Long track Nov6

[Sensei]

Will just about Long Track time again . If anyone would like to check out some of the Local road's over the weekend when they are up or need some where to fix or work on their bike / or need a break down Ute then drop me aline & I do my best to help you out .
> Plus keep an eye out for a RED 04 FORD XR6 totally standard looking till he put's the Red & Blue's on .
Ph 067553999 or RSN89@hotmail.com Scott AKA "SENSEI" :ride:

[Motu]

I have a plan - coming down from Auckland on friday night in the Pajero,getting to Opunake around midnight.Saturday morning down to Hawera to pick up some bike parts,then up to NP for the racing...back to Opunake for the night,then heading for home on sunday,taking all the interesting roads I normaly do on a bike,was going to be a good weekend.

Um...unfortunatly I told no one else about my plan - apparently I agreed to go to a show on saturday night(??),the wife has already payed for the $70 ticket...friday night is Guy Fawkes,the kids are looking forward to watching my antics lighting fuses,the older kids have invited friends,it's going to be a big evening.

But hey - it's OK,I can go if I bloody well like,don't let your family get in the way..... :sweatdrop

[Zapf]

excuse me for asking, but what is long track time? :P

[LB]

Racing starts at 2.00pm.

There's also a big bike show in conjunction with the racing - the racing's at Pukekura Raceway (the horse racing track) and the show's at the Trustbank Centre (which is I think somewhere in the middle of town?

[Slim]

That's odd. When I spoke to MNZ a few months ago, they said the show & long track were being co-located. There's no mention on the flyers I've seen.


Long track is motorcycle speedway racing on a long track instead of the usual short oval, usually on cinders or the like. It's the final round of the World Long Track Speedway Motorcycle Championship, right here in little ol' NZ.

[Sensei]

The Bike show is next to the Race Track in the TSB stadium so you don't have to walk far . SENSEI

[Racey Rider]

I'll be available too over the weekend, if any KB'er needs help at any time. Sorry I've got no bike to show yas around with tho. :disapint:
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[Slim]

Weather report for up here is gorgeous today & slightly cloudy Friday & Saturday (all the way down to New Plymouth too :) ). I'm really looking forward to the ride down.

Seems I haven't been on the bike in over a month due to various events (Phillip Island, furniture removal Labour Weekend, etc) and it was a close call yesterday whether to call in sick :sneaky2: or not. :ride: I did the good thing & came to work, luckily, as one of the other guys had beat me to it! ;)

[Sparky Bills]

I will be with the MotoMart (DUCATI) display. Will also have some KTM's too.
Come over and say "HI".
Hopfully I will get to see some of the racing!!
See you all there.

[Pickle]

Small group of us heading up on Friday late in afternoon, staying at Taranaki Adventure Lodge - short walk to town, stagger back.
Some of the group have pulled out so we have a couple of spare beds if anyone is looking for place to stay.
Will be first time on proper bike for long time as last ride was to Gisborne on mighty CT110 for wine & food festival, hope the ZX6 still goes.

[pete376403]

excuse me for asking, but what is long track time? :P

Long track - a more serious form of speedway. Bikes are very similar to speedway solos but have (may have) rear suspension, two speed gearboxes (start and race) and often small handlebar fairings to keep the dirt from knocking the rider off. Speeds are much higher, usually run on trotting tracks, a lot bigger than the (up to) 1/4 mile speedways.
Very big in Europe, especially Germany, but not so well known elsewhere.

[Wellyman]

I will be there! Me and the old man are going down friday. I will be in my dads BMW 740i, Rego plate : BEVY1. So look out for me also.

[LB]

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I'm riding up after work today, hope to leave around 3.30/3.45pm - Hamish will be leaving a bit later. Looks like it's going to be a bit of a drizzly ride. Doug: might see you guys on the road perhaps?

Our motel's right in town. Re-cycled is staying with us Saturday night.

We'll be heading to the show tomorrow morning, will be wearing my KB t-shirt (or sweatshirt if it's cooler) so if you see me come and say "hi".

I'll be wearing a red Ducati cap and hopefully I'll need my Ducati sunnies. I'll have my little blue Fila shoulder bag with Ducati badges over it. I won't be wearing my red Ducati jacket as we're travelling by bike and Hamish has already weeded out what he considers is "unneccessary crap for two nights away". I have managed to sneak the makeup and hairdryer back in the panniers.

Sparky Bills - I'll come and say "hi" and drool.

We've got grandstand seats, can't remember the number and they're packed away.

Weehhhaaarrr, it'll be a great w/end!!!

Sensei: I've noted your phone number in case Ducati # 2 breaks down......
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[Slim]

Excellent. Only 3.5hrs left of work today. :D I finish at 11am and have a "free" half day off (ie without actually having to touch my annual leave balance) but don't have to leave until 2pm. Check the bike, oil, pressures, etc, pack, load, dress & leave. Oops. Better not forget to leave food out for the cat & water the plants too. :D

I'm really looking forward to this afternoon. I think it's been a month since I was last on the bike, and I've been hanging out a bit for it. Hope the battery's not flat! :eek:

I'll look out for the Beemer on the way down CRF. Don't be surprised by a black & white clad rider on a CBR6 waving at you. :)

[Blakamin]

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. I won't be wearing my red Ducati jacket as we're travelling by bike and Hamish has already weeded out what he considers is "unneccessary crap for two nights away".

Sparky Bills - I'll come and say "hi" and drool.

unneccessary??? UNNECCESSARY???? WTF????? (wont be Lynda without it!!!)

can you please drool on my behalf as well.... :whistle:

[LB]

A great weekend. A wet ride up for me - left Wgtn 3pm Fri. Saw heaps of cops. Hamish left at 4pm and he had only some drizzle. Met up with Doug Green and Mrs DG and Kiwizrx in P/Nth.

Saturday dawned lovely and fine, it turned out to be real hot. Had breakfast, did the rounds of the bike shops. The bike show at the track was quite good, met up with lots of people we knew. Glad we had our grandstand seats for the racing, as we were in the shade. Saw The Yoshie at the bike show, and Slim, I saw you walking past the grandstand a couple of times. SparkyBills was on the Ducati stand.

The racing was really good, far more breakdowns than last year, and the final race was heartbreaking for poor Kelvin Tathum (sp?). Re-cycled stayed the night at our motel, and we had dinner with him and 4skins.

Good ride back Sunday, came via Palmerston North to have breakfast at the McCafe in Palmerston North. We had cloudy almost drizzly weather most of the way till halfway over Paekak Hill, when the blue sky came out. We headed north after Haywards and stopped at the top of the hill for a while and met up with Artifice on his travels from Chch, also met with crazylittleshit. MarkDunn: saw you heading towards the hill at Kaitoke.

Another great biking w/end.

[merv]

Here's the report from Silver Bullet http://www.silverbullet.co.nz/news.php?id=3286&PHPSESSID=3439644eed43d844bbef2ada83fbfc2b

[Slim]

Wot a weekend! :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: We got sunburnt in New Plymouth! :gob:


The racing was good, but the bike show was cr@p. You could tell you were in Hicksville when the only 2 major bike brands to have stalls there (Yamaha & something else) had only 1 road model in amongst loads of ATVs & off-road bikes. <_< The Ducati/KTM stand from Motomart was certainly the best of the lot. :niceone:

Nice to see some women out there doing t-shirts & caps for the lady bikers amongst us. Only just started - I'll get back to you with their web address.

The Man was pretty amazed to spot Mt Egmont from New Plymouth on Saturday AND Sunday. Apparently, every other time he's visited, it's been hiding behind the clouds, to the point that he wondered if all those photo's he'd seen were actually pictures of Mt Fuji Photoshopped onto pictures of NZ scenery.

The ride down was pretty good, with The Man out the front as "bait" and with his radar detector. :D We only saw one cop the whole way down, just before 8 Mile Junction, hiding in a layby behind a large piece of roading machinery.

The ride home was absolutely awesome, with only 1 cop spied again (hopping into his car in Urenui) and some really nice back roads travelled: New Plymouth to 8-Mile Junction, SH4 for about 25km's then a wee road over the hills to Kopaki on SH30 which took us through to coffee at Whakamaru. We continued on SH30 to SH1 at Atiamuri, then north up SH1 to the next Rotorua turnoff (SH30 again) and SH33 from Rotorua to Te Puke. The only anxiety for the ride was watching out for the odd patch of melting tar. It's been a truly loooong time since I last blasted through lovely roads at 140-150kph regularly and The Man was well impressed that I was only about 3 minutes behind him when he stopped at one point on SH30.

[Skunk]

Nice to see some women out there doing t-shirts & caps for the lady bikers amongst us. Only just started - I'll get back to you with their web address.
TANK gear (http://www.tankgear.co.nz) :scooter: