Mablethorpe has an almost unfathomable pull for me. The conditions are terrible. The salt and sand ruins bikes and kit. The biggest battle is waterproofing a road bike to survive the cold blast of brine, though you can turn up on a motocross bike and they seem to just plough through it. The racing takes place in winter, so it's often cold and always wet. Getting a faceful of sand thrown up by the back tyre of a mutant Cagiva 1000, sand with an impact speed of 120mph or more,

Racing on the Lincolnshire beach takes place from around 11 tomorrow, Sunday. See a massive range of abilities (from GNC pro to monkey covering eyes emoji), a massive range of bikes (from billet grasstrackers to smiling poop emoji 125s) and it's free to spectate and walk around the pits. Our most recent feature about Mablethorpe was written by Dave Bevan, who also took this photo of Carl CFM on the Yamaha TDR250 that he's now sold to another racer. Dave wrote: '... in a day a

Mystery ignition problems ruined my day at Mablethorpe, and I can barely muster the enthusiasm to describe them. My newly rebuilt Honda was running on Saturday, but a bugger to start from cold. Changed the coil, changed the plug, changed the plug cap. Lovely spark from the bare end of the HT lead, but when I put on any kind of plug cap (and I tried three) and plugs old or new, the spark all but disappeared. When the bike did start, it ticked over and revved lovely. The optimi

TOO LATE. IT'S SOLD. I can't believe Carl is selling this bike, but he is, to finance a new project. See the description below. Here's the link - YAMAHA TDR250 RACE BIKE What Carl says... BUILT 8 YEARS AGO TO COMPETE AT MABLETHORPE SANDRACING CLUB, 250 ROAD BIKE CLASS. TOOK A COUPLE OF SEASONS TO GET FULLY SORTED, THEN WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR 5 CONSECUTIVE YEARS. WON EVERY RACE AT EVERY MEETING DURING 2013/2014 SEASON. SPEC: TDR FORKS AND YOKES - HAGON PROGRESSIVE SPRINGS,