Let The Countdown Begin.

[dpex]

By this time next week I'll be in a motel near the Taupo track. On Friday the 31st it'll be comeupance time.

With my all-new, flash bungs, care of Jason Godsmark (clever man, BTW. Can do almost anything for a biker) I intend to go all out, and I intend to go far enough out till my velocipede spits the dummy.

I just have to know what happens when the event horizon arrives and I splat, skid on my leathers, the whole nine yards.

I know Jack-shit about breaking points, entry and exit lines, lay-down angles, you name it. But by the time I finish at Taupo I will know a whole lot more.

I watched a bunch of guys, including Craig Sherrifs, go down at Manfield, last weekend. Most had zero personal damage and only a few had bike damage. It gave me courage to know I could live through such an event.

But I just gotta know what it feels like to go hard then go splat. I want to know 'where' my bike (or my control/or lack of) makes it go splat.

And if turns out that my new Pilot Powers won't play, cos I'm still too pussy to push them, then I'll lock up the arse-end and splat. But I have promised myself that I will splat. I'm not so sure that I'm prepared to forced a high-end...that could hurt. But a down and slide I can live with.

I really do need to know what it feels like, and to know about when it's going to happen. Then, when I get back on the road, I will that much a better driver because I will know where the event horizon exists before a splat....given dry roads, lack of oil, shingle, dead possums, or folk performing a tracheotomy on a fellow biker. :--)).....

Will report back on Nov 1st with details.

[MadDuck]

So your main focus for doing a track day is to find out how it feels to go splat ?

God help the others out there on the track you may have the misfortune of taking out with you......

[FROSTY:Me]

YOU WILL NOT FUCKING GO SPLAT.
Im the poor bastard that will have to haul your sorry ass back to auckland if ya do.
You will listen when you are spoken to by little ginger haired gremlins- they will talk common sense (thanks shaun)
You will follow a broken nosed racer for awhile and you will have a fuck load of fun.
Crashing is NOT a prerequisit. actually itll suck eggs bigtime if ya do it early in the day and hafta watch me goin round n round havin fun.

Trust me dude the "event horison" you are refering to is a fuck load furthur off than you can ever imagine it is.
You'll happily and painlessly (except the aches n pains the next day) find just how far you can lean and how late you can brake in a safe enviroment

[Katman]

Blah, blah, blah..........

Grow a fucking brain.

[Devil]

What
the
fuck
are
you
talking
about.

[R6_kid:Me]

To experience a high side. Put on all the gear you will be wearing at the trackday. Stand on the outside of a first/second story balcony. Look out to one side with your eyes closed, and get someone to randomly push you off the balcony.


To experience a low side. Put on all the gear you will be wearing at the trackday. Get in the back of a van with rear door open. Find an empty car park, get someone to drive up to 30-50kmh, then lower yourself out the back and let go.


To see what will happen to your bike in a lowside. Go outside now and push it over, but not too hard, but be sure to let it fall. Then drag it down the driveway.

To see what happens in a highside, put you bike in the back of the van, go to the carpark and push you bike out the back of the van at 50-70kmh.


Otherwise, go out and enjoy the trackday for what it is.

[Gremlin]

You will listen when you are spoken to by little ginger haired gremlins.

I am not little, and I LIKE my hair!!

Seriously dude... wtf? If you really are intent on screwing up yourself, or your bike, you don't need a trackday. People have walked away from 200kph crashes with a bit of a burn. People have limped away from 60kph crashes with broken bones.

Not to mention that the "limit" you seem so intent on finding is easily found, by the sounds of things. You, and what your brain thinks you can do.

R6 kid... that be funny... I lol'd... a lot

[Forest]

This movie has your name all over it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)

[dpex]

Chortle. You guys and gals are so easy to wind up. It's really quite entertaining to watch the reactions to an obvious piss-take....Like the tracheotomy suggestion.....

The chances of me actually wanting to add the slightest scratch to my beautiful R6 are as likely as bashing my head on Frosty's door....Oops. Hang about. I did that yesterday...Mumble, mumble.

[Katman]

I'm always amused by the sudden backtrack and "it's just a wind up" claim that some people fall back on when they realise that they've just sounded like a dickhead.

[Quasievil]

it fucking hurts ya moron, sheeesh

[dpex]

I'm always amused by the sudden backtrack and "it's just a wind up" claim that some people fall back on when they realise that they've just sounded like a dickhead.

Unlike your good self, Katman, I have yet to remove all doubt of such status.

[R6_kid:Me]

Chortle. You guys and gals are so easy to wind up. It's really quite entertaining to watch the reactions to an obvious piss-take....Like the tracheotomy suggestion.....

The chances of me actually wanting to add the slightest scratch to my beautiful R6 are as likely as bashing my head on Frosty's door....Oops. Hang about. I did that yesterday...Mumble, mumble.

Sorry to break your spirit, but a 1995 YZF600 isn't quite an R6.

[MadDuck]

but a 1995 YZF600 isn't quite an R6.

...it may be in disguise

[jrandom]

Which group are you riding in on the 31st, dpex?

When you go splat, I promise to run over, poke you in the eye, and slit your throat with a broken mirror.