At the risk of sounding dumb...

[Aitch]

What the fuck is a bucket??????????

[bugjuice]

can't remember. Go search for it and come back and tell us...

[stify]

What the fuck is a bucket??????????
wot ya mop lives in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[justsomeguy]

It's one of those things you put liquids in.......:weird:


Hehehehe, naah buckets are cheap usually small bikes around 100cc or there abouts that people race. Think of it as the go-kart equivalent of bikes.

It was described to me as cheap grass root motorcycle racing.

Most of the racing is done around go-kart tracks too....

[hXc]

Bucket racing. It's really budget racing but bucket sounds cooler. Usually smaller bikes that have been stripped down of unnecassary(sp?) parts and are raced on kart tracks usually. It's an introduction to racing for mainly younger-ish people as it's not too fast and is cheap. They say you can start bucket racing on a good enough bike for less than $500 including the bike. Maybe you should try it. It's a lot of fun.
I have an RD50 for a starting bike. I'm looking at maybe a 150 or 125 upgrade though if anyone has a spare 150/145/125 4 stroke engine lying around.

[Kickaha]

these will give you a bit of an idea what they are

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=3247&highlight=bucket

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=14241&highlight=bucket

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=13468&highlight=bucket

[gamgee]

i miss go karting at QE2 in christchurch, that used to be so much fun, and they had 50cc mini bikes and a race track too, it was heaps of fun, then they tore it all down so i had to go and buy a proper motorbike, now all i need is a go cart and somewhere in dunedin to drive it!

[Motu]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.

[ajturbo]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.

:not: :not: :not:
always new it was the airforce boys who started it.. i thought it was because of their fairings... made out of old/new buckets.
used to race at woodburn for a few years..(eh gav:rofl: )
used to go home pissed on $10.00........:Punk:

[placidfemme]

ahhh... I've also always wondered that... I mean I knew it was about racing but I didn't understand the term "bucket" :)

[Sniper]

Arnt they those thingiemabops that like ya-know do stuff and things

[placidfemme]

Arnt they those thingiemabops that like ya-know do stuff and things

no they are those other whatyamacallit's that you can get from that place near the other place opposite the big tree with the leaves on it... you know

[ManDownUnder]

no they are those other whatyamacallit's that you can get from that place near the other place opposite the big tree with the leaves on it... you know

ok - now I understand... except doohikkies - how do they fit in again?

[zadok]

ok - now I understand... except doohikkies - how do they fit in again?
Very similar to thingamajigs......

[ManDownUnder]

Very similar to thingamajigs......

ok cool thanks... just one more question..

WTF? :rofl:

[Wolf]

ok cool thanks... just one more question..

WTF? :rofl:
Sorry, can't answer that one.

[Coyote]

I was told the 'bucket' in bucket racing was cause the bikes were 'buckets of shit' :lol:

[Sniper]

no they are those other whatyamacallit's that you can get from that place near the other place opposite the big tree with the leaves on it... you know

Ahh yep yep, I know the place, its also the area where they do that stuff to the other stuff to make it angry. But I remember the big tree from when it was little and not a big tree. And it did stuff that tree's sometimes do when they grow leaves and tell storys by the chocolate river

[placidfemme]

Ahh yep yep, I know the place, its also the area where they do that stuff to the other stuff to make it angry. But I remember the big tree from when it was little and not a big tree. And it did stuff that tree's sometimes do when they grow leaves and tell storys by the chocolate river

lol

*wants some of whatever your taking* :devil2:

[ManDownUnder]

... and tell storys by the chocolate river

If that's a simile for having some fun up the hershey highway I'll just stay home thanks...

[Ixion]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.


Mr Motu's history is almost, but not quite correct.

It all began , as he says, with the Airforce. Guys would gather at the end of the long runways (beyond the prying eyes of Sergeants and hoifficiers), to smoke Certain Scheduled Substances,and drink booze and whatnot, as guys do.

Because the runways are long, they would use little step through bikes (pit bikes not having yet been invented) to get out to the end of the runway.

Nature being what it is, and booze being what it ought not to be, before long one or more of the guys would find himself seized with the violent need to spew. But the others objected to the spewers spewing all over the area, so the cry weent up "Oh fer fucks sake, someone go and get a bucket". So, the non spewers would leap on their step throughs and race back at high ( :rofl: ) speed to the hanger to grab a bucket, spewers for the use of.

Before long the impromptu dash for buckets became an end in itself, but still retained the original concept. Race to the hanger, first one their grabs the bucket to prove his victory.

Hence, "bucket racing". The bucket was originally the trophy awarded the winner.

[speedpro]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.
Sort of. It was started by the AirForce guys at Woodbourne. Tracks were marked out on the tarmac and whatever small bike you could scrounge you took out and raced. Some guys(Marty) borrowed the girlfriends bike and raced that, until the girlfriend accompanied a mate to the Air Force base and spotted a bike just like hers going round. As there isn't too much to do round Blenheim and boys being boys it soon became a bit more competitive and mods started happening and speeds went up, but essentially the bikes stayed "buckets" of shit.

It spread to other bases and there were soon events being held at Wigram, Ohakea, and Whenuapai. The Ohakea GP was for many years the pinnacle of the sport. Huge numbers turned out for the Easter meeting. Originally the GPs were held on the Saturday followed by VERY boozy prize giving. Sunday was for novelty events like North v South and relay races and in the early days 2-up races. Typically the North v South relay race ended with the last two riders (Ram and Jim) going for it till one binned it. The GPs were run on a circuit comprising of base roads and tarmac. Lap times of close to 1:30-40 and 40 lap races meant a good fast long hard race. These tracks were very exciting. Huge fast tarmac sections peeling off to the base roads between hangers with hard turns at the end, typically with no run-off. Packs of riders slipstreaming each other, 10 nose-to-tail riders peeling into sweepers at speed, knee down, then slipstreaming down the next straight.
The only base not to hold a GP was Whenuapai. In it's place they ran a 6-hour race, a true test for sure. Ohakea's 100cc GP got so big they divided it into two classes. One year I'm sure they had over 70 in the A-grade GP, 50 in the B-grade, 50+ in the 50 GP, and a good crowd in the sideacr GP.

Back in the good old days, when the MNZ steward couldn't get on base but could see (non permitted)motorcycle racing from the perimeter fence :rofl:

[mstriumph]

sooooo glad we've finally cleared that one up; had wondered....

[speedpro]

used to go home pissed on $10.00........:Punk:
Last time I was there with civvies we all went to the SNCO mess to have a few beers. 1st civvy lines up quite a selection of drinks on the bar, asks the barman how much and is told something like $5. !st civvy says "No mate, I'm buying the lot" to which the barman replies "yeah, that'll be $5".

There was quite a bit of throwing up and falling down that night.

[raster]

Thanks for that.

[myvice]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.

[Lee Rusty]

way back in the 70's they were buckets as in "buckets of shit" because thats what most of them were. If you spent $100 it was expensive

[Ixion]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.


That is an even more believable "history" than my one. Well done

[Pixie]

Very similar to thingamajigs......
The technical term is Digimafirkens

[Pixie]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.
Judging by your spelling,some of them are still around performing their original task :devil2:
The Italians did,however raise the speed limit to 150km/hr to increase driver concentration. :2thumbsup

[hXc]

way back in the 70's they were buckets as in "buckets of shit" because thats what most of them were. If you spent $100 it was expensive

If you spend $100 now it's still expensive!!! :rofl:

[yungatart]

In actual fact a bucket is what Xhardcorex's mother puts his head in to when she needs to wash the floor!!

[hXc]

In actual fact a bucket is what Xhardcorex's mother puts his head in to when she needs to wash the floor!!

Shhh! Don't tell everyone here. They think I'm cool...I think :rofl:

And it's XhardxcoreX's

[yungatart]

Have you seen that kids hair! Kidnapped and raped by giant llamas once ( they thought he was one of their own!) Bucket racing at Waipawa -spectator says is that agirl out there, the one with the long blonde curls? Response - nah thats xhardcorex. Truly, it makes a wonderful floor mop.

[hXc]

Have you seen that kids hair! Kidnapped and raped by giant llamas once ( they thought he was one of their own!) Bucket racing at Waipawa -spectator says is that agirl out there, the one with the long blonde curls? Response - nah thats xhardcorex. Truly, it makes a wonderful floor mop.

You havn't ever washed the floor with my head and you wouldn't anyway woman because I would take a bite out of your arm!! Muahahaha and get the Evil Giant Salmon Of Doom onto you!!!