Motorcycle Sprints - 30 Sept and 25 Nov 2007

[Deano]

Weather is looking great.

See you there.

[Zuki Bandit]

Beautiful day with beautiful bikes.

Thought I would post some photos of the what was an awesome day. Sorry bout the b-grade photography.

[Zuki Bandit]

...and a bit more of the bike perving

[Zuki Bandit]

Last lot!!!

And thanks to the organizes for a great day!!!

[skelstar]

What a stunnning day! ... mate it was hot! Bloody good show to the marshals I reckon. I was a bit too crook to help today but I know that its tiring work out there, and would have been super taxing today in the heat.

A master-stroke getting those chicks on the BBQ. Everyone was repeatedly propositioned with sausages (not capital 'S' Jim2), and they sold out of the cliffhanger DVDs apparently. Theres no porn on those disks boys, the girls were only joking

Good on ya once again Cliffhanger team and Deano .

[White trash]

Who went fast then?

[skelstar]

Everyone.

Think fastest was a Busa (302?), we were using the '1 mississippi 2 mississippi...' timing method.

[DingoZ]

What a stunnning day! ... mate it was hot!

Good on ya once again Cliffhanger team and Deano .

..Absolutely awesome day. Lot of nice bikes to drool over. And some very talented riders...

Up close and personal (from a marshall's) point of view (and being a newbie to bikes). To just how fast some bikes can really go. Credit to all the riders for staying upright......

Got a few short little clips as the bikes were breaking sound barrier past me. Will edit them together and post em up shortly...Thats if there is anything to see, shutter speed might not go that fast..

Thanks once again to the organisers, and to the crew that made a newbie feel welcome before things got started ( Trying to hide from the sun, in the shadow of the pole ----

Andrew

ps ( Thanks Kyle for the ride and shadow for my first time over the hill...Muchly appreciated )

[RantyDave]

So, since marshalling in my case involved standing at the end of a thing that nobody was going to come out of and making sure that nobody came out of it, I thought I would try my hand at taking pictures of my fellow nutcases at speed.

But there's a problem, right? A bike at 250km/hr travels approximately bugger all distance over 1/1000th of a second and therefore looks, in photographs, like you're pootling around the rapa on a sunny afternoon on a ride with your mother in law. Hardly the look we're after. So I had a go at dropping the shutter speed down as low as it would go without overexposing chronically (F8 and 1/250th was as much as I could get) and then firing off a burst of shots as the bikes come past - because by the time you make the decision to press the button, it's a good hundred metres further down the road.

The results were ........ crap. For the most part they look like blurry pictures of pootling round the rapa. However, some experiments with widening the arc on the shot helped a bit and gave rise to the two pictures attached. PM me if you want high res's. I've got a couple of video clips I'll youtube up and post on the thread too.

Oh well, was worth a go.

Dave

[RantyDave]

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Again, if anyone wants these in (marginally) higher quality I can do. They're surprisingly small - a shade over a meg so they can be emailed over.

Does anyone want to post the results this time? Please?

Dave

[Deano]

Hey Dave,

thanks to you and all the other marshals that and helpers that helped out today - it sure was blardy hot.

Jim2, Ranty Dave,The Yoshie, DingoZ (sorry did we get to meet at all ), the young fella on the RG (bit worried the locals had abducted you for a while - key duelling bajo's), Lissa with signing in and sizzling sausages on the BBQ with Flame, Str8 Jacket and special guest Marco Melandri.......Oh hang on, that was Vaseline Warrior.

Limbimtimwim and I absolutely cooked at the top, but it sure sounded great...music even.

The results will be posted on www.cliffhanger.org.nz over the next few days but unless you give me specific rider's you want results for - here are the top 3 for standing and flying.

Standing 1/4

Shaun Wilkin 2007 CBR1000RR 10.49s

Troy Foster 2001 GSXR1000 10.71s

Bruce McKenzie 2000 R1 10.73s


Flying 1/4

Malcolm Breadmore 2006 GSXR1300 4.79s 302.00 kph

Tony Sampson 2007 GSXR1000 4.84s 299.18 kph

Troy Foster 2001 GSXR1000 5.12s 282.68 kph


p.s. - there is no porn on the dvd's (other than bike porn)

[The Tazman]

Hi Guys and Girls

Well what a fanTAZtic day. I hope you all enjoyed it.

I hope this works I have attached a couple of documents that show the fastest times for each rider for the flying and the standing. They are in order of fastest to slowest. Don't forget to take into account the bike they're on for anyone just looking.

I would like to say a BIG Thank you to my Friend and Boss Steven at KITTY O'SHEA'S for all his time and effort that he's put into writing and building the program I was using today. There are a few tweaks that need doing but as some of you saw I was able to give you instant information. We plan to make it so (if you give us a legible email address) that we'll be able to send you all a report of your runs. I hope we'll be able to get this up and running for the next one and the Hill Climb.

So if your in Town at all don't forget to pop into Kitty's and say hi and maybe sample a beer, meal or both.

I'd also like to say a Big Thank you to Malcome Nabbs for his help at the beginning of the day in helping me input all your information and working out some of your hand writing!!

A big Thank you to Deano, Dina and Gary for all their organizing and work behind the scenes to make these events happen. And last but by no means least All the helpers and the Marshals that give up their time so we can all have a fun safe day.

Hope you all had fun and look forward to seeing any of you that can make it to the next one.

Taz
(In the shorts, T-Shirt, Boots and Mo!!! )

[Str8 Jacket]

p.s. - there is no porn on the dvd's (other than bike porn)

Oi! You wanted them sold didnt ya!.....

Was a great day and Flames sausage crew had loads of fun!

Fucken hot though!!

[quallman1234]

T'was a great day nice and hot.

Had a good ride over following Andrew over for his first time over the hill - He was very smooth and no worries at all.

I was the young fulla on the RG deano.

Cheers for everyone who organized it .

[madmal64]

I will have to give Mr Sampson a hard time when I see him later this week.
His name has been on the top of this list for a while now and its nice to see a new name at the top! Malcolm even!
Great effort you lot of orgainisers and helpers. Long may it continue