North Auckland Street Skills - NASS

**16silver** · 6th August 2009, 20:52

Originally Posted by Sharry

And this is why it spat handfulls of red embers on the road in front of my bike, when you gave it throttle, last week on the Riverhead Rd??

And then carried on to blow smoke at my helmet while you revved it while wating in line at the carpark?

actually it was turned off when it was still blowing smoke
and the red embers were from the carbon in the exhaust, you all forget i have a 2 stroke.

**Sharry** · 6th August 2009, 20:58

Originally Posted by 16silver

actually it was turned off when it was still blowing smoke
and the red embers were from the carbon in the exhaust, you all forget i have a 2 stroke.

Funny how the smoke poured out, as it had done during the ride, as the sound of a two stroke motor revved ten feet in front of me.......

I agree with cheesemethod here, "you might get on with everybody a bit better if you were a little more humble when you come on the ride - learn and listen, rather than try to be the centre of attention. People put the time and effort into organising these things so we can all learn and have a good time, so please show some respect by actually learning from these folks, so you don't just end up another teenage skin crayon."

**Badger8** · 6th August 2009, 21:01

Originally Posted by 16silver

actually it was turned off when it was still blowing smoke
and the red embers were from the carbon in the exhaust, you all forget i have a 2 stroke.

The reason your poor little 2-stroke was doing that so bad that eve, is because you ride it too low in the revs a lot of the time.
You need to ride it in the powerband regularly, or you'll just foul up the whole system, and coke up your exhaust.
All i could smell when i pulled into the carpark was that, i thought someones clutch had shat itself or someone had ridden over with their brakes on or something. That aint a 2-stroke smoke smell, that's a burning death smell.
Red embers (i.e. chunks of burning coke) coming out of the exhaust is not a normal thing for a 2-stroke from my experience (and yes, i do ride a 2-stroke as well as the hornet)

**16silver** · 6th August 2009, 21:06

yes i agree that its not normal for a two stroke and the thing is that the exhaust was really packed with carbon as it has NEVER been cleared out in its life (44,000 km,s on the spedo) so it was because of that that this happened

**cheesemethod** · 6th August 2009, 21:20

Now I've been doing a lot of research into bike racing at the moment as it is something I'm interested in trying myself. I was under the impression that to be allowed to race in an official MNZ street race you had to have competed on the track for at least 2 years. You also need full leathers, race helmet and a bike set up for racing, among other things. I could be wrong tho.

The thing about the jeans dude - somebody was trying to suggest to you that kevlar jeans that are suitable for commuting to work might not be the best protection while out riding on back roads at night when compared with cordura pants say. You insisted "they're kevlar, they're kevlar" like nobody at the NASS had ever heard of kevlar biking jeans before. This is the stuff I'm talking about man - people don't suggest these things to try show you up, they're suggesting that you save doing yourself an injury.

As for the revving thing... whatever man. Deny it all you like, I must have been halucinating, as were the 10 people around me passing various comments that went along the lines of "why is he trying to blow up his bike?" Again, I'm not being an arse and trying to tell you how to run your life, just warning you that you could damage your bike by doing that. See when you rev it up before any lubricants can circulate across the bearing surfaces, you wear out the bearings much faster. This can wear out your engine a lot faster, or worse still risk seazing the motor or throwing the big end out the side of the crank case. Either way it'll cost you a lot of money to fix. If there's a problem with your exhaust fouling up perhaps you could ask around, you might find there's a few people with a bit of 2 stroke experience who could help you out with that.

Originally Posted by 16silver

the street racing was an organised event, supervied, and monitered by police, my jeans are actually kevlar (lifestyle imports check them out if you dont believe me), and no i dont start my bike up on the revv limiter, and never HAVE had it on 16krpm so you are DEAD WRONG there, i put the throttle on to about 4k to 6k to warm the exaust up so it doesnt suffocate when riding and as for the carpark thing, you are dead wrong too, i had just pulled in and turned my bike off, DID NOT SIT THERE REVVING IT as you state, i loudly exclaimed that my exaust was cleared out because i was happy as it had actually happened, so get your damn facts right before making up bullshit, and yes the prize was a dozen kegs, sponsered by the local pub, we all chipped in for the event and the locals chipped in too and there are videos on youtube somewhere, matt is uploading them so will be proof on youtube of that too, so next time, dont be lazy and bother to ask for the full story and get the facts right before making bullshit allegations.

**accident** · 6th August 2009, 21:36

I suppose we could all have a nice cup of tea.

**Sharry** · 6th August 2009, 21:38

Originally Posted by accident

I suppose we could all have a nice cup of tea.

If your making it dear I will have a dibble of milk and no sugar

**Badger8** · 6th August 2009, 21:42

**shah** · 7th August 2009, 06:52

Originally Posted by hctseng

Hi just want to say thank you all so much for last night, it was my first NASS and I have certainly learnt a lot. thanks to Richard and Todd for the coaching and I shall see you all next Wednesday. Cheers Hayden

welcome, Hayden. you have nothing to lose and everything to gain at NASS, eh.

**retro asian** · 7th August 2009, 09:25

Originally Posted by c.h.r.i.s

Holy shit, Arlington, say Hi to Hank and the boys for me (King of the Hill of course)

Haha.

One of them girls moved up from Arkansaw for the prized Hooters job in Arlington.

There were also a well knocked up Hooters girl, who didn't want to get in any photos... they were all lovely, but didn't have much brains between em.

Toto: I think they were all real
Sly Guy: Know what you're thinking... Burrrrururururrurururrurubb

**Sly_guy** · 7th August 2009, 10:38

Originally Posted by retro asian

... they were all lovely, but didn't have much brains between em.

And that's a bad thing ??? they're not going to argue when you say "i'm off out on the bike, there are some seal cubs that need saving !"

Originally Posted by retro asian

Sly Guy: Know what you're thinking... Burrrrururururrurururrurubb

I need a motorboat smilie !

**TOTO** · 7th August 2009, 12:24

Originally Posted by retro asian

... they were all lovely, but didn't have much brains between em.

It was you between em...

**fizbin** · 7th August 2009, 13:32

about 40 odd added
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/album.php?albumid=748

**Sly_guy** · 7th August 2009, 19:53

Originally Posted by fizbin

about 40 odd added
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/album.php?albumid=748

Cheers for that mate... some highly amusing shit in there....

However...

I put an email together today, with a selection of about 20 of those.. to email to the guys at work...

A slight error on my part has meant that, as well as going to a list of folks within my company... I've inadvertently e-mailed a director at a customer with the same thing...

Ooopsie !

And I've been working in IT for how long !