I want to race

[Drew]

that YOU approach on the limiter in top. I've rolled off about at the end of the grandstand or if I am feeling brave at the end of the pitwall.

Ya ought to have a crack on a sidecar. Go through the kink with the throttle pinned to the stop. Mind, I've not done that on our chair with it running properly.

[Grumph]

Best track in the country is an easy one. Ruapuna in Christchurch is the most technical, has the most turns, and a very scary turn one that you approach on the limiter in top.

If you're on the limiter in top approaching it - you've got the wrong gearing on.

Correctly geared, you should still be accelerating through the kink, then throw the picks out. Count another 5 if you're on a chair as they of course stop a bit better....

[Drew]

If you're on the limiter in top approaching it - you've got the wrong gearing on.

Correctly geared, you should still be accelerating through the kink, then throw the picks out. Count another 5 if you're on a chair as they of course stop a bit better....

Gearing the Ducati taller for the straight meant it was all wrong through the carousel and chicane before it. Something else that slows ya down through that chicane, is Steve Briggs on a KTM Superduke and hitting the back wheel thereof.

[Kickaha]

you should still be accelerating through the kink, then throw the picks out. Count another 5 if you're on a chair as they of course stop a bit better....

I'm still working up to that

[Drew]

I'm still working up to that

They squirm a bit through the kink eh? Puts the shits right up ya when Lovell goes the long way round at the same time.

[IsleOfSamTT]

They squirm a bit through the kink eh? Puts the shits right up ya when Lovell goes the long way round at the same time.

What circuit are we talking about here? I take it they do track days? Any rough idea of price?

[Drew]

What circuit are we talking about here? I take it they do track days? Any rough idea of price?

It's a fair old distance from you, to Christchurch mate. We're just hijacking your thread.

Pukekoe is a better track for my money, than Hampton downs. Both are in your neck of the woods. No run off room round a good chunk of it though, so it's not for the faint hearted.

[Drew]

Oh yeah, track days are all around the $100 mark. Test days (a different affair run by the track instead of a club) are more regular.

[IsleOfSamTT]

It's a fair old distance from you, to Christchurch mate. We're just hijacking your thread.

Pukekoe is a better track for my money, than Hampton downs. Both are in your neck of the woods. No run off room round a good chunk of it though, so it's not for the faint hearted.

Thanks for that. I'm sure I will do it at some point. I'll refer back to this thread when the time comes, lol.

Is anyone heading to Hamilton next weekend at all?

[nodrog:Me]

Oh yeah, track days are all around the $100 mark. Test days (a different affair run by the track instead of a club) are more regular.

You must be getting old like me. Trackdays are more than a hundy these days. Test days are $100 at puke and taupo.

[Drew]

You must be getting old like me. Trackdays are more than a hundy these days. Test days are $100 at puke and taupo.

So it would seem.

You're not thinking of those 'rider training' days are you? Where you get trained to ride by some unknown 100 year old like.

[IsleOfSamTT]

You must be getting old like me. Trackdays are more than a hundy these days. Test days are $100 at puke and taupo.

That's not too bad. They are normally £100 ($200) so that's good news. I think I will start off with a Trackday and then do a test day to see what sort of pace I'm doing. I take it they issue you with transponders or do you have to have your own?

[Drew]

That's not too bad. They are normally £100 ($200) so that's good news. I think I will start off with a Trackday and then do a test day to see what sort of pace I'm doing. I take it they issue you with transponders or do you have to have your own?

No transponders or time keeping at test days that I've been to.

Most people take their own lap timers.

I wouldn't worry about your pace at a test day. There's some fucken squids that show up to them with no clue how to ride. If you're a racer, just get a day license and race at a club meeting.

[quickbuck]

You will have to have your own lap timer for a track day or test day. Test days have cagers there so not as good as track days. Cagers sometimes drag stuff onto the track that isn't so good.

For a race meeting you can hire the transponder, or buy your own if you are going to do a lot of racing.

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I want to race

......so does Shaun...