883 Twin Sport racing

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yep...they were slow as shit. Yep...they were (are) heavy as fuck. Yep...they had shit brakes and handled like a bent wheel barrow. But they sure were fun to race.

Till you binned it and they jumped on you.

[scumdog]

Wow - what caused the last triple-crash??/

(And I thought it was a non-contact sport....)

[carbonhed]

and I thought Moto2 was scary. They sure are incredibly efficient at destroying hay bales though.

[ellipsis]

...very ungainly get offs and all the agricultural quips could be used extensively through that sequence...but I still wouldn't want to be without one...

[White trash]

Wow - what caused the last triple-crash??/

(And I thought it was a non-contact sport....)

Rain. There's a reason they don't run car racing on banking when it rains. That was fucking horrific.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Rain. There's a reason they don't run car racing on banking when it rains. That was fucking horrific.

Yeah why the fuck that race wasn't red flagged well back down the track I'll never know.

[wysper]

Yep...they were slow as shit. Yep...they were (are) heavy as fuck. Yep...they had shit brakes and handled like a bent wheel barrow.

Ok, enough talking about how I ride. That was nasty, wouldn't mind watching a race though.

[White trash]

Yeah why the fuck that race wasn't red flagged well back down the track I'll never know.

Fucken crazy. Mint compilation though. 883 Twin Sport racing here was the most entertaining class for a long time. Probably one of the cheapest classes to get into as well and you got paid for winning. Bring it the fuck back I reckon.

[george formby]

Ahh the good old days, proper bikes with hinges in the middle.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Fucken crazy. Mint compilation though. 883 Twin Sport racing here was the most entertaining class for a long time. Probably one of the cheapest classes to get into as well and you got paid for winning. Bring it the fuck back I reckon.

I made more prize money than Chris Haldane was winning when he was racing his Ducati Superbike...in fact 5th place paid the same as first place in F1 from memory.

[nodrog:Me]

In one of last years Fast bikes magazine they did an article on the XR1200 race series that was at all the BSB rounds I think.

Looked like fun, you purchase the bike and kit off a Harley dealer and away you go. Wasnt too bad of a price either.

[malcy25]

"Tears of pain to those haven't yet mastered their power...."
You get the picture!

[Crasherfromwayback]

"Tears of pain to those haven't yet mastered their power...."

More like tears of pain when you get sat on by one.

[gixerracer]

I made more prize money than Chris Haldane was winning when he was racing his Ducati Superbike...in fact 5th place paid the same as first place in F1 from memory.

Yea but he didnt need any money and when he got home he didnt have the shame of saying he had been Harley racing in the weekend

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yea but he didnt need any money and when he got home he didnt have the shame of saying he had been Harley racing in the weekend

Imagine the pain of the guys that had to go home one year after Wanganui when I finished 3rd in Bears on my lil old 883 behind Robert Holden on his 916 Superbike, and Rodney O'Conner on his 748, and tell their mates what they got their asses whipped by then!!! Sad for them.