MotoTT, August 28th - Track 4

[SeppoDave]

No worries, an easy drop-off this morning!

Yeah Motoman, wanna give me your gloves if you're not going to use them? How are your "fists of mince" today?

Kiwifruit or Paul - this might be you...


Cheers everybody!

Dave

[kiwifruit]

No worries, an easy drop-off this morning!

Yeah Motoman, wanna give me your gloves if you're not going to use them? How are your "fists of mince" today?

Kiwifruit or Paul - this might be you...


Cheers everybody!

Dave

Thats Paul, i'll send him the link, cheers

[chrispy121]

so it looks like the track repairs are almost done was it better?

WHat type of camera were you using

[SeppoDave]

It's an Oregon Scientific ATC3K. It's not the best picture quality, but at least the sound is crap! I really like it though. For what I use it for, just messing around and posting on Youtube, it's fine. I also like that it's all self-contained and it records to an SD card. Pretty easy for most people, it's just like any regular camera.

If I was making home movies or something I would get a bullet cam/dvr combo. But then you have to mount a box or carry a backpack.

This one just mounts to the side of my helmet

[Matt Bleck]

Was another mint day, thanks to all the MotoTT crew!!!

[erik]

so it looks like the track repairs are almost done was it better?

WHat type of camera were you using

Grippier than the rest of the track. It surprises me that you can feel the difference even in the dry not just from the repair being a bit bumpier, but it actually still feels a bit grippier, I reckon.

... It's not the best picture quality, but at least the sound is crap!

Heh, it's better picture quality than I get with my camera. Nice to see someone else posting vids.

[discotex]

Grippier than the rest of the track. It surprises me that you can feel the difference even in the dry not just from the repair being a bit bumpier, but it actually still feels a bit grippier, I reckon.

Have they re-done them all? Going to be odd learning the "normal" lines again

[Shaun]

Thanks to the Moto TT crew, I had fun on a bike again, first ride since January

[erik]

Have they re-done them all? Going to be odd learning the "normal" lines again

I'm not actually sure. Looking at SeppoDave's video, maybe? But some of them (eg turns 1 and 2) still have tar snakes around them. And the surface at T5 was breaking up a bit.

[retired motoman]

No worries, an easy drop-off this morning!

Yeah Motoman, wanna give me your gloves if you're not going to use them? How are your "fists of mince" today?

Dave

They were pretty sore on sat but settling down now, i even got out on the 600 for a bit of a ride.
Was a great day despite the car park drama thou i loved track 4 starting to feel good on the rf and my pace is improving for sure, missed the 600 down the straights thou with you big boys flying past .
cheers again dave for the ride on the motard Hope to get to one more at taupo before the end of the year , but next stop me thinks is home track manfield

[chrispy121]

It's an Oregon Scientific ATC3K. It's not the best picture quality, but at least the sound is crap! I really like it though. For what I use it for, just messing around and posting on Youtube, it's fine. I also like that it's all self-contained and it records to an SD card. Pretty easy for most people, it's just like any regular camera.

If I was making home movies or something I would get a bullet cam/dvr combo. But then you have to mount a box or carry a backpack.

This one just mounts to the side of my helmet

so does this mount come with the package or did you make one?
keen to get a camera for next time

[kiwifruit]

Alick Saunder's photos are uploading now and will be all up in an hour or so.
Ian Laurie's photos are up.

Check out the photos page on the website.

[SeppoDave]

so does this mount come with the package or did you make one?
keen to get a camera for next time

It comes with heaps of different mounting options. The helmet one is just one of them.

[JamRoll]

Cheers everyone at MotoTT for a great day. My first ever trackday was heaps of fun, met a few guys in group 4, managed to nurse my sick old gsxr 400 round Taupo without falling off : I'll definitely be back for more!

[lunatic]

It looks like Kawasaki is definitely more exotic bike on the track than 1098. I think I counted 5(!) this Friday!

So, inevitably, an on-board video of one 1098 chasing another...