vtec
24th June 2007, 11:51
Well, my least successful race meeting to date. Couldn't get below 1.15, I'm sort of blaming a very worn rear tyre, but it's my riding aswell. Also managed to have 2 crashes the first of which was very well photographed here (http://www.gtp.co.nz/main.php?g2_itemId=125339&g2_page=26 ). Found the tyres to be a lot more gentle than they looked. Felt like slow motion but I knew as soon as I stood the bike up for the grass that I was going to crash at a good pace. Still couldn't have had a nicer crash. You get to about 230 on that back straight, and I was busy looking at my fuel gauge when I should've been braking.
Second crash was in the second supersport race. Think I still had a bit of crap on the outside edge of my well worn dunlop rear, got on the power, out of the first corner, and the back of the bike instantly jumped wide about a meter, backed off the power which snapped it back in line, thought I'd saved it, but the bike was still bucking and it threw me off on about the 2nd or third buck. Landed on my back at about 100kphr whiplashed the back of my head onto the ground, split right down the back of my helmet, and the plastic moulding around the bottom of the helmet had come away. Unfortunately this crash wasn't caught on camera, cause it was a doozy. Didn't know what month it was, and my abs and neck are still sore. My apologies for causing a restart, cause it took me a while to get up.
For my actual results on the day, qualified 7th in supersport and a disappointing 13th in superbike. Doing reasonably consistant 1.15's. Came a dissapointing 8th in the supersport race, and was coming about 8th in superbike on the second to last lap when I crashed into the tyres. Didn't get my usual good launches.
Anyway something to look forward to is that I've now gained a much faster motorcycle a nicely modded K5 GSXR600. Got a track day this weekend to check it out, and see if the now stock forks can be set up, if I can work out how. Might be running new as opposed to second hand tyres from now on aswell.
Attached is a pic to show that I can actually ride alright, it's the only one I could find of me from the meeting where I'm not crashing, and here's the link again to the crash just in case you missed it.
http://www.gtp.co.nz/main.php?g2_itemId=125339&g2_page=26
Thanks to Peter, Leong, Mum and Dad, Ross and Cynthia, Daphne and Col much better to come hopefully.
Cheers
Jason #78
Second crash was in the second supersport race. Think I still had a bit of crap on the outside edge of my well worn dunlop rear, got on the power, out of the first corner, and the back of the bike instantly jumped wide about a meter, backed off the power which snapped it back in line, thought I'd saved it, but the bike was still bucking and it threw me off on about the 2nd or third buck. Landed on my back at about 100kphr whiplashed the back of my head onto the ground, split right down the back of my helmet, and the plastic moulding around the bottom of the helmet had come away. Unfortunately this crash wasn't caught on camera, cause it was a doozy. Didn't know what month it was, and my abs and neck are still sore. My apologies for causing a restart, cause it took me a while to get up.
For my actual results on the day, qualified 7th in supersport and a disappointing 13th in superbike. Doing reasonably consistant 1.15's. Came a dissapointing 8th in the supersport race, and was coming about 8th in superbike on the second to last lap when I crashed into the tyres. Didn't get my usual good launches.
Anyway something to look forward to is that I've now gained a much faster motorcycle a nicely modded K5 GSXR600. Got a track day this weekend to check it out, and see if the now stock forks can be set up, if I can work out how. Might be running new as opposed to second hand tyres from now on aswell.
Attached is a pic to show that I can actually ride alright, it's the only one I could find of me from the meeting where I'm not crashing, and here's the link again to the crash just in case you missed it.
http://www.gtp.co.nz/main.php?g2_itemId=125339&g2_page=26
Thanks to Peter, Leong, Mum and Dad, Ross and Cynthia, Daphne and Col much better to come hopefully.
Cheers
Jason #78