If you wanna get real fast like me Rashika, the forumula is simple, buy some hot leathers off trademe with the knee sliders, hang off the bike like crazy, go REAL fast into the corners and get that knee scraping!
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So just how much coin is required to enter bucket racing?
A list of things I can see I'll need are: boots, 1-piece leather suit, trailer, bike & prep costs. Rough figure I've arrived to is $4,000and that's with purchasing a basic FXR150/KR150 and not an RS125.
All this time I thought bucket racing was like budget racing, i.e small amount of coin required, but that idea appears to be incorrect.
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It really depends on your personal situation. The amount it costs expands to exactly fit the amount of money you have available. You already have the bike. One piece leathers are not essential, 2 piece are ok (zip together) Say $700 new $100 to 300 used. You dont need a trailer, but should you feel you have to have one they are about $20 per day. prep costs for your bike 1roll of tape $10. maybe some tyres, used often free, new up to about $500 if you are silly.
Race licence $90.00
Entry $40.00
Food $10.00
Fuel $10.00
Trailer$20.00
Gear Say $500.00
Tape and number boards $25.00
Tyres (shitty tyres ok, free) good tyres used maybe $100
So $800 to get to the track the first time on your FXR, $500 of that is saftey gear,
After that allow $100 per meeting
It is cheap, compared to any other class.
Thanks spud, while i was typing my essay you summed it up in a couple of lines
Sounds like you want to talk yourself out of going racing?
Boots, 1-piece leather suit and trailer are things you would need if you were going to campaign a F1 bike or a Bucket.
$4000 sounds abit steep to me. In Buckets the idea is beg or borrow as much as one can, as well as looking at what you can get away with e.g. Boots; the rules say they must be leather and cover the ankle, well a set of old work or army boots can cover that.
At the end of the day it comes down to what you are prepared to pay.
Motor sport in general is not cheap, Buckets compared to 90% of motor sports is budget racing.
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Well, looking at Stanko's cost which are pretty accurate, it was costing me that to race my ZXR400 in F3, infact apart from tyres the costs for most bikes will be the same. ie Its not any cheaper to race buckets, just the intial outlay for the race bike should be cheaper. But you could race in Pre 82 for the same amount of coin. Not sure what Spudracer paid for his CB250RS, but you could probably pick up something for around $1000 maybe?
Bucket racing would be cheaper probably for the guys up North etc racing on car parks and kart tracks, they may not have the same licence and race day fees applicable down here.
But it also depends what your aspirations are, do you just want to race or are you expecting to be at the sharp end of the field?
Paid $300 and another $250 to prep the CB250 for the track, cheaper than most buckets. The only problem is my B track lap times are slower than on the bucket, but its a second ride.
As for carparks v Ruapuna we a VERY lucky to have the chance to run on full circuit race tracks.
As for anyone thinking of road racing bucket racing is equal to any class (in my eyes) for excitement, we race hard & corner speed is as fast as most classes its just the straight line speed thats lower.
Its harder to lose weight than gain horsepower.
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