So the wifey went to got fetch her mom for a visit and I had to do something to keep the little one entertained. I looked on Zwartkops website and saw they had a trackday. Whoohoo free entertainment!!
The wifey packed a bag for the kiddie the night before and on Sunday after the obligatory McDonalds breakfast we were on our way.
Thankfully Zwartkops has a nice layout and as a spectator you can choose a number of different places to sit and watch the action.
We first stopped off at the kart track where a few guys were throwing their karts around the track and global warming or not you have got to love the smell of two-stroke in the morning!
We made our way to the seats above the pits, where the next photo was taken,
As you can see he was more interested in the sweets his mom packed in than the bikes! Below is the best result from a number of attempts to photograph bikes in motion, guess you can’t really hope for much with a point and click camera.
The Suzuki GSX passed us as we were walking in, it looked so good I thought I should take a photo, it’s really good to see bikes of this age in such a good condition, give me hope that one day my son could appreciate (hopefully) the more classical bikes.
Another interesting bike we saw was the Suzuki RGV VJ 23, if I remember correctly this came out just before major legislation clamping down on emissions, this is probably the second one I have ever seen, don’t think many made it to South Africa.
Also interesting was a GSXR in Rizla colours, it even got my sons attention.
We walked around a bit an come upon a workshop with this Tazz rally car parked outside, seems quite well done,
outside the same workshop was a Triumph (Stag I think, not too sure),
and a Porsche that looks like it’s not going anywhere soon.
Last thing we did was pay a visit to the play area that Zwartkops has for kids, even though it was quite hot he had some fun playing on the slide and in the sand pit
I am surprised by how many bike seemed to be dedicated track bikes, I went on a track day years ago and almost all of those bikes were road bikes.
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This post was written by Shaun on December 7, 2009
