King of Levels Rd 2
After last weeks little disasterhttp://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...chmentid=14093 it was looking doubtful I’d make Rd2 so the week went something like this
Sunday night, Have a big Sulk
Monday, Pull motor from frame and drop the head off to be repaired
Tuesday, Strip motor
Wednesday, Clean all the crap out of it
Thursday, Reassemble up to the cylinder head
Friday, Pick up the head, reassemble head and put the motor back in the frame, load the bike and all the gear ready to go
So Saturday morning without having even fired the Motor up I was up at 5.30 and having a bite to eat, in the ute and off to pick up Nipper as he was hitching a ride down with us, unfortunately he was unable to ride as he still didn’t have a clearance after breaking his collarbone when he crashed his 150 at Ruapuna, we stop off at Dangerous place and pick his bike up and head South with Dangerous and Rashika following, at Rolleston I indicate and pull out to pass a car at the passing lane only to have him indicate and pull out straight in front of me, we get passed and pull back in and next minute some dodgy “Dangerous” guy goes flying past at about 140kmh; it’s looking like the racing has already started
We stop off for gas and snacks and further down the road Dangerous pulls out and passes me and next sec I get a text and I quote “Sorry that’s the last time I look at the back of ya bike 2day” well that was going to come back to bite him on the arse by the end of the day :slap:
We arrive at the track do scrutineering, sign in etc and then I finally try the bike to see if it’ll go, a few steps drop the clutch and it fires up nearly straight away so I know I’ll be doing more than just watching today, we roll up for practice and head out onto the track, I’ve got a bit of a miss around the 10,000rpm mark but it’s going ok but as I follow Dangerous down the straight he’s pulling away and I can fell the bike getting slower, I limp back to the pits thinking “that’s another one fucked” and notice smoke off the rear brake, trying to push it in neutral I find the rear caliper locked on, a few secs with the spanners and it’s all fixed, in the meantime K14 has run out of gas and is pushing his bike back
Race 1
They decide the buckets will go off the back of the 150/street stock grid rather than the first come first served from the last round, so we line up, K14 in a fit of incompetence leave his bike in neutral on the line so he doesn’t get a very good start at all but by lap2 he’s pulling out and passing me down the straight and then I take him back at the hairpin, we trade place for a few laps while Dangerous drops further behind each lap, K14 is in front as we come up behind some of the 150’s and I take the lot of them down into the hairpin with K14 right behind, as we hit the straight Pete Jones fly’s past waving at us and we can’t work out what we’ve done wrong (as it turns out we passed under a yellow) K14 gets some of the 150’s in between us on the last lap into the hairpin and leads me across for the flag by a couple of bike lengths
Back in the pits and Dangerous is stripping the carb’s as he’s blaming mechanical problems for his poor showing rather than Rider incompetence which is the real problem, I decide to change to a different carb to see if it affects the top end miss and it turns out to be a good choice
Race 2
We launch off the line and as we hit the straight K14 pulls out and passes me, I follow him off the straight and expecting me to try a pass up the inside he covers the inside line into the next left so I ride around the outside instead, he pulls an outside pass around turn one and leads me on to the straight again we swap positions each lap and as he leads me onto the straight with a lap left I’m slowly gaining on him when he runs out of gas again and gives me a easy 2nd behind Cotton, ah yeah as for Dangerous well he got lapped AGAIN and was nowhere to be seen
Race 3
K14 and Dangerous both beat me off the line as I do one of my traditional crap starts and Cotton decides to slow down and have a play with us for a bit, I slip up the inside of K14 into the decreasing radius and he comes back at me off the front straight and Cotton is passing us and dropping back on each lap, lap 2 and I notice a brake torque arm lying on the track off the end of the straight which it turns out later has fallen off K14’s bike, it turns out later K14 also had a big “moment” at the hairpin when he dug a foot peg in and had a front end slide, I get into the K14’s draft down the straight and as we go off the end we’re three wide and I go around the outside of both of them and as we come across the line the red flag is out and the race is over and we ride slowly back to the pits, yeah and Dangerous got lapped AGAIN
Diesel pig killed his bucket last weekend but he’s running his Pre82 Black Betty (CBX550) in clubman’s and as the bikes are riding out onto the track he’s still pissing about in the pits getting his gear on, but he redeems himself with a good ride and a third place
Race 4
Points races over and it’s into the handicap races, and as Dangerous and K14 are both definitely handicapped they go off the front with me there to look after them
Dangerous leads off the line and into turn 1, I nail him down the straight and lead for the lap and he passes me into turn 1 again, Dangerous has decided to totally ignore the redline on his bike in this race and shows a good turn of speed even getting out the front from time to time, I carry more speed through turn 2 and get on the gas earlier and pass him down the straight again with Cotton alongside as well to make us three wide, Dangerous tries coming underneath me into the hairpin and I shut him out but he gets me into turn 1 again so I draft him down the straight and pass him again, we trade places each lap with Cotton instead of buggering off slowing down to play with us, he passes me around the outside at the hairpin then slows to let me pass and cocks it up as it’s the last lap and I take my first win for the day, K14 has gone off form and is nowhere to be seen in this one
I notice a bit of oil on the side of the bike and find a seal missing off the bike so my day is over and I’m feeling a bit happier with the result from this round
Roll on Rd3
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Originally Posted by scracha
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cheers man 
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