Mablethorpe Beach Racing 25-11-18
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,