Andy Carlyle probably one of the coolest bikers around, does anything ever get him excited? Martin at the Burgstube in Nurberg has a descent place and it's in the village with a choice of local food boozers within easy staggering distance. Bren on the other hand is a 20 min ride to the Ring and a two hour wait for a take away pizza, that said I've stayed with Bren a few times and it's always a good laugh.
My wife and i have done all the food for the Burgstube for the last two years, we are the cooks. Bren also has plans for some inhouse food. All good wholesome stuff. The run from Brens to the track is a great warm up for bike and rider.
Tbh I could t do a ring only trip. Didnt do any laps this year when we went. Happy to do a few laps or hang about for a bit if the weather is good but I just love the area generally. Mind you, if I were being shown around, that may chmage my mind
A few years ago a mate came out with us (a real fast rider on the road), he'd supposedly learnt it from the Playstation, went past me like I wasn't there and disappeared into the distance never to be seen again, well until we got to Brunchen where he was looking for bits of his R1 in the trees on the left handed coming up the hill. Ruined his weekend as it was only his first lap and his bike was trashed, €300+ to get his bike recovered.
I have been there 5 times in a car with a load of friends, long weekends, only driven my car once around it, I love the place the whole area is just all about motorsport, I would be up for another weekend trip, we used to always stay in a centre parks about 12 miles away. There is a lot of accidents on the track though both cars and bikes, it is all about what time you go around.
Drinky you are right, it is nothing like the PlayStation you learn the bends but not the up and downs, it changes around 1000 foot over the length of the track if I recall. Many have been caught out that way, thinking they know the track really well because they have played it on the Playstation, people say it takes around 60 odd laps to really know the track like the back of your hand
The ring is above my talent scale. Maybe when I get better I will feel confident enough. But I know my limits and the ring is one of them.
This year Bradders the track has been so busy. But there has still been times of nearly empty track. Picking when to go on track still the key. Lap ticket prices rumoured to be dropping slightly in 2015.
It's a road, you ride on roads that you don't know and don't crash I hope, there's no reason why you can't go around the Ring, just sit in the car park and watch the variety of bikes going around its anything from supermoto to scoots to Sports bikes and choppers.
heh bootsam tbh it is not the ring, it is your talent knowing your ability, anyone can ride around it, but treat it with far more respect than any other road, and don't think of it as a race track, for me the most important thing is you go around when least amount of traffic on it, and in the dry, then you and anyone will be fine.
Only a fool would go round on a bike in the wet. I did it on my push bike one evening, that's the time you realise that horse power reduces height gain. What you think is flat and level on a motorbike is near bloody verticle whilst pedaling.
I dont find it perilous if you obey the rules. Oddest thung is being overtaken by cars. And reckon hundreds of laps to know it well, unlessyou are gifted like the top road racers ala Martin and McPint who seem able to learn it enough to race in a few hundred videos and couple of laps
Yeah watching you two mates, just as it goes from bone dry to sopping wet in two short corners, go skimming across the grass of the second and emerge on the tarmac the other side...pricesless and sooooo funny. We should have sussed so ething when the german gixer ride who just flew last us we caught and passed easily..
I would guess to learn it on a bike is more than the 60 laps I was talking about, that was referring to a car. I remember seeing a car lose it right in front of me watching, and then 20 minutes later a bike ran out of road on the carousel and fell of at the top of it, 10 metres away from me. I jumped over the barrier and helped him pick it up. I used to take 1000's of photos there.
Guy Martin and Gary Johnson are friends if Bren. Both have spent time here and both very quick off the mark, both played with by Bren and Andy. Guy was here again this year for a lap record attempt that neverhappened
The best bit of advice i had about the ring is treat it like a country lane, you don't have to try and set the lap record. just ride it to your ability and you will love it. It's a spectacular piece of road.
