Dave Moss "Thank you very much for your hospitality, interest, and on bike successes"

[SVboy]

Why is it sad? Surely anybody can ask a simple question, it's only a question, nobody is insulting his mother or anything.

From what you are saying you think it's ok for a passionate experienced backpacking taxi driver from Europe to start ferrying paying passengers around Wellington to earn some pocket money and local taxi drivers should just accept it. Sorry, but I think the taxi drivers would have every right to ask questions about the arrangement.

I'm no stickler for following the rules but where my livelihood is concerned I'd be fukn pissed off if I or one of my mates was done out of a job or work because a tourist was after a bit of pocket money, so it's aboslutely fair play for RT and JD to ask a simple question.

Think about your bizarre analogy re taxi drivers, unusual in the extreme. Now take a big breath and think about this whole event from the point of view of being a passionate motorcyclist[assuming that you are one?] given a rare opportunity to hear from an overseas expert on suspension. Do you know of ANY nzer who specializes in suspension seminars and offering trackday setups? I dont. So this has,at this stage, been a one-off event. As to the events financial structure, I dont know? Do you?You do! Prove it. Or are you just jumping on the "guessing" bandwagon?
Now as far as I know, no hard-working nzer has their income at risk here; in fact these seminars probably grew some peoples businesses income. For example, If Dave helps a person set their bike up and identifies it needs new springs, or there is a valving issue, then they most likely will go to RT or similar. Benefit to NZ!
As an aside;who is JDracing? They seem unable or unwilling to answer any questions directed their way but seem content to stir from the the safety of the internet. Its not you is it?

[Robert Taylor]

Think about your bizarre analogy re taxi drivers, unusual in the extreme. Now take a big breath and think about this whole event from the point of view of being a passionate motorcyclist[assuming that you are one?] given a rare opportunity to hear from an overseas expert on suspension. Do you know of ANY nzer who specializes in suspension seminars and offering trackday setups? I dont. So this has,at this stage, been a one-off event. As to the events financial structure, I dont know? Do you?You do! Prove it. Or are you just jumping on the "guessing" bandwagon?
Now as far as I know, no hard-working nzer has their income at risk here; in fact these seminars probably grew some peoples businesses income. For example, If Dave helps a person set their bike up and identifies it needs new springs, or there is a valving issue, then they most likely will go to RT or similar. Benefit to NZ!
As an aside;who is JDracing? They seem unable or unwilling to answer any questions directed their way but seem content to stir from the the safety of the internet. Its not you is it?

In all fairness we have ourselves over the years run a number of seminars, most totally free and some charged. We had an Ohlins Superbike road race engineer here about 4 years back ( Peter Goddard ) and that went down very well. It was pricey to get him here which obviously reflected in the charge but the knowledge he imparted to road racers was gold. Also we have on a number of occassions been at trackdays to set bikes up ( independent of top level racebikes ), one just 2 weeks ago and it all went down exceptionally well. This was totally at no charge but a real cost to me in downtime, fuel and incidentals ( silly me? )
Perhaps its just less well publicised and in fairness some of our competitors have been at trackdays just to help people, which hopefully then leads to business. But it should only mean business for all the right reasons, not for the sake of it.
No disrespect whatsoever to Dave but I think that also perhaps there is this feeling that because someone is from overseas their level of knowledge will be huge to what the local proffessionals can impart. Some of us have also worked overseas, including in WSBK and have access to the inner sanctums of the blue chip suspension manufacturers. So we are not exactly ''isolated''

Where a group of people can be got together for some setup knowledge etc then we are totally approachable and available most of the year round.

[SVboy]

Robert, we would love having you down here for a track weekend or seminar any time.

[300weatherby]

Robert, we would love having you down here for a track weekend or seminar any time.

But don't tell him you've been buying your suspenders over the net first,


Mind you, you with suspenders and RT with twisted knickers could be funny............

[Robert Taylor]

Robert, we would love having you down here for a track weekend or seminar any time.

Ok, perhaps see how many people you can get together to spread the cost

[300weatherby]

Ok, perhaps see how many people you can get together to spread the cost

Could we make it racer specific and maybe sort topic/questions ect in advance so we could do it to a plan, give us an idea of cost and your logistical requirements, then we could work on number requirements to fund it, I'd give SV a hand to get it up and running.

[Robert Taylor]

Could we make it racer specific and maybe sort topic/questions ect in advance so we could do it to a plan, give us an idea of cost and your logistical requirements, then we could work on number requirements to fund it, I'd give SV a hand to get it up and running.

Ok send me an e-mail to sales @kss.net.nz, so that I have your regular e-mail address to respond to