Star of the future

[Shaun]

Hi all, this is just a bit of a rave from me about the following racer/rider Sam Love also known as evol mas on this site.

Sam is a really cool young man who is doing a full time apprentiship at the moment, as well as racing a SV650 in the Pro Twins class

If in any way there is some one on this site that could be encouraged to spend a bit of there hard earned cash on supporting a racer go forward with there plans, Then I would try to encorouge you into the idea of getting in behind this young man and his racing plans.

If My buisness had not been on hold for the last 5 months of my life, and I had earned some money, I would be commiting to help this rider as much as I have ever helped any rider!

So folks, If I may once again, Sam Love, aka, evol mas on this site, is who I would be choosing to help financually this season.

As this site helped me so much when I had my big crash 5 months ago, I want to be able to give a bit back from the help you all gave to me and my family so, I pledge to buy Sam Love one full set of tyres minimum! ( Thanks to those that helped me)

Any more pledges of support for this guy?

PS. Sam does not know I have made this posting, this is something that I decided to do myself, sorry Sam, if this is not your style!

[Drew]

Spot on there Shaun, I cant believe how much faster he's gotten over the last six months. Saw some of his action in pro twins at Pukie and was blown away at him running in the front three the whole day. Well done young man!!!

I cannot give any support financially given that I'm broke trying to keep myself on the track, but will help out with anything else I can.

[Shaun]

Cool Drew, Sam really has what it takes to make it as a big time top rider I believe. His learning abillity is high, and his base moralls are great, as well as his dad who works with him, is a good guy as well, and Sam seems like a young man of 20 years ago to me, very focused and dedicated

[roadracingoldfart]

Let me ask the question when my MR BIG gets back from China Shaun.
Ill assume anything is better than nothing ???

Paul.

[Shaun]

Let me ask the question when my MR BIG gets back from China Shaun.
Ill assume anything is better than nothing ???

Paul.



You got it Paul! you know me well enough, to know that I would not open my mouth for some one, unless I trully believed in them!

If I can make it happen, I would look to sponsor Sam for next season, once my buisness is back up and earning some money again.

So thanks for the thought Paul

[kawa10]

couldnt agree with you more about sam. he has got his head screwed on the right way and is fully going places. i've been involved with helping sam over the last few years anyway i can. every time he rides he just just getting better and faster. any help that can be given i know will be highly appreciated. even its just some where to stay for the nationals in the south island. good on ya shaun.

[Robert Taylor]

couldnt agree with you more about sam. he has got his head screwed on the right way and is fully going places. i've been involved with helping sam over the last few years anyway i can. every time he rides he just just getting better and faster. any help that can be given i know will be highly appreciated. even its just some where to stay for the nationals in the south island. good on ya shaun.

I concur with everything that has been said here about Sam. ( And dont forget the support and work his Dad puts into him ) Over the winter series we have in fact been helping Sam with a lot of suspension set up support and a few progressional changes as he has got further up to speed. His bike preparation and presentation is first class. BUT he is not only a very capable rider, Sam is also very inquisitive about bike set up and is a magnet for information. All power to him, we need more young people of his calibre in this great sport.

[Meekey_Mouse]

This VMCC that's just been was my first racing season, so I knew nothing at the start and still don't know a lot... But even to me it has been obvious that he has improved a heck of a lot through out the season and I have no doubt that he will keep improving :yes:
If I can help out in a small way, please let me know, I would like to help him out! But I'm struggling to keep my bike going as it is, so won't be able to be much sorry :(

[gav]

So Shaun, in your thread where you were going to team up with Andrew Stroud, you mentioned that Chris Bramley was the youngster you were hoping to promote? Why was Sam's name not mentioned then?

[speed63]

couldnt agree with you more about sam. he has got his head screwed on the right way and is fully going places. i've been involved with helping sam over the last few years anyway i can. every time he rides he just just getting better and faster. any help that can be given i know will be highly appreciated. even its just some where to stay for the nationals in the south island. good on ya shaun.

Couldnt agree more. Have known Sam for a few years and have watched him make huge improvements, particularly in the last year. He is a good listener and very professional in his demenaour for a young guy. He is going places. It is also a credit to his dad that he has his feet on the ground and is well supported.

This is great Shaun,

[codgyoleracer]

Have watched & competed with Sam for the past 6 months or so & have spent plenty of time talking to him & helping where I can. He is worth the effort & has a calm cool head + nice smooth technique on track with more speed to come. (Us ginga's have got to stick together you know).
Best wishes for the nationals Sam.
GlenW

[Shaun]

So Shaun, in your thread where you were going to team up with Andrew Stroud, you mentioned that Chris Bramley was the youngster you were hoping to promote? Why was Sam's name not mentioned then

At the beggining of all this, I had not paid a lot of attention to Sam, untill he asked me a question, and I thought he had his head screwed on correctly, as well as (I was already talking to an Insurance company about supporting Chris)

However, if me and Stroudie could have stayed together, I was going to offer Sam, Pit space with us and advice, and a much better purchase price for product for him that I could arrange, I would love to be able to put him a 600 next year.

Hope that explains

[Pancakes]

and with a name like that he's sure to be a poster boy for the ladies too!

[cowpoos]

and with a name like that he's sure to be a poster boy for the ladies too!
ain't worked for jared Love so far...dispite the 69 number plate aswell...might be more to do with the fact he's always making a dick of him self!!

[Shaun]

ain't worked for jared Love so far...dispite the 69 number plate aswell...might be more to do with the fact he's always making a dick of him self!!




Nice of you to jump into a thread and abuse his cousin,

[cowpoos]

Nice of you to jump into a thread and abuse his cousin,
your right...may have been better in a different thread...but I'm not the only one guilty of comments towards Jared like that on this forum.

[evol mas]

hey shaun thanks for your support and help !! it is much appreciated !! sory to burst your bubble mate but some one else has already beat you to the pull the trigger, prime explosives has already payed for all the tyres i have used so far over the winter and has vowed to pay for all my tyres for the nationals. the owner has a genuine intrest in all motorsports and has helped me out alot financialy since i started racing at the start of the year and looks foward to seeing the success that will follow. if you realy wanted to help financialy a ferry ticket or an entry fee would be greatly appreciated. but to be honest with you the most appreciated thing that you could give me is your knowledge and experience on bike setup/racecraft ect especialy for the south island as i have never ridden there before.

also thanks to all the support from my mates, fellow ridders and last but not least my dad, look foward to having a successfull season

regards sam

[Shaun]

"Prime Explosives"- what ever and who ever you are, well done on your support of this young man:Police:

You have again shown just how Honest and genuine you are mate, a lot of people would have just gone for the ride on the tyre support I offered you, but you were honest! ( Wow ):Punk:

Send me a PM if you like, about all your travel plans for the south Island Sam.

I Might just need to try and find a way to get my arse to the sth Island for the racing eh, and O, I have a bloody big trailer that could carry up to 4 bikes, way easy.

[Shaun]

Have found you what I believe to be very good help mate:banana:

[Shaun]

2 x new South Island Buisness sponsors to make room on your bike for now mate

Wow, the sth is kicking the nth on this one

[Shaun]

Good to talk this morning Sam

Timaru Metal recyclers ( AKA John Hepburn) is now one of the South Island companies that will be sponsoring this race plan, "Thanks Johny"

There are 2 others that have now offered to pay entries, so I will keep you informed on it.

As I will now be doing all the rounds with Sam, I have also offered to Chris Succich of here the use of my trailer and awning for the season, ie, I will transport bikes etc, and give any help that I can.

Any one else that has been talking to me about this, please go hard and get back to me asap please.

[Cajun]

Sam is bloody fast young lad, with head screwed on right way. Hope you go far mate, and anytime i can help just drop me a line.

I took him down along to the memorial track day past weekend, and threw him out on my 04 gsxr 600 for a couple of sessions, he jumps on my bike and goes harder and faster on it on first time out on it, than me who been riding it for 3 1/2 years. But it was still none the less seeing my bike riden like it should be at the track. and he also helped me with a bit of setup on it.

[cowpoos]

Sam is bloody fast young lad, with head screwed on right way. Hope you go far mate, and anytime i can help just drop me a line.

I took him down along to the memorial track day past weekend, and threw him out on my 04 gsxr 600 for a couple of sessions, he jumps on my bike and goes harder and faster on it on first time out on it, than me who been riding it for 3 1/2 years. But it was still none the less seeing my bike riden like it should be at the track. and he also helped me with a bit of setup on it.
he was very very very smooth!!! flowing through the infeild!!

[Shaun]

Sam is bloody fast young lad, with head screwed on right way. Hope you go far mate, and anytime i can help just drop me a line.

I took him down along to the memorial track day past weekend, and threw him out on my 04 gsxr 600 for a couple of sessions, he jumps on my bike and goes harder and faster on it on first time out on it, than me who been riding it for 3 1/2 years. But it was still none the less seeing my bike riden like it should be at the track. and he also helped me with a bit of setup on it.


Bloody good on ya dude

[Cajun]

he was very very very smooth!!! flowing through the infeild!!
yeah it was amazing how smooth the whole track, and how fast out of the box he was going, and he only just got on the thing and by 2 lap out he was smooth and amazing fast on bike he never riden before.


Bloody good on ya dude yeah it was acutally really fun watching my bike ridden like it meant to be riden, and shows the bike can acutally do it, and that alot of issues i have are in my head and not the bike.

[enigma51]

and that alot of issues i have are in my head and not the bike.

Welcome to my world thats the thing with racing/track riding you know you can brake much later or even get on the gas earlier and you mind want to but you body just dont want to follow.

Apperently the more you do it the better it becomes!

[Shaun]

Welcome to my world thats the thing with racing/track riding you know you can brake much later or even get on the gas earlier and you mind want to but you body just dont want to follow.

Apperently the more you do it the better it becomes!


Practice practice man, it just get's better!






Unless, you are old and stupid like me, and have a good one bahaha

[Shaun]

As of this morning, Sam will also ride my 600 on the friday free practice only in the south Island to get to know the 600, and we may do the races in the NTh Island, depending on how the points are looking in the Pro Twins class:bleh:

[Cajun]

Awsome work Shaun,
guess he really enjoyed riding my 600 on sunday.

[Ivan]

Good on you,

Awsome to see hope all goes well for the nationals.

Good luck for the ride on the 600 that would be a blast to ride, and with Shauns help itl be ultra fast

[Shaun]

Good on you,

Awsome to see hope all goes well for the nationals.

Good luck for the ride on the 600 that would be a blast to ride, and with Shauns help itl be ultra fast



Would you be interested in coming to the south Island for the champ rounds and bring your 125 with you, and have a ride on the unofficuall Friday only at the sth Island tracks so you can learn them, and be a helper for the 2 other riders I am helping out this year.

You pay your own living only, transport etc FREE

[speed63]

As of this morning, Sam will also ride my 600 on the friday free practice only in the south Island to get to know the 600, and we may do the races in the NTh Island, depending on how the points are looking in the Pro Twins class:bleh:

Well Done that man :niceone:

[Shaun]

Well Done that man :niceone:



Just my way of giving a bit back to the group that helped me so much:eek:

[Ivan]

Shaun PM on its way

[Shaun]

Sam had a test day at Timaru yesterday, with some advice from John Hepburn, who was very impressed with his attitude, and today, is racing in Ch CH, and Dom Jones, is being helpfull to him with advice and a bed, cheers guys.

[Robert Taylor]

Sam had a test day at Timaru yesterday, with some advice from John Hepburn, who was very impressed with his attitude, and today, is racing in Ch CH, and Dom Jones, is being helpfull to him with advice and a bed, cheers guys.

I concur about Sams attitude, for someone with such a quiet and polite demeanour he sure gets the job done on the track. I just pray that there is not too much pressure of expectation placed upon him as he has been getting the job done in a no fuss way already.

[oyster]

At Ruapuna yesterday Sam showed he had a good head by taking his time and working through the new track carefully. A lot of people helped him and in the last race he came in second behind Tom Bos, our local 16 year old who pretty well dominates Pro Twin / F3 outright. Good to see Tom making freinds with him too, helping out and these are the foundations of the future for these youngsters.
There were other young stars there too. The 125GP class had a grid of 13, only two were over 18 years old! 14 year old Nick Cain made a stunning debut
going straight to 43's in his second ever 125 race.

[Ivan]

Shaun I start full time tommrow working so It looks liek I am coming down south I have my DIrt bike up for sale to to also fund this

I am guessing I am going to need about 2000 dollars in the bank.

And I turn 18 whilst we are down there Timaru I will be 18 haha:rockon:

[Shaun]

At Ruapuna yesterday Sam showed he had a good head by taking his time and working through the new track carefully. A lot of people helped him and in the last race he came in second behind Tom Bos, our local 16 year old who pretty well dominates Pro Twin / F3 outright. Good to see Tom making freinds with him too, helping out and these are the foundations of the future for these youngsters.
There were other young stars there too. The 125GP class had a grid of 13, only two were over 18 years old! 14 year old Nick Cain made a stunning debut
going straight to 43's in his second ever 125 race.



Thanks for that Sir

[denill]

I concur about Sams attitude, for someone with such a quiet and polite demeanour he sure gets the job done on the track.

But they are generally the FAST ones, eh. The mouthy ones are in my experience just 'show ponies'. In all sports, but particularly motor sport. Best wishes to Sam & Shaun.

[evol mas]

Sam Love
South island Report
7th 8th /12/07


Friday 7th December
Timaru
Testing / practice

I woke to a fine day in Christchurch and a two hour trip to levels .the weather varied on the trip to Timaru but thankfully I arrived at the track to a cloudless, windless day. I was quite lucky, as there weren’t many people at the track which allowed for lots of track time. The first twenty minute session I just took it easy finding where the track went trying to work out the basics of my reference points and apexes. Luckily Shaun Harris had organized John Hepburn (a local legend) to come to the track and give me some pointers which helped out a lot. John seemed to know the track inside out and backwards, every piece of info he gave me I put into practice and made my lines a lot smoother and consistently brought my lap times down. John left at around lunch time as he was otherwise occupied but I kept applying the tips and tricks he had taught me throughout the afternoon gaining more speed and breaking latter with every lap. By the end of the day I had done over 80 laps and had destroyed a set of tires, which was unfortunate as I had to race on them the next day at ruapuna. Levels raceway is now my new favorite track because of its fast sweeping corners and long durations of lean time

Saturday 8th December
Ruapuna
King of Canterbury

Saturday morning was a little bit overcast and had a slight breeze. Every one had told me that if I liked levels ruapuna would be easy, but it was far from it. I found it much more technical to learn as most of the corners link up in a set of 3 or 4 so if you get one wrong you put yourself offline for the rest.
In practice I followed some of the slower riders around and tried to find the rite lines to take. This was probably the wrong thing to do as they were obviously slow for a reason. In the first race I was still taking my time to work out lines and passing maneuvers on the slower riders which helped out later in the day. In the second race I started further up on the grid and followed a few of the faster f3 and pro twin’s bikes around gaining a few places to get a fifth. In the final race I started on the second row and got a great start getting pole into the first corner and held first place for half a lap before being relegated to second by local young gun tom. We traded places a few times before coming up on some lap riders on the infield.tom used his local knowledge to get past them quickly but I got held up by them and had to settle for second.

I thoroughly enjoyed my trip down south and look forward to the nationals in January

Big thanks to all of my sponsors

Prime explosives
N&D natural health
ACR Fiberglass
Switch electrical
Pirelli
AGV sport
Repsol
EBC breaks
KBC
EK chain
VAZ sprocket
Ohlin’s (Kerry & Robert)

And a special thanks to every one who helped me out down south, especially

The Jones family
John Hepburn
Shaun Harris

[Cajun]

Good on ya sam

[speed63]

Great stuff Sam. Sounds like you picked up the racelines pretty quickly.

[Ivan]

Good stuff man,

Really hoping the nats go well for you

[saul]

Rock on Sam:sunny: Look fwd to seeing you do really well:sunny:

[Shaun]

ferry all booked for us and trailer mate


Thanks John Hepburn

Timaru metal recyclers.

[Shaun]

More Great news Sam

Glenn, has gauranteed me. financuall support for the Ch Ch Round mate, cheers Glen and Crew of

Street And Sport Motorcycles
03-366 2201
63 Manchester St Christchurch



So just food money for 3 weeks for you now man, and maybe a bit more yet?

I am still talking with a few buisnesses

[Shaun Harris]

Ivan- RS125 racer off Kiwibiker, will also be pitting with us for the North Island rounds mate, so that will be 3 K Bikers under the same roof for the nth, woo hoo

[Sketchy_Racer]

Wicked stuff Shaun. It's great to see you helping out someone that seemingly (as far as I have heard on here) has such a great attitude towards racing.

Lets see some more kiwis make the world scene!

[Shaun]

Wicked stuff Shaun. It's great to see you helping out someone that seemingly (as far as I have heard on here) has such a great attitude towards racing.

Lets see some more kiwis make the world scene!


Cheers, the world scene is my goal, Dom Jones has done himself very very proud in the USA, team announcement and so on for next year, will be announced by Dom, when he is all ready to go with it - The point to mentioning Dom is ( Hope this is ok Dom) I created the opportunity for Dom, ( He paid all his own costs) to get to the states, and arranged a lot of things there for him.

ANyway, point being, I ill be getting more riders to the USA next year mate, FOR SURE!

[Goblin]

Cheers, the world scene is my goal,......

ANyway, point being, I ill be getting more riders to the USA next year mate, FOR SURE!That's fantastic Shaun! I love your attitude to our young talented riders here. I cant say the same for certain BIG budget racing teams here who prefer to import Australian riders. We have a number of youngins with huge potential who could do with the support of the big, brand teams so why dont they get it? Australia has the population and money available to train their own riders so why does Noo Zillund want to pay for them to come here? It's something I just dont understand.:confused:


Oh and well done Sam!!!! Excellent write up! Nice to see you got the spellchecker.;) All the very best for the nats. :rockon:

[Ivan]

Yip good luck Sam, and also Shaun


And thank you for letting me pit with you it will be a good opportunity.
Now hurry up time and go fast so the Nationals are here

[t3mp0r4ry nzr]

That's fantastic Shaun! I love your attitude to our young talented riders here. I cant say the same for certain BIG budget racing teams here who prefer to import Australian riders. We have a number of youngins with huge potential who could do with the support of the big, brand teams so why dont they get it? Australia has the population and money available to train their own riders so why does Noo Zillund want to pay for them to come here? It's something I just dont understand.:confused:


Oh and well done Sam!!!! Excellent write up! Nice to see you got the spellchecker.;) All the very best for the nats. :rockon:
Agreed 100%. I think "he" makes the rider decisions based on getting the "big names" to attract the sponsership dollars rather than promoting the young NZ talent that could really do with his guidance and assitance. Its a real shame. Rant over.

Shaun, you the man!

[Goblin]

Agreed 100%. I think "he" makes the rider decisions based on getting the "big names" to attract the sponsership dollars rather than promoting the young NZ talent that could really do with his guidance and assitance. Its a real shame. Rant over.

Shaun, you the man!I think you missed my point. Shaun is doing a great job with our young riders, no question! He is hardly in a financial position to be setting up a large racing team to help put our young talent out there but he does help a few. It's a certain big brand team who brings Australian riders here to compete when we have so many talented riders who could do with their help. Why do they promote Australian riders when we have so many Kiwis who need that support?

[t3mp0r4ry nzr]

I think you missed my point. Shaun is doing a great job with our young riders, no question! He is hardly in a financial position to be setting up a large racing team to help put our young talent out there but he does help a few. It's a certain big brand team who brings Australian riders here to compete when we have so many talented riders who could do with their help. Why do they promote Australian riders when we have so many Kiwis who need that support?

no, by "he" I wasnt referring to Shaun but a wanganui based team manager that you were making reference to

[Goblin]

no, by "he" I wasnt referring to Shaun but a wanganui based team manager that you were making reference toOoops. Sorry bout that. You're absolutely right too.

[Shaun]

That's fantastic Shaun! I love your attitude to our young talented riders here. I cant say the same for certain BIG budget racing teams here who prefer to import Australian riders. We have a number of youngins with huge potential who could do with the support of the big, brand teams so why dont they get it? Australia has the population and money available to train their own riders so why does Noo Zillund want to pay for them to come here? It's something I just dont understand.:confused:


Oh and well done Sam!!!! Excellent write up! Nice to see you got the spellchecker.;) All the very best for the nats. :rockon:


I here what you are saying but, we all run our own lives and buisnesses in a different way, I am shocked a bit, and dissapointed a bit, that this team you speak of, has NO KIWI Riders at all, as the boss has a fantastic history, pedigree of Knoledge, But has Kiwi Funding, ie, the main sponsor of the team, yea over seas based, but the boss lives here!

Anyway, out of here, more Kiwi's to help including ME!

[CHOPPA]

I here what you are saying but, we all run our own lives and buisnesses in a different way, I am shocked a bit, and dissapointed a bit, that this team you speak of, has NO KIWI Riders at all, as the boss has a fantastic history, pedigree of Knoledge, But has Kiwi Funding, ie, the main sponsor of the team, yea over seas based, but the boss lives here!

Anyway, out of here, more Kiwi's to help including ME!


I actually had a similar conversation with a hotel owner in palmy, i would have liked to see the help given to some kiwi boys but on his side of the coin he said if it wasnt for the aussie/american boys coming over to amp things up a bit he wouldnt be going to watch the races... Thanks for supporting the guys that book ya motel! haha but he did have a diff way of looking at it from a non biased point :)