Acquiring the necessary skills to become a champion!

[Str8 Jacket]

Good God, I can imagine all the cackling and farting now!!

At least we'd have fun!

We could also incorporate leaning, angles and riding position into it. Nige could make the bike noises for us.....

[F5 Dave]

Tonto was pretty on to it. Long time ago. Dave Dip is still the guy to beat in Auckland, in the 50 class at least & has won more club races & 2 hrs there in both classes than anyone else.

[FROSTY:Me]

Depends on how supple you are, how long of leg & bar position (ie low means you are more cramped. Many tend to place the pegs as high as they can, but really I try to get them to be as low as possible without being a scraping liability. If they are short then that helps & you move your feet out of the way a bit (as you are on the balls of them).

I'd then lower the seat until it is uncomfortable & then back a bit to bearable.

Hey Dave its been awhile since I bucketed.The smooth fast guys back then had sorta low MX bars and went for a as natural riding position as possible.
Theory was that yea you might be a tiny bit slower but the you had heaps better bike control.
Does this still apply ?

[F5 Dave]

Mix & match depending on style. I rode the F4 GP winners bike & he had a RS frame with cramped up pegs but MX bars fitted. I hated it, felt really remote at the front end. But can't deny his result, it worked for him. But in general there is a reason that most GP racing bikes look the way they do. The only difference in Buckets is that the corners are a lot tighter.

[FROSTY:Me]

Mix & match depending on style. I rode the F4 GP winners bike & he had a RS frame with cramped up pegs but MX bars fitted. I hated it, felt really remote at the front end. But can't deny his result, it worked for him. But in general there is a reason that most GP racing bikes look the way they do. The only difference in Buckets is that the corners are a lot tighter.

funny how tastes are different. My Favorite bucket was the lil suzuki RG50
Changed the sprocket size and fitted sticky tyres .Other than the legal stuff I rode that bike as it came outs the crate. And went a second a lap faster than on my hotrod MB50