Two-Hour 2013. 23-24 November

[Henk]

Well said Wildman, come join the sidecar ranks, we have allsorts in our class........ Im talking bikes not people... I think.

The people on sidecars are all completely sensible so you must be talking about the bikes.

[Henk]

Bump

Two hour and 40 lap B grade race on Sunday, practice, mixed doubles and sidecar endurance race on Saturday.

The Saturday races will only take place if there are enough entries.

Camping on Saturday if there is interest but we will need to know ahead of time.

[Henk]

Not long now, get your non bucket partners lined up where you can so we can show them what real racing is all about.

[goose8]

Any results from today's races ?

Not long now, get your non bucket partners lined up where you can so we can show them what real racing is all about.

[Henk]

Any results from today's races ?

Dave and Nathaniel first
Glen and Av second
Dan and Royd third
Tim and Rod fourth.

[Damien_Toman]

Results from B-Grade 40-lap and the 2-Hour attached.

[koba]

Dave and Nathaniel first
Glen and Av second
Dan and Royd third
Tim and Rod fourth.

What happened to The Henkster and Fordie?

[Str8 Jacket]

What happened to The Henkster and Fordie?

5th again!

[Henk]

5th again!

And bloody good fun it was. Not sure how people do a full hour, I was broken by the end of my second stint.

[bucketracer]

The 2 Hour and the team of Hugh Trenhome & David Hall on number 12 demonstrated how not to do it.



Although they managed some fast times with a best of 29.988



They were all over the place and kept falling off.

In the end they only managed 152 laps while nearly everyone else did over 200 with the pointy end over 230.

Anyone can ride loose, the real trick is to be smooth, go fast and stay on.

Being abusive to the people running the meeting was not that clever either.

All round it was a display of dumb and dummer.

[Pumba]

Saw the DQ on the timing sheets. Makes sense now

[Damien_Toman]

The young guys riding number 12 were certainly riding fast and were very exciting to watch and photograph. I didn't see much else of what happened outside my camera viewfinder. Maybe they have been watching the multi-time MotoGP World Champion, Jorge? He certainly stirred up some news at Valencia! I also noticed that they did not reprimand Jorge - just shows that they highly value the entertainment, possibly as much as the safety? Jorge said so himself, sarcastically, in an earlier press conference - now he's into it! MotoGP 2014 will be very interesting, with his new aggressive tactics. Maybe we should not be too hard on the riders who are building experience and trying hard. Were would Lorenzo and Marquez be today if they hadn't pushed the limits a bit earlier on? Maybe we need a buckets penalty points system for riders, like MotoGP and now World SBK?

Damien

[Bert]

The young guys riding number 12 were certainly riding fast and were very exciting to watch and photograph. I didn't see much else of what happened outside my camera viewfinder. Maybe they have been watching the multi-time MotoGP World Champion, Jorge? He certainly stirred up some news at Valencia! I also noticed that they did not reprimand Jorge - just shows that they highly value the entertainment, possibly as much as the safety? Jorge said so himself, sarcastically, in an earlier press conference - now he's into it! MotoGP 2014 will be very interesting, with his new aggressive tactics.
Maybe we should not be too hard on the riders who are building experience and trying hard. Were would Lorenzo and Marquez be today if they hadn't pushed the limits a bit earlier on? Maybe we need a buckets penalty points system for riders, like MotoGP and now World SBK?

Damien

Really.....

We should always be encouraging safe hard riding and rubbing is racing.
But we should not be supporting dangerous stupid shit.
Kart tracks are far to small to take avasive action.
Just remember there are kids out there too; we are responsible for ensuring their safety and enjoyable introduction into motorcycle racing. You don't want to scare them away.

There is no bloody world championships or prize money up for grabs; so bouncing off someone mid corner isn't going to win you any friends...

[Damien_Toman]

I didn't see that.

[TZ350]

The young guys riding number 12 were certainly riding fast and were very exciting to watch and photograph. Maybe we should not be too hard on the riders who are building experience and trying hard.

There is unskilled riding and then there is immature riding, an unskilled rider gets better with practice, but deliberately immature and aggressive behavior on the track and in the pits needs an attitude correction, unlike MotoGP riders, most of us have to go to work on Monday and don't need to be hurt by an idiot.

There is no bloody world championships or prize money up for grabs; so bouncing off someone mid corner isn't going to win you any friends...

This lot were newbees, I have not seen them here before and its been a long time since I have seen any deliberately bad behavior on the track or in the pits, and abusing the organisers.

Every level of rider is welcome at Buckets but not every level of behaviour, my guess is, Cully will stand them in the naughty corner for a bit of time out and then watch to see how they go later.