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About Me

Hi im Mark Dicken from barwell in leicestershire in the UK. For 2008 i shall be racing a 2000 Yamaha R6 around the country in the DP Pre Injection 600 championship. I shall also be doing as many EMRA championship round at aswell. I also work as a commercial vehicle service advisor at paynes of hinckley who are a massive ford/iveco/isuzu dealership, they also sponsor me and help out a bit with my racing!
In 2007 i won the Co-ordit roadstock 400 chapionship and came 4th in the Rhencullen formula 400 championship. I also had a guest race in the roadstock 600 championship for one round where i came 2nd and 1st in both my races.
When im not at work or racing motorbikes i can normally be found clubbing around the UK and parts of europe seeins some bloke called tiesto amongst others!!, or genrally dossing about and causing trouble!!!
Here is my 2008 race calender:
DP Championship ( will do every round )
Brands Hatch Fri 21st March (bank holiday)
Brands Hatch Sat 22nd March
Croft Sat 12th April
Croft Sun 13th April
Cadwell Park Sun 4th May
Cadwell Park Mon 5th May (Bank Holiday)
Anglesey Sat 31st May
Anglesey Sun 1st June
Snetterton Sat 21st June
Snetterton Sun 22nd June
Donington Park Sat 12th July
Cadwell Park Sat 26th July
Cadwell Park Sun 27th July
Oulton Park Sat 30th August
Cadwell Park Sat 20th September
Cadwell Park Sun 21st September
EMRA ( all at mallory park ) will only do selective rounds
2nd March
20th April
1st June
6th July
31st August
19th October
Darley Moor Rounds ( TBC )
5th May
25th August
If you would like to come along and see me race any of these dates you are more than welcome come along and say hi and maybe even recieve a free brew and a jaffa cake!!! - high five!!!
For this season i will be sponsored by Paynes Of Hinckley and also seeking other help with other companies if you would like to help drop me a line/message. Also without the help of the lads and gals that are there to support me whther its in helping with kit, workin on the bike or repairing me when im down and bruised!!! You all know who you are and without you i would even be out there, lets hope for as much giggles and fun this year :)

My Interests

Motorsport esp motorbike racing which i love. Clubbing - EMD music or so called trance! follow dj tiesto around as much as i can.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who doesnt take life to seriously and is here to have a good time. Fellow bike fans, racers and clubbers especially!!!

Music:

EDM / Trance or what ever you wanna call it!tiesto,pvd,armin,menno de jong,marc van linden,genix,sander van doorn,mauro picotto etc.

Movies:

Borat and bean the movie!!! trainspotting also!

Television:

only watch tv for sport mainly motor racing like stuff like alan partridge , little britain etc

Books:

cant be doing with readong to be honest have read a few autobiographies- rossi , toseland and reynolds.

Heroes:

Anyone who has followed there dream and been sucessfull.

My Blog

DP final rounds Cadwell Park september 20,21 2008

Saturday Practice The 15 mintue session was the usual mental session mixed abilities mixed bikes and some weird and wacky lines! craziest one was meeting a slow rider at hall bends and taking to the...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:09:00 PST

DP Round 14 Oulton Park August 30th 2008

Friday - Test day As oulton park was such a long and technical track all 2.6 miles of the windy up and down fast track with many blind bends t was wise to do a test day especially as been the case al...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:59:00 PST

DP Rounds 12 & 13 Cadwel Park, Lincs July 26th & 27th 2008

Satureday : Practice: For once this year i am returning to a track i have been round before so practice was 15 minutes to get my bearings back and get in the flow which happened fairly well actually. ...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:02:00 PST

DP Round 11 race report Donington Park 12th july

Friday - practice evening Arrived at the track at about 4pm and got set up and bike ready. Weather was very hit and miss one minute it was sun out next minute a very heavy downpour. The first session ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:01:00 PST

DP Rounds 9 & 10 Snetterton, Norfolk

DP Rounds 9 & 10 Snetterton, Norfolk June 20/21/22 Friday: Arrive to take part in the usual test day, first session i learn my way round track likepeople say its two long straights with some corne...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:07:00 PST

Race report DP rounds 7&8 Anglesey Wales May30/31 & June 1st

Derby Phoenix Rounds 7 & 8 Anglesey, Wales May 30th,31st and June 1st Thursday: We arrive early afternoon and are already greeted with a semi full paddock and thw sun isout we couldnt believe it ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:17:00 PST

DP race report Rounds 5&6 Cadwell Park May 4th & 5th

Friday The test day was just a trackday which was busy and not best as had mixed ability of riders which one a track like cadwell causes problems as overtaking even slow riders can be a big but as i h...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 06 May 2008 03:15:00 PST

DP race report Rounds 3 & 4 Croft, Yorkshire

Friday - Test Day We arrived at 7.30am to a damp croft after a 3 hour trip to the track and set up. First session was the usual take the time and learn the track i have never even watched racing from...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:23:00 PST

DP Race report Rounds 1&2 Brands Hatch March 21st and 22nd 2008

Well here goes we had a fresh rebuilt yamaha r6 2000 model that had been smashed in half in a 130mph crash by myself late last season ready 4 days before the first meeting of the year...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST

2008 Race Dates

Ok heres my calender for 2008 i will be racing at all the DP championship and doing as many as the EMRA dates as possible also but as you can see some clash etc but were concentrating on the DP champi...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:12:00 PST