10/08/2026
Classic Bike Festival 2026
Brilliant weekend at bishopscourt onboard the Ability Energy Ltd Superstock 1000 as well as the Tz350 from Mark Kirkpatrick.
Managed to qualify 2nd on the big bike on Saturday morning before having a mega race behind Jonny and Richard Kerr in the battle for the win before a mistake on the second last lap took me out of contention but still brought it home in a mega P3 position. On Sunday I opted out of racing the big bike due to oil being on the track during my 350 race and a lot of rain shortly after.
A mega thank you to Mark for allowing me to take out the 350 this weekend, first time on it was qualifying and managed to put it in 4th position a very interesting bike with lots of characteristics to breakdown 😅. Unfortunately we could not get the bike to run for the race on Saturday (more rider error than anything 🫣🤣), but we managed to get out on Sunday to have a great ride to the front and lead the 350 class before settling for second place finish with more and more oil being put down towards the end of the race I wasn’t sure how the 25 year old tyres would handle it 😂.
Overall a fantastic weekend of racing and seeing a lot of friends, family and special bikes, as always my favourite was Joey’s 250 😍. Very happy with how I’m riding currently and have a few ideas for the last bit of pace we need to be right in the fight for race wins.
📸 Rod Neil
📸 pacemaker
📸 Roy Adams