New ZXR rider

**wbks** · 27th March 2009, 21:19

You couldn't possibly go from an engineering uni student to a dole bludger, surely?...

**skidMark** · 27th March 2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by wbks

You couldn't possibly go from an engineering uni student to a dole bludger, surely?...

LOL nah, knew some of the biker guys there.

**Malcolm** · 27th March 2009, 23:40

Originally Posted by wbks

Ok, I've seen it before but couldn't really remember what it was called and the last vid on youtube I watched of a similar car built by uni students in the UK for a world wide competition was (or atleast they called it) college cup, so I assumed it was that.

What do you have to do to do fsae? Whats your part in it? sorry for all the questions, its just interesting to me haha

Technically to be in an FSAE team you just need to go to a university that has a team and be enrolled in a degree. Realistically, you need to be doing engineering (we have a few others in the team that look after finance, marketing etc).

My role in the team is co-chief engineer (I look after the vehicle dynamics side of things and another guy does powertrain). Last year I was chief engineer, year before I was team leader. I don't mind the questions, this thing is basicaly my life at present and I always enjoy talking about it

skidMark - who were your buddies? Johan, Jeremy, Craig?

**skidMark** · 27th March 2009, 23:43

Originally Posted by Malcolm

Technically to be in an FSAE team you just need to go to a university that has a team and be enrolled in a degree. Realistically, you need to be doing engineering (we have a few others in the team that look after finance, marketing etc).

My role in the team is co-chief engineer (I look after the vehicle dynamics side of things and another guy does powertrain). Last year I was chief engineer, year before I was team leader. I don't mind the questions, this thing is basicaly my life at present and I always enjoy talking about it

skidMark - who were your buddies? Johan, Jeremy, Craig?

cant even remember names these days ahhhh was a couple of years back, had a old gsxr250

and i came in when the sports car club came to have a lookisie one night

**wbks** · 28th March 2009, 08:54

Originally Posted by Malcolm

Technically to be in an FSAE team you just need to go to a university that has a team and be enrolled in a degree. Realistically, you need to be doing engineering (we have a few others in the team that look after finance, marketing etc).

My role in the team is co-chief engineer (I look after the vehicle dynamics side of things and another guy does powertrain). Last year I was chief engineer, year before I was team leader. I don't mind the questions, this thing is basicaly my life at present and I always enjoy talking about it

skidMark - who were your buddies? Johan, Jeremy, Craig?

I should have went up and had a closer look at it at paeroa. Is it going to be on display anywhere else any time soon? The thing I was watching, they said atleast one of their team members/students a year goes on to an F1 team or other racing class. Is that what you're going to try to do?

**Malcolm** · 28th March 2009, 11:30

The next event we're likely to attend is the Auckland domain hillclimb, which is in early May I think. We have 2 former team members working for an F1 team, an heaps in local motorsport teams, especially Formula Toyotas. My ambitions are probably a bit more entreprenurial than joining an F1 team.

skidmark - that SCC visit was quite a while ago, either before I joined or not long after I did, either way I don't remember anyone having a GSXR back then

**skidMark** · 28th March 2009, 15:43

Originally Posted by Malcolm

The next event we're likely to attend is the Auckland domain hillclimb, which is in early May I think. We have 2 former team members working for an F1 team, an heaps in local motorsport teams, especially Formula Toyotas. My ambitions are probably a bit more entreprenurial than joining an F1 team.

skidmark - that SCC visit was quite a while ago, either before I joined or not long after I did, either way I don't remember anyone having a GSXR back then

SCC meet was first, met trhe gsxr250 guy a bit later when he was down at panmure motorcycles having rev out problems.

**Malcolm** · 28th March 2009, 18:45

ah yep, that's Dan - he's a champion

**Macros** · 2nd April 2009, 15:12

Welcome Malcolm

**Candle** · 2nd April 2009, 16:27

welcome to the forum

if your new to biking id recommend something to the nass on Wednesday nights its a good way of both learning how to stay alive on the roads and meeting some of the locals as it were

**icekiwi** · 2nd April 2009, 16:46

Welcome dude...

**McWild** · 3rd April 2009, 09:00

Originally Posted by Malcolm

I have a reasonable idea of where the possible/impossible boundary lies

And this, grasshopper, is where you are going wrong...

**Brett** · 3rd April 2009, 16:18

Welcome, and good choice of bike. i started on one of those a while back, and I remember too well the feelings of being a complete novice, especially when riding out in the country at night...very overwhelming. I might suggest a few track days and you will speed ahead in learning this whole new riding thing.
Hope to see you on a ride!

**portokiwi** · 3rd April 2009, 16:24

Welcome to KB

**Malcolm** · 3rd April 2009, 22:35

Originally Posted by Candle

welcome to the forum

if your new to biking id recommend something to the nass on Wednesday nights its a good way of both learning how to stay alive on the roads and meeting some of the locals as it were

Ok, I thought about this a bit and I have no idea what you mean when you say "id recommend something to the nass on Wednesday nights"

Cheers to the rest of you for the welcomes - hopefully I'll make it out to something sometime

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