Way to go Avalon

[all4A50s]

Congrats Avalon:woohoo::clap::woohoo::clap::woohoo:

Found this this morning. Good read

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/10082119/nz-girl-takes-on-elite-bike-racing-world/

[Kiwi Graham]

Watch out for her at PI as well :niceone:

[Skunk]

For up to the minute news about road racing Kiwis try www.nzsbk.com

[James Deuce]

What a patronising piece of shit article. You can't just let women be racers, can you? "Ooooo she beats the men! Oooooo!"

FFS she wouldn't be out there is she wasn't competitive and she's proved that for years. Like every other racer out there, she's just a meatsack in leathers trying to get to the flag first. It's not fucking rocket science.

[Buckets4Me]

Congrats Avalon:woohoo::clap::woohoo::clap::woohoo:



and her road racing started at the bucket level :yes:

and dont forget this guy
http://www.nzsbk.com/2011/09/european-junior-cup-round-5-mettam.html

[Buddha#81]

and her road racing started at the bucket level :yes:

and dont forget this guy
http://www.nzsbk.com/2011/09/european-junior-cup-round-5-mettam.html

And another bucket racer on the world stage "After qualifying seventh for the fourth round of the European Junior Cup , Jake Lewis got a good start and was second into turn one. Then lead for most of lap two and three. Lots of nudging , elbows and pushing for the lead bunch. Dropping back to eighth then back to third , only to run wide to finally finish in seventh. The Top seven riders were covered by just 1.5 seconds"

Another is Dom Jones, he beats his little bro Cam up from time to time for his FXR and steps up from AMA to buckets!

[quallman1234]

What a patronising piece of shit article. You can't just let women be racers, can you? "Ooooo she beats the men! Oooooo!"

FFS she wouldn't be out there is she wasn't competitive and she's proved that for years. Like every other racer out there, she's just a meatsack in leathers trying to get to the flag first. It's not fucking rocket science.

Fair, the article may be a 'piece of shit'. However if it gives her an advantage to get more exposure. Go for gold i say.

Yes they all learn't the basics on buckets, great place to start. But there majority of learning to go fast was on a 125GP :).

[Buckets4Me]

But there majority of learning to go fast was on a 125GP :).
they may have gone faster but did they learn to knee people trying to go up the inside
or how to put a rider down who shoves a handle bar in you gut :facepalm:
or the nice smooth pass betwen 2 bikes in the hairpin :shit:
or how to ride over another rider that has fallen infrount of you :innocent:
or what to do when there is a wheel chewing at your leg

I think she has more to learn on the 600 yet

I think that 150ss, aussie, italy, and the little honda's all played a part :gob: (not just the real race bikes)

and yes i did leave out the MX bikes

[Buddha#81]

I cant speak for the NI bucket racing but the race skill you can learn down here on a bucket on a full track is invalueable for the Lewis's, Hoogies, Jones of the world. Bigger fields, more physical, and closer racing than you would ever get on a "real" racebike. Oh and not to mention best bang for bucks. If they wernt getting anything from it all of the above would have stepped "up" (which they all have) and never given buckets a second thought. But 3 x Hoogies, Nick Cain, Jake Lewis, Cam Jones are all regulars and we see Dennis Charlett and Dom Jones all on buckets from time to time.......It raises the bar to a high level down here.

[F5 Dave]

so its up to the rest of us plebs to lower the grade average:scooter:

[Muzzab]

so its up to the rest of us plebs to lower the grade average:scooter:

Ha ha, don't forget us mobile chicanes too :innocent:

[Crasherfromwayback]

I cant speak for the NI bucket racing but the race skill you can learn down here on a bucket on a full track is invalueable for the Lewis's, Hoogies, Jones of the world. Bigger fields, more physical, and closer racing than you would ever get on a "real" racebike. .

Unless that 'real racebike' happened to be a moto-x bike.

[F5 Dave]

He's got you there BC, sadly though most of these chaps don't get further on than comparing Metaluilisha stickers or pawing Troy Lee Design catteldogs for garish attire.

[Crasherfromwayback]

He's got you there BC, sadly though most of these chaps don't get further on than comparing Metaluilisha stickers or pawing Troy Lee Design catteldogs for garish attire.

Too true! Still...back to Avalon...go you good thing you!!!

[quallman1234]

they may have gone faster but did they elarn to knee people trying to go up the inside
or how to put a rider down who shoves a handle bar in you gut :facepalm:
or the nuice smooth pass betwen 2 bikes in the hairpin :shit:
or how to ride over another rider that has fallen infrount of you :innocent:
or what to do when there is a wheel chewing at your leg

I think she has more to learn on the 600 yet

I think that 150ss, aussie, italy, and the little honda's all played a part :gob: (not just the real race bikes)

and yes i did leave out the MX bikes

Hah-aha, is this going to be a repeat of the RS125 rolling chassis thread? :D.

Ask the majority of road racers who have ridden little gp bikes and its were you learn the most about corner speed. All those skills you mentioned learnt via buckets are important. The biggest advantage i find with buckets is the amount of time you get on the track compared to Streetstock or whatever. You can learn the basics there and convert the skills you learnt about pushing a bike to its physical limits to a bike what is capable of much greater limits and see where that takes you.

[Buddha#81]

Unless that 'real racebike' happened to be a moto-x bike.

I'm at the height of outcast, buckets and motards are my choice of CLASS! The only young one down here that has made the step up from buckets is Nick Cain but he had an argument with a hay bail at the Nelson S/R on his tard and the bail won that argument, he just had the metal removed from his back!

[Crasherfromwayback]

I'm at the height of outcast, buckets and motards are my choice of CLASS! The only young one down here that has made the step up from buckets is Nick Cain but he had an argument with a hay bail at the Nelson S/R on his tard and the bail won that argument, he just had the metal removed from his back!

I hear ya. Cept I was referring to an aspiring road racer coming from a moto-x backround, not motard racing. Even though I dig that too.

[Henk]

Wouldn't be the first time I've described buckets as MX on tarmac.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Wouldn't be the first time I've described buckets as MX on tarmac.

Hahaha...from what I've heard, you'd be right!

[quallman1234]

MX is great fun! Surprising heaps of grip on dirt with the right tyres!

[F5 Dave]

you want grip? A decent trials rider can conjure it up from nowhere.

[Crasherfromwayback]

you want grip? A decent trials rider can conjure it up from nowhere.

You're not wrong! Having been a friend and flatmate of Stefan Merrimans whilst living in Brisbane, I can agree 100%. Riding with him made me feel very ordinary at best.

[speedpro]

I ran my bucket in the "under 200cc dirt bike class" at I think the Shell 2 Wheeler, or something similar, at Manfeild. Stefan was there on a Ride Red Honda CR125 and there was some other guy on a KX125. They'd both beat me off the line. Eventually I could work my way past the KX and then catch up Stefan - I had a very slightly higher top speed. He'd go past me as I tipped into corners with the front sledging and the rear drifting with both feet on the pegs and as smooth as silk. All about 2-3" away. It was the most awesome riding display I've ever seen - perfect control. Turned out they were a "little" bit worried about their CR125 being beaten by a bucket.

[TZ350]

The biggest advantage i find with buckets is the amount of time you get on the track compared to Streetstock or whatever. You can learn the basics there and convert the skills you learnt about pushing a bike to its physical limits to a bike what is capable of much greater limits and see where that takes you.

+1

And I thought Buckets at Mt Welly was hard out untill I saw the latest film about the Island and those big bikes power wiggling over the humps.

[Buckets4Me]

you are dead right you learn different skills from differnt sports
buckets is all about the number of people and passing
the rs's are all about corner speed and being right on the button for speed gear and position

and yes it will be a repeat of the rs chassie posts (that is if you think that ALL the important skills are learnt from the little rs's) :facepalm: i'll shut up now :woohoo:

[Buckets4Me]

I hear ya. Cept I was referring to an aspiring road racer coming from a moto-x backround, not motard racing. Even though I dig that too.

your not talking about Avalon are you ?
because I belive she used that as a step into Buckets
or was that the ministock car she had in the garage when she started racing buckets (maby thats why she dose so well in the f4 class)

[Crasherfromwayback]

your not talking about Avalon are you ?
because I belive she used that as a step into Buckets
)

I wasn't, but it wouldn't surprise me!

[Kickaha]

the rs's are all about corner speed and being right on the button for speed gear and position
So are Buckets on the tracks we run here

[Buckets4Me]

So are Buckets on the tracks we run here


and I know she goes well down there so must have learnt a few things then :innocent:


“The racing was pretty hectic. It was just a matter of using my race craft, getting my elbows out and making myself as wide as possible,” she said.

another thing she learned from Buckets pitty they didn't let her put mx bars on to help with the width

[Buckets4Me]

Hah-aha, is this going to be a repeat of the RS125 rolling chassis thread? :D.



well just to wind you up :shit:

had a talk to Av on Sunday (she had had a bad day at buckets. Something about a flu)
and she mentioned that she had learned most of her race craft from buckets :shit: :gob:



looks like buckets isn't such a bad start
specialy when we get to race against people like Av and Jaden H (and all the other proven races that keep coming back)

not putting down the little rs125 as I think they would be a very good place to start ones racing

I'm just miffed that I cant afford one of them (or anything bigger than a bucket)