Sidecar Racing

[scrivy]

Did anyone complain when you described Jimmy and I as the result of shaking a baby? Or the chair as handling like a truck load of spastics?

But the complaint at Levels was justified (in their head), whereas the above statement is just pure fact.......

[swarfie]

Shit....."SHIT" was all he said. FFS some people need to get over themselves. Looks like the management at Wanganui have taken the letter from the complainer seriously though and the best/funniest/most knowledgeable commentator we've had in years is tossing in the towel. Don't give up Spyda, there's heaps of people who love what you do....err I mean the commentating, not all that other shit......

[Shaun Harris]

Adam reckons it only puts out 163 at the tread. I find it hard to believe that's their best race motor, or he was telling me porkies. Our stock 12 puts down 165, and that was on a really accurate dyno system with a huge loss through a tyre driving onto another tyre jig thingie. (Dyno was for cars). And fuck off with the "extra 200cc" bulshit. You all know damn well that the litre bikes all make more power AND torque. The heavier crank helps to take off, and then any thou should smoke it.

163 is FACT dude, They had it Dyno tuned for the first time ever last Tuesday.

[Shaun Harris]

Shit....."SHIT" was all he said. FFS some people need to get over themselves. Looks like the management at Wanganui have taken the letter from the complainer seriously though and the best/funniest/most knowledgeable commentator we've had in years is tossing in the towel. Don't give up Spyda, there's heaps of people who love what you do....err I mean the commentating, not all that other shit......

Sad fact of the soft cock bull shit false PC world this fucked up counyrty has become. Thanks for your work Spyda.

[jellywrestler]

Hey Spyda, I saw some bitch complained about your commentating at levels the other week.
For fucks sake don't let one small minded God bothering pedophile hypocrite spoil the most informed & humorous commentating this country has had for Boxing Day.
My old man told me, "tall trees catch a lot of wind" don't be afraid to be a tall tree.
P.s, I actually have no idea who complained, I just fabricated a cap to fit the behaviour.

the complaint doesn't worry me whatsoever, and at least Brendan has beliefs and actually took the time to write it down, put it in an envelope, pay for fastpost as it got to wanganui from christchurch within a week. Without complaints, or support you can't easily gauge on how good/bad a job you have.
it was simply over the word shit, nothing more nothing less., and the word shit at a classic meeting, small crowd not streamed nor recorded.

This was then put to me as a warning by the management. I can spend all the time on the mic with out the f's and c's, in fact you might hear bugger once in a while, no bloody's (yip i said fuck at hd two years ago, and meant to say it just that once) and rarely the word shit either, no rasicm, very little sexist remarks, yes the odd ginga goes down.....

But i couldn't work well on sunday with that hovering over my head and while most people don't think i have i do have some level of pride, I would rather walk than be pushed and if i slip up that's what they've promised me.
Last year i had a similar talking too, about some of my comments, fair enough and didn't say anything other than about racing all day long, not a single word of thanks either
Last year I was banned from the Robert Holden Memorial prize giving at the track, despite one of my jobs being to assist Roberts Mother Bette, who was 85 and in a mob scooter, to get safely to the awards in a large crowd. Depsite having my name on the winning bike the three years prior, and possibly a forth; I wasn't even allowed to assist her, i have no idea why. I had paid to get in the meeting, i had brought my own programme, but did get a free lunch.
it'll be my fiftieth boxing day, might sit in the esses with a box of cold ones instead.

[jellywrestler]

But the complaint at Levels was justified (in their head),

as mentioned, i have no problem with their beliefs, although to test them out we will see what actions they take after this was on a sidecar at manfeild all weekend, and is entered for wanganui.
if they don't lodge a complaint then they have me in their sights and me alone.

[scrivy]

it was simply over the word shit, nothing more nothing less., and the word shit at a classic meeting, small crowd not streamed nor recorded.

...and yet I've heard Mike Tosskings say 'shit' on Seven Sharp, and also 'dickhead'....

Go figure....

I bet the person walking around the pits would have heard alot worse words than 'shit'..... just saying.......

[Shaun Harris]

the complaint doesn't worry me whatsoever, and at least Brendan has beliefs and actually took the time to write it down, put it in an envelope, pay for fastpost as it got to wanganui from christchurch within a week. Without complaints, or support you can't easily gauge on how good/bad a job you have.
it was simply over the word shit, nothing more nothing less., and the word shit at a classic meeting, small crowd not streamed nor recorded.

This was then put to me as a warning by the management. I can spend all the time on the mic with out the f's and c's, in fact you might hear bugger once in a while, no bloody's (yip i said fuck at hd two years ago, and meant to say it just that once) and rarely the word shit either, no rasicm, very little sexist remarks, yes the odd ginga goes down.....

But i couldn't work well on sunday with that hovering over my head and while most people don't think i have i do have some level of pride, I would rather walk than be pushed and if i slip up that's what they've promised me.
Last year i had a similar talking too, about some of my comments, fair enough and didn't say anything other than about racing all day long, not a single word of thanks either
Last year I was banned from the Robert Holden Memorial prize giving at the track, despite one of my jobs being to assist Roberts Mother Bette, who was 85 and in a mob scooter, to get safely to the awards in a large crowd. Depsite having my name on the winning bike the three years prior, and possibly a forth; I wasn't even allowed to assist her, i have no idea why. I had paid to get in the meeting, i had brought my own programme, but did get a free lunch.
it'll be my fiftieth boxing day, might sit in the esses with a box of cold ones instead.

MILO in my pits for ya dude

[Shaun Harris]

...and yet I've heard Mike Tosskings say 'shit' on Seven Sharp, and also 'dickhead'....

Go figure....

I bet the person walking around the pits would have heard alot worse words than 'shit'..... just saying.......

as I said above dude, Fuked up PC world NZ has become

[scrivy]

163 is FACT dude, They had it Dyno tuned for the first time ever last Tuesday.

That simply can't be right Shaun.
If it is even slightly wanked out, then it'll put out more than that.
The dyno wasn't calibrated correctly.

One thing, if it was their best engine, then why was it 1 second slower than last years times??

[Shaun Harris]

That simply can't be right Shaun.
If it is even slightly wanked out, then it'll put out more than that.
The dyno wasn't calibrated correctly.

One thing, if it was their best engine, then why was it 1 second slower than last years times??

I cannot speak for them nor the Dyno mate. I just know what I saw on the Dyno sheet print out, and know of other bikes that have been on same Dyno, and the figures they put out fit in with 2 bikes in Auckland built by the same man, yet on diff Dyno's with very very similar numbers. What I can say about the time diff is, Adam was very hard on himself on Sunday night about his riding effort, maybe that was why the time diff.

[Grumph]

...and yet I've heard Mike Tosskings say 'shit' on Seven Sharp, and also 'dickhead'....

Go figure....

I bet the person walking around the pits would have heard alot worse words than 'shit'..... just saying.......

Interesting - not being on facebook I don't hear a lot of this shit. I had no idea you'd been complained about. Maybe it was the "knocking on his back door like a gay Mormon" line i heard...and enjoyed.
I would assume that if a complaint was made the club would have had no option but to mention it to you.
At least you haven't had what happened to your commentary mate Blunder happen to you...I was at a meeting there where he was shut down for being over the circuit noise levels. Farcical. Later that day the local who'd complained took off in his aircraft - so the organising club complained about that noise level too.
Did the complainer write to wanganui organisers ? If so why the fuck do that ? PM me who he was please Spyda.
Greg

[nodrog:Me]

as mentioned, i have no problem with their beliefs, although to test them out we will see what actions they take after this was on a sidecar at manfeild all weekend, and is entered for wanganui.
if they don't lodge a complaint then they have me in their sights and me alone.

I had my three sponsors omitted from the programme, without even a courtesy call or explanation.

Atorn, Backdoor, Hertz are all legitimate companies which pay For advertising.

[jellywrestler]

I would assume that if a complaint was made the club would have had no option but to mention it to you.

yes that's fair, and i would expect to hear it, as i would if there was a compliment paid.

it was one of the workers at the cemetery circuit, who mentioned it to me, i explained that as it was an in house meeting with no streaming or recording, and being a classic meeting where the people who hire me, yes pay me something, want commentary and entertainment so i didn't think the word shit was out of line.
he wasn't happy with my answer so run to mummy
what fucks me off is by the time it got to me it was 'a written complaint'.
besides greg it was a jehovahs witness, not a mormon....

[jellywrestler]

I had my three sponsors omitted from the programme, without even a courtesy call or explanation.

Atorn, Backdoor, Hertz are all legitimate companies which pay For advertising.

as a kid i was always impressed with the farcanal racing team, as an adult nothing has changed.....