Kickaha
20th July 2008, 11:50
Kickaha and Divvo Rd 1 Levels Winter series
The forecast wasn’t looking to good with being told by one person that it was rain until lunchtime and then it’d snow:cold:, a quick look online the night and it’s saying brief rain then clearing
A txt from Trish the night before looking for a ride down results in her being told to bring her gear as she’d be swinging on the Harris outfit with Diesel Pig riding
5am in the morning and we’re pulling out the gate on the way to pick up Divvo and the outfit, hooked up and on the way, we stop off at Ashvegas to gas up and let Trish the filthy dirty smoker have a fag
As soon as we get to the track we get signed in wack up the ezi-up and get the outfit scrutineered, thus avoiding a very long queue which forms not long after
We get the outfit up on the stands and give it a look over, tighten the wheels (we’d fitted the wets during the week) and check fuel; the other teams were fitting wets as well as it was constant rain
Rider briefing comes and goes and the first classes roll out for practice, the rain isn’t letting up and at times gets heavier and then it’s our turn:yes:
We’d done a wet practice a month or so ago and been hoping for some wet racing this season, as a swinger it gives me a lot less to do, I don’t have to move as much or work as hard, lap one through the chicane onto the front straight and as we exit it spins up the rear big time and I make a mental note to load up the rear wheel a bit more as I wasn’t bothering to get over it (lazy fucker that I am):shifty:
Another briefing is called to discuss track conditions and as we walk up behind K14 we notice a bit of dirt and grass attached to his back indicating he’d already fallen on his arse
Race 1
We’d decided to go off the back and let the other lead us onto the back straight, attempting to do an outside pass on Alex/Glen we just about end up doing it on the grass as Alex runs out wide, we swap across to the other side and zig zag between him and Diesel Pig/Trish
That’s let Colin/Paul pull a gap and we go after them pulling in behind them we follow them across the line and as we hit the sweeper onto the back straight again Divvo gives pull a bit of nudge with the front of the bike, except when Colin turns in a bit tighter it’s a bit more than expected:Oops:, we pull a gap and then slow to let them pass again, white flag and we’re behind them off the end of the back straight and go up the inside before the next left and lead them to the flag:first:
Race 2
The rain has stopped but it’s not really drying out so we stay on wets and this time we’re not fucking about and go out hard from lap 1, trying to lap everyone by race end, unfortunately they’ve shortened the races to 4 laps due to running late and Diesel pig/Trish are the only team we catch passing them through the middle of the chicane onto the finish straight on the last lap
Race 3
The rain had stopped and although the track is still wet we swap over to slicks, figuring it’ll be good experience and a bit of handicap to even things up
Off the line and the traction isn’t as bad as we expected, Colin/Paul are out in front and we chase them down, we pull along side down the straight but give them the corner off the end, next lap we get alongside at the start of the straight and pull off the pass and slowly edge away for another win, we’d hoped they’d put a bit more pressure on us but it isn’t to be, in saying that this was there first race they’d done as a team and they were going fairly well
All in all a pretty fun day, however with the a few sidecar teams proving they are disorganised as everyone thinks we only had 4 crews there, Motorcycling Canterbury being the top bunch that they are will let us run anyway:niceone:, ah well next time everyone should turn up which will give us a field of seven and hopefully someone to put a bit of pressure on us
And a big thinks to Graeme Harris when beig uable to ride lending out his outfit
The forecast wasn’t looking to good with being told by one person that it was rain until lunchtime and then it’d snow:cold:, a quick look online the night and it’s saying brief rain then clearing
A txt from Trish the night before looking for a ride down results in her being told to bring her gear as she’d be swinging on the Harris outfit with Diesel Pig riding
5am in the morning and we’re pulling out the gate on the way to pick up Divvo and the outfit, hooked up and on the way, we stop off at Ashvegas to gas up and let Trish the filthy dirty smoker have a fag
As soon as we get to the track we get signed in wack up the ezi-up and get the outfit scrutineered, thus avoiding a very long queue which forms not long after
We get the outfit up on the stands and give it a look over, tighten the wheels (we’d fitted the wets during the week) and check fuel; the other teams were fitting wets as well as it was constant rain
Rider briefing comes and goes and the first classes roll out for practice, the rain isn’t letting up and at times gets heavier and then it’s our turn:yes:
We’d done a wet practice a month or so ago and been hoping for some wet racing this season, as a swinger it gives me a lot less to do, I don’t have to move as much or work as hard, lap one through the chicane onto the front straight and as we exit it spins up the rear big time and I make a mental note to load up the rear wheel a bit more as I wasn’t bothering to get over it (lazy fucker that I am):shifty:
Another briefing is called to discuss track conditions and as we walk up behind K14 we notice a bit of dirt and grass attached to his back indicating he’d already fallen on his arse
Race 1
We’d decided to go off the back and let the other lead us onto the back straight, attempting to do an outside pass on Alex/Glen we just about end up doing it on the grass as Alex runs out wide, we swap across to the other side and zig zag between him and Diesel Pig/Trish
That’s let Colin/Paul pull a gap and we go after them pulling in behind them we follow them across the line and as we hit the sweeper onto the back straight again Divvo gives pull a bit of nudge with the front of the bike, except when Colin turns in a bit tighter it’s a bit more than expected:Oops:, we pull a gap and then slow to let them pass again, white flag and we’re behind them off the end of the back straight and go up the inside before the next left and lead them to the flag:first:
Race 2
The rain has stopped but it’s not really drying out so we stay on wets and this time we’re not fucking about and go out hard from lap 1, trying to lap everyone by race end, unfortunately they’ve shortened the races to 4 laps due to running late and Diesel pig/Trish are the only team we catch passing them through the middle of the chicane onto the finish straight on the last lap
Race 3
The rain had stopped and although the track is still wet we swap over to slicks, figuring it’ll be good experience and a bit of handicap to even things up
Off the line and the traction isn’t as bad as we expected, Colin/Paul are out in front and we chase them down, we pull along side down the straight but give them the corner off the end, next lap we get alongside at the start of the straight and pull off the pass and slowly edge away for another win, we’d hoped they’d put a bit more pressure on us but it isn’t to be, in saying that this was there first race they’d done as a team and they were going fairly well
All in all a pretty fun day, however with the a few sidecar teams proving they are disorganised as everyone thinks we only had 4 crews there, Motorcycling Canterbury being the top bunch that they are will let us run anyway:niceone:, ah well next time everyone should turn up which will give us a field of seven and hopefully someone to put a bit of pressure on us
And a big thinks to Graeme Harris when beig uable to ride lending out his outfit