North Road - Lerwick - infinity and beyond.

[Guest Hjaltland]

Here's us three weeks into May and the racing season for most  well under way with lots of you maybe up to the 200 mile mark.

 

Have any of you turned from south to north this year? and do you intend to go all the way to Lerwick? I'd be interested to hear what are your thoughts about flying north road as opposed to south, what are the the differences you have to deal with?

 

 

[peterpau]

Mate I turned my south roaders into Perth the first year with bird flu NO TRAINING NORTH they did well just no north roaders round here I would love to fly Lerwick again

[Silverdale Lofts]

Hi i turned my widowhood cocks from south to north in 2002 and won 4 x 1sts 3 x 2nds 5 x 3rds

2 x 4ths 1st club 2nd section yorkshire north road fed 28th yorkshire and licolnshire combine 264 miles. Also i was 1st 2nd 3rd club Lerwick only 4 birds home in race time 10th yorkshire north road south section 435 miles . Give it a go you will be surprised.

[PIGEON_MAN]

Allthough we flew north for a season a couple of years back which wasn,t very successful my memories of flying north go back to the 70,s when our club flew that route for many years.Probably my best successes was winning the North Road Championship Club Section G three years in succesion from Perth, on all the occasions the races were very hard the highest vel being 1088.Flying Lerwick I will never forget as the club also had a short race the same day,so come 7.00 pm I went off to the club to strike off the clocks and left the wife who was heavily pregnant at the time with our first son to watch in case anything came from Lerwick, they had been liberated approx 6.00 am flying about 560 miles,well she clocked around 9.00 pm and then got on a pushbike and bought the clock over to me at the club which was about 1mile away,only to be beaten into 2nd place.

[Guest Hjaltland]

I went off to the club to strike off the clocks and left the wife who was heavily pregnant at the time with our first son to watch in case anything came from Lerwick,

 

What a woman! ... should have cycled faster though as you only got 2nd.

 

 

Great to hear your thoughts on North road.

[PIGEON_MAN]

People talk of places over  the channell but to me Lerwick as allways been one of the hardest racepoints to race from,what with the mists etc have known birds to be held there for nearly a week and then they still have if I remember right over 100 miles of sea to cross before they reach the Scottish mainland.