KiwiTrackDays - Taupo - ANZAC day - 25th April

[The Pastor]

Please, if anyone has registerd and now cannot go, PM me, ive been working like a dog trying to get my bike ready but now its full!

[CHOPPA]

How many people have actually entered and dont intend to turn up? I have several mates that cant get in cause its full, if your not going can you let them know cheers

[icekiwi]

I'm going down fri morning...early...any guys going down on their bikes are welcome to throw any of their gear in the back of my surf...if you get it to me thurs nite...except i live in Tuakau out of the way for most folks.
Did the Day at Puke last sat...first time on the track...just try keeping me away fri

[Korea]

Hey Trackday people~

I'm looking to see if anyone taking their track bike down in a van/trailer has room for a bucket racer? Need to get the bike down from Auckland to Wellington and may already have a connection between Taupo and Wellington - just need the Auckland to Taupo leg taken care of.

See thread here:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...45#post1534845

Cold beer and contributing dolleros for gas money can be arranged

Cheers~

[Korea]

Hey Trackday people~

I'm looking to see if anyone taking their track bike down in a van/trailer has room for a bucket racer? Need to get the bike down from Auckland to Wellington and may already have a connection between Taupo and Wellington - just need the Auckland to Taupo leg taken care of.

See thread here:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...45#post1534845

Cold beer and contributing dolleros for gas money can be arranged

Cheers~

*BUMP*
anybody need me to sponsor their trackday???

[Devil]

Awesome trackday! I had an absolute ball on the new bike.
Few ground clearance issues, scraping the pegs most corners. Didn't have a chance to fit my footpeg riser brackets beforehand so that was kinda expected.

Thanks KiwiTrackDays. Excellent day, well run. Very relaxed!

[icekiwi]

Had an awesome time at the trackday,first time at Taupo (2nd trackday). Was impressed with how well it was run,plenty of tracktime...well enough for me anyway.Showed me what a Nana rider i am lol...an the bikes going to need a bit of setting up too i think.
Must be a little more careful braking lol on the last lap of the 2nd to last session was determined to get past this dude on a thou (think it was i had trouble staying with him on the straights) and outbraked him coming into the lh at the end of the pit straight ...major lockup an straight ahead into the kitty litter an dropped da bike...luckily only a few small scratchs on lower fairing...picked it up an finished the lap...inexperience is a marvelous thing
Anyway met a few cool dudes...don't know if they're on here didnt ask and had a great day overall...
Whens the next one,you will see me there...

[sosman]

Fark yeah best riding ive ever had in my biking life,got told off nicely by officals for doing wheelies dammit[cant do em on the road or track] oh well still had a massive grin after every session,My [k6 fluro yellow wheelstriped,loud jardine pipe gsxr750] went awsome....riding around..deck out everywhere...having to lift the kneescappers up off the ripple strips & saying to yr self....yeahboi im going good here..Then phwaaaa Mr Tony Rees blasts past ya .
Was awsome talking too some of the racer dudes for tips too & hopefully catch up with them & on the track too hehe
But man I should have done this a long time ago
So If you havnt been to a trackday then ya missing out

[CHOPPA]

Fark yeah best riding ive ever had in my biking life,got told off nicely by officals for doing wheelies dammit[cant do em on the road or track] oh well still had a massive grin after every session,My [k6 fluro yellow wheelstriped,loud jardine pipe gsxr750] went awsome....riding around..deck out everywhere...having to lift the kneescappers up off the ripple strips & saying to yr self....yeahboi im going good here..Then phwaaaa Mr Tony Rees blasts past ya .
Was awsome talking too some of the racer dudes for tips too & hopefully catch up with them & on the track too hehe
But man I should have done this a long time ago
So If you havnt been to a trackday then ya missing out

They were some sweet wheelies though! stand up the whole back straight nice!

[mv.senna]

They were some sweet wheelies though! stand up the whole back straight nice!

...and Sosman's rollers in the car park weren't too bad either!! yea-boi


....not to mention how hot you looked in your flash-as new shift 1pce sos


was a totally awesome day, my fav was the last session, coz there were only the hardcore left, and we basically got the track to ourselves

[erik]

I rode down from Auckland on Friday morning, left about 5:20am from west auckland, got to the track around 9am (after gassing up in taupo). It was foggy most of the way, my jacket was fairly soaked by the time I got to taupo.

Trackday was good
There seemed to be a high number of bins though, maybe just because there were so many people? I don't think there was anything serious though.

As usual, it wasn't till the last session or so when I started to feel like I was really getting into it again.

I had the camera on the bike, here's a couple of compilations from the various sessions (I was in the mediium group):

[quallman1234]

Sweet eric!, what camera are you using? ATC2k?

[quallman1234]

In the second video thats me on the side of the track picking my bike up!... Ops... hehe.

[erik]

Sweet eric!, what camera are you using? ATC2k?

It's a security bullet camera I got off trademe plugged into a JXD900 portable media player (it can record AV in), and with a home made microphone as the camera doesn't have a mic on it. The resolution of the JXD900 is only 320x240, but it's good enough for youtube.

[Devil]

Anyone get any photos?