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nicko
29th December 2005, 17:54
Hi Guys,

Talk about a mission just to get everything ready in time! As we can't cross enter the same bike in F2 & F1 I decided to race my road bike (K3 GSXR thou) so had a fair bit of work to do in the couple of weeks leading up to the race. Thanks to Mike Smith I was sorted with a set of race fairings and thanks to Dan & the team at Colemans for the last minute bits & pieces.

Qualifying went well on the 600 with me in 8th on the 2nd row, the 1000 was a pig at the start of the day and I qualified in 13th. The 600 races were good fun, I diced with Hayden Fitzgerald and a couple of the Aussie boys for most of the races, I nearly got David Johnson over the hill in the last lap but missed out by .1 second to finish 9th. A better start saw me 7th in the 2nd F2 race to finish the day 7th overall in F2.

This was my first ever race meeting on a thousand but I was pretty surprised how well I got on with the bike once I got the handling sorted, the bike is great fun to spin out of the corners & wheelstand down the straights, turned out to be quite an eventful day on it...my times were better on the 1000 than the 600 so I decided to race the 1000 in the Robert Holden races too. First F1 race I had improved the handling with a few tweaks but I was getting some wicked chatter going into the corners under brakes, turns out I was using all my rear shock had to offer and looks like I need a heavier spring (improvement for Paeroa I'm hoping). First F1 race I got an ok start and soon got my way up to 10th place where I stayed for the race, I caught up to Lance Lowe but couldn't get past and again finished up .1 secs behind.

1st Robert Holden Heat & I managed to beat Lance this time, little did I know but due to the bike chattering so much under brakes my fairing mounts broke & the fairings were dragging on the ground round the corners, luckily it was only 2 laps to go & I managed to finish the race.

2nd F1 race & I got an awesome start, was holding 6th then Lance Lowe crashed on the hill & the race got red flagged. Restart and I got shoved around in turn one, got to turn two & got shoved again and getting on the gas ran wide into the haybales, a bale grabbed my ankle rolled it back & in the process broke off my footpeg & bent my rearset! Luckily managed to stay on & I only realised the footpeg was gone when I tried to get going again, I could still change gears so I just rested my foot on the rearset & finished the race, managed to regain a few places and finished 10th again.

2nd Robert Holden heat was a good race and diced with Hayden & David Johnson, had held them off till the last lap when David put a pretty impressive late braking move under me into turn one which let Hayden through as well & I had to settle to finish behind them.

So in all 7th in F2, 10th in F1 and about 10th overall for the Robert Holden. Real happy with my first go on the thousand and am looking forward to giving it a good nudge at Paeroa, thanks to all the KBers who stopped by & said gday.

Thanks to Colemans Suzuki, Metzeler Tyres, FFM Helmets, Neo Gloves, SBS Pads, DID chains, Ross King Painters, Wairau Paint Centre, Fredco Motors, Mike Smith


Cheers,
Nicko

p.s. gotta give big ups to the new FFM helmet, see the photo & check it out at your nearest bike shop, it's way better than the old one's - light as, bugger all wind noise & looks pretty cool too!

p.p.s Photos from Terry Stevenson attached (please don't use without permission - I gotta pay him for them yet!)

Sensei
29th December 2005, 20:24
Yep ya looked good out there Dude ! Go the mighty GSXR :rockon:

cowpoos
29th December 2005, 21:10
good stuff man... :drinkup:

bluninja
29th December 2005, 22:37
Great write up Nick. Glad to see you're having so much fun. Good luck for Paeroa.

2much
29th December 2005, 23:30
Well done mate, and full respect for finishing 10th with no peg. I now know how hard it is to ride on the road without a left peg, let alone racing..... that woulda taken some skill!

saul
30th December 2005, 06:58
Thanks for a very cool write up.

Sounds like a great day:niceone:

Will look out for you at P

wari
30th December 2005, 07:20
AS u-suall a grr-eat write up .. :clap:

EN-joyd wat-ching ya race .. :corn:

GOinna try my dam-dest to gitt to PIe-roa .. :drinkup:

SEee ya theer .. :woohoo:

Sparky Bills
30th December 2005, 07:26
I saw ya going round and round.
I must make a point of coming and having a chat next time i see you.
Good effort anyway.

Two Smoker
1st January 2006, 18:17
Awesome stuff Nicko, glad to see some good results :niceone: Fucking awesome effort on the rearset!!! hehehe

gaza
1st January 2006, 18:34
Here are a couple of pics I took that I thought you might enjoy.

merv
1st January 2006, 18:39
Great stuff Nicko.

gaza
1st January 2006, 22:03
Oops I missed this one.

Zed
1st January 2006, 22:10
Yeah twas a great day spectating down at Wangas, even got to prize-giving afterwards and saw you go up and give your little speech of thanks Nicko, didn't manage to get over to say hi though. Well done and give it heaps at Paeroa! :niceone:

gaza
2nd January 2006, 16:46
Three photos from race 1

nicko
3rd January 2006, 22:32
Cheers guys, really looking forward to Paeroa, I'm not heading down South for the nationals as I'm saving up money (hopefully for a new weapon - watch this space).

Great shots Gaza - thanks for those mate.
Nice work to other KB racers too (2 smoker/Sparky/KK/K14 etc etc)
Zed, didn't know you'd upgraded the bike - like to see you scrape the fairings on that one!
Bluninja - good to hear from ya Si, hope life's treating you well - still got the RSVR?