Manfield Track day for cars n Bikes Sun 1st Aug

[Marknz]

You guys are quite lucky here in NZ. If you pulled mono's, stoppies or anything like that at a track day in Aussie you'd be kicked off the circuit and banned for 12 months.

IMHO, track days are for the advanced riders to ride bloody fast and not have the risk of getting ticketed, and have "challenges" with their mates. For the less experienced rider it's about getting out there and learning more about your bike and how to ride it. You shouldn't have to worry about someone who thinks they're pretty good at basic stunts fucking up in front of you and wrecking your day.

just my opinion at the end of the day

[White trash]

You guys are quite lucky here in NZ. If you pulled mono's, stoppies or anything like that at a track day in Aussie you'd be kicked off the circuit and banned for 12 months.

IMHO, track days are for the advanced riders to ride bloody fast and not have the risk of getting ticketed, and have "challenges" with their mates. For the less experienced rider it's about getting out there and learning more about your bike and how to ride it. You shouldn't have to worry about someone who thinks they're pretty good at basic stunts fucking up in front of you and wrecking your day.

just my opinion at the end of the day

You gotta be shitting me! Tell me you're trolling here Mark?!

Dion and Mark Dunn were at least 5 secs a lap quicker than anyone else. They were definitely not messing up anyone elses lap times.

I would like to place myself in the same category.

But I suspect you're looking for a bite, so I wont.

[wkid_one]

Yeah - I think those who are stunting are usually smart enough to not do it in front of people have a good go at lap times.

Every time I have been the open days - everyone has been pretty well self managed and the only incidents have been people riding outside of their comfort zone - I haven't been to one yet where rider has taken out another.

[MD]

You gotta be shitting me! Tell me you're trolling here Mark?!

Dion and Mark Dunn were at least 5 secs a lap quicker than anyone else. They were definitely not messing up anyone elses lap times.

I would like to place myself in the same category.

But I suspect you're looking for a bite, so I wont.

He's lookin for a bite me's think. If someone flips on the track and takes out a rider behind then where the hell was the rider behind looking and why wasn't he paying 100% attention to matters in hand - racing, which requires total focus at whats going on around you. My opinion.
Jimmie if you hadn't turned up in jeans I would have thrown you my keys for a session (so you could play with the keys, not the bike!). Better still I could have given you Dion's when he wasn't looking. Nah, serious you would find out I cheat with HP. Jimbo proved that last month when we diced neck n neck. That David on the R1 was awesome at braking and even though I could hold him round a bend he lapped much quicker just from braking. Shows what a wosh I am closing on a hairpin at 200 odd kph.
Thanks for the kind words. Next time we can piss even more people off by forming a group wheelie blocking the width of the track.

[Marknz]

Nah, the first part about the Aussie track days is fact... I've been in the same garage at the Creek with riders who have been told to pack up and leave the track.

And the rest is just my opinion... you don't have to agree with it. Don't get me wrong, I get as much enjoyment out of seeing a good stunt session as the next fella, but I just don't think it's the place for it. Maybe I'm just jealous 'cause I can't do them, or at least won't attempt to do them.

I think even Dion, who seems accomplished enough as a rider and stunter, will admit that sometimes a wheelstand will go wrong. He very nearly did a Biaggi at Manfield the last time I was there (and there were 3 other members of this forum that saw it) with what I think was his first mono of the day. From memory Mark D. was pretty close behind him at the time too so he might be able to comment on his perspective on that incident (it was coming out of the infield hairpin... don't know what that corner is called). At the end of the day I just think track days are for hard out riding for the seniors and development for the newbies... not feckin' around.

[Marknz]

then where the hell was the rider behind looking and why wasn't he paying 100% attention to matters in hand - racing, which requires total focus at whats going on around you. My opinion.

Tell that to Foret, Curtain and Parkes.

I've never ridden with you Mark, nor had the pleasure of saying g'day yet for that matter, so I'll not judge your abilities. Only you will know if you could react in time to someone binning right in front of you at speed.

[MD]

Fair comments Mark and I don't take offence that easy. That's what so good about this forum, we can share our views and & opinions safe in the knowledge that anyone who gets upset must be a prat, so who cares. You are also right that we shouldn't do anything that may put off the new riders.
Looking forward to meeting you one day. Hope you get back on another Thou soon, we need more out there. Its been great meeting the other Lads on here that are into the same sort of fun. If I ever get out of debt my next purchase will be a cruiser so that should tame things down (and it better be British)

[LB]

Was the David on the R1 a tall guy with dark hair, from Palm Nth? If so, he's a really nice guy and boy can he ride - he used to have a 916, and now he's got three R1's, one he got from the States with trick bits for Africa. I'd love to see him racing, he'd do really well.

[Deano]

Mark and Dion had put the word out they were going to do a few mono's for the camera, so it wasn't unexpected.

I came off the sweeper and they were slowing to prep for the mono and I just slowed down a tad and enjoyed the view.

WT - 5 seconds a lap faster than anyone else ? Come on, surely I was doing better than 1.21's otherwise Im getting slower, although the hairpin was coned wide (but actually felt better/quicker) and there was gravel on Higgins.

I was catching Mark albeit he was pulling wheelies down most of the straights.

Oh, and Dion let Byron (2000 CBR600) ride the blade from Pauahatanui to Silverstream. Lucky lucky bastard.