44.7 was the fastest lap time, Andrew Stroud on the thousand.
no more pies
44.7 was the fastest lap time, Andrew Stroud on the thousand.
Boyd hh er Suzuki are my heroes!
The best deals, all the time!
The Wise
The only pic I have of you, Sparky Bills, the second pic is an edit of the first, the original pic is 2.55mb would have to email it to you if you want.
cheers John
Why would you ride that long and that gnarly stuff if you don't have to, Its what we do, we love it.
Nathan Woods R.I.P.
Soo-deep
I hope you don't mind me editing your lovely photo John.Originally Posted by oldguy
But I just "airbrushed" it for our mate, Sparky Billy. You can show this one to your sponcers.
The Wise
I like it
Why would you ride that long and that gnarly stuff if you don't have to, Its what we do, we love it.
Nathan Woods R.I.P.
Geriatric hippie
The only plod I saw on the way home was in suburban Te Aroha. And he had a car pulled up...
ACC - It's where the Enron accountants all went.
Hardcore Biker
good stuff, another mx'er does it well on the tarmac.
Hardcore Biker
you and me both man,1st time i've missed paeroa in 7yrs.GUTTED?
VTWIN- SUPERBIKE
Whip it, whip it good!
Glad that you had a good day, seems there were a few of us that did
Soo-deep
If you pay me for the work, I'll do a pro job. Just takes hours (recreating pixels to generate shadows and alter lighting from all angles just to make it seem natural for the viewer). It's not worth it just for the hell of it.
Forum whore
I don't get it. $20 adult & whatever for kids. Starts around 8am & finishes after 5. Full on entertainment for the whole time (excepting the short breaks so people can cross the track).
How much for movies? Which happen to last, at most, 2-3 hours (most shorter than that).
If you've got a large family, that's your problem & apart from the beach, nothing's going to be cheap or free.
The amount of organisation that goes on behind the scenes is impressive - have a read of the FREE programme that you got, which explains about what the locals do on race day. St Johns is probably volunteers, but St Johns proper do charge for their staff/volunteers.
Oh, FREE parking. That's becoming an oddity in itself.
Yeah, it cost us $40 in entry fees, plus food & drinks & petrol to get there, but it was fun.
As for cops, I think I might have seen one, but don't quote me. Didn't do any runners (pretty impossible anyway).
Scott, your comment about 2 races - that I do understand. Almost needed to be 2 days with twice as many races for you guys - hell of a cost to get there & set up with so little time on the bike.
First time I'd been there (been meaning to get there for years, but never seemed to make it). The one thing about the day that I thought sucked was the ride down from Auckland - what a bore. Teleporting would definitely be better for places like that. Sorry, I hate straight boring roads - yeah, we could've gone another way, but I knew I'd be lucky to even find Paeroa. Will be back at some stage, but now at least I've been to a street race. Next on the list is a rally, then longtrack, then .....
Forum whore
Sigh. Xtrop complaining. At least you folk got to go, I was just too sick to make it down, and even if I had I'd never have made it home again.
Which was really disappointing. So you folk that were able to get there, be grateful. And stop whinging. Or alternatively, maybe post what an utter boring miserable waste of a day it was and then I won't feel so pissed off about missing it.
YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH
Go back and read the progress of the posts about cost guys.
Nail your colours to the mast that all may look upon them and know who you are.
It takes a big man to cry...and an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Return Of The Black Panther
OK back ta poor old "Point 9". "Point 9" was the Pirelli Hairpin. Yep, the most likely ta see the off, but on top of that it is right next ta the Paeroa Hotel. Yep you guessed it, pissed fu8ktards. Just what every Marshall needs ta be dealing with while looking out for the racers. At one stage some pissed prats had pinched the Marshalls' fire extinguishers and was firing them off. That nearly had the race stopped. The Police were called for but were slow ta get there (probably not their fault as they were probably dealing with trouble elsewhere).
But yer in saying all that Trish and I still had an awesome day. Thanks to the KB'ers that stopped ta say "hi". Great ta see ya there. Thanks to the racers for putting on a good show for us
Trish and Doug
New Zealand......
The Best Place in the World to live if ya Broke
"Whole life balance, Daniel-San" ("Karate Kid")
Kia kaha, kia toa, kia manawanui ( Be strong, be brave, be steadfast and sure)
DON'T RIDE LIKE YA STOLE IT, RIDE TO SURVIVE.
Return Of The Black Panther
Will have ta ask a racer how his bike ended up nick named "Priscilla" by the Marshals
Got an awesome view of the bikes coming out of the "Westpac Corner" ("Point 3", Corner of Arney St and Princess St) has they hit the dip. Surprised no-one came off there, as a few had a fair shake on as they hit it. One of the "Old School" dirt track sidecars had a good old tank-slapper going on there. They where getting a good three wheel drift going on as they exited that corner too. Awesome ta watch.
New Zealand......
The Best Place in the World to live if ya Broke
Kia kaha, kia toa, kia manawanui ( Be strong, be brave, be steadfast and sure)
DON'T RIDE LIKE YA STOLE IT, RIDE TO SURVIVE.
Jesus built my Gixxer
That was Paul Brown on a Husaberg 650.... had a few practise rides with him around Coro with him on his race bike.....Top man, had a broken face tho after being clipped by a steel bar whilst working under a bulldozer
Didnt slow him down none tho
Built for speed, not for comfort
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