FROSTY
11th April 2005, 23:41
This track day for me has to go down in the books as one of lifes big highs.
Started out from work and headed towards taupo for an early night.
Best laid plans etc were totally stuffed by a van motor going very loudly CLACK CLACK Ktishhhhhh.
Heart in my boots thinking I'd let everybody down I phoned BJ,quazi and AJ
-Well blow me down -2 minutes later Im told the rescue wagon in the shape of Mycrisis and his crew -followed by mrs micrisis in her car. The SV-all the track day stuff and mine and douggies riding gear were loaded in the truck whilst Mrs Micrisis ran The pillion back to Aucks to pick up her car and come back and pick us up.
We arrived in Taupo around 1.00am totally shagged.
Up at sparrows fart (6.30) We headed off to sighn all the paperwork and get the track keys.
Got the place unlocked and left the unloading to everyone else. (ok I got shit for that all day) Headed off for a slow lap of the track.-Ohh shit a bit of a mess--sand all round the high line on the sweeper,standing pools of water into the sweeper and the hairpin and a heap of sand on the aproach to the sweeper.
Once again the A team swung into action. I found brooms and they said leave it to us-Off they trundled to clear up the mess.
Scrutineering on the whole went bloody well with the standard of gear mostly. being higher than I expected. :2thumbsup
I think only 2 guys had clothing issues and 3 bikes failed for minor issues-easily fixed thanks to the great Kbers who helped em out. :2thumbsup
I was really suprised at the number of gixxers with leaky fork seals :whistle:
I did a quick marshalls brief and RT check and handed the marshalls over to SP man.
Riders brief went semi smoothly with everyone chomping at the bit to get on the track.
Wohoo time to do some riding.
I led everyone out on the track for the slow laps -what a fantastic sight--40 odd bikes in a line round the track -Shit i wish I had a pic looking back down the back straight looking at you all.
The morning went by in a blur of questions and training sessions with only one crash (Hope ya ok Rainbow wizard).
A few late arrivals meant scrutineering etc for them.
Kawa kid turned up with his new race bike -desperate to get some laps on his new motor. Unfortunately the tank and airbox ? were just rattling around unsecured in the frame so in typical EBR fashion a tie down and a ton of duct tape made it secure in the frame.
I reallly enjoyed helping people out on the track with ol mella yella totally in his element.
Lunch break gave me a chance to have a few quiet laps on my own-experimenting with different lines around the sweeper and hairpin -Not the good fast line more the -ok well that'll stuff em up type lines.
Im still bloody slow going into the sweeper --Hmm must glue myself to TS's ass next time.
I know it isn't a sighn of speed but I felt myself loading up my knee scraper more and more as the day wore on -able to load it up to counteract the sliding back tyre.
The "emergency braking" session went really well with some spectacular "accidental front wheel lifting" and "front brake testing'
The crowd really loved it.
The afternoon session and I spent more time on the track watching the slow and touring group. with the skill and confidence levels getting pretty high.
I did half a session with the fast group watching Two smoke hurtling around at really incredible speeds.
Started out from work and headed towards taupo for an early night.
Best laid plans etc were totally stuffed by a van motor going very loudly CLACK CLACK Ktishhhhhh.
Heart in my boots thinking I'd let everybody down I phoned BJ,quazi and AJ
-Well blow me down -2 minutes later Im told the rescue wagon in the shape of Mycrisis and his crew -followed by mrs micrisis in her car. The SV-all the track day stuff and mine and douggies riding gear were loaded in the truck whilst Mrs Micrisis ran The pillion back to Aucks to pick up her car and come back and pick us up.
We arrived in Taupo around 1.00am totally shagged.
Up at sparrows fart (6.30) We headed off to sighn all the paperwork and get the track keys.
Got the place unlocked and left the unloading to everyone else. (ok I got shit for that all day) Headed off for a slow lap of the track.-Ohh shit a bit of a mess--sand all round the high line on the sweeper,standing pools of water into the sweeper and the hairpin and a heap of sand on the aproach to the sweeper.
Once again the A team swung into action. I found brooms and they said leave it to us-Off they trundled to clear up the mess.
Scrutineering on the whole went bloody well with the standard of gear mostly. being higher than I expected. :2thumbsup
I think only 2 guys had clothing issues and 3 bikes failed for minor issues-easily fixed thanks to the great Kbers who helped em out. :2thumbsup
I was really suprised at the number of gixxers with leaky fork seals :whistle:
I did a quick marshalls brief and RT check and handed the marshalls over to SP man.
Riders brief went semi smoothly with everyone chomping at the bit to get on the track.
Wohoo time to do some riding.
I led everyone out on the track for the slow laps -what a fantastic sight--40 odd bikes in a line round the track -Shit i wish I had a pic looking back down the back straight looking at you all.
The morning went by in a blur of questions and training sessions with only one crash (Hope ya ok Rainbow wizard).
A few late arrivals meant scrutineering etc for them.
Kawa kid turned up with his new race bike -desperate to get some laps on his new motor. Unfortunately the tank and airbox ? were just rattling around unsecured in the frame so in typical EBR fashion a tie down and a ton of duct tape made it secure in the frame.
I reallly enjoyed helping people out on the track with ol mella yella totally in his element.
Lunch break gave me a chance to have a few quiet laps on my own-experimenting with different lines around the sweeper and hairpin -Not the good fast line more the -ok well that'll stuff em up type lines.
Im still bloody slow going into the sweeper --Hmm must glue myself to TS's ass next time.
I know it isn't a sighn of speed but I felt myself loading up my knee scraper more and more as the day wore on -able to load it up to counteract the sliding back tyre.
The "emergency braking" session went really well with some spectacular "accidental front wheel lifting" and "front brake testing'
The crowd really loved it.
The afternoon session and I spent more time on the track watching the slow and touring group. with the skill and confidence levels getting pretty high.
I did half a session with the fast group watching Two smoke hurtling around at really incredible speeds.