Kiwi Rider Magazine Manfeild Track Days

[chris]

What kind of licences do you need for the trackday? Do you need a road licence, as ive got a Honda RS125 race bike but no road licence.

Sorry Matt, we require a minimum of a road licence. Our insurance approved indemnity requires it.

[chris]

What time should we turn up at Manfield?

Cheers,

Hopefully you should have received some details either by e-mail or in the post. Track opens to us at 8.30am and we plan on the first bikes on track around 9.30. Signing on and briefings will take place between these times.

[Bartman10]

Hopefully you should have received some details either by e-mail or in the post. Track opens to us at 8.30am and we plan on the first bikes on track around 9.30. Signing on and briefings will take place between these times.

Yeah, cheers, got all your guff thanks Chris. Presumably you got my entry form. It should be a good day. I can't wait.

[FROSTY:Me]

diddnt even think of this day --i just sent chris a PM--if he says yes Ill be there with bells on

[FROSTY:Me]

wooohooo--im in im iun--OMG what Have I done--trackday on a well worn out xj900 -sheesh thats gonna be hard work---anyone got a 400 proddy bike I can take out for a bash

[GSVR]

wooohooo--im in im iun--OMG what Have I done--trackday on a well worn out xj900 -sheesh thats gonna be hard work---anyone got a 400 proddy bike I can take out for a bash

Great stuff see you Saturday

[MOTOMART]

MotoMart and Honda will be there,
Gonna have a CB900 Hornet and VTR1000 Firestorm for anyone to demo too.
Come have a look.
See you all there.
Happy riding.

[Marknz]

Cooool, a VTR1000, I'll take that for a lap or two

[FROSTY:Me]

well --what a friggin fantastic day. well organised -well run --only 2 minor --read VERY minor bins.
It was friggin fantastic
Big upps to the KR crew

[MD]

Cooool, a VTR1000, I'll take that for a lap or two

So it was you who dropped it. Just because you don't like it in blue that's no excuse for going dirk track.

WHAT A RIPPER OF A DAY. Big thanks to KiwiRider. Looking forward to seeing some of the pics and vid. The wheelie session was a blast.
Jimbo had the edge on me around the track but sure can't navigate a shortcut home! What was that Jimbo? I was looking out for lake Taupo. Time to refill the next well earned bourbon & coke. Sign of a good day- I'm poked.

[Marknz]

What a day.

Strolled through to the track arriving at about 08.30 and signed on. Off with the pack rack and the mirrors and on with cable ties, and a bit of duct tape over the speedo to make sure there was no peeking close to those all important braking markers.

First session for novices and those of us who had never been on Manfield before. A good session seeing "where the track goes" and then waited for the first Intermediate session of the day. Had a reasonably good session here but the rear end was wandering all over the place. I get back to the pits and find that I've only got 32psi in the rear and it's still hot. What the? Have a quick look at the tyre and there is the culprit.. sitting proud and happy smack bang in the middle of the tread is a dirty big nail head.

So it was off the Palmy to hopefully find a dealer who was open and willing to deal with the issue at that late hour. I'd made the decision before departing not to worry about the mirrors as it was only 15k down the road. About 5km south of Awahuri and I get pulled over by plod. "Any reason why your speeding and I now see you have no mirrors either?" Tell him the truth and the after a while the response is, "Okay, just take it easy" "What the?!"

Into to Palmy and find Phil Turnbull Motorcycles. Great bunch of guys and they had the work done within an hour and I was back at the track by 13.15 and ready to participate in the rest of the avo. Two more intermediate sessions and while I was becoming quite comfortable on the twin it was pretty clear that it's not the right bike for that particular track. Maybe a change of front sprockets would help? Apparently I was down to a .35 come the end of the second session, and may have been a couple quicker than that in my last. In-line fours generally kicked my arse on all the straights as you'd expect, but most of them held me up in the corners, particularly in the last corner coming on to the start finish straight.

And to top off my rather interesting day I kill a bird with my helmet while overtaking on the road into Shannon.

Maybe I should check my lotto tickets now?

All in all a great day out and really good to meet somemore KBers'

Many thanks to Kiwi Rider for putting on the day which was well organised. And of course many thanks again to Phil Turnbull Motorcycles for their prompt attention to my puncture.

What now? Well feck it.. I've got the bug again so it's gonna have to be onto Bikepoint and try and find a suitable 600cc track bike. Look out clubmans.

[Marknz]

Be good to see some pics too.

[jimbo600]

So it was you who dropped it. Just because you don't like it in blue that's no excuse for going dirk track.

WHAT A RIPPER OF A DAY. Big thanks to KiwiRider. Looking forward to seeing some of the pics and vid. The wheelie session was a blast.
Jimbo had the edge on me around the track but sure can't navigate a shortcut home! What was that Jimbo? I was looking out for lake Taupo. Time to refill the next well earned bourbon & coke. Sign of a good day- I'm poked.

Er sorry mate. I thought that you wanted to test your radar detector out on the HP riddled SH1. Actually I believe that that way is the quickest route back. Might be wrong. Usually am.

[LB]

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We were really lucky with the weather - despite a bad forecast, it stayed dry all day.

A well-organised day and good to see minimum (and non-injury) crashes.

I think the "best wheelstand" award goes jointly to MD and Speedking. Have got some great piccies of you guys but am no good at putting them onto this site so will get them to you separately.

Novice of the Day goes to Her_B4 who went out on the CBR600 and got her times down very nicely - well done!!!

Thanks to the guys at KiwiRider - it was a great day.
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[GSVR]

As said above great day. Was very tired by the end of the day and probably shouldn't have gone out for the last session.

Huge difference in bike with stickier tyres on. Had alot of fun following Frosty for a few laps on his old XJ learning some better lines and how I should be moving on the bike. 5 sessions at 15-20 mins is plenty of riding and great value.

The only passing on the outide of corners made for a very safe feeling day as you knew no one was going to shoot up inside on the entry to corners and run you wide or worse.

Sept is the next one and I'm sure pommie_chris will be offering the KBers the same deal.

Bad luck on the nail Mark_nz.