Open day at Pukie on Sat 14th of Aug '04

[erik]

With a digital camera, you need to prefocus the camera prior to the bike coming in to frame (set the focus). Aim at the general area the bike is going to be when you want to take the pic - half depress the button and then wait until the bike comes in to frame. This way you will get away from either blurry pics or pics with no bikes in them

That's kinda what I do, I set the exposure manually and then lock the focus to something that's at about the right distance (I hope) and then wait for the bikes to come around the corner.

I think my problem is the shutter speed, and probably how I'm tracking the bikes.

Still, it's a fun challenge

[Zed]

What a great day! Everything went well (for myself anyway)...I gave it all I had on the final session and I was pleased to come back and see that I had managed a few 1.04s!

Good to hear and see you getting around the track faster today MR. Great to see Loosebruce & Hoon on the track too.

I enjoyed watching you guys and taking some pics at Castrol corner with Mr Quasi & son, and friend of Loosebruces (sorry forgot your name?)

Will have to get out there again with you guys soon now that I have had my bike dynojetted & k&n filtered...need that new front tyre first though :sly:

Btw, I didn't see Darryboy or Wonko make their track debut today??

Pics uploaded in the gallery.


Zed

[k14]

Good stuff MR, soon you'll be talking bout 59's.

Man the track looks dirty, were the drifters up to their usual antics again??

[erik]

I have fixed the gallery and added a category for this event.

Cool. I've added the images to the gallery and resized them a bit to make for easier viewing.

[loosebruce]

Cool. I've added the images to the gallery and resized them a bit to make for easier viewing.

NIce pics erik & zed the video footage i got wasn't to shit hot, newbie on the camera it was a good day all n all, MR was pretty some most impressive lap times, good shit bro and holding off a rather fast lad on a track dedacated 04 R1, as me, well i got bored in the second session as my rear trye wasn't playing the way i'd like it to, so i took to mud wrestling with my TL by castrol, we both came out rather messy but no damage to either which was a surprise, only to find a nice little stone jammed in my brake lever, locking the front wheel on.
But would you believe it, no RAIN for once .
And cheers to F/F for the weather update in the morning, cheers mate.

[Motoracer]

k14: Drifters are as cunty as ever but now days they let them go 1st, then cars, then us, so its not that bad. We still had to adjust our line through the esses by going a bit wider to avoid the crap and Castrol was full of dust later on so we couldn't put the power on too early but it was a pretty sweet day all up!

Far out! Cheers for the pics erik and Zed!!

Looks like they beat you to it Quasie. Are you still in bed with all the pretty birds that you picked up from last night? Maybe you should be Austin powers insted of Dr Evil. Yeah baby! LOL :spudbooge

P.S. Nice wheelie Bruce!

[Posh Tourer :P]

Good stuff MR, soon you'll be talking bout 59's.

Man the track looks dirty, were the drifters up to their usual antics again??

59s!

I'd give you money if you got 59s Motoracer.....

Andrew Stroud is only getting mid-59s on a street gixxer thou

[Quasievil]

Yeah BIG night late getting up, didnt see the point of hurrying as its CRAP WEATHER AGAIN, I was going to go for a quick blat to Raglan but Oh well good family day
Here are my Pics of MR.
Will try and figure out how to put a video of him up ,can I do that ?

[Motoracer]

Cheers Quasie, glad you had good night, have a nice day with the family.

Thanx a mill to mini-me again for timing me!!

[Zed]

...Will try and figure out how to put a video of him up ,can I do that ?

You will probably have to upload the movie file/s to another website (have you got webspace of your own through your ISP?) and put a link to it in a KB post.

Looking forward to seeing them if you can nut it out...mini-me might be able to work it out for you?


Zed

[Firefight]

What a great day! Everything went well (for myself anyway). I found out that the front brake pads were all worn out so I was having to brake WAY earlier, even then I ran wide a few times but still stayed on the track

way to go MR, another soild effort mate, when you left my place saturday, I had a good feeling about the day , Ia'm glad it worked out, well done !!sorry I could not make it to watch this time...

F/F

[Motoracer]

way to go MR, another soild effort mate, when you left my place saturday, I had a good feeling about the day , Ia'm glad it worked out, well done !!sorry I could not make it to watch this time...

F/F

Cheers mate! Your investment has made a big difference. The tire warmers are so cool man! On an actual race, it's going to be awesome to be able to wind it up all the way as soon as the flag goes down.

Hope you had some great rides in the weekend, I know I did!

[750Y]

...Thank you Quasie, mini-me and 750Y for timing me!!

no probs MR. good to see You out there. man your times are unbelievable! i could only dream of going that fast! my personal goal is 1.07 which although i set it a couple years back I doubt i've ever reached it. watching you makes me wanna get out there myself but i can't risk my shiny beast trying to keep up. well done man, your progress is insane.
nice to see you other guys out there, Zed, Bruce, Erik, Nick, Hoon, Quasi & co.
see yas next time, & Zed.. better replace that front soon mate.

[White trash]

Holy SHIT!

Bruce did a wheelie!

[Motoracer]

my personal goal is 1.07 which although i set it a couple years back I doubt i've ever reached it.

You'll get that time and beat it no probs. I estimated your time as 1.09 last time round... Next time if we are on the track together, you can follow me if you like and I can follow you as well to see and then comment on what you are doing.