BEARS round 6 Ruapuna

[hXc]

Well I had buckets on the new bike yesterday. TF125 engine with a TZR250 chassis. All went well until I locked up the front wheel trying to avoid a guy and bike sprawled across the track in front of me. Shouldn't be too bad to fix - Weld the footpeg, maybe a new front brake lever and new handlebar bung. The paint came out relatively unscathed apart from the back end - but that's covered by my number anyway. Otherwise it wasa great day!

Left home with one bike. Left the track with two. Dad bought a CT125 in an RG50 frame. The engine used to be in a side car and the guy would get it sideways around the corners. The guy we bought it off reckons it's pulling about 20-25 horses, so should be fun

[stanko]

Confidence is a funny thing eh? I've done a few hundred corners on my bike dicing with Dangerous and K14, and I fell off on ONE of them. So logic would suggest that the odds of it happening again are low ...... right? Try telling my subconcious that LOL. All the little slides that before had me going "YEEEEHAAAA" now had me going "AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHH!!!" Having said that I felt like I was going better in the second race, and bloody Stanko beat me to the line by less than half a wheel- you bastard! I had been dicing with some one, and had finally gotten clear and thought my position was safeish. Unbeknownst to me, Stanko had also passed the other guy and was stalking me, gradually making up ground. His bike is so FRICKEN quiet I had no idea he was there- stealth buckets should be banned LOL. I made a real mess of the dipper in the final lap, and then I heard a 4 stroke right behind me "FOUR STROKE????, WHAT FUGGEN 4 STROKE??" First chance I got I took a peep and saw Stanko. Uh-oh. Went round the sweeper as hard as I dared and kept it nailed. The stealth bucket had a little more speed and slowly inched past, with me yelling "NOOoooooooo!!! FUG OFF!!! STAY BEHIND ME YOU BASTARD!!!" and waving my left arm at him. Cold and impassive, the stealth bucket and it's rider continued their unstoppable mission and pipped me by inches. Well done Stanko, it was awesome!

Ill try to let it not happen again ! Next time Ill try to be in front of you the whole race.
Took me a while to wipe the grin off.

[TonyB]

Tony, you look like you're laughing as Stanko goes by.

I was! Shit it was funny, the speed difference was maybe 1km/h. He just crawled past...

[Rashika]

I was! Shit it was funny, the speed difference was maybe 1km/h. He just crawled past...

yep I can verify that, I was standing there at the time...man it was funny, especially watching you try to wave him away like some bug that was annoying you!

[Joni]

especially watching you try to wave him away like some bug that was annoying you!

Hehehe, sounds like another classic SI bucket event...

Thanks for the pics Rashika and Gav... loved seeing them... pity I was not there to laugh at the silly buggers myself.

D... so how does it feel being beaten by your own bike 2 race meets in a row

[dangerous]

Dangerous, Dangerous, Dangerous. *sigh*.

Didn't have the berries to drop a handful of gravel in the sump of your OWN bike, did you?

What I do
Well actually I'm almost as hard on motors as Kickaha, 'yes' Honda's do blow up too this link is my 1st CB motor, pitty it was a worked head..... now I just run a std tuned engine and can still come in ahead of Kick........... SO THERE JONI

D... so how does it feel being beaten by your own bike 2 race meets in a row

6th Dangerous, 8th Kickaha

[TonyB]

yep I can verify that, I was standing there at the time...man it was funny, especially watching you try to wave him away like some bug that was annoying you!

THATS what I needed, a fly swat!
Actually I thought about grabbing his shoulder and pulling myself forward like I did with D at Levels, but with all the club officialdom lined up by the finish line I thought that might not be a good plan...

[Kickaha]

now I just run a std tuned engine and can still come in ahead of Kick........... S

Only when I start well behind you and give you a big head start

Couple of things I forgot

Brent Cotton on his pre82 XR250 Motard looses 5th gear down the straight so he hammers it in 4th most of the straight and it seizes at the end leaving a 10m skidmark and probably a matching one in his leathers before he gets the clutch in

Stanko also provided a bit of amusement when he tried riding away with his race stand still connected to his bike, maybe he was handicapping himself to give TonyB a chance

[diesel pig]

Only when I start well behind you and give you a big head start

but Kickaha you told me before the race you were going to start way back so you could taunt Dangerous with the fact you could give him a head start and still beat him. Didn't work out A Kickaha

[dangerous]

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but Kickaha you told me before the race you were going to start way back so you could taunt Dangerous with the fact you could give him a head start and still beat him. Didn't work out A Kickaha

yeah and aint that the truth........ and I had a target visualised on your tail piece too, nother 200 laps and I reckon I would had it to

[gav]

yeah and aint that the truth........ and I had a target visualised on your tail piece too, nother 200 laps and I reckon I would had it to

Only coz the RG/GP would've seized by then.......

[diesel pig]

Only coz the RG/GP would've seized by then.......

I think I have a handle on the overheating with my thermosiphon system. I found on a model T ford site and a vintage tractor site that thermosiphon systems run unpressurise. The radiator cap on it is a pressurise one and on a site for designing cooling systems for computers states that the bottom return line must be as straight and short as possible my one is long and has a big curve in it. So I will change these things and see if that helps

[dangerous]

I think I have a handle on the overheating with my thermosiphon system. I found on a model T ford site and a vintage tractor site that thermosiphon systems run unpressurise.

yeah that makes good sence Diesel....... what do you reckon the idea behind the other LC bike (attachment) at the track has the radiator under the tank??
must be somethig in it as it goes bloody well.

[diesel pig]

yeah that makes good sence Diesel....... what do you reckon the idea behind the other LC bike (attachment) at the track has the radiator under the tank??
must be somethig in it as it goes bloody well.

When I talked to mike parker (buckets owner) about it he said he only put there so there was less chance of it being damaged when he dropped it! The radiator on mikes Bucket is off a RG50 of all things and a electic motor pumps the coolant through it so it's not really the same set up as mine. He did say something interesting through about the power dropping off if the temp went over 80 degrees and mine was going well over that!