Where do you test your race bike when at home??

**JohnBoy** · 20th June 2005, 23:11

as of late i have been fiddling with my bike and after repeated attemps at testing up and down my home street i seem to have (some how??

) fallen out of favour with my neighbours. so people, where do you test ride your bikes without taking them to a trackday?

**Brian d marge** · 21st June 2005, 01:24

Originally Posted by JohnBoy

as of late i have been fiddling with my bike and after repeated attemps at testing up and down my home street i seem to have (some how??

) fallen out of favour with my neighbours. so people, where do you test ride your bikes without taking them to a trackday?

The kidergarten next door , but the buggers keep having sports day which fills MY test track up with cars ..... awfully inconciderate ...anyway 20 min away is a HUGE park and as they ar doing up the riverside it has become an awesome MX track ..FAILING that and in need of some serious airtime ..I pay money to use the supercross track in Kawagoe 30 min from here ,,,,

This morning for example I was jetting for the bottom end ..and was at the kindy ..but sat I will be the super cross park

Stephen
BTW ...I do wait till the kiddys have gone ,,,,,,,,,which can be a pain as the dear little loves dont go til its nearly time work

**That Guy** · 21st June 2005, 09:59

Yeah its a problem - I've anoyed the neighbours a couple of times. Worth finding a quiet country road and taking your bike out there on a trailer. Only problem is if you live in Auckland that means a 90 minute drive. Still cheaper than going to a track day and spending $70 for 3 laps like I did a few times last year. As long as you don't get caught by the piggywiggys its cheaper anyway....

**Racey Rider** · 21st June 2005, 10:47

Living right on the edge of town, I have access to some great straight country roads for testing. I also have a spares bike, so rather than draw attention to myself by riding a bike in race setup (#'s, no lights), I chuck the lights and an old Reg plate on off the spares bike. The lights don't work, but they look the part! The bike looks like a really bad Street Fighter, but thats good,, in the event of a off, I don't wreak my good flairings. :raghead:

My Rules for Country rd testing:

1. Don't test on the same road for hours at a time.
20 minutes would be the longest I want to annoy the locals.

2. Don't practise your Race Starts outside the same house all the time.
High rev's race starts sound like Hoon'ish behavior. Time to ring the cops!

3. Be a little responsible with your 'irresponsibility'!
Don't try and be Rossi in the corners, save that for the track.
Don't speed up behind or pass other motorist at 200+ km/h

It's a bit of a compromise testing on the road between, the cost of getting caught, against the cost of track testing.
For me, I have to take a day off work, travel nearly 3 hours to the nearest track, then pay $80-$100 to get on the track. And because it 'testing', things may not go well and I might only get 3 laps in for all that expense. Who needs that! Might as well spend 15 minutes on the road at home and save my money for the day I get caught.

Be interesting to hear from our KB cop's as to what they would do when finding a race bike tester on puplic roads.
I guess you'ld have to give us the 'Offical by the book Line'? Whats the fine then?
By the way,, a lot of us Appreciate the work you do. and tho we grumple when it's our turn to get the ticket, the world would be a worse place without you.

I mean,, how could I test my race bike without knowing your presence is stopping some idiot from testing His race bike coming the other way!!

**speights_bud** · 21st June 2005, 18:33

Currently testing the bike on the driveway(approx 500m long) and 'occasionally

' on the road,living in the wops' helps. took the bike to the nearest township ( in the van of course) and test rode it at a mates down a very quiet road. The cop next door was in a very good mood and left us alone

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**Two Smoker** · 21st June 2005, 18:40

Take it really quietly down the suburban streets, to a deserted carpark with 2 exits... then that carpark leads to a motorway where i blast the bike, then head home quietly...

**Coyote** · 21st June 2005, 18:48

If only the bike was running so I could test it

**FROSTY:Me** · 21st June 2005, 18:55

Thjeres a road about 5 minutes away from where I live. perfect for plug chops and suchlike

**diesel pig** · 21st June 2005, 20:36

I all ways thought other people did want I did for testing my race bikes and now I know

living near the wops helps

**dveus** · 21st June 2005, 22:42

well I dont have a race bike...yet, But its not unusual for me to come across someone testing there race bike on a few of the backroads around clevedon. I've seen a couple different bikes on the same stretch of road so theres a few people out there doing it.

**crazyxr250rider** · 1st September 2005, 18:06

Im thirteen
i ride my bike to urenui and back
and have a lot or fun wheelying all the way
any one going there this weekend?

**Sketchy_Racer** · 1st September 2005, 19:23

im lucky everyone down my street has bikes so dont seem to mind much i limit my speed to 80 tho cause any faster is just silly in a 50k area duh

**froggyfrenchman** · 1st September 2005, 19:42

go to my mums house, in the wops. all her neighbours come out to comment on any improvments. the 2 local wop cops have each come and asked for a spin...

**speights_bud** · 1st September 2005, 21:39

Well i've tried the staff carpark at school a few times, but they don't like it so much. It appears the A100 is a tad too loud and they don't think much of me doing wheelies past their cars. Ohwell at least i'm still detention free. Oh and did i mention i was supposed to be in class at the time?

**FzerozeroT** · 2nd September 2005, 11:50

yep, it rocks living down a 4km long dead end road, and neighbours are awesome, he restores vintage cars so he's got heaps of odds and ends and tools that I get to use.