Pukekohe Open Day Sat, 10th Sep

**Two Smoker** · 11th September 2005, 19:03

Originally Posted by Kwaka-Kid

also what do the gixxer 1k's have HP wise? those GS1000's are only up to around 150hp, and the frames are just a bunch of handlebars welded together, it really is unbeleivable, full credit to the 60 seconds. Good to hear everybody enjoyed the day

sorry i couldnt make it, and finally -
HOW DID QUASI GO?! im starting to worry and its him im getting scared of.

Brett was doing good and i got him doing 1:15's

K4 GSX-R1000 puts out about 147hp at the wheel...

**Quasievil** · 11th September 2005, 22:18

Originally Posted by Kwaka-Kid

HOW DID QUASI GO?! im starting to worry and its him im getting scared of.

Dont be scared of me fella
My bike was good but the handling was shite, WT reckons I need a steering damper to sought out the front, I was having a hard time getting through high speed corners, also the fairing was shaking around alot which upset the bike.
As well as that I dont think I rode that well, mostly cause of the above but mainly because of my head situation dealing with the above.
I will hopefully have it soughted by race day so then I wont have an excuse.
Can you do me a deal on a dampner dide ?

**Kwaka-Kid** · 11th September 2005, 22:56

Hey quasi, your running the GPR70SP's right? they are a bit "triangulated" as i say so with more wear in centres they become more stable,i reckon either try a slightly lower pressure - what were you runnnig? 30/30 on a fine day i reckon. I was having the same trouble with the FZR400 as its REALLY light in the front and was getting all sketchy, tiny bit worrying, but i did have a steering damper and in the end i dialed it from nothing, to halfway and that helped heaps. So i guess yeah it is a reasonable option. I cant do you a deal sorry, but give us a call at some stage i have another idea tinkering through my head.

LB · 12th September 2005, 01:25

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The guy # 14 in Big Dave's piccie looks to me like Dave Freeman from down our way.

Vince Sharpe probably isn't the guy Frosty's talking about, I think it's probably his brother Greg on a red GS1000? Can't remember his racing #

I wasn't there, so I'm only surmising here.....I may well be wrong.
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**Motoracer** · 12th September 2005, 01:26

Hey all, sorry to all of you who I didn't manage to get back to in time, as all I've been doing non stop is working, working and working since I got back to Auckland from the track day. I only got a min now so I'll type up a lil report.

I got up at 7 to be nice and early this time but somehow, I still managed to be late enough to miss out on 2 sessions on the day!! How the heck does this always happen to me??

Right, well after being able to actually pit in and set the bike up. I changed the jet size to play it safe and taped up the radiator to optimise runing tempreture of the bike. Then as the bikes went, I had to whip the tyre warmers off. Then warm it up to atleast 60 degrees before I could actually rider her out there.. So I was just sitting there doing the "Ring ding ding ding ding, Ring ding ding ding ding..".. About 5 mins had gone by... Then as soon as the right tempreture hit, I got away from the pits.. Had to try dumping the clutch about 4 times before I actually got moving on the powerband (so not used to starting on 125cc gp bike!)

I went around conservetively since it was the first time I was riding a bike again on the track since months, not only that but it was on a completly different type of machine to what I was used to.. Then as soon as I got to the back straight, the revs wouldn't go high enough.. Meaning jet size was too large and I was runing too rich, d'oh!! Then the tempreture reached sky high as well because of the wrong taping of the radiatior. So after not even doing 1 lap, I came in.. let it cool down but by this time this session had ended as well.. Damn! 3 sessions gone to waste!

Time came for the next run and I had already gone down a jet size and the atmospheric tempreture also slightly dropped.. So according to my calculations, I should have been just right. Then I only use half as much tape on the radiator to avoid over heating.. Again I was bliping the throtle to get it up to temp "Ring ding ding ding ding, Ring ding ding ding ding.." One thing that you can instantly feel about these bikes when you are on em, is that they vibrate like a bitch.. Just before I got ready to go out with the right temprature, I put my left foot up on the foot peg and it just popped right out! lol The vibration must have undone the foot peg. So I quickly put it back on and went out... Unfortunatly this time, the washers from the gear changer on the foot peg had come off and now I was limited to only second gear!! grrrrr... Not good! So I came back in to try and sort out the problem but by the time we did sort it out, this session had ended as well.. WTF?? lol By now I had done 2 half laps so I guess that could count as a lap? lol Most of the people already left by this time.

OK, as Loosebruce said, 3rd time's a charm, I had my fingers crossed as this was the last session for the day. I went on the track and the tempreture was perfect, Jetting was near perfect, only slightly richer but that's perfect for me anyway because I wana play it safe. After trying to remember which way the track went, I got a bit comfertable with the 125. I then finally got to have a bit of fun. It is unbeleavably light and nible and I was free to pick my own line almost cause you didn't have to strugle to stay on the track while having it pinned. Over john deer, you can go wide, stay tight or hang loose down the middle, what ever goes with the 125 which was pretty unusual for me. For 600s it can be a bit scary with a wrong line over the hill but the 125 was pretty crusie. Going into Jennan was pretty fun too.. Actually the whole lap, every where was fun on it. I am happy with it's peformance! TS clocked me doing a 1'14 so that's OK for a first session on a 125 I guess.. With a lot of work and practice, I sure as hell do hope I can chop off a few secs off that time in the future. Anyway, I had heaps of fun in just thoes 20 mins so that's all that matters to me.

So far I am glad that I have gone over to the 125s because I am understanding a lot more about bikes and racing in general and I am getting a lot more organised with myself.. So there just might be hope for me yet..

Anywho, it was good to meet you lot and cheers for the help everyone that helped.

My next run on the 125 will have to be race day on the 2nd of October, 2005. Which Round 1 of AMCC so we'll see how it goes. I am not ready by any means but it's all a learning curve.

Cheers!

P.S. Sorry for the piss poor report but I am rather sleepy and tired.

**Quasievil** · 12th September 2005, 07:00

Originally Posted by Kwaka-Kid

Hey quasi, your running the GPR70SP's right? they are a bit "triangulated" as i say so with more wear in centres they become more stable,i reckon either try a slightly lower pressure - what were you runnnig? 30/30 on a fine day i reckon. I was having the same trouble with the FZR400 as its REALLY light in the front and was getting all sketchy, tiny bit worrying, but i did have a steering damper and in the end i dialed it from nothing, to halfway and that helped heaps. So i guess yeah it is a reasonable option. I cant do you a deal sorry, but give us a call at some stage i have another idea tinkering through my head.

I was running 28/29 , I will give you a call later mate

**FROSTY:Me** · 12th September 2005, 08:10

quazi--on mella yella I run 27/28 if it helps.
mate the top of the "hill' is always either a head shake or if I get my weight far enough forwards its a wheelspin. Hit jennian wrong and you hit the bump that gives the bars a bit of a slap.
theres a few other nastys out there to give ya a wake up.
Its not that its worse than Taupo -you are just going a shit load faster is all.
-In my muddled way all Im saying is thats what pukies like -you kinda get used to it.-eventually you find a sweeet line that works for ya