TerraRoot
9th January 2015, 06:46
Hi all,
posted many years ago (6 to be vague) about 'doing' up my rsx100.
Never finished that, no body to race with = no fun.
around the same time, the honda cub blew up in popularity, massive 180k ride outs, people enter them in stupid places, Superpoles, drag races, Paddy Dakar, (ever past out a bmw GS on a honda 50?, best entertainment in the world), nobody has tried hill climbing yet. Ride out with your mates? take the honda's, flat out everywhere guaranteed a crash or something to laugh yourself sick about anyway.
There was also the big one, THE nifty fifty 8 hour endurance race charity event, my dad decided he wanted in on that (didn't own one myself at the time) see he never got to race, with one leg he always though it would be impossibly to get a race license, the rules however were a bit relaxed at here. So with great pleasure he proceeded to kick everyone's arse, 50 teams, 200 riders, 5 hours of racing (-3 hours for hangovers).
The next 4 years got a bit harder, fecked if i can remember all the names, bunch of retired road roaders, guy martin, somebody who won something on a superbike, it'll come back later. upshot my dad got a full race license! still working on his ypvs but still...
Took the race bike for the ring of kerry rally after that first race, totally hooked, never forget it,
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/0605Image005.jpg
Kept borrowing other for a few years until this beaut turned up!
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/0404SSA40754.jpg
All downhill from that point, got leathers, helmet, found an engine, got z28 cam, hd springs, inner rotor kit, 22mm carb and manifold and really bloody sick.
so doped up on enough steroids to drop a horse i built up the engine spending plenty of time on the inlet port, raised the roof and narrowed the bit around the valve.
not much pictures of all that, too much going on, but i was happy in the end, it did 87kmh and on the day would pull top gear everywhere around the track saving the transmission.
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rIMG_20131213_143850143.jpg
copy pasta of the race report:
After an 8am start getting scrutineering and paper work done, we had a 30 min practice session. I went out just enough to figure out which way the track went (not been on the national circuit) and that it was make of soap, and broke the wee bike! poor alex braham and stephen never had a go, which is quite bad since they have never ridden a honda 90.
So we had to fix it, race was starting asap, bikes fucked, cutting out under load back firing, struggling to rev. Checked plug gap, wd 40 all over the HT lead, nope, dawning despair “are we gonna get out at all!?” We missed the le mans start. Tried to get out after cleaning the carb from a pit start starting 1 lap down, made it to the gravel turn the rally cars use, turned around and spluttered around the back and into the pits. We need a second hand coil, steve tobin knew a man, top job. Replaced coil bike started right up first prod SWEET! jam helmet on, we are down about 20mins 10laps 48th place, out i go, track is drying, Don’t end up on your arse tim, other people need to get a spin, dry track made it easier to get around i could just leave it in top and keep the corner speed up, get my head over the front of the bars, elbows up, everything running sweet, passing loads of people in the lower class’s. and team Manly (66) came by, the one with guy martin on the team. Get them. and so i did, another lap and team BikeWorld (3) also joined the battle, didn’t know at the time but they were in my class, at about this time i posted a 1:30.684 lap 7th fastest lap of the whole race. on my 24th lap. Taking it sensibly in the corners because i’d never hear the end of it if i broke the bike and nobody else got a go i got stuck behind some back markers and 66 and 3 pissed off. End of session came up and i had moved us up to 37th!
Alex went out next, two quite long full course cautions in his session, but he moved us up to 30th, had a great race with another team (haven’t got their number)
Braham got us up to 25, more full course cautions, everyone is having trouble with dunlop corner, the off camber entrance combined with trail braking mean the rear brake pedal would drag, dodgey situation. we decide to pull him in a 10 mins early, the timer board says their is about 55 mins left in the race.
Stephen goes out. Crashes on the fourth corner. Of his first lap. Luckily near the back pit entrance so he is back into the pit garage before even a lap is up. I’m up at the pit wall, turn away thinking “it’s his first lap be ages before he comes aro.. WTF!” zip over a scrutineer is doing his job well and spots a bent rear shock, i fix it with my mighty right arm, the mud is scrapped off and he’s out again. not too much time lost
We look to be getting a top 20 finish, 4th in class, not bad, practically slapping each other on the backs at that point. They extend the race finish time, we worry have we enough fuel, people are pitting, stephen hasn’t a clue whats happening we’ve no pit board. we keep waving him onwards. don’t run out of fuel don’t run out of fuel. After extra half hour of racing we got 14th place and 3rd in class, I’m in awe of our selves, We did the fucking business
This is us:
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_0979.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_1459.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_2388.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/image-30.jpg
me alex braham and stephen
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHOTO_20140223_162250.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHOTO_20140223_172300.jpg
That was the 2014, 2015 is 6 weeks away, i got some work to do!
posted many years ago (6 to be vague) about 'doing' up my rsx100.
Never finished that, no body to race with = no fun.
around the same time, the honda cub blew up in popularity, massive 180k ride outs, people enter them in stupid places, Superpoles, drag races, Paddy Dakar, (ever past out a bmw GS on a honda 50?, best entertainment in the world), nobody has tried hill climbing yet. Ride out with your mates? take the honda's, flat out everywhere guaranteed a crash or something to laugh yourself sick about anyway.
There was also the big one, THE nifty fifty 8 hour endurance race charity event, my dad decided he wanted in on that (didn't own one myself at the time) see he never got to race, with one leg he always though it would be impossibly to get a race license, the rules however were a bit relaxed at here. So with great pleasure he proceeded to kick everyone's arse, 50 teams, 200 riders, 5 hours of racing (-3 hours for hangovers).
The next 4 years got a bit harder, fecked if i can remember all the names, bunch of retired road roaders, guy martin, somebody who won something on a superbike, it'll come back later. upshot my dad got a full race license! still working on his ypvs but still...
Took the race bike for the ring of kerry rally after that first race, totally hooked, never forget it,
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/0605Image005.jpg
Kept borrowing other for a few years until this beaut turned up!
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/0404SSA40754.jpg
All downhill from that point, got leathers, helmet, found an engine, got z28 cam, hd springs, inner rotor kit, 22mm carb and manifold and really bloody sick.
so doped up on enough steroids to drop a horse i built up the engine spending plenty of time on the inlet port, raised the roof and narrowed the bit around the valve.
not much pictures of all that, too much going on, but i was happy in the end, it did 87kmh and on the day would pull top gear everywhere around the track saving the transmission.
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rIMG_20131213_143850143.jpg
copy pasta of the race report:
After an 8am start getting scrutineering and paper work done, we had a 30 min practice session. I went out just enough to figure out which way the track went (not been on the national circuit) and that it was make of soap, and broke the wee bike! poor alex braham and stephen never had a go, which is quite bad since they have never ridden a honda 90.
So we had to fix it, race was starting asap, bikes fucked, cutting out under load back firing, struggling to rev. Checked plug gap, wd 40 all over the HT lead, nope, dawning despair “are we gonna get out at all!?” We missed the le mans start. Tried to get out after cleaning the carb from a pit start starting 1 lap down, made it to the gravel turn the rally cars use, turned around and spluttered around the back and into the pits. We need a second hand coil, steve tobin knew a man, top job. Replaced coil bike started right up first prod SWEET! jam helmet on, we are down about 20mins 10laps 48th place, out i go, track is drying, Don’t end up on your arse tim, other people need to get a spin, dry track made it easier to get around i could just leave it in top and keep the corner speed up, get my head over the front of the bars, elbows up, everything running sweet, passing loads of people in the lower class’s. and team Manly (66) came by, the one with guy martin on the team. Get them. and so i did, another lap and team BikeWorld (3) also joined the battle, didn’t know at the time but they were in my class, at about this time i posted a 1:30.684 lap 7th fastest lap of the whole race. on my 24th lap. Taking it sensibly in the corners because i’d never hear the end of it if i broke the bike and nobody else got a go i got stuck behind some back markers and 66 and 3 pissed off. End of session came up and i had moved us up to 37th!
Alex went out next, two quite long full course cautions in his session, but he moved us up to 30th, had a great race with another team (haven’t got their number)
Braham got us up to 25, more full course cautions, everyone is having trouble with dunlop corner, the off camber entrance combined with trail braking mean the rear brake pedal would drag, dodgey situation. we decide to pull him in a 10 mins early, the timer board says their is about 55 mins left in the race.
Stephen goes out. Crashes on the fourth corner. Of his first lap. Luckily near the back pit entrance so he is back into the pit garage before even a lap is up. I’m up at the pit wall, turn away thinking “it’s his first lap be ages before he comes aro.. WTF!” zip over a scrutineer is doing his job well and spots a bent rear shock, i fix it with my mighty right arm, the mud is scrapped off and he’s out again. not too much time lost
We look to be getting a top 20 finish, 4th in class, not bad, practically slapping each other on the backs at that point. They extend the race finish time, we worry have we enough fuel, people are pitting, stephen hasn’t a clue whats happening we’ve no pit board. we keep waving him onwards. don’t run out of fuel don’t run out of fuel. After extra half hour of racing we got 14th place and 3rd in class, I’m in awe of our selves, We did the fucking business
This is us:
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_0979.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_1459.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_2388.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/image-30.jpg
me alex braham and stephen
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHOTO_20140223_162250.jpg
http://terraroot.neoneoism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHOTO_20140223_172300.jpg
That was the 2014, 2015 is 6 weeks away, i got some work to do!