Up at 4 to get here for signing on, scrootineering and all that malarkey. Good to get here early as we got a good spot near the main paddock and all the admin only took 20 minutes. Half an hour after we'd finished and there were queues a mile long.
Bikes waiting for riders signing-on, number-boards and scrootineering - which consisted of a check of the number-board and last 4 numbers on the frame!
Some very interesting bikes being used for teh prologue event... including this R1 on knobblies...
...and this cool bike - I have no idea what it is
And a lot of older classics
Now we wait for teh Rocket Ride. It's a timed hill-climb. Apparently you get as many attempts as you can fit into the 2 x 2 hour heats. Fastest 48 go through to the final this evening.
All's quiet at Erzberg early on Thursday morning
Saw the hill... hills. Basically from the harescramble start area at teh bottom of the pit and up, up and up 3 beeeeg hills. They're long and steep. But only about 30% longer than what we did in Scotland. I should be ok. A bit nervous.
It's stopped raining and the forcast is good for the weekend.
View down from the second hill. They're steep!
In half an hour I ride teh 450 rocket and try get up those hills. If it were just me and my mates down the quarry, they'd just be a laugh... but with hundreds of competitors and spectators it feels so different.
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