Tarawera 100

[Jonny450]

To be honest the start is a massive rush, but then its like a giant trail ride. you get caught in massive bottle necks and you have to quick to get past. takes about 5km to sort out the bottle necks and the fortunate ones that got a good start. Last year they gave you some options on the start of a easy and hard route, I took easy and got caught in the massive pile up. Take the hard option!!

Try to get on the front line for the start.

Also alot of the track is flat out straights, gear your bike up. I needed a bit more on my CR with standard gear ratios.

Having seen and ridden alot of the track I wouldn't say that there are alot of straights and you gearing would be fine as long as it is not to short for most trailrides.

[cheese]

Cheese did better by bout 15 min i had some real bad off on the second lap and both legs cramped up real hard to ride when yah cant move yah legs not a reason for cheese beating me just what happened on the day if i remember he had a few bad offs as well.

Yeah i bet Aaron by 15 mins and 16 places. I managed to bin my bike in an amazing flip over the bars crash, twist my forks and hurt my wrist pretty badly that was sore for about 6 months. It was funny as i didn't realise how bad my wrist was till teh end of the race. I stopped about 5km from the end on the last lap I did (only got 2 in) and choc bar and go for a piss. I was so fucking knackered.

Funniest thing was watching Aarons car leave. Check it out on youtube, I try to snap Aaron's spoiler off, then we used Sam van and there is a point where Sam's van is drifting with a trailer next to a big fuck of ditch. Nuts.

[cheese]

Oh and Sam got 173 and was about 7 mins per lap faster than me.

[cheese]

Link to vid of me trying to destroy Aarons spoiler on his car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yxdd3UmY5o

Oh and the car stereo fucked out on the way home too!! LOL

[flyingcr250]

Link to vid of me trying to destroy Aarons spoiler on his car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yxdd3UmY5o

Oh and the car stereo fucked out on the way home too!! LOL

my van should be sweet, 4wd supercustom.

[telliman]

Link to vid of me trying to destroy Aarons spoiler on his car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yxdd3UmY5o

Oh and the car stereo fucked out on the way home too!! LOL

-hah,nice hip action cheese, wat were you trying to do again?...

[cheese]

Yeah it does look like I'm trying to hump the holden.... LOL

[kezzafish]

Link to vid of me trying to destroy Aarons spoiler on his car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yxdd3UmY5o

Oh and the car stereo fucked out on the way home too!! LOL

Haaa haaa funny as fuck.... "spose you want a fukken push then"?

[barty5]

Yeah it does look like I'm trying to hump the holden.... LOL

I mean really could yah blame the guy for wanting to try.lol

[flyingcr250]

what sort of terrain is it? clay? ash? pumice?

[barty5]

what sort of terrain is it? clay? ash? pumice?

all of that was like riding in wet concrete corners that looked like they had good burms you just blew through as they had nothing holdin them together makes for some interesting exit lines of some corners. (When as wet as last year)

[cheese]

its pumice. Its like Sand to ride in.

[flyingcr250]

does any one actually were to go for this thing?? i see they have changed the map on their website, but its labled as "2008 start"

[Katoomer]

Same place as last year, a km out of Te Teko.
If the weather stays right it will be heaps better this time .
Rider numbers seem down according to the website , probably 250 or so which will also be better than last year's 350 riders ....less bottlenecks

[flyingcr250]

Same place as last year, a km out of Te Teko.
If the weather stays right it will be heaps better this time .
Rider numbers seem down according to the website , probably 250 or so which will also be better than last year's 350 riders ....less bottlenecks

will it be sign posted from Te Teko??