Hawke's Bay weekend rides

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Some photo's of our little tootle down to Team Cudby's for a nice cup of tea,
then a blast down the drag strip eh John and John.

[yungatart]

Nice ride! Good to see you back Dave, glad you weren't scared off last week. Nice to meet you too, John.
Was a much slower ride than last week (apparently)!
Slow is nice... get to work on my lines and smoothness.

[yungatart]

Some photo's of our little tootle down to Team Cudby's for a nice cup of tea,
then a blast down the drag strip eh John and John.

Is pic 2 a moments silence for the demise of a spirited ride today?

[team cudby]

hi .it was good to see you all on your ride today.Hopefully join you on the mighty 750 soon

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Hi All,
I note Patrick has not posted yet so I will. We had a great day down in Fielding.
First things first. Thanks to the sponsors for all you have done for him. He would have struggled to get out on the track with out your support. You guys rock. And to Wasp27 for the steel, sticky bits and welding wire and info. You saved the day.

OK Speights_bud went down yesterday and stayed with friends. We missed the qualifying runs as we had work this morning. We arrived about 11.00 am to find he qualified 9th. Had problems with the gear changer. He fixed that by the time he went out for the first race. After a restart because of a dismount, not Paddy, he was impressive to watch. That poor little bike just gets up and goes. A commendable 3rd in the first race.

We had a look over the bike and after a chain adjustment and check over things we filled in a few hours till lunch. The street stocks were first up after lunch. Out they went. I would have to complement Gareth ( can't recall the name of the business, Tart you would know as he did your bike ) for the job he did on the exhaust on this bike. It has a unique sound and it is sweet under full noise. A warm up lap and on to the grid. Away they went. A bit of a squeeze down the end of the first straight and they dropped in to line. Paddy was running 6th as they went in to the third corner and looked a little uneasy. By the time he came around to the start finish he was back on the ball and smooth as. He made up three places and ended the race in third place.

So two third placing = third in class for the day

Was great to see one of our own doing so well. Congratulations young fella. Considering you have never raced anything other than a bucket you had a very successful day. I would like to add a note here. He wore the knee of the leather out holding the bike up in the corners. I think Knee sliders will be a good investment next month. Maybe middle road has been good for you Speights_bud.

Time for sleep for this old man. Roll on next months round.

[speights_bud]

Cheers for filling everyone in Gixxer,
Twas a awesome day alright, the gpx definatly stunned quite a few people,
comments such as "GPX's are NOT meant to go like that" weren't unfamiliar.

But i must say that without the support from you guys (esp wasp27) i probably wouldn't have made it to round 4 ontime.

So he's my brief rundown on the day.

Missed the scrub in session, still unloading bike etc from van and doing rider registration stuff.

Qualifying:
Having missed the srub in session and being a complete manfield 'virgin' as such qualifying was my first chance to try learn the track. Did first lap under yellow as warm up, then second lap was held up through 'splash' by a slower rider before he was blue flagged and had to give me right of way, at which i completed my first and fastest lap for the session, due to the next lap being messed around with a black flag waved and noone understanding why, so everyone pulled off the track (Black was for two riders who were not meant to be circulating at the time)
Qualifying therefore left me with a laptime around 2 min 52 sec from memory and sitting in 9th position on the grid. (My fastest lap for the day was 2min 28, a whopping 24 sec's faster than qualifying)

However as Gixxer 4 ever said, in Race one there were several bikes down and i managed to poke my way up the pack a bit and finish third, six places ahead of where i started. so pretty happy considering that before starting the race i'd only done 3 laps of the track.

During race two i also managed a much better start and holding the inside line got towards the front of the pack through turn one and battled it out with one or two others, my only real advantage being going late on the brakes and riding the bike hard over on my knee.
This was a new experience for me, although 'getting my knee down' isn't all that new, actually using it to push the bike back up and transfering the weight to control the front end tucking in having an actual effect on how the bike stays upright was quite exciting, definatly going to have to sort some knee sliders out. Needless to say my leathers now need re-stitching and some patches on the knees.
Race 2 resulted in another third place. (Took out 3rd pos overall for streetstock)

So all in all a great day out, looking forward to next month and the oppourtunity to ride Team Cudby's 600 over the two day event.

Big thanks to everyone who has helped me get started Esp my sponsors:
EVL Custom systems -Exhaust system
ISG Signs -Decals/numbers
We-Can Engineering -Use of workshop


Hope to see you all on sat for the next ride if i've converted to ninja back to road legal by then

[yungatart]

Bloody marvellous Speights_bud!!!!
You rock!
Who woulda thought the GPX could do that!
We're proud to do our little bit to help you out!

[Stickchick]

Congratulations Speights_bud!!!! I am rapted to hear how well you did. I'm now guttered I didn;t make it up there for a look see too. I will make a point of being there next month, hopefully it isn't the weekend of the 21st Sept.

[BigG]

Cheers for filling everyone in Gixxer,
Twas a awesome day alright, the gpx definatly stunned quite a few people,
comments such as "GPX's are NOT meant to go like that" weren't unfamiliar.

Na Budy Boy any bike will go like that. Give yourself credit you got the balls to push it, so you will do well, get yourself organised, get a few race's under your belt, show that you can do it and you never no who might be watching, right bike right rider and who know's

[robertydog]

Well done speights_bud. Its always a buzz when you do your first race meeting. (oh the memories ) Fine effort to the guys that helped you out. That makes a world of difference. If Sticky is right with the date of the 21st Sept, i should be able to come and see how you get on.

[robertydog]

Speaking of meetings. Rappa sprints are on the 30th September for those that want to give their bikes a run. Just south of Carterton. Legal to go fast on public roads.......

[Stickchick]

Well done speights_bud. Its always a buzz when you do your first race meeting. (oh the memories ) Fine effort to the guys that helped you out. That makes a world of difference. If Sticky is right with the date of the 21st Sept, i should be able to come and see how you get on.

Yep I am, its a two day event over the 22nd - 23rd Sept which I'm visiting my Cousin in Auckland as she still hasn;t gotten over her carjacking and I'm alittle worried about her so unfortunately I won;t be changing my plans. So hopefully Speights_bud, you are racing in Taupo in October

[Stickchick]

Speaking of meetings. Rappa sprints are on the 30th September for those that want to give their bikes a run. Just south of Carterton. Legal to go fast on public roads.......

I was thinking of going down to give Deano a hand with things...Mind if you ride with a learner?

[robertydog]

I was thinking of going down to give Deano a hand with things...Mind if you ride with a learner?

Get back to you on that. Unsure what we are gonna do, but it is looking like we may go down on the Saturday due to the early start for competetors.

[Colapop]

What a great bunch (again!!) Well I went for a little pootle out with Stickychick, Yungatart and MSTRS. Not too far but fun nonetheless.

I RODE MSTRS's GSXR750!! A sweet ride that is. It's not the RF... but it'll do I suppose... in a pinch....

And now having a little country hospitality... Team Cudby's for real meat food!