First timer at Paeroa

**Steve_R6R** · 3rd February 2006, 13:56

Hi, I will be racing at Paeroa for the first time this year and I have never been there. Does anybody have any video archives of previous years that I may be able to borrow or have copied? I have a top coach to do a walk of the track with on the Saturday before. Any other pointers would be appreciated.
Cheers
Steve.

**Zed** · 3rd February 2006, 14:08

Go hard Steve - all the best!

Btw, what bike r u riding & what number?

**Maha** · 3rd February 2006, 14:58

No to the above, but will look out for you there, good luck steve. Hope the weather will be like it was last year, we stayed in a house right on the s's, got there saturday, rumed it up till about 3am then walked the track, short night cos of the pa speaker right outside our bedroom at 7am so got up and had one of the better days in my 43yrs......just remember to drag your knee not the chain, once again good luck mate........

**k14** · 3rd February 2006, 15:54

Hey mate, will be my first time racing there too. You raced on any street circuits before? I did wanganui last year, was awesome. Can't wait for paeroa. Will see you there.

**Two Smoker** · 3rd February 2006, 17:26

Do a couple laps the week before, then do your sighting laps... then go hard and aim for first... well thats what im going to try do...

**APPLE** · 3rd February 2006, 18:24

All the best steve.go hard man?

**Motoracer** · 3rd February 2006, 19:49

Its a street circuit and just like the other street circuits, you mainly just have to haul on the anchors as hard as you can and as quickly as you can. Be a real demon on the brakes and you should do well.

Once you get there, there is no time to muck around. ofcourse you have to go through the track and learn the basic setup. So you are going slow first inorder to go fast in the race. But once you get a few laps in, go hard straight into it.

I am not sure if the track will be different this year but after the front straight, the first right hander has a lot of room for error so you don't need to worry much about this and this should be a good passing oppertunity. Then going over the hill, you can notice that there is negetive camber just after the rise. This is mostly just in your head. It's not as bad as it looks, even though some have highsided there. Then it's hard on the brakes on your approch to the left hander past the bank. If you have got your suspension all sorted, this should be smooth work all the way through there and then continuing on to the right hander after that, forming the awesome eses. What would help is a bit of motocross style riding through here. If you usually tend to hang of your machine, it might pay to stay put and just flick the bike around through the eses as that gets the job done a hell of a lot quicker.

As soon as you leave the right hander, set yourself up for one hell of a bumpy ride. Even as you tuck in all the way forwards, you will enjoy the sensation of a wheelie as the front rises up in the air past the first (nice) crest. If done right, you don't need to button off but if you need to, you have to. It will really help you here if you are actually compitent at doing wheelies on a motorcycle. Then its a nice long straight comming up to the fast right hand sweeper. As you approach the sweeper, there is the most horrible big bump. I couldn't avoid it when I was there last year and got both my front and back wheels in the air on one occasion. It will be very dangerous to go full tits into there without applying your motocross riding skills here again. I didn't and I had a big massive tank slapper, almost sending me baraling into the crowd. Just stand up on your pegs as you go over the bump and let the bike and the suspension do it's work. If you do this, you might still become airborn for a split second but atleast you will still continue to go in the direction you wish to go in... Straight after the fast sweeper, it's on to the sharpest hairpin in New Zealand! Just use all the track you have and brake damn hard!! After the hairpin, you will be on the front straight again and that's one lap of Paeroa BOS 2005. This year could be different but if you can get a hold of a map of last year's race and read what I have wrote, it might help a little.

I won't be racing bikes for a while so if you can benifit from my experience from last year, that's great! Go hard bro!

**FROSTY:Me** · 3rd February 2006, 20:06

Good onya MR --couple of suggestions steve-go visit the place before the meeting
Also reset your suspension setting back to road settings--streets need a different suspension setup from the track

**Gixxer 4 ever** · 3rd February 2006, 21:32

With all this in mind could we have names and bike numbers of KBers that are riding at Paeroa this year? Also what class. It is a great day out if you have people to cheer for. Could you post it as a sticky in the race area till after the day?

**Gixxer 4 ever** · 3rd February 2006, 21:36

Originally Posted by Steve_R6R

Hi, I will be racing at Paeroa for the first time this year and I have never been there. Steve.

I don't race but love a day at the races. Good luck Steve. See you at Paeroa. oh yea welcom to KB

**Steve_R6R** · 6th February 2006, 14:04

Cheers for all the info and support. This will be my first street race, My bike number is 91. MR thanks for your input, I was right behind you when you binned it at Manfeild last year, I just about followed you off!. Hope to see you racing again soon.

**Two Smoker** · 6th February 2006, 20:41

Hopefully if next week goes well...

Ill be on bike 94 Moto-dynamix/Kiwi Biker SV650 in F3...

**rustys** · 7th February 2006, 19:03

Hi Steve R6R. Good on ya mate i raced there last year in my first street race enjoyed every moment of it. a real buzz going down that main street full noise. Its pretty much as Moto racer discribes it . Looks like the 90s have it. Look out for bike no 90 green kawasaki 400 in F3. First contribution to Kiwi Biker, see ya there.

**Shaun** · 10th February 2006, 09:51

Originally Posted by Motoracer

Its a street circuit and just like the other street circuits, you mainly just have to haul on the anchors as hard as you can and as quickly as you can. Be a real demon on the brakes and you should do well.

Once you get there, there is no time to muck around. ofcourse you have to go through the track and learn the basic setup. So you are going slow first inorder to go fast in the race. But once you get a few laps in, go hard straight into it.

I am not sure if the track will be different this year but after the front straight, the first right hander has a lot of room for error so you don't need to worry much about this and this should be a good passing oppertunity. Then going over the hill, you can notice that there is negetive camber just after the rise. This is mostly just in your head. It's not as bad as it looks, even though some have highsided there. Then it's hard on the brakes on your approch to the left hander past the bank. If you have got your suspension all sorted, this should be smooth work all the way through there and then continuing on to the right hander after that, forming the awesome eses. What would help is a bit of motocross style riding through here. If you usually tend to hang of your machine, it might pay to stay put and just flick the bike around through the eses as that gets the job done a hell of a lot quicker.

As soon as you leave the right hander, set yourself up for one hell of a bumpy ride. Even as you tuck in all the way forwards, you will enjoy the sensation of a wheelie as the front rises up in the air past the first (nice) crest. If done right, you don't need to button off but if you need to, you have to. It will really help you here if you are actually compitent at doing wheelies on a motorcycle. Then its a nice long straight comming up to the fast right hand sweeper. As you approach the sweeper, there is the most horrible big bump. I couldn't avoid it when I was there last year and got both my front and back wheels in the air on one occasion. It will be very dangerous to go full tits into there without applying your motocross riding skills here again. I didn't and I had a big massive tank slapper, almost sending me baraling into the crowd. Just stand up on your pegs as you go over the bump and let the bike and the suspension do it's work. If you do this, you might still become airborn for a split second but atleast you will still continue to go in the direction you wish to go in... Straight after the fast sweeper, it's on to the sharpest hairpin in New Zealand! Just use all the track you have and brake damn hard!! After the hairpin, you will be on the front straight again and that's one lap of Paeroa BOS 2005. This year could be different but if you can get a hold of a map of last year's race and read what I have wrote, it might help a little.

I won't be racing bikes for a while so if you can benifit from my experience from last year, that's great! Go hard bro!

One of the best write up's I have ever read about how to approach a road race