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WOMBLE

18th February 2007, 17:46

here are some pic's of frosty at paeroa race 1 i think.

Waylander

18th February 2007, 17:48

Got a couple of him aswell, will add to this thread. One has Goblin chasing him.

Buddy L

18th February 2007, 19:09

Ill add my 2 cents? i mean pic's

TonyB

18th February 2007, 19:18

Great pics!:yes:

Waylander

18th February 2007, 19:35

Only KBer I could instantly recognize on the track lol. Pink does have advantages I guess.

Have a few better ones but they exceed 1mb and I can't get it smaller.

Lou Girardin

18th February 2007, 19:38

I was wondering who had the Flying Nipple.

Crasherfromwayback

18th February 2007, 20:10

Tell us all!

Sketchy_Racer

18th February 2007, 20:14

Spill it.....

FROSTY

18th February 2007, 20:31

oldguy

18th February 2007, 20:37

What happened to Kawa Kid ??? I think that may have had something to do with the flag situation, anyway some of my pics of the pink SV

boomer

18th February 2007, 20:37

i feel for ya mate, i did a similar thing at Taupo :whistle: ahhaha

Nice riding guys and gals!!!!!!!!

the boy that didnt see the red flag and rear ended the other poor bastard got away lightly i thought. I'm sunburnt, dehydrated, knackered but i had a top day... cheers racey guys and gals!!!!

cheers all for the company :rockon:

Toaster

18th February 2007, 20:39

great pics! must have been an awesome event.

crashe

18th February 2007, 20:40

What happened to Kawa Kid ???

He is ok, he got his foot checked out by the medical team...
Bike isnt in too good a condition thou.

erik

18th February 2007, 20:51

Here's one of the better ones I took.
(my other photos from Paeroa are here: http://rides.webshots.com/album/557706388RwaEtD )

[edit: better add Thanks Frosty and MadDuck for looking after my gear too :niceone: ]

FROSTY

18th February 2007, 20:52

Yes you are right, the chequred and Red were postioned in an odd postion to begin with.. 20 or 30 metres beyond the finish stripe.
And after your explanation to the bosses it was clearly a mistake.

But man.. at the time there were some new words emitted that I have not heard before!
I bet there were -I would have too in their shoes
I got an apology later -mind you I still cannot believe that idiot that walked onto the track in front of a race bike at full noise

Maha

18th February 2007, 20:52

Yet another Massive day at Paeroa and thanks to the FROSTY pit, namely MadDuck for looking after our gear while we soaked up the action and sunrays, although, for such a large donation i would have thought the least ya could have done was clean my visor for me.....(Joking)
Well done for :finger: (and attitude) on the earlier flag incident FROSTY...:yes:

justsomeguy

18th February 2007, 20:57

Hey Frosty,

You looked awesome out there T :first: (apart from your :sick: coloured bike.:shutup: ) Have a few photos and videos of you among the 338 pics taken, will drop a CD off at your work or home sometime before I leave this place.

Naughty naughty Mr Frost!!..

Heya G,

As Frosty has clarified, it was a genuine mistake.

As soon as he realised what happened he came and spoke to me at Point 2 (had my "race official" gear on) and we radioed the control room telling them what happened - the look on his face was genuine "damn, how did that happen?!?!? What have I done now!!!"

If it wasn't a genuine issue - he would have been sent packing and the flag position wouldn't have been changed.

PM me with your email address if you want the larger version of your "Say Cheese" moment. :) - The attached pic is 20% the size of the original.

Kind regards,
JSG

FROSTY

18th February 2007, 21:09

hey how many of you lot got a kiss n cuddle from the pirelli gals??
well I did--cos my bike is so
"sexy" in pink

Mom

18th February 2007, 21:13

hey how many of you lot got a kiss n cuddle from the pirelli gals??
well I did--cos my bike is so
"sexy" in pink

Geeez Frosty, AND you got to perv at my tits, while I was getting a spanking from Crashe and I had to do your fly up for you, seems you had a "perfect day" really........:rofl:

Karma

18th February 2007, 21:14

Got a kiss n cuddle (and a labial rub:love: ) from a couple of KB girls... does that count?

Best I saw from KB was MSTRS, and he ignored me when I said hello right in front of him :(

Mom

18th February 2007, 21:17

Best I saw from KB was MSTRS, and he ignored me when I said hello right in front of him :(

He waved at me and I think I ignored him..........sorry John :love:

FROSTY

18th February 2007, 21:29

Well folks I gotta say what a bonzer day.
The day was hot and clear--tar melting clear as it turned out
I had a plan for the day --cruise first practice to do some setup on the suspension , wind it up in second practice then hopefully get the race face on for my 2 races
Other than a (very embarressing) incident mentioned elsewhere all went totally to plan in practice.
race one and I had my "race face" on -ready to do battle
My aim was a top 10 finish
I was gridded on the fourth row right behind pole.
I got a fantastic launch for my first 3.0m only to have to stop --a guy on the front row did a huge (accidental) burnout /semi donut instead of launching causing a massive pack of us to have to stop.
Half the feild had gone into turn 1 before I got propperly under way. Head down it took me a lap to catch goblin's lil green kawasaki -got under her and held her out up over the hill .From there on it was passing slower riders till I got up deanos bum on the back straight -I drafted him and made ready to pounce up the right just before the kink in the back straight
Not to be as deano drifted right and the hay bales got a wee bit too close--ok read that as I had hay in my knee scraper as my knee bounced off them a few times .
I had another couple of tries at deano untill I got him and got clear for a chasie session on the guys in front. They had too much of a gap for me to make up so catching them was Not to be but a heck of a good race. I finished 12th with a 54 second best lap (keeping in mind the top two guys were doing 49s
Race 2 I dunno what happened to me--I knew where I needed to do work to go faster and I genuinely felt faster--But NO I was 2 full seconds a lap slower
It took me forever to get past Goblin then it was another chasie session
to see if I could recover a few places. I was chasing down a guy on a yellow zxrr400 (alen zutnic)and got past him --but too late as it turned out -on the results he beat me by .155of a second -I ended up doing 56's and finished 17t th
Ya know what--I had a total blast and loved every minute
as always thanks to Madduck for being my ever suffering pit crew --Thanks to Motobob and SVS for both lending me tyre warmers for the day.
Thanks to all the KBers who came up and wished me luck during the day -You lot have no idea how much it means to get encouragement from you all

Two Smoker

18th February 2007, 21:30

Not the only red flag incident i heard about... Jason Hulme got taken out from behind when he slowed down for a red flag... He is ok, and bike is fixable...

Meekey_Mouse

18th February 2007, 21:33

Good on ya Frosty, it was great seeing you out there :rockon:

FROSTY

18th February 2007, 21:43

end of the day it was a good days racing.
I have full respect for the people who put a heck of a lot of their time and effort into organising these events.
Keep in mind they have only untill 6.00pm to have the main road open again and have to make pretty serious decisions about peoples safety all day long.

boomer

18th February 2007, 21:51

Yeah all your "company" came and said 'ello, except you, you Honda rider you.

i did do a lap and couldn't find ya bro, did bump into Korndogio and Co, The quickies & Co, SpankMe & Crashe looking like fine frosty pit bitches and i went and said 'ello to sparky Bills whilst he was on the grid; His face was classic when i called him a ghey honduh rider ;)

The red flag incident where matey got took out from behind was a corker.. that and that blokes bike exploding and sending his engine into 1000's of pieces all over the track and path :shutup:

Tristan showed me a new way home tonight, one full tank of petrol as we left only to do a full loop over the hill and find ourselves back at the same petrol station one tank lighter.. we set off at 5 and i got home at 9 :shit:

Mr. Peanut

18th February 2007, 22:46

Mr. Peanut

18th February 2007, 22:50

SSssssssssssssssmack!
Was that sand a pain in the arse? And that corner after the main straight had a bump in it that just about got peoples rear airborne, what was that like?

FROSTY

19th February 2007, 12:04

the cement dust really did my head in for a few laps--I couldnt darn well see through it there was that much dust

V4ME

19th February 2007, 13:15

Well done to all of you - It was good meeting you Frosty - albeit it ever so quickly -
What a great day, I think I've caught the bug to race now as well - It was awesome - Gee that right hander after the only lefty was great to see how the knees only just missed the curb by millimeters - scary stuff.
Man those SV650's are quick - (thats why I own one)
I enjoyed watchin the guy riding with one hand in the Formula 3 - wow what courage.

Good on all of ya.

Bykmad

19th February 2007, 16:46

in a nutshell-
There was a major incident on the pit straight and yellow flag was waved on that point -Yellow being yellow I slowed on THAT corner and carried on at pace elsewhere
The red flag/chequred flag was positioned in a place I diddn;t see--Funnnilly enough aproaching the fastest left hand corner on the track at full noise you dont tend to look up 3.0m and across to your right.
No argument that the red flag was waved -I diddnt see em resulting in me doing 2 laps in practice I shouldn;t have -I apologised profusely as i was to be asked to leave the meeting for breaching the red flag rules --But complaints from 50% of the feild suggested I was right in that situation and the flag position was changed to a more suitable position

5 riders had to be spoken to about doing extra laps and two of those had a different reason for continuing.
Only 1 said that he couldnt see the flag.
No riders (other than Frosty) pointed out that there was a problem with the location of the chequerd flag/Red flag. I would have thought that if 50% of the field had problems, someone would have contacted race Control.
If you have a problem, point it out to the Clerk of Course or the Stewards. Then it can be looked at and attended to.

SPman

19th February 2007, 16:56

Yet another Massive day at Paeroa and thanks to the FROSTY pit, namely MadDuck for looking after our gear while we soaked
up the action and sunrays,

MadDuck - the unsung hero of the Frosty pit and "keep an eye on everyones gear" gal.

paturoa

19th February 2007, 17:01

who was this then?

I think it was the blue H2 750 kwaka

FROSTY

19th February 2007, 17:58

5 riders had to be spoken to about doing extra laps and two of those had a different reason for continuing.
Only 1 said that he couldnt see the flag.
No riders (other than Frosty) pointed out that there was a problem with the location of the chequerd flag/Red flag. I would have thought that if 50% of the field had problems, someone would have contacted race Control.
If you have a problem, point it out to the Clerk of Course or the Stewards. Then it can be looked at and attended to.
Id suggest you check your facts--A riders spokesman (ray Nairne)
got as far as speaking to the race officials on the dummy grid--The only race officials we could get to due to race control being placed INSIDE the track and being made inaccessable due to a decision made by race control not to open the track between practices--(to make up the lost time due to crashes
The INCIDENT that caused the red flag in the first place was caused by one rider being on his warm down and another not seeing the chequred flag and being at full race pace when they collided
Several riders also spoke to the race commentator during the morning practice and he relayed via RT to race control the comments by those riders.
Proof of the pudding is as they say in the eating--if there wasn't an issue they would NOT have relocated the flags and used a second chequred flag on the pit straight.
AGAIN--I repeat -there was an issue and as a result race control sorted it --pretty darn fast
I give these folk full credit for dealing with several crashes and several incidents during the day that would have had me tearing my hair out.
The logistics of that event is totally mind boggling --imagine the literally tonnes of hay bails theyu had to shift
The desighn of the track means race control is isolated from the pits
Its a logistical nightmare

vagrant

19th February 2007, 18:06

hey how many of you lot got a kiss n cuddle from the pirelli gals??
well I did--cos my bike is so
"sexy" in pink

Nice one
.
Thanks to the pitcrew for looking after our gear.

vagrant

19th February 2007, 18:16

I think it was the blue H2 750 kwaka

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg.

Not nice

crashe

19th February 2007, 18:20

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg.

Not nice

They just showed him crashing in the bales on tonight's TV1 6pm news.
Also showed two sidecars having a go at each other too.

_Gina_

19th February 2007, 18:34

Got a kiss n cuddle (and a labial rub:love: ) from a couple of KB girls... does that count?
Oi you!

You said you wouldn't tell anyone....

FROSTY

19th February 2007, 18:44

ohh --Hey Im sorry folks if I diddnt stop and talk to anyone--or seemed a lil--er distracted --I may have been talking to you but my mind was on the track.

TonyB

19th February 2007, 19:28

That was Jared Love on the Power Horse Ducati.
Result- busted leg. Bugger, he's not having much luck- wasn't it him that flipped his bike at Wanganui?

They just showed him crashing in the bales on tonight's TV1 6pm news.
Also showed two sidecars having a go at each other too.They love showing bikes crashing on the news don't they

crashe

19th February 2007, 19:31

They love showing bikes crashing on the news don't they

Yep they sure do.....:scooter: :scooter: :scooter:

MacD

19th February 2007, 20:16

Some more pics of the Pink Terror in action!

Thanks to Frosty and Madduck for the gear storage, it would have been damned hot carrying the stuff around all day :sunny:

Kwaka-Kid

19th February 2007, 21:15

good stuff frosty! good to read man. that track does get worse during hte day tho eh so not surprised ur times coulda got slower.

FROSTY

19th February 2007, 21:52

gutted for ya bro. that was a NASTY crash--bike ready for auck nats??

RC1

19th February 2007, 22:15

you did great frosty and it was good to meet you and your pit crew, me and julie came over not long after your first race i think it was and you were so rarked up it was good to see you enjoying your day

FROSTY

19th February 2007, 22:44

yea I was pretty happy after that first one

MadDuck

20th February 2007, 15:39

although, for such a large donation i would have thought the least ya could have done was clean my visor for me

but but but ....i did. Oh hang on must have been someone elses. Great day and thank god theres no photo of me doing the brolly bit cos I dont compare to those Pirelli girls.

Great to catch up with so many of you lot again.

Maha

20th February 2007, 15:46

. Great day and thank god theres no photo of me doing the brolly bit cos I dont compare to those Pirelli girls.

They were.....average, didnt really grab my attention, well maybe one time!...but i asked nicely and they let it go....:yes: