Commentators, where are they all?

[jasonu]

At Puke you could never make out what was being said on the PA system...

[F5 Dave]

RIP Ray. Great commentator, and in a past life a real world hero at the Wahine disaster.

[malcy25]

so i'd put you in the first sentence category, what stops you doing it?

Take your pick of the following...
1) I get stage fright
2) talk too fast
3) mumble
4) ramble incoherently
5) don't know as much as people think
6) who wants to listen to me, I'm not that funny in the flesh or in the ether....

Positives are that I have a good face for radio!

I commend the efforts that Ray, Pav, Neil, Spyda and crew put in.

[jellywrestler]

RIP to that Ray chap.

The guy CAMS used at Southern Classic festival this spent the whole time talking about what was going on in the Suzuki series while the boys were out dicing. Not sure I could do any better but you can't help but think that with better commentary more of the general public might come to watch our racing.

that was me, i spent very little time, and tried to report on each race while the bikes were on the grid, there were people there who would have ridden there in some classes, there were people there who had family and friends riding at the suzuki series, i was very concious to spend time with the bikes on the track but if that's your take you're entiltied to it.
later on in the day the handicap races were all over the place so we left the music on in the end.

[ellipsis]

...was the Southern Classic about racing?...I should try harder to be serious next time...CAMS is fun shit and having Spyda there adds to it...it all mixes well to be memorable long weekend of fun...if you're doing it for any other reason than fun and love , what's the point...

[kiwi cowboy]

...was the Southern Classic about racing?...I should try harder to be serious next time...CAMS is fun shit and having Spyda there adds to it...it all mixes well to be memorable long weekend of fun...if you're doing it for any other reason than fun and love , what's the point...

YOU serious don't be stupid.
No fun in that and yip fun fun fun.
Just need a new computer to be able to play the vids I took on bike with new cam that the computer cant keep up with.
Spyda was great with his commentary and funny as hell at prize giving.

[jellywrestler]

Spyda was great with his commentary and funny as hell at prize giving.

just remember with the prize givings, what goes on on tour......

[jellywrestler]

Take your pick of the following...
1) I get stage fright
2) talk too fast
3) mumble
4) ramble incoherently
5) don't know as much as people think
6) who wants to listen to me, I'm not that funny in the flesh or in the ether....

Positives are that I have a good face for radio!

I commend the efforts that Ray, Pav, Neil, Spyda and crew put in.

we all say that, there's three jobs up there, sponsors, details and commentary, i only started by looking after the first, then the second and the third was sucked out of me by the other person cause they wanted to go for a piss or something, i'm not singling you out at all, but if you people actually though they'd help out just for one class where they were clever at it evolves from there.

[swarfie]

Yeah, at The Southern Classic I stumbled up the stairs at Spyda's request and stumbled through a few words about classic sidecars (there would have been long silences if I'd been left to do it on my own...thanks for helping me with that Spyda) and then beat a hasty retreat. Not my thing but those that do the commentary are appreciated...well, by some of us anyway.

[nodrog:Me]

....later on in the day the handicap races were all over the place .....

the politically correct term is Sidecar races.

I'd love to be a commentator, but I suffer from Tourette's.

[Grumph]

the politically correct term is Sidecar races.

I'd love to be a commentator, but I suffer from Tourette's.

Handicap races can be very good for a commentator who can whip up a frenzy at a back marker coming through the field - but you've got to know the participants and how hard they can go in traffic...Which really means more familiarity with who's who in the field than a visiting commentator can manage IMO.
A couple of the handicaps had the best racing of the weekend IMO - aside from the literal "knock down, drag out" pre 82 seniors.

[sidecar bob]

I commentated sidecars at the Truck meeting at Taupo the day Drew went upside down.
I found having a serious skin full courtesy of the boys from Truckstops & their corporate suite one floor below the commentary box to be a great help.

[jellywrestler]

the politically correct term is Sidecar races.

I'd love to be a commentator, but I suffer from Tourette's.

i'll send you the right card, open it up and it has the phrase 'it's the thought that cunts'

[Autech]

that was me, i spent very little time, and tried to report on each race while the bikes were on the grid, there were people there who would have ridden there in some classes, there were people there who had family and friends riding at the suzuki series, i was very concious to spend time with the bikes on the track but if that's your take you're entiltied to it.
later on in the day the handicap races were all over the place so we left the music on in the end.

Yeah to be fair I only rocked up on Sunday for a watch, your commentary at Methven is very good though (that is you right?). Bit hard to know who's who in the racing down here, we all look the same, dress the same and shag the same sheep.
I should have been out racing though so who's the muppet?

[Grumph]

Yeah to be fair I only rocked up on Sunday for a watch, your commentary at Methven is very good though (that is you right?). Bit hard to know who's who in the racing down here, we all look the same, dress the same and shag the same sheep.
I should have been out racing though so who's the muppet?

And you didn't bloody come and see me !! I still want to introduce you to Ellipsis, maybe we should video it, they never did a TV version of dad 'n dave...