I won my first bucket race

[Slingshot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqzSMMEPrAo

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[Mike748]

I dont know about you guys
but after 3 years
fractured wrist
broken collabone
bruses and gravel rash

I finaly one a race

then another what fun
had come close a few times but i never WON before now I know what it's like
will be trying to repeat it all again and again till the fun wears off


so much for thinking it was a waste of money and i should give up
na not anymore




ps it was a B grade race and wet but i still beat every one that normaly finish infrount of me

That was a good win! and an impressive lead in the wet!

I was wandering around the pits that day finding out what I needed to do to start racing.

Hope to meet you next meet.

[kiwicam]

will be trying to repeat it all again and again till the fun wears off

that will take about 30 years

[Buckets4Me]

I was wandering around the pits that day finding out what I needed to do to start racing.

Hope to meet you next meet.

bring some gear and come ask someone will lend you a bike
John Conner is a good bloke he will help
also I have a honda for sale cheap if interested
not a fast bike but all you need to learn on and fast enough to hurt yourself

[Buckets4Me]

[Buckets4Me]

aha thats how it works

[Slingshot]

John Conner is a good bloke he will help

He is the leader of the human rebel group in the post-apocalyptic future, so you'd expect him to be a decent sorta bloke.



[sorry...this joke is never gonna get old]

[Mike748]

bring some gear and come ask someone will lend you a bike
John Conner is a good bloke he will help
also I have a honda for sale cheap if interested
not a fast bike but all you need to learn on and fast enough to hurt yourself

Met John, he walked up and said "you look like someone who want's to go racing" or something like that. lol

Already have a bucket project bike in the garage, which I hope to have going soon, once I get started on it that is! it's a Honda CG125 with some past history at the Mt Wellington track.

So regarding your win what do you reckon made this race different from others? or is that going to be giving away too many secrets?

[F5 Dave]

. . .
So regarding your win what do you reckon made this race different from others? or is that going to be giving away too many secrets?

A decision to generally start ignoring personal, & more importantly the safety of the other competitors, even if this means that some of them will eventually have to be sacrificed
sorry inside thoughts.

So you're still keen on this racing lark?

[Mike748]

A decision to generally start ignoring personal, & more importantly the safety of the other competitors, even if this means that some of them will eventually have to be sacrificed
sorry inside thoughts.

So you're still keen on this racing lark?

Hmmm lets see ....... yip
I will try to avoid the broken bones though

[Buckets4Me]

I just had a good day and it was wet ( deing a slow rider and racing in the wet you dont have to slow down much to stay upright)

and also I have been racing an underpowered 50 so havent had the seat on a bike i truseted that could run at the frount for a few meatings now

i learnt so much on the 50 in the few meatings I have had it going {thankls dad}
but havent bean consintrating on the bigger bikes till that day { I lent the 50 to someone els that neaded it more than me}

dont go past a slow bike for learning on
things can and do happen fast out there on a fast bike
a slow rider on a slow bike hase a lot of time to learn the track and how to keep corner speed up but dosent have to worry AS much on braking points and trying to slow a bike down AND keep corner speed up

my 2 cents worth start on a slow GOOD HANDELING bike then fit a faster engine to it . I found that the bike i had was developed to fast for me to keep up and a few falls helped slow me down

lets see what hapens next time (probably be back to last again)

[Mike748]

You weren't looking slow that's for sure.
Thanks for the advice, Im pretty sure my bike will fit the slow overweight catergory, but I knew that when I got it and that suits me fine .......... for now

[TZ350]

A decision to generally start ignoring personal, & more importantly the safety of the other competitors, even if this means that some of them will eventually have to be sacrificed

Daves thoughts on what it takes, when Buckets4me won his first race at Mt Welly while fighting leg cramps and on a wet and slippery track that unseated other riders.

[jasonu]

Good on ya mate.
My mates made me buy everyone Kentucky Fucked Duck the day I won my 1st race. Cost me $30 bucks.

[Buckets4Me]

Good on ya mate.
My mates made me buy everyone Kentucky Fucked Duck the day I won my 1st race. Cost me $30 bucks.

I had to buy the kids Burger King

Cost more than $30 bucks


the next time I came close to repeating this was on Ned Kellys bike
got a blistering start (after telling Ned how he should slip the clutch on the starts)

then the swing arm decided to come away from the frame.

B grade got a bit crouded and I have had quite a few trips to hospital with a broken collar bone ( and finaly getting them to pin it 2 years later)

will start again this season and see it a new bike and a break from the sport for a year makes any difference


PS. fell of the bike the next race meating trying to dodge a fallen rider and it's taken 2 years to get close to back to normal