TSS Red Baron King of Kaitoke, Round 1 (Sunday 16 Jan)

[Trudes]

Oh, on a brighter note....
What a fooking mint day of racing!
The wind was a little overwhelming at times, kept picking me up mid corner and just about made me highside several times and instead of being helpful and helping to push me up the straight instead kept making my frontend shake a little violently.
A massive turnout of bikes, awesome to see so many new faces and buckets there today! Hope you heal up well too Brock!
Well done for the fantastic organising Fishie!
Looking forward to the 20th!!

[Bert]

Great day of racing (except for the wind).
Really cool to see both classes full and some really close battles.

Hope everyone mends up quickly after their spills.

[riffer]

Good to see so many of you having so much fun. Hope my ruggies and their mates didn't get in your way too much.

[Mudflaps]

You said it Trudes...What a great turn out of buckets!!!! Was so awesome to see. Pretty sure we out numbered the carts today.

Was a fantastic day of racing. Wished I was riding from the moment we got there. Even though I didn't ride I had a great day. With such big fields, the racing was great to watch!! Some great battles going on all over the place. Long may numbers like that last!!!!

Was really cool seeing heaps of newbies out there too. Esp my neighbour Dale (on the blue gp125, #113) he kicked butt today seeming it was his second go racing.

Mend fast those who hurt themselves!! Next time Hamish, try and land ON the grass...not somersault over it and land on concrete again! Spectacular bro!! But at an unfortunate cost.

[koba]

Aye! Agreed on all...
Good day
More bikes = More fun
Heal well Brock and Hamish!

I'm keen as beans for the next one!

[gatch]

I had an absolute blast !

It is retarded amounts of fun. Punting the shared cb125 #15 around at the back of the A grades, some choice racing with Malcolm, was in front of him in the first race then decided to take a lie down on the track on the second to last turn of the race..

Is there any complete buckets for sale at the mo ?

[F5 Dave]

Hamish, what a bugger mate. Heal well & give it time. Same too Brock. Bad day for crashes wasn't it?


But it was a great day for racing. I was slow as in practice & first race, but slowly getting my head around it. Young Caleb started to give me the learnup so that sped me up a bit, as did following Sully, so thanks guys, it helped me out.

[Geriatric]

A great day. many thanks to you guys who have put in the hard yards organising.

Good to have so many bikes there and extra special to get both my brother and my nephew out on my bike in the B grade.

It was the first time racing for both of them and they each got a 2nd placing and had a great time.

Was thinking we should all have compulsory counselling to control the "red mist" instead of a practice session though. There was some incredibly close, competitive racing in both grades, with quite a bit of impromptu motor cross and really too many spills.

[F5 Dave]

. . .
Was thinking we should all have compulsory counselling to control the "red mist" instead of a practice session though. . . .

Not sure what you mean there.

But yes with that many new people it is probably a good idea to have some rider education, I was thinking more along the lines of put your hand up when exiting & how to flag marshal & share that responsibility.

Beyond that one can only say no dodgems, but racing incidents do happen & gravity & momentum are harsh mistresses. That bit sucks 'cause it can really affect your life for quite some time.

Great work to the organisers, this sort of event is great for the sport when we get the numbers to justify our existence with the kart club rather than the 3 or so turning up if it is wet.

[Damien_Toman]

Cheers for all the help today guys......Damn, broken my wrist into 3 pieces ....

6 months healing time at the moment, shit. Sorry for disrupting the race. Besides the sliding I was having a lot of fun. My bike has certainly stepped up in speed.

Sorry to hear about the injury Hamish. I bet you were going well, like in the pic :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/5363076872/

Best viewed at "original" size - click on the "+" sign, then "view all sizes", then "original" which will fill a HD screen .

What corner did you go down at? What direction?

Heal quickly mate. Was hoping to see you in action again at Easter .

[all4A50s]

Much thanks to you Fish and the rest of the organizers for such a great day.

You said it Trudes...What a great turn out of buckets!!!! Was so awesome to see. Pretty sure we out numbered the carts today.

Was a fantastic day of racing. Wished I was riding from the moment we got there. Even though I didn't ride I had a great day. With such big fields, the racing was great to watch!! Some great battles going on all over the place. Long may numbers like that last!!!!

Was really cool seeing heaps of newbies out there too. Esp my neighbour Dale (on the blue gp125, #113) he kicked butt today seeming it was his second go racing.

Mend fast those who hurt themselves!! Next time Hamish, try and land ON the grass...not somersault over it and land on concrete again! Spectacular bro!! But at an unfortunate cost.

Cheers for all the help today guys, I'm a reasonably shithouse mechanic so it was cool to get some help with my brakes and throttle cable (cheers Rich).

Damn, broken my wrist into 3 pieces and was just pushing its way through the skin. At home in a cast after a pretty nasty procedure (didn't hurt with all the drugs they put into my arm) where they smash everything into place while I'm awake. Very likely I will be heading back in soon for some surgery.

As for the crash, I am a little unsure. I don't remember my peg grabbing onto the apex, but I guess it's the likely story. I had a slide there on the second lap though on cold tires, and the whole race was a little wild with sliding the rear out of most fast corners. I think I need to set the bike up better and find a different way of riding out of corners because it was sliding far too much.

6 months healing time at the moment, shit. Sorry for disrupting the race. Besides the sliding I was having a lot of fun. My bike has certainly stepped up in speed.

6 months = Bummer. PM me if you want any help with your bike.

A great day. many thanks to you guys who have put in the hard yards organising.

Good to have so many bikes there and extra special to get both my brother and my nephew out on my bike in the B grade.

It was the first time racing for both of them and they each got a 2nd placing and had a great time.

Was thinking we should all have compulsory counselling to control the "red mist" instead of a practice session though. There was some incredibly close, competitive racing in both grades, with quite a bit of impromptu motor cross and really too many spills.

I'm keen or some of training time on the track. Would it be possible to organize a Sunday session for that purpose?

And much thanks to Brook for the lend of your bike, Adrian's Nephew (sorry I can't remember your name) for the lend of the lever and thanks again to Fish for letting me out during lunch on to the track. Thanks to everyone else who helped me. If wasn't for all your generosity Buckets wouldn't be nearly as much fun. Sorry about the mix up at the end of the day.

Apart from the engine on Zensen throwing a wobbly I had a fantastic day. By the time I got home I was completely wiped out and slept for 14 hours. If the oil is anything to go by the engine internals are going to be messy.

It was great to see so many newbie's. Well done to Logan for finishing each race, at the rate your going you'll be emulating Caleb very soon.

[all4A50s]

Well just stripped the top end off the end and as I expected; piston related;
The cylinder wall has a nice groove up one side. One of the brass bushes has completely disappeared. One of the aluminum bullets is missing and the other is all out of shape. The noise I was hearing was a very bad case of piston slap. So good lesson learnt, and time to grease up to my beautiful wonderful other half.

[gatch]

Well just stripped the top end off the end and as I expected; piston related;
The cylinder wall has a nice groove up one side. One of the brass bushes has completely disappeared. One of the aluminum bullets is missing and the other is all out of shape. The noise I was hearing was a very bad case of piston slap. So good lesson learnt, and time to grease up to my beautiful wonderful other half.

Why is there brass in your cylinder ?

[all4A50s]

Why is there brass in your cylinder ?

The gudgeon pin hole diameter in the 125cc conrod is smaller than the diameter of the 150cc piston. The 150cc piston was fitted with brass bushes to make is the same diameter as the 125cc gudgeon. The 125cc gudgeon pin was fitted with aluminum bullets to make is the right length for the 150cc piston.

Great theory. This is done in drag vehicles as the piston circlips don't handle the pressures involved. So it was worth a try. The fault is more with me for not checking them after Taupo. I checked them before Taupo and everything seemed OK.

[gatch]

The gudgeon pin hole diameter in the 125cc conrod is smaller than the diameter of the 150cc piston. The 150cc piston was fitted with brass bushes to make is the same diameter as the 125cc gudgeon. The 125cc gudgeon pin was fitted with aluminum bullets to make is the right length for the 150cc piston.

Great theory. This is done in drag vehicles as the piston circlips don't handle the pressures involved. So it was worth a try. The fault is more with me for not checking them after Taupo. I checked them before Taupo and everything seemed OK.

Brass though ? It's so soft. Some ally bronze/cast iron would be better..

I'm dan, helped you get the cam cover off your cbr.