Mablethorpe Beach Races, 2014 Report

Sunday mornings are normally taken up watching my boy play football, but this week's was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch, so we trucked up to Mablethorpe for our annual beach racing pilgrimage. There were plenty of neat bikes, like this Honda XL250 (I think) below.

This DT125 was a favourite too.

Camera-shy Carl of CFM (who has built all Sideburn's project bikes) on his all-conquering TDR250. He won his class again yesterday. He'll be 250 road bike champ this season.

 Family affair.

The grasstracker class is impressive.

The 200 road bike class. There are a bunch of road bike classes up to the mutants in the unlimited class. 

There are classes for everything on the beach including MX bikes. I liked this older gen Kawasaki. Some of the MX fellas get a bit carried away with it all, though. There was a 20-man brawl in the pits just before the end of the meeting (not involving anyone in these photos). Knobheads. 

Unlimited road bike sand racers are like no other race bike in the UK. Built for nothing and raced on the cheap. It's as close as I've seen to punk rock motorcycle racing anywhere in the world. They really don't give a f***.

 

Neil Tuxworth, boss of Honda Racing UK, raced on the beach for decades and his neat Honda XL250 spawned a bunch of replicas and racers inspired by his bike, including these.

Young Tom was flying on his Africa Twin, built by CFM. Full gas, full lock.

Our mate Russ was back from Afghanistan and straight into another potentially dangerous sandy situation. This one a little colder.

Russ wheelieing. Carl clearing off.

 Mablethorpe. Where the sea meets the sky.