27 Nov Bucket Wellington Kaitoke track

[Bert]

Plastic wine corks don’t really cut it, they come straight out. But a bit of nylon rod turned down with a lathe can be made by any engineer pretty easily. Then just other parts that may touch down in a crash, gear levers etc. The odd skateboard wheel type of thing. Pretty easy when you spend a while thinking about it.

Cheers guys

So Normal bar ends (Aluminium) wont be ok ?
rest of it shouldn't to much of a problem.

B

[Ivan]

Yeah we need to get our bikes Nyloned good so we dont wreck the track, It has a new surface all rounnd as well so you want to keep it in as gooda condit as possi

[F5 Dave]

Sorry the kart guys make us jump through hoops to make sure no damage occurs on the track. The PN track is now not in use as they won't let us.

So plastic covered the bikes are. Doesn't take too long & small price to pay for a brilliant track. Just lie the bike over & see what touches. Sticky out axles or pipes you can get a block of nylon or acetal & counter bore it & screw it on, or some use exhaust clamps with nylon on the other side. I have a axle end that threads onto the extra bit of the axle & screws on hard.

Footpegs, counter bore some holes & bolt on the bottom. I have cheap after market ones with holes in the ends & I got some rod turned up to press fit in the end like bar ends. Find some off cut & take a couple of things to the local lathe guy while there's heaps of time.

[diesel pig]

Blenhiem?????????????

Unfortuntly our Blenhiem contact used to get access to the track by jacking it up with the old fellow who looked after the track, But he as since pasted away
and the local kart president is proving hard to track down.

[Ivan]

Is Palmerston North even running for there guys any more if not is it for sale and a community of bucket guys buy it and thrash the living necks out of it

[Sketchy_Racer]

ok- even i didnt understand that one ivan lol!!!

[Ivan]

I mean is the track still alive or is just sitting doing nothing any more if so a club should buy it or does anyone know werew there any tracks around

[Bert]

I mean is the track still alive or is just sitting doing nothing any more if so a club should buy it or does anyone know werew there any tracks around

its still in use on the last Sunday of the month. though it is getting tough for them to run with all the new housing developments, same as most tracks in the country.
The Palmerston North kart club has never really liked the buckets on the track even 10 years ago our club had to jump through some serious hoops to get out there.

Thanks ivan and f5 dave for your help. I've sorted out the footpegs (did it years ago) the rest shouldn't be to much of the drama, I'll just dig out the welder and sort some lugs and stuff. Dave do you still have that very sexy RG50 ? is it still on the pace these days ? I've been tring to get hold of Ray Wilson and see if he keen on coming down as well.

Berty

[F5 Dave]

The RG is a bit like grandpa’s axe, (Here's the version before in pic), but yes I still race it. Haven’t seen Ray for a while but yeah try get hold of him, last time I saw him was Wanganui street races, think he was still carpet laying in PN. Did you buy the RG/TS from him?

If so I built that. Well some of it. Actually the pic doesn't look like it, Ray's had spoked wheels.

Where are the rest of the PN Bucket guys? Maybe they just got sick of Shane & Lusty's bickering?

[F5 Dave]

Unfortuntly our Blenhiem contact used to get access to the track by jacking it up with the old fellow who looked after the track, But he as since pasted away
and the local kart president is proving hard to track down.

Oh that's a shame, that old couple were real nice.

[Bert]

The RG is a bit like grandpa’s axe, (Here's the version before in pic), but yes I still race it. Haven’t seen Ray for a while but yeah try get hold of him, last time I saw him was Wanganui street races, think he was still carpet laying in PN. Did you buy the RG/TS from him?

If so I built that. Well some of it. Actually the pic doesn't look like it, Ray's had spoked wheels.

Where are the rest of the PN Bucket guys? Maybe they just got sick of Shane & Lusty's bickering?

The RG was finished about the same time as Ray got your old one (arou nd94-95), It used to be bright green ( with fairings ). I stopped racing it in 97 as I was at uni and couldn't find the time.

As for the rest of the old boys I have no idea, I've only just moved back to Palmerston / NZ and slowly catching up with people.

Cheers
B

[Ivan]

Ray Wilson races a TZ125 he stopped and helped me when I was dazzed and knocked around from my big street stock crash

[Bert]

Ray Wilson races a TZ125 he stopped and helped me when I was dazzed and knocked around from my big street stock crash

a real great guy.
back at the end of the 90's he was one of the top riders up here until he broke his knee. bloody fast on a 125gp what i remember.

[Ivan]

Yeah he is an awsome guy he didnt come back this season but raced the final vic round of 04 and he was fast stopped in the middle of the track helped me out picked my bike up and I rode around in Lala land made it somehow back to the pits but was told to see the ambulance which was a good thing but naughty me wasnt ment to race the next round cause of concusion but a week later I raced at General Motrs and did good I dont listen to DR's they tell me not to race so I raced with a Broken collarbone but this is getting way of subject I was wondering what sorta bucket he has

[Ivan]

The RG is a bit like grandpa’s axe, (Here's the version before in pic), but yes I still race it. Haven’t seen Ray for a while but yeah try get hold of him, last time I saw him was Wanganui street races, think he was still carpet laying in PN. Did you buy the RG/TS from him?

If so I built that. Well some of it. Actually the pic doesn't look like it, Ray's had spoked wheels.

Where are the rest of the PN Bucket guys? Maybe they just got sick of Shane & Lusty's bickering?

In that pic Dave there is my bucket in the back ground and dads leg lol