Who is doing the Cemetary?

**dpex** · 7th November 2009, 18:21

Last year I watched the race, utterly spell-bound at the level of risk. Mind you, I suspect Hampton Downs looks to be on a par, except they don't have lamp-posts and man-holes waiting to greet the incautious.

But I'm booked and paid. I just have to do it.

But that's the 'thing' about bike racing. It's the risk factor. Like last weekend at Taupo; track five, the short track with the wiggle back on to the main straight. Get that wrong and poom! All there is is solid concrete to meet and greet you. Coming through that turn, pegs being reduced to dust, I'm thinking 'Fuck the wall. This is living!' I didn't give a shit if I was first, last or otherwise. Just being there and doing it. Yum!

Even during the rest of the turns there remains the potential ignominy of ending up in the kitty-litter. Various did, on the day. Turn four saw two pissed-off visitors. Turn ten saw one we thought might have been hurt, but wasn't.

But mostly, on the various tracks around the country, a low-side gets you little more than a partially munted bike (unless of course you're riding a mighty '95 Yammi which seems to put up with anything, in which case you simply pick her up and carry on) and a bit of annoyance.

But the Cemetery? There's lamp-posts and kerbs, and manhole covers, and oil-slicks, and small concrete islands, all of which have waited 12 long months to claim the blood of the unlucky. And there's all those headstones, quietly inviting the courageous to join the infinite.

You can't see into the corners; mostly.

It's a bit easier for the blooded. They've all been there and done that so many times. They 'know' the course. Not me. I've seen it but that's about all. So I get he newbie thrill. You only ever get that once.

First fuck. First parachute, first track-ride, first track-race...first Cemetery.

Yum, but I'm looking forward to this event.

I hope ACC doesn't suddenly demand I pay more to be a part of it.

And anyway, you get to be on TV. I wonder if some smart-arse commentator will shed the words, as I lope around at my best....And believe me I will be giving it my best as he says, 'And here comes Beaglebarm.' albeit from the safety of his little TV enclosure.

Who else, other than the normally exalted, are doing the Cemetery? By that I mean: any other newbie Cemetery boys or girls here?

**White trash** · 7th November 2009, 18:24

Sorry, but the similaties between Hampton Downs and Cemetary Circuit end at the fact they both run clockwise.

What planet you from again?

**Tony.OK** · 7th November 2009, 19:09

You'll have a blast but Cemetery ain't got nothin on Paeroa IMHO...............make sure ya book that one in dude.

250kph + skimming yer elbow against hay bales.......yehaaa!!

**Toast** · 7th November 2009, 20:34

Cemetery Circuit is a shit load safer than Pukekohe, especially with the addition of a couple of air fences.

Blind corners? No issue.

So long as it's dry, you needn't stress.

Wanganui any day over Paeroa in my opinion...although the mental front straight at Paeroa makes it a must-do at least once.

**slowpoke** · 7th November 2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by Tony.OK

You'll have a blast but Cemetery ain't got nothin on Paeroa IMHO...............make sure ya book that one in dude.

250kph + skimming yer elbow against hay bales.......yehaaa!!

Originally Posted by Toast

Wanganui any day over Paeroa in my opinion...although the mental front straight at Paeroa makes it a must-do at least once.

Nah, I'm with Tony on this one.

I had drama's a plenty at both of 'em:
Wanga's: missed noob sighting laps thanks to a fuel dry break connector O-ring letting go, and blew fork seals.

Paeroa: missed noob sighting laps thanks to rushed officials after threat of rain (sitting on dummy grid they just closed the gate on a few of us) and was physically munted after crashing my road bike 2 days beforehand.

So it kinda evens out, but Paeroa was a more exhilarating track. On a big bike Wanga's is like sword fighting in an elevator.

**sunhuntin** · 8th November 2009, 07:50

theyve put new fences up around the cemetary.... crappy, thin "metal" ones that will do SFA to stop a flying bike and rider, but will do damage to any rider who happens to connect with it. theres been no attempt at putting up the standard fences elsewhere yet, which i think should have been started by now.

**White trash** · 8th November 2009, 07:56

PAeroa is a race track on the road. Wanganui is a fucken kart track by comparison.

In saying that, Wangas does have its appeal, I just think Paeroa is an all round better venue.

**gixerracer** · 8th November 2009, 09:00

Originally Posted by White trash

PAeroa is a race track on the road. Wanganui is a fucken kart track by comparison.

In saying that, Wangas does have its appeal, I just think Paeroa is an all round better venue.

and i smashed you at both you little bitch

**Kickaha** · 8th November 2009, 09:54

Originally Posted by gixerracer

and i smashed you at both you little bitch

Not as though that would be to hard to do

**White trash** · 8th November 2009, 10:35

Originally Posted by gixerracer

and i smashed you at both you little bitch

you sure did oh God of all things street racing.

However. Your starts are fucken laughable and you have the ugliest brolly dolly I've ever seen.

Gimme a call if you want some tips.