Paeroa updates?

[Pussy]

My condolences to the Satherly family, and the sidecar fraternity.
And my thanks to the emergency services.
Very sad news

[Quasievil]

it was king of the streets, top riders in all classes race together , kinda cool

[scracha]

What amazes me Robert, is that you, and many other people in the motorcycle industry have names of business and other logos all over your trailers etc, and yet Squids still do dumb stuff right in front of you.....

I normally drive a car to Paeroa as it's so close it'd be a stretch to call it a "ride" and it's always so damned hot I can't be arsed sweating like a mofo in protective gear. They should have a booth at the entrance where you can swap helmets and leathers for boardies* and jandals**.

Anyhoo.....there was some REAL fuckin stupid riding on the way home, especially as it's obvious there's gonna be cops in every direction for miles around. 2 bikes in front of us obviously had reverse thrusters as they were so close to the car ahead of them. Idiot mate behind us with girlie on pillion on wrong side of road going around outside of our car at blind left hand intersection.

"splat" could so easily have happened.


*and thongs for the girls.
**that's "thongs" for the non-kiwis

[Mom]

Idiot mate behind us with girlie on pillion on wrong side of road going around outside of our car at blind left hand intersection.

"splat" could so easily have happened.

Yeah well, I can never understand why any female would have so little regard for her own life that she would sit on the back of a bike riden in that sort of manner. I saw a really horrible example of that yesterday, I guess they got home on one piece. When we ride down we have no choice but all the gear. We have always found somewhere to leave it, and can be found wandering around like any other spectator.

[roadracingoldfart]

Its never good to hear of such sad news at a racing event . Sorrowfull for all , especially the family .

Our wishes to the family and friends .

Paul & Dianne.

[BIG DOUG]

The other rider in this incident dave lett is doing as well as can be, he has broken both shoulders all his ribs and his leg which will be operated on tomorrow as of now he doesn't no of alan's death but knowing dave he will be devastated.

[Grubber]

i had better add that i only just got my license back from a serious suspension.....but to be honest...enjoyed the legal ride just as much.....to the dicks in cars who post on a biking site about bikes cutting them off or flying past...fuck off.....if they had pulled over to let us by there wouldn't have been a need to go around.

For your profound information dude......they don't have to pull over if they don't want to! They can also post on this site if they want to!
I say if you don't like it then bugger off.

[tri boy]

The "power ranger" dressed sprotbike plonkers that passed me n kanny on the Kopu Hikuwhai rd, on blind corners, tight/no run off areas once again showed that sparkling clean plastic fairings attract fuckwits like moths to a flame.
Same lil wankers that kanny passed on gravel road works, as they wobbled their way through, and passed them again as they compared wank stains/chicken strips at the Kopu pub.

[chanceyy]

I have to say since the bike broke sunday morn & I got a cage ride over I was happy to see patient riders on the way there, but on the way home fark does everyone think they are racers ??

also while waiting for bro to pick me up & here goes a bike 2up, the rider board shorts, jandels & singlet, chick on the back short shorts, t shirt and sneakers, the only safety gear was the helmet .. but hell that really made me cringe could imagine if they binned with all that lovely exposed flesh .. but also have to say 99% of others had all the gear so that was awesome to see

[cmoore]

thanks to all who replied to my post....like most things in this form of communication...my initial meaning and or intent did not come across as expected…

[Robert Taylor]

Your such a cage driver...what a wanker...get off the road and leave it for the bikes!

How did you get your racebike to the meeting?

[george formby]

Highs for today, watching Craig and Haydon getting 'clean air' over the hump by the dummy grid, the classic sidecars attempting to get drive out of the Suzukis 'S' bends, the lean angles those supermoto guys can get with a leg stuck out in front of them (whats all that about), the sheer speed of those self powered sidecars, the attempts to slow 170+kgs of bike down to tip into the Suzuki 'S' bends. The amount of people you can fit into one 'streets open' car (best count = 6), watching a Harley Davidson kick ass (rider wearing full retro 60's leathers), watching the hay bails actually moving as the quick guys flick past the kink on the start-finish straight!!

An awesome day (as a spectator), well done AMCC, well done PSRC, well done all who took part, role on next year

Summed up perfickly, my first time & I'm still buzzin. Got a photo of somebodys exhaust as they wheelied past the dummy grid knocking the foam off my cappucino.

[DidJit]

Found this link :

http://www.vholdr.com/node/69661

Cool vid. Awesome to see the racers' point of view.

...my first time & I'm still buzzin...

+1.

[javawocky]

Cool vid. Awesome to see the racers' point of view.

Has anyone asked Mr Cole what he was thinking at about 10:45 in the video. We were right opposite his fan club when he 'bailed'. Looked like he came in way to hot. Didn't he know the race was over or was he trying a failed stoppy?

[DocMartin]

I was just thinking the same thing, passing under a WAVING yellow flag, AFTERthe race had finished.

The yellow flag was there because I had overcooked that corner on the last lap and crashed into the very same spot that Nick did.

Luckily I had removed myself and my bike from that spot before that idiot came slamming in (I had only JUST moved as Sherrifs and Hayden came past, Nick came third)

Great footage by the way Andrew...