Pukekohe 26 March

[gav]

Great photos, looks like the two repsol boys were putting on quite a show

[Zed]

Great photos, looks like the two repsol boys were putting on quite a show

John, the one riding the red CBR1000RR (his 2nd one), is a talented wheelie freak! You might remember a KB ride last year around the Coro loop where a guy binned and wrote off his new Fireblade - that was John...nice guy! Don't think he's actually a KB member though?

[limmy]

i managed to come of my bike in the 4th session. the official reason for falling off was that baby blade decide to run out of gas halfway round the hairpin...

it was just a small fall and a few bits came off.

Thanks heaps to Frosty and his mates for helping get the bike going again. I owe you guys big time.

i've learnt my lesson...i should put a bloody fuel indicator on my bike.

[Zed]

i managed to come of my bike in the 4th session. the official reason for falling off was that baby blade decide to run out of gas halfway round the hairpin...

it was just a small fall and a few bits came off.

Thanks heaps to Frosty and his mates for helping get the bike going again. I owe you guys big time.

i've learnt my lesson...i should put a bloody fuel indicator on my bike.

Sorry to hear that limmy. At least the excuse of running out of fuel is a reasonable one - the track tends to munch madly through fuel and tyres!

Good on ya for getting out there today with the big boys.

[slick]

Hey guys, had a great day at Puke. Firstly thanks a lot to Frosty for letting me share his luxurious pit garage! Great to finally meet some KB'ers what a good bunch of blokes!

First time round Puke, bloody terrifying circuit... fast, bumpy, oily(thanks to the cars), and some very, very fast guys. Can't wait for the next adrenalin fix!!

Great pics Feint!! Thought I spotted someone hanging over the crash barrier. I am in the background of a couple of shots of other KB'ers, wondered if that was the complete collection or if there might be any others of a '95 Tigerblade?

Christ I ache all over this morning!

[FROSTY:Me]

hey slick- ya ache now --imagine a full days riding

[Sparky]

wondered if that was the complete collection or if there might be any others of a '95 Tigerblade?

Nice to meet you Slick, here is one, not an action shot but at least proof you where there

[FROSTY:Me]

say sparky -I couldn't remember your handle dude.
Thanks for the help yesterday
I was never riding with the other KBers so no pics of ol mella yella either.

[Sparky]

Howdy Frosty, here are a couple for ya
anyway gotto fly, gonna meet the boys at Westgate

[FEINT]

I checked and I am sorry but I don't have any FULL SHOTS of the Tigerblade. I only have a limited amount of storage on my camera and I mainly take wheelies or people I know.

Next time, come round and say hello and let me know which bike you are on. I will take some for you..

I am off to the cruise now! see ya!

[slick]

Hey Sparky, thanks for the pic, I have a book called 'Kawasaki Racers' which has a good section on the KR250 GP bikes, if you're interested I could do you some pdfs, I have original files as I designed the book in a previous life!

Feint, thanks for looking for the 'blade, hopefully catch up with you next time... stunning pics, presume you're a pro?

[ajturbo]

I was never riding with the other KBers so no pics of ol mella yella either.

we got some ...but... when i can wake up BabyB, i will find the cable for the camera.


yep she is finaly awake!!!

here are a couple of photo's of "ol' mella yella" and by the way ...

is it just me or is frosty really pulling AWAY from Hoon?????????

also one dead cbr...(luke took this photo... he said that he was the 3/4th person to crash..!!! he told me that he had seen the whole thing... )sounds like a high side...ouch... hope he is recovering....


also i do hope everyone notices frosty's intence concentration while on the quad....notice where his tounge is.......
andy

[bugjuice]

what a bloody day! When's the next one?! I thought in terms of crashing, that's the worst open day I've been to. In fact, the amount of times I've been, I've only seen one crash when I was first there, and that's cos the guy was being a dick by sliding his bike in and out of corners and it highsided.. So crash wise, not so great..

As for anything to do with my sessions, I was a tad hesitant going hard out of most of the corners cos of how twitchy the front was and wasn't sure if the back tyre would be happy for me to throttle it and get the front up, so I didn't, plus no steering damper which I think would have helped me out there. May be next time. Kinda happy that my 'off-timed' laps were around 1.15 to 1.20 with heavy traffic, managing to get it down to consistant 1.10 to 1.15 for most of the first and third sessions, and managed to wow myself with times from 1.06.3 to 1.08 on the second session, and I still wanted to go harder, but didn't trust myself to. Also found the rev limiter twice - once on the start/finish in 4th, just forgot to change until it kicked in, then the second time, I caught the draft on the back stretch being a mate on the ZX10, which boosted me that little extra to bounce the limiter in 6th. Fastest I have ever been on 2 wheels to date, bouncing off the limiter, I swear I saw it flash either 282 or 285kph. At that speed, there's a lot going on, so it was a quick peek. I thought it said 285, but with it being digital and such a short look, I'd be happy to admit, it could have read 282kph. Now to get my speedo calibrated to see how far out it is. It would have made it itself, but the kink on the back was just putting me out a bit, so the drafting before the kink helped me out. Without the draft, I was seeing 260 to 270+ without a problem, did 277 before I backed off. Really surprised how hard it pulls all the way to the red line. Didn't think engines would have been able to do that.

Anyways, the rest of the guys on the track -
Frosty, I waited for ya, where were ya dude? And the amount of times you crashed on that quad, kinda scarey to think that's 4 wheels and you couldn't keep it together! Good entertainment while we were waiting tho! very good.
Mono, shit luck dude.. You got balls to patch her up and get back out there tho! Full credit there, and with no rear brake. Hope the repair bill isn't too much.. But you said you had fun, even if it was a touch expensive, so good on ya. May be better next time round, and we can do a little head-to-head, cos I'd be interested how you and I, and the bikes would fair up against each other.. Same for Quasi too, but I think he'd be a little hard to catch..
Limmy, dude... sux that you crashed out.. Did you get to learn anything from the crash? Did you learn much from the track before then? How's the cornering coming on? Now you have to take the experiance you learnt from the track (corners, your ability, your bikes ability etc) and start to apply it to the road, but not at those speeds!! Now you know what you can do, you might see that road riding will become a touch easier, now you know that you can lean a bit more..
Swanny, we should have done a few head-to-heads too.. Would have been interesting, but I really need to get some sliders..
FEINT, thanx for the pics, and taking footage with my cam. Haven't watched it yet, but good on ya..

fook, who else...?? everyone was really good out there, there weren't many slow ones, and the fast ones weren't overly boysterous, so I think it went well. Made me feel good that I was able to be overtaking other bikes now, every time I've been was on a CBR250, so now the extra power was a real eye-opener..

what a bloody day! When's the next one?!

[Marmoot]

Second session was marked early by a Chinese guy crashing hard before the start finish straight on a new CBR 1000. He was lucky he didn't take more riders out, but unlucky because he lost conscoiusness got cut by the armco and probably broke some bones too.

not again

That corner (last right) is pretty lethal as I remembered it, innit'? he's bloody lucky

[bugjuice]

not again

That corner (last right) is pretty lethal as I remembered it, innit'? he's bloody lucky

without too much detail, it *seemed* like a racing accident, hit tagged the back of another bike which sat him upright, and it looked like he tried to outbrake the corner as apposed to trying to get it back round again. Hard to say for sure, but he did hit at a bloody good speed.. Hope he pulls thru it ok, sure he will.. Just bad luck, poor dude..