike starts with - it will still be fined E105 for not having a mirror fitted while pootling through town to top up with petrol! I guess it means that British traffic wardens are not the only ones to be given quotas to fill! A pregnant woman told me she had been given a parking ticket despite being sat in her car at the time!
    There's lies, damned lies, statistics and very, very bored Spanish traffic cops! Anyone who has been to Ainsa and seen it's horrendous traffic problems first hand will realise just how bored they must be! It must be exceptionally difficult to justify their existance as there is virtually no traffic at all!

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