Bears Round 6

[Buddha#81:Me]

Spent yesterday getting the new FXR ready for its first Mainland outing.

Jumped in the truck this morning and shot around to Dangerous's place to pick up the new Club Slut and headed out to the track. A good day weather wise. First time for along time I had those good nervous jitters (a new bike can do that). Unloaded and signed in the FXR flew through its checks, we're good to goooooooo.

Practice: went out to get the feel of the bike and found that the jetting changes made yesterday made the bike run like a bag of shit, decided to stay out to get a bit of track time up. The bike felt good with a riding position very simular to the old Bucket. the back end felt twitchy, so back to the pits and returned the jetting to original and deflated the BT45 rear to hopefully settle the rear down.

Race 1: Warm up lap felt good.... very good. I gridded up on the front row and waited for flag fall. I got a ok start the FXR is not as quick off the line as the old girl but managed to go into turn 1 in about 4th. Spent the rest of the race trading places with Kickaha and Tony Mac, With a bit of luck and great skill using a back marker I slipped into second on the last lap and held it over the line. Shit hot second on a strange bike. Had some hairy moments with the rear stepping out when pushing it.

Race 2: Made some more carb changes to try to tune out a slight hesitation under transition from the low to high speed jets. Warm up lap the bike was running like a bag of poo and had nothing down low, I started doubting my skill as a carb technition. Gridded up and got a shitter of a start. Ran the race with twostroke type power with nothing untill the main jet came in with a rush and unsettling the rear. I put up with the problems and finished about 6th or 7th an OK result considering.

Race 3: Pulled the carb apart between races and found the the primary jet was blocked, cleaned and fitted a inline filter. Gridded up on row two intending to take it a bit easier with no points at stake. Finished in no mans land between the fast and slow groups.

All in all a good days racing, I'm very happy with the FXR (don't tell anybody). It needs a slick on the rear, a fork seal, and the carb sorted and it should be a good fun wee bike. Now I need to get the CB going for post classics and I will be a happy man.

[Sketchy_Racer]

Hahah..... Good stuff mate!!!

second place ain't nothing to be ashamed of!!

Did you still run the airbox??

How did tyger_tung do on your old CB ??

[Buddha#81:Me]

Hahah..... Good stuff mate!!!

second place ain't nothing to be ashamed of!!

Did you still run the airbox??

How did tyger_tung do on your old CB ??

Yup stoaked with the 2nd.

Airbox is still on.

TT went well, he will take some beating once he get the old girl sorted.

[MattRSK]

Good Stuff.

[Sketchy_Racer]

haha, I bet dangerous gave you endless grief for your fairing....

And in the first race, i assume your brother beat you?

[Buddha#81:Me]

haha, I bet dangerous gave you endless grief for your fairing....

And in the first race, i assume your brother beat you?

Its hard to deal out the shit when you have just been beaten, Dangerous was very quiet. Big bro rode a proddy MB100 yesterday for entertainment. The first race 4 FXR's finished first.

[Joni]

Even though I was still full of my cold - I reckon it was a great days racing.

Everyone did really well:

The rider I reckon who has improved so much and so fast is TyfgerTung - you go little dude, I got the fright of my life when I saw you ahead of Kickaha in that one race...

Dangerous: You are getting better and better on the Kat! Was great so see you and DC battling it out to see who gets to the first corner first.

Spud - Damn, I reckon some people will have to watch out, you were flying out there on that FXR... I reckon once its going 100% and you are more used to it, its going to be great.

Kickaha - you looked great on the bucket - as always i was really proud. I cant wait till next weekend...

Now I know Dangerous gets a wobble if I say the rider of the day was the one who won, but no doubt in my mind, the rider of the day was DieselPig - Neil, what a stunning days riding... you completely showed people how pre82 should be done. The last all in was a biggie for me... stunning! I cant wait to see you and Black Betty at Wanganui...

[TygerTung]

Well, what a great day.

Worked hard to prepare the new bucket in the previous days to the meeting, picked it up on tuesday not running, called in a days holiday that night, and pulled the thing apart.

Turns out the reason it was seized was a seized big end bearing! So I pulled that apart that night and collected a few cranks up and the heads and the cams and went to see kevin at KG motorcycle services to see what I should do

He tells me that you can use a lightweight GL145 crank in it and recomended the second most agressive cam there, and I wacked on the hot head without any dropped valves.

Put the motor back together on thursday after I called in sick to work (wasn't feeling too good, but felt ok when working on the bike in my workshop? funny that :P ) and wacked it in the bike, only for me not able to get it started! Turns out I forgot to put the bolt on which holds the CDI whizz bang spinny thing on, I'm not too expericed with these fancy overhead cam motors.

Got that running on friday but was having heaps of drama's with the carb keeping flooding out of the overflow for some reason. I pulled aparty my spare 200 carby and got the floats, needle and jets out of it, the 200 carby on the superbucket had 100% plastic floats for some reason so you couldn't alter the height, I dropped the float level a bit with the other floats and it seemed to be sweet as.

Had to go on a date on friday night with the girlfriend, otherwise she gets a bit shitty, she got a bit upset that she didn't see me during the week at all cos i was in the workshop the whole time....

On saturday I finished off the fork brace which I started on wedensday along with finishing the superbucket off, had to pull the bloody forks out about three times of the CG due to various mishaps, tried to fix the silly leaking crankshaft with dubious success, will have to look at it tommorow to see if it's fixed or not. Ended up finishing up at the workshop at only 12.30 after packing the trailer and putting all the tools etc in the back of the wagon which wasn't a bad effort, it's usually a bit later.

Got up at a leasurly 9 o clock in the morning, had a delicious breakfast of watties speghetti with sausages on toast after a nice hot shower and jumped in the wagon and headed out towards ruapuna.

After unpacking the bikes and registration I went through scruitineering which is always a bit of a hassle, the CG actually flew through for a change which is pretty rare and I just had to put some valve caps on the superbucket.

Went out for practice to find myself not too far off the pace of the fast group, but the bike was almost unrideable due to very agressive vibrations coming out of the engine, so when I came back in I put as heavy bar weights on the bars as I could to try to dampen out the vibration, new bike felt a bit different around the track, but it was ok.

First race got a second row start, was in front of the slow group and was at the back of the fast group but was a bit off the pace and drifted behind a bit while I got used to the bike.

Second race went good, was in the middle of the fast group, was coming about 14th towards the end but on the last lap I took out tony I think and just before the finish line took out some other dude with some sexy leathers similar to mine.

Third race was well wicked as I was much more used to the bike and was fuckin flying! knee down every corner pretty much and was even getting the odd foot down as I leaned the bike over massivly, was going really well with a good front row start, and got a wicked 6th place which is REALLY good, was very happy with that, beating the old owner which was great! just need a little more power as a couple of bikes were just slowly edging past me so I lost a couple of places, but it shouldn't be hard to get a bit more power out of the beast theres a few areas for improvment so she'll go hard.

She definatly needs an engine balance and I'll change the pipe, needs stiffer valve springs and I'll put on a lightweight RM125 flywheel. Also need to port out the inlet manifolt to match the head and might try a bigger carb. Had a great time and can't wait to race again!

[dangerous]

I had been looking forward to the last BEARs round for a while, so was kinda amped for it. The day started rather slowish with the MB100 dancing all over the track turn 0ne being the worse as it turns into a negative camber half way across and was covered in rubber from cars.
The Kat had new braids and the anti dive had been removed, so I was unsure how it was going to behaive.

Race 1 in both classes (F4 & post classic) I was draging the chain a little, was getting the feeling that it was going to be one of those days were it dosnt all come togeather as good as it could. Unsure were I finished in both races in the feild, but it was further back than I usually would be.

Race 2
Buckets, I pulled my finger out of my arse and hauled passed the checkered in 5th place (2nd KBer home) however in the the last lap the front wheel went out as I bumped over the neg camber on turn 1, to my suprise I held on to it but drifted wide and loosing my right leg off the peg... I knew kick was up my arse somewere so all I could hope was that he was laughing so hard tears were streaming down his face and he couldnt keep up.

Post classic, was feeling better on the Kat so hit the turns a bit harder and finished about 6th again... bloody hell them 350/400 2 strokers are like fox terriers nipping at ya heals the hole time.

Race 3
F4, well it was fuck around time so I offered my MB100 77gp replica to Rashika and I rode my old faithfull CB125T which I had lent out to Kawaka Kid for the day. Love that slow old girl, just keep the juce on,Knee down and haul on around, dont think I finished much behind were I did on the fast MB.

Post classic, Tried offereing the Kat out for a swap to Kick, Stanko, Diesel... but no takers, so did a deal with JB and floged his RD400.
Quite different to the 350LC's is the old air head 400, more snot at lowere reves and a longer more stable power band, however launching was interesting.

Sweet day all... well I mean anyday were we can walk to the on site bar is a sweet day aye... till next time.

pic 1) Thunder, X7
2) Rashika, 250 LC
3) Stanko, 350 LC
4) Diesel, CBX 550
5) Mad Andy, MZ 250
6) Dangerous, 750 Kat

[dangerous]

1) Kickaha, 350 LC
2) TonyB, 750 Monster
3) Kick, Spud, Dangerous / FXR, FXR, MB
4) TygerTung, CB150 rg rep
5) TonyB, GP125
6)Thunder, FXR

[dangerous]

1) Dangerous MB100 77gp rep
2) Rashika RZ150fxr
3) diesel GP100LC TZ
4) Stanko FXR

Thanks to SuzyQ for all the pics.

[Kickaha]

I’d had a serious case of cantbefuckeditis the night before this event and was considering not even doing it, when I woke up the next day I still didn’t feel any better but dragged myself out of bed and loaded up and headed off the track, as usual the bike breezed through scrutineering

Bucket practice

Within a couple of laps I was feeling much better and feeling a lot more comfortable on the bike than I have for ages, I see Diesel Pig off the track and not learning from his last bout of mechanical ineptitude had his flywheel fall off again

Coming through the dipper and there’s James off the edge of the track after falling on his arse, next lap and there’s another young guy down after seizing at full noise down the front straight, apart from that practice was fairly uneventful

Pre82 Practice

Stanko had lent me a different front end to try out as I was having a few problems with the original LC front end pattering quite badly and as it turned it made no difference whatsoever, so I wasn’t feeling to happy with it

Race 1 Buckets

I got my launch just about right but was still 4th into turn one, Spud and TonyMac just in front of me I hook into the sweeper and hard on the gas start an outside pass which takes me the length of the straight to pull along side TonyMac with Spudracer on the inside moving into second and I’m on the outside getting squeezed onto the grass so I have to back out, next lap and I get the run up on the inside and take both of them into turn one and move into second, another lap down and they haven’t got back past

Into turn one we come up behind a lapped rider and as we tip in he clips the inside curb and bounces across the track, I run out wide to avoid him as I’m sure he’s going down and end up out on the grass and four bloody bikes blow past me and demote me to 6th which is where I finish:spudwhat:

Race 1 Pre82

Up on the front row and as Divvo said later “your starts really suck” and I’m at the back of the bunch into turn 1, I get stuck behind a 500 Pantah for a few laps and the faster guys are gone, I’ve got a Ducati 860, Z1000 and RD400 in front of me and while they’re bloody slow through the corners they have enough HP down the straight that I cant make it past them and I have a frustrating few laps until the end of the race

Race 2 Buckets

Just about a copy of the first race except Diesel Pig has joined in I’m lining him up to pass around the outside of the sweeper when he suddenly stands up and runs wide and pushes me out wide and Spudracer and TonyMac on the inside of him motor on through, a lap later and I’ve caught up with them and I’m working out how to get past when Diesel Pig and James shove it up the inside of the three of us into turn 1 , James clips the curb and gets loose and I’m wondering how I’m going to avoid the multi bike pile up I’m sure is going to happen when he gets it semi under control and we carry on at the same hectic pace to race end

Race 2 Pre82

The start I get in this one makes the one in the first race look good, I tried a different technique which sucked even more than my normal one and it takes me ½ a lap to catch and pass Stanko, Rob passes me on another LC and I chase after him, he gets the 860 Ducati in between us, I’m trying to draft the Ducati down the straight when he misses a gear and I just about rear end him, back onto chasing Rob and then through the S-bends he pulls off with a seized motor, I set out after the Pantah but run out of laps

Race 3 Buckets

My first duffed Bucket start for the day although I make it back up within a couple of laps and get onto the back of the front group, Diesel Pig has decided to stop dicking about and has got to the front and cleared off, the pace is so even with the group basically unless someone cocks up or grows bigger balls it is very hard to pass, it takes me until the last lap to try a pass on TygerTung and I have it nailed around the sweeper and on the outside down to the flag, I see him check the left side and there’s no one there and then as he looks back I’m alongside but he probably beat me by millimetres

Race 3 All in Pre82/BEARs

I swap bikes with Stanko and we get off the line pretty much together, his bikes much nicer than mine, pulls higher revs and handles nicer with his spanky Avon race tyres, I get held up for a bit by some slow guy on his first outing on a Ducati Monster and that lets every else get to far ahead, I’m pulling the 500 Pantah back in but run out of laps

A excellent day and I was really happy with the way I was riding the bucket but not so much with the RD350 as guys I’ve normally kept up with and beaten before absolutely dicked me, thinking about after riding Stanko’s bike I now lack confidence in the way my front end is and it’s slowing me down so that’s on the fixit list and maybe some practice out the back roads somewhere on my starts

[gav]

Were you racing "B" track?

[Kickaha]

Were you racing "B" track?

Tri Oval on the buckets, full track on everything else

[stanko]

Were you racing "B" track?

Nah , Tri Oval