I won my first bucket race [Archive]

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 20:58

I dont know about you guys
but after 3 years
fractured wrist
broken collabone
bruses and gravel rash

I finaly one a race

then another what fun
had come close a few times but i never WON before now I know what it's like
will be trying to repeat it all again and again till the fun wears off

so much for thinking it was a waste of money and i should give up
na not anymore

ps it was a B grade race and wet but i still beat every one that normaly finish infrount of me

Trudes

16th June 2008, 21:00

Good on you!!! Sounds like a good couple of wins to me!!:banana:

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:07

I remeber what it was like to start buckets and this was way better
i can tell ya still buzzing about it

cant wait to try again I know i wont win next time but will do my best to get right up there again {unless it's raining:devil2:}

Number One

16th June 2008, 21:08

Good stuff dude. I concur tis a great feeling to win a race...definitely addictive. Keep up the good work, go hard and have fun :niceone:

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:10

thanks

cant wait for taupo again hope more welly guy's and gals come up to race this year

i saw a few last time but only talked to f5dave

sinfull

16th June 2008, 21:10

Good on you!!! Sounds like a good couple of wins to me!!:banana:

Just two ? sounds like a hattrick to me ! buckets4me 2 race wins, buckets4me 1 goal acheived
Well done mate well earned !
Moving on, time to chase the A grade to the next win !

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:14

time to chase the A grade to the next win !

my next goal is to take out the championship for the b grade

you seen Karl Gary Dave and Ollie race
I dont want to try and get in there way yet
will race with them but boy are they fast

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:15

hope it dosent take me 3 years this time lol

Number One

16th June 2008, 21:28

thanks

cant wait for taupo again hope more welly guy's and gals come up to race this year

i saw a few last time but only talked to f5dave
Yup Xmas is the plan apparently....

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:32

we hire a garage about $400 i think and park all the bike in it
and the poor sleep there the soft find motels :)
get a few people together and the cost isint to bad abd the bikes are safe

Skunk

16th June 2008, 21:49

we hire a garage about $400 i think and park all the bike in it
and the poor sleep there the soft find motels :)
get a few people together and the cost isint to bad abd the bikes are safe
I'm thinking two garages. I'm already bringing 6 bikes and know of 2 others at this stage. I reckon the pit exit end is good. How many Auckers are coming? 8-10 per garage? Or are you talking one double? I can't remember the pricing...

Buckets4Me

16th June 2008, 21:53

yep one double and i'm sure we had more than a dosen bikes
about 6-7 people stayed
1 was 10 years another 8 months old :P

koba

16th June 2008, 21:56

Good shit!

I'm sure I will like the feeling if I ever manage to win a race..

F5 Dave

17th June 2008, 10:19

Good one chief, I still remember my first win, think I was surprised as anyone else.

Taupo, yup I'm keen, I slept in the van last time. Was a mite cold I bid thee.

Buckets4Me

19th June 2008, 18:44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqzSMMEPrAo

not sure how to put youtube videos on here but here goes

Slingshot

20th June 2008, 20:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqzSMMEPrAo

not sure how to put youtube videos on here but here goes

There was a YouTube button, but it's gone now.

Now, just copy the link from YouTube next to where is says Embed: and just paste it in.

Mike748

20th June 2008, 20:45

kiwicam

20th June 2008, 20:53

will be trying to repeat it all again and again till the fun wears off

that will take about 30 years

Buckets4Me

21st June 2008, 10:21

I was wandering around the pits that day finding out what I needed to do to start racing.

Hope to meet you next meet.

bring some gear and come ask someone will lend you a bike
John Conner is a good bloke he will help
also I have a honda for sale cheap if interested
not a fast bike but all you need to learn on and fast enough to hurt yourself

Buckets4Me

21st June 2008, 10:23

Buckets4Me

21st June 2008, 10:23

aha thats how it works

Slingshot

21st June 2008, 17:29

John Conner is a good bloke he will help

He is the leader of the human rebel group in the post-apocalyptic future, so you'd expect him to be a decent sorta bloke.

[sorry...this joke is never gonna get old]

Mike748

22nd June 2008, 21:56

bring some gear and come ask someone will lend you a bike
John Conner is a good bloke he will help
also I have a honda for sale cheap if interested
not a fast bike but all you need to learn on and fast enough to hurt yourself

Met John, he walked up and said "you look like someone who want's to go racing" or something like that. lol

Already have a bucket project bike in the garage, which I hope to have going soon, once I get started on it that is! it's a Honda CG125 with some past history at the Mt Wellington track.

So regarding your win what do you reckon made this race different from others? or is that going to be giving away too many secrets? :first:

F5 Dave

23rd June 2008, 09:53

. . .
So regarding your win what do you reckon made this race different from others? or is that going to be giving away too many secrets? :first:
A decision to generally start ignoring personal, & more importantly the safety of the other competitors, even if this means that some of them will eventually have to be sacrificed:crazy:
:Oops:sorry inside thoughts.

So you're still keen on this racing lark?

Mike748

23rd June 2008, 19:41

A decision to generally start ignoring personal, & more importantly the safety of the other competitors, even if this means that some of them will eventually have to be sacrificed:crazy:
:Oops:sorry inside thoughts.

So you're still keen on this racing lark?

Hmmm lets see ....... yip :woohoo:
I will try to avoid the broken bones though :(

Buckets4Me

23rd June 2008, 20:56

I just had a good day and it was wet ( deing a slow rider and racing in the wet you dont have to slow down much to stay upright)

and also I have been racing an underpowered 50 so havent had the seat on a bike i truseted that could run at the frount for a few meatings now

i learnt so much on the 50 in the few meatings I have had it going {thankls dad}
but havent bean consintrating on the bigger bikes till that day { I lent the 50 to someone els that neaded it more than me}

dont go past a slow bike for learning on
things can and do happen fast out there on a fast bike
a slow rider on a slow bike hase a lot of time to learn the track and how to keep corner speed up but dosent have to worry AS much on braking points and trying to slow a bike down AND keep corner speed up

my 2 cents worth start on a slow GOOD HANDELING bike then fit a faster engine to it . I found that the bike i had was developed to fast for me to keep up and a few falls helped slow me down

lets see what hapens next time (probably be back to last again)

Mike748

23rd June 2008, 22:14

You weren't looking slow that's for sure.
Thanks for the advice, Im pretty sure my bike will fit the slow overweight catergory, but I knew that when I got it and that suits me fine .......... for now :lol:

TZ350

8th May 2011, 15:25

jasonu

8th May 2011, 18:03

Good on ya mate.
My mates made me buy everyone Kentucky Fucked Duck the day I won my 1st race. Cost me $30 bucks.:angry:

Buckets4Me

8th May 2011, 19:13

Good on ya mate.
My mates made me buy everyone Kentucky Fucked Duck the day I won my 1st race. Cost me $30 bucks.:angry:

I had to buy the kids Burger King

Cost more than $30 bucks

the next time I came close to repeating this was on Ned Kellys bike
got a blistering start (after telling Ned how he should slip the clutch on the starts)

then the swing arm decided to come away from the frame. :facepalm:

B grade got a bit crouded and I have had quite a few trips to hospital with a broken collar bone ( and finaly getting them to pin it 2 years later) :violin::shit:

will start again this season and see it a new bike and a break from the sport for a year makes any difference

PS. fell of the bike the next race meating trying to dodge a fallen rider and it's taken 2 years to get close to back to normal

Henk

8th May 2011, 19:21

You've won a B grade race. Go straight to A grade, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Buckets4Me

8th May 2011, 20:04

You've won a B grade race. Go straight to A grade, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

TZ is lending me a bike this sunday :yes::scooter:
the 30+hp one

hope you dont mind me blasting past you on the straits then standing hard on the brakes for the corner

I know it use to put the others off quite a bit (specialy the guy that hit me from behind and broke his thumb):facepalm:

see you there sunday :woohoo:

Henk

8th May 2011, 20:25

Looking forward to the weekend. I'll remember to watch my thumbs when I rear end you.

cotswold

8th May 2011, 20:33

You've won a B grade race. Go straight to A grade, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Hey no fair I got chucked out for coming 2nd a couple of times

Henk

8th May 2011, 20:39

Hey no fair I got chucked out for coming 2nd a couple of times

The first time you turned up.
Bloody hell you beat me on a regular basis, can I go back too?

cotswold

8th May 2011, 20:47

The first time you turned up.
Bloody hell you beat me on a regular basis, can I go back too?

Not at Mt wellie, I ride like my Granny around there, got new forks for this weekend so will see if they stop my slides, here's hoping

Henk

8th May 2011, 20:54

Must have been a damn fast bird in her day then your granny.
How is the other bike build coming along?

kel

8th May 2011, 21:42

got new forks for this weekend so will see if they stop my slides, here's hoping

Possibly not the forks. I suffered huge front end sliding until the front wheel was changed to a GSX250R rim. (i.e. the original FXR rim is to thin for the 95 front slick, at least for kart track abuse) No real problems since!

cotswold

8th May 2011, 21:51

Must have been a damn fast bird in her day then your granny.
How is the other bike build coming along?

I am a bit stalled at the moment, the parts are arriving but I am missing a few crucial components, I have my little brother trying to source me some of the hard to find ones from dear old blighty. ( I asked him to find me a running gp125 motor )

cotswold

8th May 2011, 21:56

Possibly not the forks. I suffered huge front end sliding until the front wheel was changed to a GSX250R rim. (i.e. the original FXR rim is to thin for the 95 front slick, at least for kart track abuse) No real problems since!

Arse, it's not my bike and it comes with 2 sets of standard wheels so not able to do much about that.

Buckets4Me

9th May 2011, 06:44

Hey no fair I got chucked out for coming 2nd a couple of times

it wasent the coming second :scooter:

it was the running a sub 34 sec lap (time and time again) :facepalm:

what is your bike there may be some options to use without changing anything

I belive that henk has fitted a frount rim to his bike with no real mods ?
gsx400 anyone ?

cotswold

9th May 2011, 10:19

it wasent the coming second :scooter:

it was the running a sub 34 sec lap (time and time again) :facepalm:

what is your bike there may be some options to use without changing anything

I belive that henk has fitted a frount rim to his bike with no real mods ?
gsx400 anyone ?

I am riding Johns orange FXR number 4