When things go bad flat tracking...

[Crasherfromwayback]

They go BOOM!

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[HenryDorsetCase]

For Sale: Flat track bike, suit beginner racer. One careful lady owner, only selling due to upgrade. $15000 ono

[Paul in NZ]

Its a spectacular sport all right....

[Crasherfromwayback]

Its a spectacular sport all right....

Yeah I'd love to go to Indy, see them Sat night and the GP the next day.

[willytheekid]

:crazy:...thats not good for the frame...or the bars...or the engine...or the

Bloody glad to see he recovered from that off :yes:

[Paul in NZ]

Yeah I'd love to go to Indy, see them Sat night and the GP the next day.

Buy a lotto ticket and take me too.....

[Grizzo]

Fuck a Duck!

That's some rag doll shit right there!

[Zedder]

:crazy:...thats not good for the frame...or the bars...or the engine...or the

Bloody glad to see he recovered from that off :yes:

And was back racing too.

"Wreck Wednesday" the good ole USA.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Fuck a Duck!

That's some rag doll shit right there!

He had that nasty look of a dead man eh.


And was back racing too.

"Wreck Wednesday" the good ole USA.

Yeah tough cunt!

[wharfy]

Yeah I'd love to go to Indy, see them Sat night and the GP the next day.

When I was a lad I used to get the US Two Wheels mags - they had a lot of flat track stuff - Gene Romero was one of my favorites in those days - I would have loved to go and watch the Sacramento Mile - it was often the deciding event in who got to wear the N1 plate - I believe it is no longer run :(


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I find it interesting that the "street tracker" is one of the more popular custom bikes being built in the states now - I could go one if I had the disposable dough :)

[Crasherfromwayback]

When I was a lad I used to get the US Two Wheels mags - they had a lot of flat track stuff - Gene Romero was one of my favorites in those days - I would have loved to go and watch the Sacramento Mile - it was often the deciding event in who got to wear the N1 plate - I believe it is no longer run :(


http://motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofimages/romero2.jpg

Yeah it's a great sport, and one I'd love to see up close.

[Madness]

I was talking to a mate the other day about the flat track racing that used to be held out of Martinborough many moons ago. I remember seeing road bikes with steel bars in place of rear springs going hard. It was a fun days spectating for sure.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I was talking to a mate the other day about the flat track racing that used to be held out of Martinborough many moons ago. I remember seeing road bikes with steel bars in place of rear springs going hard. It was a fun days spectating for sure.

Yeah I raced a few times on their limestone circuit. Was awesome fun. Till you fell off on it.

[JimO]

i saw a race meeting years ago at Forbury park a few years ago where speedway bikes and big trail bikes were in the same race, the speedway bikes were crossing the finish line before the trail bikes were at the second corner

[Motu]

I raced on a dirt track with a speedway bike - he started half a lap behind, and after 8 laps I was the lead bike with him right on my tail. This was a pear shaped track that needed brakes for the hairpin, I had brakes, he didn't.

Flattrack is the closest for of motorcycle racing there is - the lead can change 4 times in the middle of a corner, although they class an oval as 4 turns, turn one is corner entry, turn two corner exit. Plenty of big prangs, and riders go out with big injuries to race again.

[JimO]

yea one of the trailbike guys ate a fence

[tri boy]

Flattrack is the closest for of motorcycle racing there is -

Add Speedway sidecars to that also mate.:msn-wink:
My leathers often would wear the obvious fr wheel marks of the chair behind us.
Unwritten law was you could use the swinger in front of you as a rolling bollard if you went in too hot in a corner.
Bernie Koppe smacked me so hard one night that I ended up with my pretty left hand....................

Them were the days:headbang:
First to the bar, last to leave:apint:

[Shorty_925]

would have hate to been riding this CR500 when it split : http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/793914-2-stroke-500s/

[Motu]

Add Speedway sidecars to that also mate.:msn-wink:


Are sidecars motorcycles?...? Oh yeah, but speedway sidecars is brutal, it's a contact sport. But I can go up to Rosebank once a month and get up close and personal with speedway sidecars, flattrack is something we can only read about or watch on film clips. There was some 1/4 mile short track and a few 1/2 miles in NZ, but there has never been a Mile over here. I keep thinking what a waste the infield is at Puke, they only use horses on it - I'd love to see an XR750 tear it to shreds.

[GD66]

[QUOTE=wharfy;1130504725] I would have loved to go and watch the Sacramento Mile - it was often the deciding event in who got to wear the N1 plate - I believe it is no longer run /QUOTE]



AMA are till running at Sacramento, also Springfield.

[pete376403]

Ultimate flat track race would have been Kenny Roberts on the TZ750 "you can't pay me enough to ride that thing"

[RobGassit]

I keep thinking what a waste the infield is at Puke, they only use horses on it - I'd love to see an XR750 tear it to shreds.[/QUOTE]

What a great idea..:niceone:

[ellipsis]

...there are not that many XR750's around the planet, only about 650 ever built...what about an RS 750 Honda...they were beating the XR's quite consistently...not a lot of them around either...the XS 650 Yamaha did quite well too...King Kenny said it all when he threw the TZ back at them...some things just shouldn't be used for the game...

[Motu]

An RS750 recently sold on ebay for US$24,000.

[wharfy]

I would have loved to go and watch the Sacramento Mile - it was often the deciding event in who got to wear the N1 plate - I believe it is no longer run



AMA are till running at Sacramento, also Springfield.

Indeed they are ! - well I'm not dead yet so I might get to see one :)


http://www.sacramentoflattrack.com/index-sac1.php

[ellipsis]

...my son digitalised this from VHS...film quality not too hot, but we were having fun on a slippery speedway track... this was Sunset Speedway, Westport, cant remember when, early to mid 90's I think...our arch rivals, team Crazy Horse who rode Brit stuff, ex yank Triumph Specials and BSA Hornets etc were our main competition...only one on a Triumph was there that day...my team rode Yamahas in the main...the young fellows were on 175 to 200cc stuff that we built for them...beautiful times...


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[Grumph]

Are sidecars motorcycles?...? Oh yeah, but speedway sidecars is brutal, it's a contact sport. But I can go up to Rosebank once a month and get up close and personal with speedway sidecars, flattrack is something we can only read about or watch on film clips. There was some 1/4 mile short track and a few 1/2 miles in NZ, but there has never been a Mile over here. I keep thinking what a waste the infield is at Puke, they only use horses on it - I'd love to see an XR750 tear it to shreds.

Never been a mile here ? The US miles are horse tracks, our equivalent was mile grass tracks. Last one run i know of was in North canty in the late 70's. Saw New Brighton run twice incl Bob Coleman's world record run. Probably more skill required on grass than the US clay based surfaces.
There's a long history of mile and half mile grass tracks here. The old man made good money on the Canterbury tracks pre WW2...
As proven at Addington in ChCh a couple of times, Forbury park and Ascot park, Invercargill, the all weather trotting tracks make a good race surface...

[Pumba]

......As proven at Addington in ChCh a couple of times, Forbury park and Ascot park, Invercargill, the all weather trotting tracks make a good race surface...

I remember in the early 90's going along to speedway in Hamilton at the Claudelands Trotting track. No idea how long that track would have been, 1/2 mile? Not sure if it was a regular thing either.

[ellipsis]

The first time we got to use the track I had made at Little River. My good friend Wayne Bermingham, RIP, filmed this but it remained on VHS until very recently when I had it digitalised. Good fun days had by all, down there. I never got to ride though and that fucked me off, but somebody had to be the man with the clipboard and loud voice. I got to play on it on my own or when just a couple or three of us could get down there and play and not fuck with the very gracious locals too much

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[tri boy]

Awsome vid man:first:
loled at the pushbike sidecars:laugh:

[ellipsis]

Awsome vid man:first:
loled at the pushbike sidecars:laugh:

..that was my trade off with the locals to get them involved and supportive of a cheeky prick like me who dragged up the old Lake Forsyth Horse Racing Track and subjected them to very loud days for some time...I didn't really have permission from anyone in particular, but enough locals were keen enough for me to do it that I told the council to get fucked on a few occasions...all good things gotta come to an end...that was just prior to the planet becoming engulfed in PC bullshit...a mate and I welded them up the night before the first play day, they were an absolute cunt to make, in the dark, hacksaw only for cutting all that tube and shit...I had welding flash eyes the next day...my race schedule and other notes were a waste of fucking time, I couldn't read them...