Bucket 2 hour this weekend - what do I need to race?

[motorbyclist]

Hi Guys - I'm keen for the two hour. I've got a bucket, a set of leathers and a means to get there. I figure this is as good a time as any to see how well it rides!

Only problem is the websites are a bit sparse on information...

What do I need to bring? Tools, fuel, helmet gloves boots leathers.... anything else? How much cash considering no MNZ or AMCC affiliation? Bike is set up ASFAIK but is there anything I NEED to check?

Cheers

[Pumba]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/143843-Rules-for-the-2-hour

Sigh

But to answer your question

Boots, helmet and leathers is a good start. Tools and spear parts can be useful but as long as you font crash, and turn up with a fully prepped bike not a must (tui moment:rolleyes:)

Other must have items fro the 2 hour is a partner (as it is a 2 man event), a time keeper, and a flag marshal. Not sure on the day licence costs $40 rings a bell but not sure.

[Henk]

Wild arse guess woul be $15 each for day licenses and $30 or $40 each to ride depending on if you plan doing both days or not. If you really want to know phone JC and ask him. Pretty sure his contact details are on the AMCC website.

[motorbyclist]

It's a two man? LOL I had no idea!

so I've got til saturday to find a rider, lap scorer and marshall? How many bikes are typically racing? Seems like we'll have plenty of marshalls....

[Dutchee]

Righto, two man is on Sunday. Saturday is the North Island series final round for the year.

Sunday there will also be a B-grade endurance race, for those of us not insane enough to be out on the track with the big boys. It'll only be about 30-35 minutes, as we're talking about 40 laps. (maths isn't my strong point, so think it'll be less than that timewise lol). Then again, JC said somewhere that it'll depend on how long I want it (dunno about that, seems wierd to me).

Race licences will be required both days, but pretty sure day licences will be available for both.

As to how many marshalls, there's 5 flag points, but it's up to each team to provide a marshall, as if everyone leaves it for someone else, we won't be running the race or having lapscoring. There should also be enough spares so that they can help out with picking bikes/riders up etc.

I don't ride the two hour, so don't give a damn about lap scoring or whether the race runs, but those riding it should.

I enjoyed my "races" at Kaitoke, where the guys doing the lapscoring walked off as we started our riding. That cracked me up, and was a reflection of how I really care about where I come in any race. Ooops, no wonder I'm at the back, I really ride for fun.

Not sure if Pumba mentioned back protectors, but they're also required.

[motorbyclist]

Righto, two man is on Sunday. Saturday is the North Island series final round for the year.

Sunday there will also be a B-grade endurance race, for those of us not insane enough to be out on the track with the big boys. It'll only be about 30-35 minutes, as we're talking about 40 laps. (maths isn't my strong point, so think it'll be less than that timewise lol). Then again, JC said somewhere that it'll depend on how long I want it (dunno about that, seems wierd to me).


Right, I think I'll give this JC chap a ring tomorrow then. The B race sounds a bit more appropriate tbh... wont need a lap scorer or second rider?



Not sure if Pumba mentioned back protectors, but they're also required.

shit.

not because I can't get one, but because I'm not sure there's going to be enough room in my leathers for one.... Codura?

[Henk]

Nope sorry cordura is out. Two piece zip or one piece leathers. Back protector is required. Last year the two hour had 28 entries and the B grade 40 lapper 11. Can get quite busy on track.

[Dutchee]

B-grade endurance race is definitely one person. Lap-scoring is done by the wonderful Wendy, Camilla, Mary and whoever else can be conned into helping out.

Lapscoring for the two hour is writing down the time for each lap for each rider,so impossible to do in the usual manner. It's alsomarking when the rider changes. Sorry for the spacing, this laptop has decided the space bar doesn't need to work all the time, and I'm getting sick of backspacing to put one in.

Whichever you decide to do, it'sfun. Saturday will be similar format to previousrounds, at a guess, 10, 20, 30 lap races, practice and whatever else.

Do phone John Connor (in case you hadn't realised who JC is), as he's in charge, and we all follow what he tells us (or we decide to never goback, it's entirely up to us). He's a top guy, and it's thanks tohim and Wendy that we get to ride our buckets in Auckland.

It is a lotof fun, I'm just not a competitive person (until I can see that I'm able tolap Henk, in which case,I'll actually get motivated to kick his arse, but fair's fair, he always beats me, so I do have to gloat on that one - for another year and 11-1/2 months).

Righto, anyone any good at fixing laptop keyboards - need the space bar fixed, plus theup and down arrows put back on, or just need to go back tothe desktop).

Oh, and you can't steal last place, that's mine, unless I can finally get Alistair (chased him for the whole race last year, and was stoked I kept upwith him lol).

[cotswold]

Sunday there will also be a B-grade endurance race,

That's me then

[Dutchee]

Sunday there will also be a B-grade endurance race,

That's me then
Haven't you got any friends any more, B-grade Tim?
I'm hoping the weather will be like yesterday, not this morning, but the radio said it should clear this avo.

[cotswold]

Haven't you got any friends any more, B-grade Tim?
I'm hoping the weather will be like yesterday, not this morning, but the radio said it should clear this avo.

Sad aint it,, I will see you Saturday but Sunday is a no show, Go Team Rink or should that be team Heck?

[Pumba]

this laptop has decided the space bar doesn't need to work all the time, and I'm getting sick of backspacing to put one in.

What haven't managed to pry that fancy new toy out of Henk's hands? No space bar to fail you there

[Dutchee]

Sad aint it,, I will see you Saturday but Sunday is a no show, Go Team Rink or should that be team Heck?
Won't see me Saturday, I have other plans. I'm having a girly day, and getting my hair and makeup done. bwahahaha We should just call them team pink


What haven't managed to pry that fancy new toy out of Henk's hands? No space bar to fail you there
He so does not share toys with me. Actually, to be fair, he does let me use the lawnmower and weedeater, I'm just not too happy to use the chainsaw, so I don't ask to share that (our good one got nicked with our van years ago, and this one is dodgy, so I rather saw trees by hand). See, he really is a caring husband (arsehole hahaha)

[koba]

Sad aint it,, I will see you Saturday but Sunday is a no show, Go Team Rink or should that be team Heck?

Rink 'n' Heck!

[Henk]

should just call them team pink


We are going to be riding a Honda after all. :facepalm:

[Rick 52]

We are going to be riding a Honda after all. :facepalm:

Yep a quick one that lifts the front with standard gearing ...Short track grearing will be sorted tomorrow !! Honda's are for real men ...

[Pumba]

Honda's are for real men ...

That like other men......

[Henk]

That like other men......

I can see there will be no grudges on track this weekend then, should be all nice and polite in the sweeper.

[Buckets4Me]

I can see there will be no grudges on track this weekend then, should be all nice and polite in the sweeper.

the sweeper better get a new broom then :niceone:

[Pumba]

Actually it will be coming down into Hells corner this year more than the sweeper (it was clockwise last year, remember because I took out Cully).

And you can be a bastard going in there Henk

[Henk]

What are on about? I've never out braked myself into Hells corner and ended up with the back wheel off the ground and banging elbows with the guy I was trying to slide up the inside of. Bloody hard to make six feet on Warrick under brakes there, can be done but it is a little scary.

[Rick 52]

What are on about? I've never out braked myself into Hells corner and ended up with the back wheel off the ground and banging elbows with the guy I was trying to slide up the inside of. Bloody hard to make six feet on Warrick under brakes there, can be done but it is a little scary.

Sweeper 'Hels 'Horse shoe ....2 hour will find scary moments for all of us at these places...sticky black bits down and all will be well :msn-wink:
Warrick has a Honda ...Is that a good thing or bad thing to point out ....Mmm not sure now !!

[Pumba]

No doubt Rick. No doubt.

Now speaking of gearing you have reminded me that I should really put the slicks back on the bike, change the gearing, oil change, oh and think about finding a new catch bottle for the crank case breather:innocent:

[Henk]

Bloody awesome day. I'm feeling just a bit broken today.

[jasonu]

Results???

[Henk]

1. Gav and Steve
2. Tim and Gary
3. Aaron and Kelly
4. Avalon and Haydon
5. Rick and Henk

After that I'm not sure. About 18 finishers but again I'm not sure, was a fair bit of attrition in the last half hour.

[F5 Dave]

Golly an Auckland 2 hr without a Diprose benefit result?

[Dutchee]

1 Gavin Veltmeyer, Steve Booth
2 Tim Fraser, Garry Cunningham
3 Aaron Hooper, Kell Nicolson
4 Hayden Fitzgerald, Avalon Biddle
5 Henk Zeeven, Richard Ford
6 Warrick Head, Nigel Reardon
7 Aaron Hassan, Jacob Stroud
8 Connor Lecheminant, Haydn Hutchinson
9 Carl Smith, Greg Abbiss
10 Nathan Thorp, John Thorp
11 John Miller, Darren Morgan
12 Karl Messiter, Mike Messiter
13 Ivan Smith, Mark Addison
14 Connor London, Jason Godsmart
15 Mike Henn, Rob Woods
16 Kamil Chodor, Brian Steffensen
17 Josh Walby, Peter Walby
18 Adrian Lee, Michael Lai
DNF David Diprose, Nathanael Diprose
DNF daniel Mettam Max Woodruffe (biike issues)
DNF Tim McArther, Glen Orwin (Glen taken out by Rick)
DNF Gary Johnston, luke Johnson (oopsies)
DNF Grant Salmond, John Steer
DNF Hamish Tenant, Logan Shirttiff (bike died)
DNF Andrew Weyermayr, Paul Steffensen (crashed #44)

[jasonu]

Golly an Auckland 2 hr without a Diprose benefit result?

Plus 1 to that Sista!!!

[F5 Dave]

Looks like they won superpole, but there's no trophy for that.

Back in the day it used to be Dave & his Brother Steve that used to be the team.

[kel]

Looks like they won superpole, but there's no trophy for that.

Boy did they win superpole, Nathanael was from memory .9sec quicker than 2nd. Ive never seen such commitment, crashing across the line as he straight lined through the S bend freaked me out.

[F5 Dave]

Isn't that a Craig Sheriffs signature move?:laugh: (can be bothered finding the pics)

[Buckets4Me]

Isn't that a Craig Sheriffs signature move?:laugh: (can be bothered finding the pics)

I think you can add Karl Morgan and Jaden H to that as well

[50bucketracer]

Here are the full results of the 2 hour:

Place Bike # Rider 1 Rider 2 Bike Laps Superpole
1 31 Gavin Veltmeyer Steve Booth FXR150 225 4th 31.12
2 39 Tim Fraser Garry Cunningham FXR150 224 2nd 31.07
3 68 Aaron Hooper Kell Nicolson FXR150 220 3rd 31.07
4 74 Hayden Fitzgerald Avalon Biddle CBR125RR 218 12th 32.29
5 13 Henk Zeeven Richard Ford FXR150 215 6th 31.72
6 25 Warrick Head Nigel Reardon FXR150 214 19th 33.87
7 41 Aaron Hassan Jacob Stroud FXR150 213 9th 32.02
8 69 Connor Lecheminant Haydn Hutchinson FXR150 210 7th 31.75
9 84 Carl Smith Greg Abbiss FXR150 209 10th 32.11
10 0 Nathan Thorp John Thorp FXR150 208 22nd 35.30
11 23 John Miller Darren Morgan FXR150 207 14th 32.64
12 55 Karl Messiter Mike Messiter FXR150 206 17th 33.46
13 26 Ivan Smith Mark Addison FMX140 199 21st 34.23
14 99 Connor London Jason Godsmart FXR150 192 20th 34.15
15 87 Mike Henn Rob Woods CBR125 191 25th 38.11
16 92 Kamil Chodor Brian Steffensen FXR150 190 16th 33.45
17 60 Josh Walby Peter Walby FXR150 190 -
18 48 Adrian Lee Michael Lai FXR150 181 15th 32.84
DNF 88 David Diprose Nathanael Diprose RS80 161 1st 29.81
DNF 32 Daniel Mettam Max Woodruffe FXR150 5th31.49
DNF 75 Tim McArther Glen Orwin FXR150 8th 31.89
DNF 57 Gary Johnston Luke Johnson GL145 11th 32.28
DNF 36 Grant Salmond John Steer FXR150 13th 32.36
DNF 35 Hamish Tenant Logan Shirttiff FXR150 18th 33.67
DNF 44 Andrew Weyermayr Paul Steffensen FXR150 23rd 36.42

Sorry about the formatting, but I can't work out how to paste a table in here & keep the formatting.

It would have been nice to win again, but not this year. A broken balancer shaft put paid to that. Congrats to Gavin & Steve. At least Nathanael won superpole, plus his average lap time for the whole 54 minutes he rode, through the traffic, was 30.8 seconds, which is faster than any previous 2 hour race, & faster even than 2nd in superpole. Maybe next year...

[50bucketracer]

& just so the B graders dont miss out:

Place Bike # Rider Bike Laps Superpole
1 31 Mark Davis FXR150 39 2nd 36.74
2 44 Michelle Zeeven FXR150 39 1st 36.58
3 34 Julie Cottrell FXR150 38 3rd 38.58
4 19 Alistair Walling CB100 38 4th 38.91
5 7 Andrew Petty CB125T 36 6th 41.03
6 59 Shona Johnston CB100 36 5th 40.22
7 98 Joshua Head MB100 32 -
DNF 10 Will Ford RG-XL100 -

[Pumba]

Great day of racing guys, although the body is defiantly feeling it today.

Still a bit pissed off about the off I had but hell I guess that is racing. I might have to get my partner to do the first session next year, I think I have managed to cock that up three years in a row now:facepalm:

[kel]

Fantastic day and the racing was really clean.
Big thanks to John Steer for loaning us a sprocket carrier after our bearing collasped, thats whats really great about bucket racing when things go wrong someone always steps up to pull you out of the shit.
Arron your bike is fantastic, you rode pretty damn good too!
Obviously need to work on my fitness as Im hurting real bad.

[Ntoxcated]

A little bit of footage.

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[Arronduke]

Have to say it was a great day... and thanks to John Steer again for the sproket carrier.
Body was very sore on Monday and it was great to get a placing.

Kel got the 31.07 for second equal pole postion which was impressive considering he had only had one practice on my bike..! I was just happy to circulate well enough to keep the laps ticking over and left the fast laps to kel.

Also destroyed my battery which was strange... :third:

[motorbyclist]

Despite crashing as soon as I entered the track it was a fun day! Cheers for the advice guys I was much faster by the time the race was on!


Some photos:
http://www.developingdesign.co.nz/2011/11/buckets.html