It's a black one

[Trudes]

large lumps of nylon for track protection.

[Kendog]

Na man have another look. It looks like a bit of alcathene pipe strapped to the lower fork. I am stuffed if I can figure out what it might be fore. Certainaly not track protection.

It's nothing exciting, just some nylon block I had in the garage hose clamped to the fork so the axle can't touch the ground.

[gav]

I've ridden that bike, it seems strange when you first get on it, revs so fast. Had no rev counter so I had no idea what it was revving to, where as mine does. Only had one six lap race but i reckon I went alot faster than my own bike, so easy to ride too. Told Bren it needed a tail section to finish it off, not just for looks, it felt like the standard seat was a bit high, but again my bike has a lower seat than standard too, maybe just what Im use to.
Good to see youve made some mods to make it ven better, its a cool bike, enjoy!

[Bren_chch]

different engine gavinator! its in the bike i loaned to warwick but modded a bit more now! wooop!

I've ridden that bike, it seems strange when you first get on it, revs so fast. Had no rev counter so I had no idea what it was revving to, where as mine does. Only had one six lap race but i reckon I went alot faster than my own bike, so easy to ride too. Told Bren it needed a tail section to finish it off, not just for looks, it felt like the standard seat was a bit high, but again my bike has a lower seat than standard too, maybe just what Im use to.
Good to see youve made some mods to make it ven better, its a cool bike, enjoy!

[Muzzab]

Fark me, if ever an evil looking beast deserved #13 that had to be it.
Talk about the "Dark Side", good on you, may the force be with you :0)
Cheers Muzza

[Kendog]

Bring on Taupo.

What a great event. This really is one every racer should try and get to. Great track and racing, nice relaxed atmosphere, huge yummy feed + alcohol + live band at the end of the first day, another huge feed and alcohol at prize giving at the end of the second day.

I was rapt with how well the bike went, it never missed a beat. On the first day I quickly discovered I had the wrong gearing. Bert to the rescue again with a 14 front sprocket that I fitted ready for day 2.

Day 2 and the weather was a little marginal, but luckily the buckets had mostly dry track conditions. The GP qualifying had me on the grid next to a couple of riders I race with in Wellington (Skunk and All450s) Both these guys I would rate as faster than me, so my aim was to stick with them in the GP.
I got a pretty good start in the 10 lap GP, coming out of turn 1 I was in front of Skunk and All450s and was a little way behind Malcolm Skachill (riding on his son Glens bucket). I decided to make my aim now to stick with Malcolm as he had been riding consistently in front of me at a pretty good pace.
The first 5 laps of the GP were awesome, I was feeling really good on the bike and had Malcolm just in front of me. I could see Skunk and All450s a fair way behind me on pit straight so was really rapt with how it was all going. Then the red flags came out, Richban had had a 'little' off and was knocked out. Glad you are feeling better now Rich, you were really flying out there and were in contention for the GP win for sure.

We formed up back in the pit area and went out in the grid positions based on the first 5 laps. I got another pretty good start and caught up to Malcolm again. We caught up to another rider that seemed to be going really slowly, but then sped up when we arrived. Malcolm got passed but I didn't and I fell behind a little. My concentration dropped and then out of no where I was passed by two bikes, one of them being All450s
I simply couldn't catch these guys and felt like I circulated for the last couple of laps to the finish.

The last two races of the day I was off the pace. I couldn't get my head back into racing and could not catch the guys I had been riding with in the morning.

Overall I am pretty happy with the weekend. I have plenty to work on riding wise, and now I feel I have a good bike to help me improve my riding with. (I was about 20 seconds per lap faster than last year)
Next year I aim to take another 10 seconds of my time

[James Deuce]

20 seconds.

You might find you have to work 10 times harder to get 2 seconds more off that next year, so maybe wind the expectations back a bit and then crow loudly when you do knock 10 seconds (seriously once you get to the pointy end of the field a 10th of a second is something to crow about).

Very well done.

[Grahameeboy]

They say that once you go black you never go back

[Kendog]

20 seconds.

You might find you have to work 10 times harder to get 2 seconds more off that next year, so maybe wind the expectations back a bit and then crow loudly when you do knock 10 seconds (seriously once you get to the pointy end of the field a 10th of a second is something to crow about).

Very well done.

I was still slow this year, 10 seconds would put me mid pack. The bike is easily capable of doing it (7 of the top 10 finishes were on FXRs).
Going 10 seconds faster is a mental game and a target I am going to have a serious crack at.

[ajturbo]

in all of Quassi's photo's, you were not far behind me matey!!!!

great looking bike and i am glad you were behind me..

lol

[all4A50s]

I was impressed with your riding. You looked alot more confident in all aspects and are developing a brilliant smooth style.

[Number One]

I was impressed with your riding. You looked alot more confident in all aspects and are developing a brilliant smooth style.

Actually Mr Kendog was already blessed to behold a brilliant smooth riding style...he comfortably pisses off into the distance when out road riding twisties.

Nice that he has a race bike which better suits him and MMMM that sexy black thing does ride nicely

Sounds like you had a good time MR K don't forget though to enjoy the day beyond what your times are to keep that bucket racing fun alive