Way to go Avalon

[Buddha#81:Me]

Unless that 'real racebike' happened to be a moto-x bike.

I'm at the height of outcast, buckets and motards are my choice of CLASS! The only young one down here that has made the step up from buckets is Nick Cain but he had an argument with a hay bail at the Nelson S/R on his tard and the bail won that argument, he just had the metal removed from his back!

[Crasherfromwayback]

I'm at the height of outcast, buckets and motards are my choice of CLASS! The only young one down here that has made the step up from buckets is Nick Cain but he had an argument with a hay bail at the Nelson S/R on his tard and the bail won that argument, he just had the metal removed from his back!

I hear ya. Cept I was referring to an aspiring road racer coming from a moto-x backround, not motard racing. Even though I dig that too.

[Henk]

Wouldn't be the first time I've described buckets as MX on tarmac.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Wouldn't be the first time I've described buckets as MX on tarmac.

Hahaha...from what I've heard, you'd be right!

[quallman1234]

MX is great fun! Surprising heaps of grip on dirt with the right tyres!

[F5 Dave]

you want grip? A decent trials rider can conjure it up from nowhere.

[Crasherfromwayback]

you want grip? A decent trials rider can conjure it up from nowhere.

You're not wrong! Having been a friend and flatmate of Stefan Merrimans whilst living in Brisbane, I can agree 100%. Riding with him made me feel very ordinary at best.

[speedpro]

I ran my bucket in the "under 200cc dirt bike class" at I think the Shell 2 Wheeler, or something similar, at Manfeild. Stefan was there on a Ride Red Honda CR125 and there was some other guy on a KX125. They'd both beat me off the line. Eventually I could work my way past the KX and then catch up Stefan - I had a very slightly higher top speed. He'd go past me as I tipped into corners with the front sledging and the rear drifting with both feet on the pegs and as smooth as silk. All about 2-3" away. It was the most awesome riding display I've ever seen - perfect control. Turned out they were a "little" bit worried about their CR125 being beaten by a bucket.

[TZ350]

The biggest advantage i find with buckets is the amount of time you get on the track compared to Streetstock or whatever. You can learn the basics there and convert the skills you learnt about pushing a bike to its physical limits to a bike what is capable of much greater limits and see where that takes you.

+1

And I thought Buckets at Mt Welly was hard out untill I saw the latest film about the Island and those big bikes power wiggling over the humps.

[Buckets4Me]

you are dead right you learn different skills from differnt sports
buckets is all about the number of people and passing
the rs's are all about corner speed and being right on the button for speed gear and position

and yes it will be a repeat of the rs chassie posts (that is if you think that ALL the important skills are learnt from the little rs's) i'll shut up now

[Buckets4Me]

I hear ya. Cept I was referring to an aspiring road racer coming from a moto-x backround, not motard racing. Even though I dig that too.

your not talking about Avalon are you ?
because I belive she used that as a step into Buckets
or was that the ministock car she had in the garage when she started racing buckets (maby thats why she dose so well in the f4 class)

[Crasherfromwayback]

your not talking about Avalon are you ?
because I belive she used that as a step into Buckets
)

I wasn't, but it wouldn't surprise me!

[Kickaha]

the rs's are all about corner speed and being right on the button for speed gear and position

So are Buckets on the tracks we run here

[Buckets4Me]

So are Buckets on the tracks we run here

and I know she goes well down there so must have learnt a few things then


“The racing was pretty hectic. It was just a matter of using my race craft, getting my elbows out and making myself as wide as possible,” she said.

another thing she learned from Buckets pitty they didn't let her put mx bars on to help with the width

[Buckets4Me]

Hah-aha, is this going to be a repeat of the RS125 rolling chassis thread? .

well just to wind you up

had a talk to Av on Sunday (she had had a bad day at buckets. Something about a flu)
and she mentioned that she had learned most of her race craft from buckets



looks like buckets isn't such a bad start
specialy when we get to race against people like Av and Jaden H (and all the other proven races that keep coming back)

not putting down the little rs125 as I think they would be a very good place to start ones racing

I'm just miffed that I cant afford one of them (or anything bigger than a bucket)