At the risk of sounding dumb...

[Wolf]

ok cool thanks... just one more question..

WTF?

Sorry, can't answer that one.

[Coyote]

I was told the 'bucket' in bucket racing was cause the bikes were 'buckets of shit'

[Sniper]

no they are those other whatyamacallit's that you can get from that place near the other place opposite the big tree with the leaves on it... you know

Ahh yep yep, I know the place, its also the area where they do that stuff to the other stuff to make it angry. But I remember the big tree from when it was little and not a big tree. And it did stuff that tree's sometimes do when they grow leaves and tell storys by the chocolate river

[placidfemme]

Ahh yep yep, I know the place, its also the area where they do that stuff to the other stuff to make it angry. But I remember the big tree from when it was little and not a big tree. And it did stuff that tree's sometimes do when they grow leaves and tell storys by the chocolate river

lol

*wants some of whatever your taking*

[ManDownUnder]

... and tell storys by the chocolate river

If that's a simile for having some fun up the hershey highway I'll just stay home thanks...

[Ixion]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.

Mr Motu's history is almost, but not quite correct.

It all began , as he says, with the Airforce. Guys would gather at the end of the long runways (beyond the prying eyes of Sergeants and hoifficiers), to smoke Certain Scheduled Substances,and drink booze and whatnot, as guys do.

Because the runways are long, they would use little step through bikes (pit bikes not having yet been invented) to get out to the end of the runway.

Nature being what it is, and booze being what it ought not to be, before long one or more of the guys would find himself seized with the violent need to spew. But the others objected to the spewers spewing all over the area, so the cry weent up "Oh fer fucks sake, someone go and get a bucket". So, the non spewers would leap on their step throughs and race back at high ( ) speed to the hanger to grab a bucket, spewers for the use of.

Before long the impromptu dash for buckets became an end in itself, but still retained the original concept. Race to the hanger, first one their grabs the bucket to prove his victory.

Hence, "bucket racing". The bucket was originally the trophy awarded the winner.

[speedpro]

Started by AirForce guys - they would mark out a track on the airfield with upturned buckets and race stepthroughs and the like....the most important thing was the buckets,you couldn't go racing without buckets - so bucket racing.

Sort of. It was started by the AirForce guys at Woodbourne. Tracks were marked out on the tarmac and whatever small bike you could scrounge you took out and raced. Some guys(Marty) borrowed the girlfriends bike and raced that, until the girlfriend accompanied a mate to the Air Force base and spotted a bike just like hers going round. As there isn't too much to do round Blenheim and boys being boys it soon became a bit more competitive and mods started happening and speeds went up, but essentially the bikes stayed "buckets" of shit.

It spread to other bases and there were soon events being held at Wigram, Ohakea, and Whenuapai. The Ohakea GP was for many years the pinnacle of the sport. Huge numbers turned out for the Easter meeting. Originally the GPs were held on the Saturday followed by VERY boozy prize giving. Sunday was for novelty events like North v South and relay races and in the early days 2-up races. Typically the North v South relay race ended with the last two riders (Ram and Jim) going for it till one binned it. The GPs were run on a circuit comprising of base roads and tarmac. Lap times of close to 1:30-40 and 40 lap races meant a good fast long hard race. These tracks were very exciting. Huge fast tarmac sections peeling off to the base roads between hangers with hard turns at the end, typically with no run-off. Packs of riders slipstreaming each other, 10 nose-to-tail riders peeling into sweepers at speed, knee down, then slipstreaming down the next straight.
The only base not to hold a GP was Whenuapai. In it's place they ran a 6-hour race, a true test for sure. Ohakea's 100cc GP got so big they divided it into two classes. One year I'm sure they had over 70 in the A-grade GP, 50 in the B-grade, 50+ in the 50 GP, and a good crowd in the sideacr GP.

Back in the good old days, when the MNZ steward couldn't get on base but could see (non permitted)motorcycle racing from the perimeter fence

[mstriumph]

sooooo glad we've finally cleared that one up; had wondered....

[speedpro]

used to go home pissed on $10.00........

Last time I was there with civvies we all went to the SNCO mess to have a few beers. 1st civvy lines up quite a selection of drinks on the bar, asks the barman how much and is told something like $5. !st civvy says "No mate, I'm buying the lot" to which the barman replies "yeah, that'll be $5".

There was quite a bit of throwing up and falling down that night.

[raster]

Thanks for that.

[myvice]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.

[Lee Rusty]

way back in the 70's they were buckets as in "buckets of shit" because thats what most of them were. If you spent $100 it was expensive

[Ixion]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.

That is an even more believable "history" than my one. Well done

[Pixie]

Very similar to thingamajigs......

The technical term is Digimafirkens

[Pixie]

Its all bollocks, heres the truth...

During the second world war the planes where very unreliable so to save money the MoD decided to have all the pilots run top secret GE experiments.
The plan was to drop highly modified animals onto the enemy and destroy their leadership from the top down.
So to keep it under wraps they used the acronym B.U.C.K.E.T. which stands for:
Bloody
Ugly
Creature
Kills
Every
Typewriter

The planing was to wipe out the typed commands and through this, break down the chain of command.
The only problem was the end of the war was dawning and to ensure the funding was justified the heads of this daring plan insisted that an award would be given to the first completed "Bucket"
Hence the term Bucket racing.
History doesnt go into too many details but I think we can all draw our own conclusions.
The main problem would seem that the pilots where flying too high when dropping these animals and their parashoots took them too far off course.
Rendering them all but useless.
What has come to light after many years of searching for the remains of the surviving animals is that thay grouped together and made there way to Italy.
The evidence of this is most prevelant in Italys motor industry.
Where else can you buy a beautiful looking car or motorcycle that can do incredible speeds without the local beaurocrasay demanding governers etc fitted to these high speed pasta rockets?
Like Germany where it is insisted that you have to be a poser type tosser to own a sports car.
Or England where all the cars die if you have more than two electrical componets running at once.
Or France, need I say more?
Obviously the Itailan motor group have used these creatures to their own advantage, unfortunately the animals must be dying out as the Italian Government has recently made it law to wear a seat belt.

See, you can always trust me to answer your queries without any attempt to hide the truth behind actual facts or hard evidence.

Judging by your spelling,some of them are still around performing their original task
The Italians did,however raise the speed limit to 150km/hr to increase driver concentration.