Serious question. Has anyone ever died from a bucket crash?

[bucketracer]

you forgot the mighty GP125 the fist 2 stroke to hold together and finish 3rd in the gp ridden by an old guy with limited talent didn't get his knea down or nothing

Are you saying that some dodgy old bugger with arthritis, a gammy leg who can't ride, needs glasses, falls asleep between races, needs a push start and help getting off his bike after a race was keeping two fast factory 4 strokes ridden by current class champions and ex., works riders honest because of the superior qualities of a well tuned Suzuki GP125.

[Skunk Control]

I think the wife is the most dangerus part of buckets
you spent WHAT!!!! on the SH*T BOX !!! I could have got a new pair of shoes
or my nails done now back to work so I can have my hair colored and foiled



NO YOU CANT BUY A NEW ONE. I DONT CARE IF IT'S FASTER OR YOUR MATES ARE LAUGHING AT YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can I have a go I wont brake it or beat you

Nah it's not the wife that's the dangerous part, if it is you are

I love my free time and space when Skunk is racing and building buckets And the other bonus there is no where near the arguments over who spent what, anymore.

[Skunk Control]

Buckets are great, it gives Skunk the time he loves playing/building/tinkering in the shed, and if I can get that set-up properply he won't even make a mess in my house either

It's sooo important for everyone to have something they enjoy doing or that they are passionate about, and for me I get so much more than just the motorsport photography side of it

[Slingshot]

Depending on how serious you want to get you will find that nearly every bucket legal engine has some sort of limitation - clutch, gears, cylinder, 4-stroke. The list of impediments to serious performance goes on and on.

Brilliant!!!

[skidMark]

They make 149cc 4 stroke BMW's ixion?

[Ixion]

They have made 250s, And I have already verified that it is permissable to sleeve down an oversize engine.

[craisin]

well Im going to be 60 this year and i was thinking of going Bucket racing getting a younger smaller person to ride said bucket I built a C-grade saloon car in the mid nineties using a younger driver. We did very well but it was better to do all the yelling at the driver before we got to the track

[Ixion]

Oh. Why allow a smaller younger person to have the fun of riding the brute. I certainly shall not do that. Good heavens, man , you are only 60, and I can hardly imagine you can be fatter than me.

[Skunk]

You should ride it yourself!
Did you see how OLD the GP winners and place-getters were? Man, they was all old and crinkly.

[xwhatsit]

Hey Ix, if you want to go fuel injection, I've been thinking for a long time that a fun microcontroller project would be to write an ECU/injection setup. Some of the 8-bit AVRs would have enough grunt. Feed an ignition sensor into it and you could have all sorts of fun and no restrictions.

FTDI232 on there and you could plug your laptop in and play with the map between races. It's been a while since I played with RISC assembler

[Ixion]

You should ride it yourself!
Did you see how OLD the GP winners and place-getters were? Man, they was all old and crinkly.

Oh. Is crinkly a pre-requisite. That's bad, I ain't crinkly.

[Skunk]

Oh. Is crinkly a pre-requisite. That's bad, I ain't crinkly.

I'm pre-crinkly myself. There are no restrictions on fun.

[Ixion]

Hey Ix, if you want to go fuel injection, I've been thinking for a long time that a fun microcontroller project would be to write an ECU/injection setup. Some of the 8-bit AVRs would have enough grunt. Feed an ignition sensor into it and you could have all sorts of fun and no restrictions.

That's a VERY good idea . You will go far. But can you do it with a two stroke? I have never seen a conventional FI setup on a smoker? If you could it would get round that bloody carb restriction rule. A throttle body is not a carb. Right?

But FI usually needs a lot of other sensors beside ignition. Air flow, air temperature etc etc. Some of course are luxuries , for cold runing and such. But are all dispensable? Of course, they could probably be retrofitted.

Hm. Mr Skidmark might not be so far off the mark with his talk of BMWs. They would have injectors of a sensible size (250cc cylinder, maybe not too far out for racing). And wrecked K100s are now fairly common.

This thing is starting to get out of hand. But I will be keeping an eye on Trademe and T&E.

[xwhatsit]

But FI usually needs a lot of other sensors beside ignition. Air flow, air temperature etc etc. Some of course are luxuries , for cold runing and such. But are all dispensable? Of course, they could probably be retrofitted.

I read a bunch of crap on a website (MicroSquirt or something sounding like that -- open source FI project, mostly used on cars it would seem). A whole lot of sensors, a good chunk of them optional, who knows. You could simply build a glorified electronic carburettor relatively simply with little extra cruft -- a simple `rule bender' device.

Well, we all know how that Bimota turned out... they put carbs on it in the end, didn't they?

[Skunk]

That's a VERY good idea . You will go far. But can you do it with a two stroke? I have never seen a conventional FI setup on a smoker? If you could it would get round that bloody carb restriction rule. A throttle body is not a carb. Right?

But FI usually needs a lot of other sensors beside ignition. Air flow, air temperature etc etc. Some of course are luxuries , for cold runing and such. But are all dispensable? Of course, they could probably be retrofitted.

Two smokers rely on a 'signal pressure wave' from the pipe for best effect. How would that work with EFI? It would just be a matter of working it all out. It's not like any major bike manufacturer has gone broke trying (Bimota)

We Kiwis will do it for next to nothing and show them all! Mwhaahaha