Let silliness begin

[dpex]

Picked up the KR150 today. Looks to be in really good nick. But sitting upon it, after the Yami, felt like sitting on a Leggo bike.:--((

But Billy (our KB Billy) assures me this bike is good for 170 plus, even with my large and aging frame atop it. Sadly, I'll never know cos it doesn't have a speedo. :--(( And, apparently, is likely to be quicker through the corners than the Yami....except I have to start this weight-shifting thing or lose the exhaust in hard left-handers.

But, by heavens, he knows a thing or two about bikes and racing.

The big kick I get from getting folk like Billy into conversation is learning. Despite my age I'm an avid learner.

I am the diamateric opposite now, to what I was as a youngster (read 14 through 45). Then, I knew everything. Now I know I know jack-shit. Then I couldn't learn. Now I can.

But I've found, over the years that an open ear can hear a great deal, but only some matters strike home.

Today I learned...from Billy...amongst much else...about single and double apex. But that was the lesson which stuck.

Better yet, I understood what he was on about.

Now I know where I kept on going wrong at turn-four at Taupo, and what I should have been doing to get past my good mate Terry through Turn-five.

But hey! Till you learn, you don't know.

And so, on Sunday it's track-day at Puke.

I'm taking both bikes.

I'll 'probably' do three rounds on the KR, just to get used to it before the PMCC series begins, but at least one round (for the straights and mainly for my all-new cam to capture the moment) on the Yami. But the fact is, straight-line speed doesn't do it for me.

In fact, I'm looking forward to finding out how I can run the KR on the Mt Wellington Go-Kart track. At this stage it's restricted to buckets, but I figure I 'must' be able to persuade someone to open a new class for that track....

New class for 150cc TS.... Rider over 50 years. Over 80 KGs. Over ego-trips.

It was a point which MotoTT-Sue made to me about T2 at Taupo. It's much more technical than T1. Agreed. And Mt Wellington is about ten times so.

Anyway. Blast-off is Sunday. And, oh boy, am I looking forward to it.

Any hints or advice? Feel free to post.

And those corners! Oh Glorious Corners!

[dwnundabkr]

on ya mate, will join ya in a couple of years, as i get older the more i want to race a bike so will start from the ground up, only 40 so got plenty of time lol

[Fatt Max]

Heard that, just need to convince the missus