Ross Brady was an absentee from the Armadale practice session on Tuesday. He was away to collect a brand new £5,000 GM machine.
He will be at Armadale for the official Press and Practice day at Armadale on Friday and should be able to give his new bike its first run-out.
According to the Edinburgh Evening News, Brady will appear in the Glasgow "Welcome to 2000" meeting on Sunday. He was not in the field originally posted but changes have probably been made in the line-up. Ross is also due to appear at the opening meeting at Berwick a week on Saturday along with Robert Eriksson.
Kevin Little has also been working on a new bike. This year Kevin plans to run with two bikes. He set one up for the big tracks and gave it a run out at Berwick last week. However he found that it also went well at Armadale with the same settings.