Some good shots today...
and some bad...
Armature speller
Some good shots today...
and some bad...
Coasting
The good shots are certainly goodies, but as for those bad shots, well, umm, buggerOriginally Posted by NordieBoy
Armature speller
Crash starting with a kicker operated decomp is a bugger alright.
Armature speller
Hard at work...
Not so crazy ....
Nice pic of Topo in full flight there Nordie.
Cheers for the couple of good laps we put in together yesterday as well, all good fun, and great to pace each other.
I loved the course, nothing too technical, just hard and fast, and had good grip all day once the early dew on the grass dried out. I think I only got passed by 3 of the fastest juniors (oh no, I just got owned by some kids), first one on third lap, then 1 each on consecutive laps thereafter, so happy enough with that. Bearing in mind, us non-competetive "marshalls" did stop occasionally to help fallen comrades.
I've really gotta concentrate on some more bike fitness now, I was getting some arm pump on the last couple of laps and have earnt some nice blisters on my left hand from hanging on for dear life.
Top speed indicated down the airstrip was 127kmph
Armature speller
97.1kph on the start straight(ish).
Spent 10min pushing an RM125 with broken clutch up that steep, off camber uphill left (hence the lying down looking at the clouds pic).
Helped get a bike back up a bank and it wasn't until after I saw the wasp nest he'd landed in
When laying out the track a post was hammered in on top of a wasp nest. They were still being chased 30m away
Hardcore Biker
No worries mate, what comes around goes around, It's a 17incher so no real use to me now anyway as i've got no bikes to suit it.
Not a bad pic Nordie, got any more?
I had an up and down race, got off to a good start but had to stop after the first lap to put some air into my rear tire. It had 12psi when i started but it felt flat to ride on, padmei and crazyfrog helped out and i was soon back out with around 18psi which felt much better. not too sure how many laps i got in but could'nt catch WW who passed me on the first lap when i was having issues. Ended up stopping about 30min early due to being plain knackered.
Looking forward to the next one, but will have to do some upperbody training in the meantime.
KiwiSafariTeam
GO BRO GO
Armature speller
Hmmm ...
Armature speller
I just go slower.
I would say it's less pain but I'm hurting today
1 1/2 hr racing(ish) and then 3hr photography/videography/pushing/pulling/crash starting/directing traffic etc...
Only video.
If I'd known it'd be fine all day I would have taken the good camera as well.
These are from 2008...
Happy there were less bogs Warewolf?
The high shutter speed makes it look like he's stalled it...
Where's the ride?
Happy I had a working clutch!Not sure whether dry hard unyielding terrain is preferred over wet slick stuff that has some give.
I had a pretty good day. Did a marshaling lap during the juniors/trail class. Had to dig out the tools to re-position some handlebars, then rode a bike back to the pits while the racer was ferried back in the side-by-side. He'd come off crossing one of the ditch hazards and landed heavily (he was alright after a rest). I didn't see the crash but the bike was in top gear when I picked it up and the bars were 45 degrees to the front wheel.
The race itself, I started on the second row 'cos I figured most of the MX bikes would get away, dunno why 'cos they didn't at the beach racingI tended to catch them at ~100km/h. Had my only stall of the day trying to get off the line... bugger.
Then spent most of the first lap passing people. Topo looked like he was touring, at least I was hoping that wasn't his race pace!
Laps 2 and 3 were a bit lonely and repetitive, hopefully faster as I'd learnt the track - especially where the worst hazards were - but also no keen MXers around to keep me sharp in the turns. Stopped briefly for fuel after lap 3 or 4, some chap helped which speeded things up. Finally got lapped by the leaders about lap 6; did 7 or 8 laps all up, lost count, and finished about 3h15m.
Got cased out in a rut about lap 5, they suddenly went from ridable to oh! sh!t in a lap. Didn't stall, but I fell over while dragging the bike backwards back in to the creek to choose another line because I put my foot down into the next rut. Arse. After that I almost stopped on the way in to the creeks to make sure I picked a usable route out, but the next lap I picked a boggy exit and needed help extracting the bike.
The bike was working really well. A few suspension clicks paid dividends in the unusually hard terrain. Raising the needle has fixed the off-idle stalling issue I introduced when I uncorked it last year. A fresh rear tyre (Vortix M02, a Michelin MH3 copy), the extra grunt off the bottom/mid, and maybe some skills honed at the endurocross certainly made all the technical riding easier. I was seeing mid-130s down the start straight but that made the dips and rises quite interesting. Nothing like a high speed endo into the braking area to upset your line and your underpants.
Ran 16psi front/rear and didn't have a worry with tyres. Didn't notice them, which means they weren't too soft, too hard, or to slippy. Later in the day had a few front end slides but I've had that S12 for a good few years (race use only) and it's shagged now. This fast dry day did it in, it's much more rounded than at the start of the day - an intermediate-mid terrain would have been better I think and not worn so rapidly. It wasn't a soft track.
The biggest hazards were the kickers scattered everywhere, my arms/elbows are quite sore from those, and the sheep ruts in the fast stuff that induced headshake. As time went on I learned where they were so I could avoid them or cross them at an angle, but had a couple of really big endos etc hitting stuff when I went on to a new line or wasn't riding aggressively enough thereby unsettling the bike. The big ditches were posted as hazards so I'm not counting them.
After about 90mins I was getting a bit tired and ragged, had some arm pump for a while and couldn't pull the clutch lever. Then I started thinking again, paying attention to good lines, being smooth etc and that lifted the speed, or so it felt. Just seemed like I was in the groove for much of the day.
A good day's riding. The best bit was nailing 2nd gear all the way up a steeeep hill for about 50m with a jump through the gate at the top, followed by a long flat downhill gradual right-hander where you had the bike on it's side wringing out gear after gear after gear.
Hmmm a bit stiff and sore today.
Cheers,
Colin
I aint bovvered
Greatvideo Nordie.Iwillhave towatch that before the next one toget myhead into it.
What was that dark blue 2T?
I liked seeing all the diff brands & models out there. I'd never thought I'd find myself cheering on a yellow bike
Was the full course more difficult than the jumior course?
In life as in dance Grace glides on blistered feet
Armature speller
Dark blue 2T would have been a Gasser or Yamahaha.
The semior course was more like a full laidback b-grade.
Nothing worse than the jumior course, just more of it.
I kept thinking "Man, Padders would have liked this bit".
And that was liked as in
Armature speller
Some juniors havn't learnt what a double down arrow set means...
Armature speller
Or out of the creek and then nailed in 4th for 500m with a jump through a gate at the top, followed by another 500m nailed in top.
I had fun coming back from the most northern part of the track back up the fence line by the house. Caught a few "racers" there
I aint bovvered
kickstart shaft broken - prognosis?
In life as in dance Grace glides on blistered feet
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