Rent a Racer

[Shaun]

SV 650 03-04 injected with Gsxr Front end- Ohlins shock- Footrest kit- Pipe- Damper- Full Fairings- STD Motor!

$ 3500 for 5 national rounds + you pay all your own running costs, you choose your own product apart from th oil I use, you pay all and any crash damage

You transport- maintaine etc

2 of these units available

Very cheap way to see if you have got what it takes.

Don't ask me any questions here, just call me 027 2559143

[Shaun]

I thought this was a racers forum, but from the lack of phone calls I guess I am in the wrong place

[marty]

people have forgotten that to enjoy yourself/extend yourself/learn something, you usually have to spend money. they're too busy buying shite 250's and crashing them. $3500 will buy me 20 hours in my Pitts, and is what i'll spend my $$ on, but if i wanted to race, then i'd be there. surely someone out there has a rich daddy.

you could always go to NMIT and set up a 'Cetrtificate in Motorcyle Race Team Management', of which some of the component is actually racing - do it on a student loan!


actually - that's not a bad idea!

[Sketchy_Racer]

I would love the opportunity,

I just don't have that sortta cash, + saving for a new bike, so don't want to go blow it all away...

It's damn good to see ya setting up awesome deals like this, and Im sure someone will be keen to get on one!!

-RG

[marty]

with respect RG - this is what i'm talking about. spend the $$ on racing - do the hard yards, and the opportunities will come your way. you'e not 'blowing the money away'

what if you ride the rounds, ride awesome, and pick up a full sponsored ride next year? or an opportune meeting with a racer from europe leads to a trip over there to race rounds on a loan/sponsored bike?

take the chances man

[Sketchy_Racer]

Yes, you are very correct.

But with only 1 season on a streetstock 150, I hardly believe that i willl be going fast enough in only 5 rounds on a bike bigger than i have ever raced, and the bike i have never ridden will be enough to impress people.

I am going to play it safe and build my skill on smaller bikes (GP125 bikes) before going and spending big $$$

good things come in time, i am only 16, with plenty of years ahead of me.

-RG

[Shaun]

Interesting you should talk about lack of experience and being able to cut it or not, Example

I had only ever done 15 races in my life before qualifying for the Japanese Superbike grid!

Chris Bramley, ( Who raced an SV I built last year) Got up and into 3rd place in the NZGP race at Ruapuna ( Before Crashing) But he had done NO races before the first round at Puckekohe last year.

My Point, unless you try you will never know!

If the above mentioned rider had a sponsor to pay for his petrol-tyres-entries, I would run him again for sure!

The only reason this bike is up for lease is because I cannot and will not pay for all the above, I would provide him the bike FOC.

Chris is a very talented rider, probally the best young up and coming rider I have seen in this country, definately on the same par as Sam Smith!

[Sketchy_Racer]

Well do ya wanna give me a go at a track day or something,

See if i've got what it takes!

-RG

[Shaun]

Well do ya wanna give me a go at a track day or something,

See if i've got what it takes!

-RG



Good on you for asking mate, but NO!

[Sketchy_Racer]

Fair enough too.

I am really keen on hiring one, But i just cant justify the cost if i were to be slow,

and at the end of the whole Nats series, So spend more than my whole budget for racing a 125 for a full season AND the nats, For less track time?

It's like a Rock and a hard place

-RG

[White trash]

Fair enough too.

I am really keen on hiring one, But i just cant justify the cost if i were to be slow,

and at the end of the whole Nats series, So spend more than my whole budget for racing a 125 for a full season AND the nats, For less track time?

It's like a Rock and a hard place

-RG
No, there is no "rock" or "hard place". You either back yourself, or you don't.

If racing a bike is that important to ya, you do it. If you're afraid of failure, you'll never acheive anything in life.

[Shaun]

No, there is no "rock" or "hard place". You either back yourself, or you don't.

If racing a bike is that important to ya, you do it. If you're afraid of failure, you'll never acheive anything in life.



Welcome back!

[Sketchy_Racer]

trust me mate, I do back myself,

And No, I am not afraid of faliure.


I am afraid of the $$$ aspect. But i guess that just shows my age?

[Shaun]

trust me mate, I do back myself,

And No, I am not afraid of faliure.


I am afraid of the $$$ aspect. But i guess that just shows my age?


16 is a hard place to be when it comes to $

[mikey]

not that its any acheivement but glen was out almost as fast as i was doing 1.20s on his first ever ride of a beat up old fairing less 600. got some skill.
edit at manfield.
on a seriously neglegeted bike, even by my standards.
but shaun could probably still do sub 1.14s on it..........
looked like you enjoyed the extra speed of a 600 so why would you want to go for a 125?
talk to your big sponsor, get a bigger bike.

[marty]

as a comparison, one of the guys at the aero club is off to botswana to fly. there is no pay, just expenses. life is reasonably tough, and the place is pretty unforgiving. he's going for the experience, it's going to cost him $10k (he's already spent $70k) and he will find that there is a huge world out there, and that stooging around in your 172 in NZ is not the be all. it just takes a leap of faith. RG, the question is, do you have the ablilty to make that leap? another comparison - BMX pro racers. sleep in their cars, on the floor of mates places. travel all over the states and aussie chasing $500 purses. they've taken the leap though, and are loving it. my cousin did an apprentiship at a gearbox overhaul shop in hamilton. went to europe at 19 and turned up at alain prosts F1 team on a practice day. got a job sweeping the floor. 1 year later had his F1 test driver's licence, and was building gearboxes for a leading F1 team.

i recall a comment on the WSB a couple of weeks ago - that guys who spent too long on the 250s and supersports had difficulty changing their style to ride the superbikes! interesting.... sure look up to the guys on the 1000's, but NEVER forget - they were once 16 years old wondering what they were going to do.......

[mikey]

No, there is no "rock" or "hard place". You either back yourself, or you don't.

If racing a bike is that important to ya, you do it. If you're afraid of failure, you'll never acheive anything in life.

says the man who has been racing what? for the last decade or so

[marty]

16 is a hard place to be when it comes to $

hey if you have to flip burgers in between race days....we all have to do something to pay the bills

[Sketchy_Racer]

it just takes a leap of faith. RG, the question is, do you have the ablilty to make that leap?

Do i belive i have the ability,

well, I believe so, Yes honestly i do.

DO i have the balls to take the $$$ risk?

No fucken way. Not if its my money

[Shaun]

not that its any acheivement but glen was out almost as fast as i was doing 1.20s on his first ever ride of a beat up old fairing less 600. got some skill.


I have seen him ride, and YES, he can ride!

I just cannot justify giving away any more time or money to people on here, I started helping people on here due to the Jason McEwan campaign from last year, and I always give back more than I take!

There are a bunch of people on this board who have shit loads of cash, and if they choose to get in behind a rider and help pay his bills then fantastic, I will do what ever I can to help these young guys.

All it will take is the lease fee from a sponsor and the same amount again to run it- Really seems like a No Brainer to me, but I guess talk is cheep!

[Shaun]

Do i belive i have the ability,

well, I believe so, Yes honestly i do.

DO i have the balls to take the $$$ risk?

No fucken way. Not if its my money


How can you seriously say you believe in your self but are not prepared to spend? That is a very strange statement

[mikey]

I have seen him ride, and YES, he can ride!

I just cannot justify giving away any more time or money to people on here, I started helping people on here due to the Jason McEwan campaign from last year, and I always give back more than I take!

There are a bunch of people on this board who have shit loads of cash, and if they choose to get in behind a rider and help pay his bills then fantastic, I will do what ever I can to help these young guys.

All it will take is the lease fee from a sponsor and the same amount again to run it- Really seems like a No Brainer to me, but I guess talk is cheep!


wasnt suggesting you give him a bike, this aint no eutopia, he's got a sponsor though,
the slack cunt didnt even load my bike onto the trailor after i let him out on it all day.

[Sketchy_Racer]

......ride of a beat up old fairing less 600.......

Hahah, Thanks for the blast mate....

oh, and get ya damned brakes fixed!!!



the slack cunt didnt even load my bike onto the trailor after i let him out on it all day.

hahaha..... I told you to come get me mofo....

I owe you man!

[Sketchy_Racer]

How can you seriously say you believe in your self but are not prepared to spend? That is a very strange statement

I do believe in myself.

But i aint magic and cant pull money off a tree.

Businesses don't take 16yo fallas very seriously when i ask them to support me.

I am lucky with what support i have, that came from my mother working at CanBrace.

but it is very minimal as to what i want/need

[Shaun]

I do believe in myself.

But i aint magic and cant pull money off a tree.

Businesses don't take 16yo fallas very seriously when i ask them to support me.

I am lucky with what support i have, that came from my mother working at CanBrace.

but it is very minimal as to what i want/need


Very direct and very clear that statement! The one I was commenting read a little bit like you want the world but are not prepered to pay for it! Your time will come as long as you work at it:rockon:


Regarding your PM, if it is available you can have for running costs

[texmo]

RG you complain about money, so why not get another job I work seven days and I worked from 11am till close at hells pizza yesterday.
Like white trash said back your self. I have done two races on a zxr250 and now one a gsxr600. Its there if you want it, you just have to get it.

[Shaun]

This offer is now Finished! Had one to many people of this board dick me around, been fun, see you all in the soup!

[Sketchy_Racer]

RG you complain about money, so why not get another job I work seven days and I worked from 11am till close at hells pizza yesterday.
Like white trash said back your self. I have done two races on a zxr250 and now one a gsxr600. Its there if you want it, you just have to get it.

Yeah, i can understand. I am not one of outragesous debts though.

getting out there and doing it is all great and well,

but staying upright and getting a good finsh is a completly different story!

[texmo]

Yeah, i can understand. I am not one of outragesous debts though.

getting out there and doing it is all great and well,

but staying upright and getting a good finsh is a completly different story!

shaun had like $20k in debt when he went to jap. Crashing is all apart of it, I crashed twice last weekend once from giving it too much on an exit and the other from hitting a bump when I was leaned over and the front tucked. Some body who never makes mistakes has never tryed something new.