Nelson Beach races are on Sunday 3 January 2011 - The adv class.

**cooneyr** · 2nd January 2011, 22:06

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

....The annoying thing is, I know just where and what style of shots I wanted to take this year

I've just been refreshing my memory about aperture and shutter speed settings and learning what the P mode on our D40X Nikon does. I'll take our 18-55 and 55-200 lenses and see what happens (55-200 takes a long time to change focus when significant changes in zoom). I've got some ideas about where I want to stand but no idea if they are "best" or not. Don't expect much but I'll give it a go. Feel free to give me any advise you want tomorrow.

Cheers R

**NordieBoy** · 2nd January 2011, 22:54

Originally Posted by Underground

See you racer dudes tomorrow ,I'll make the coffee .

Originally Posted by Padmei

Don't joke about serrious things

Yeah. Unless you do a mean americano (black)...

**NordieBoy** · 2nd January 2011, 22:58

Originally Posted by cooneyr

I've just been refreshing my memory about aperture and shutter speed settings and learning what the P mode on our D40X Nikon does. I'll take our 18-55 and 55-200 lenses and see what happens (55-200 takes a long time to change focus when significant changes in zoom). I've got some ideas about where I want to stand but no idea if they are "best" or not. Don't expect much but I'll give it a go. Feel free to give me any advise you want tomorrow.

Cheers R

Does it have A & T modes?

1/320th is sweet to get a bit of mag wheel blur and with spoked wheels you can go to 1/640th.

**Padmei** · 3rd January 2011, 07:47

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Does it have A & T modes?

1/320th is sweet to get a bit of mag wheel blur and with spoked wheels you can go to 1/640th.

can't you guys go back to posting at www.geekalert?

A beaut morning - I'm coffeed up & about to relube the airfilter then Gonzo should be good to go.

Gonna be a good day

**Willdat?** · 3rd January 2011, 08:13

As expected, Woodman turned up in the 10 minute window that the house was empty! All ready to go for 11:30, will be waiting on the road.

**NordieBoy** · 3rd January 2011, 09:02

Originally Posted by Padmei

Gonna be a good day

Should be around 20-30k lux with a UV of about 13 and wind from the north at about 10-15kph.
Humidity 67% and Pressure at 1017hPa.
The sand should have a high silica content and moisture rating of about 23.
Friction coefficient in the corners of around 17 blumenthals, give or take around 3.6
The roost will have a pain rating of about 5/10 dropping to 3/10 after 2pm as it dries out a bit.

**JATZ** · 3rd January 2011, 09:36

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Should be around 20-30k lux with a UV of about 13 and wind from the north at about 10-15kph.
Humidity 67% and Pressure at 1017hPa.
The sand should have a high silica content and moisture rating of about 23.
Friction coefficient in the corners of around 17 blumenthals, give or take around 3.6
The roost will have a pain rating of about 5/10 dropping to 3/10 after 2pm as it dries out a bit.

Maaate ya dreaming....
It's gunna be about 24 blumenthals, minimum, droping away as the afternoon progresseses

**Padmei** · 3rd January 2011, 10:55

Originally Posted by JATZ

Maaate ya dreaming....
It's gunna be about 24 blumenthals, minimum, droping away as the afternoon progresseses

Shit i'm only torqued to allow for 13 bluementhals - would too much tension cause puckering?

**dino3310** · 3rd January 2011, 13:07

funny langauge,
mmmmmmmmm do you fellas play the banjo

**That looks like fun** · 3rd January 2011, 16:24

Originally Posted by dino3310

funny language,
mmmmmmmmm do you fellas play the banjo

Luckily I speak fluent South island Dino so I shall interpret for you what may appear as mere gibberish to we the great unwashed of the North.

Lux = A laundry powder

UV = Use Violence

Silica = Dirt
Blue Menthals are produced by a company called "Rothmans"

So if we breakdown the apparent gibberish into North speak we find it reads thus

"They intend to clean up and beat everybody using dirty tactics to smoke the opposition"

My work here is done

And now we wait Doug

**Woodman** · 3rd January 2011, 19:37

What a day, great location great company, great coffe.

Managed to stay on which was good and only got sandblasted once, and yes it friggen hurts.

KLR (well mine anyway) performed like a dream, wasn't fast enough to keep up with the 450s we were racing against but really don't think I coulda ridden it any quicker.

My vapor dash tells me that my maximum speed was 139.9 km/h

while maximum revs achieved was 8370 rpm.

Edit one ltre of oil was used. ouch

So much fun I really recommend it to anyone with an adv bike to give it a go.

**NordieBoy** · 3rd January 2011, 19:53

Originally Posted by dino3310

funny langauge,
mmmmmmmmm do you fellas play the banjo

And we're not afeard to use them...

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**Padmei** · 3rd January 2011, 19:53

Yes indeed Rabbit Island turned on a fantastic day for us.

Watching the other classes practise it kinda looked easy- just stay in a nice line & go round the corners.

Nordie, Woodman, Warewolf & myself lined up at the start of our practise laps with the MX3 open class. I was pretty nervous before the flag came down & to make matters worse the KLR started to stall right on the dropping of the flag. I started & head down saw with my peripheral vision the rest of the field disappear ahead of me.

To be continued - movie time

**mattsdakar** · 3rd January 2011, 20:13

Originally Posted by cooneyr

I've just been refreshing my memory about aperture and shutter speed settings and learning what the P mode on our D40X Nikon does. I'll take our 18-55 and 55-200 lenses and see what happens (55-200 takes a long time to change focus when significant changes in zoom). I've got some ideas about where I want to stand but no idea if they are "best" or not. Don't expect much but I'll give it a go. Feel free to give me any advise you want tomorrow.

Cheers R

Where's the photo's, or were they to fast for your shutter speed??