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    C'mon Henk......Everytime you turn up you are getting faster and faster. Not that I'm any good, but i've had many a lap around mt welly trying to keep up with you whilst battling the onset of a mild cardiac arrest!!! (Any fitness tips appreciated, as long as they involve drinking beer and not moving much)
    Considering our extensive experience in bucket's (Coming up 8 months now I think) we don't do to bad....

    Welcome to buckets Gatch.... 10 months till TRRS, hope to see ya there.

    There has been quite a few of us noob's in buckets this year, going from what i've heard and seen. Must be good for the sport!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henk View Post
    Yep chepest way to race bikes. Also good close racing, excellent for improving your racecraft and if you nylon the bike up well enough a low stress way to bin the bike on a regular basis and slide down the track. At least that seems to be what happens to me. Most of the mods to my bike have been concentrated on crash proofing, a useful expenditure of time unfortunately, you may be a more talented rider than me (highly likely)
    Plenty of crashing experience.. Everything I've ridden at speed has ended up either on its side or with aluminium crumble for a piston..

    I think I might make a few extra nylon sliders and tape em on to my leathers just to be sure..

    Quote Originally Posted by Schrgd View Post
    C'mon Henk......Everytime you turn up you are getting faster and faster. Not that I'm any good, but i've had many a lap around mt welly trying to keep up with you whilst battling the onset of a mild cardiac arrest!!! (Any fitness tips appreciated, as long as they involve drinking beer and not moving much)
    Considering our extensive experience in bucket's (Coming up 8 months now I think) we don't do to bad....

    Welcome to buckets Gatch.... 10 months till TRRS, hope to see ya there.

    There has been quite a few of us noob's in buckets this year, going from what I've heard and seen. Must be good for the sport!
    Cool man, TRRS ? If its around Christmas it won't be the go. I'll be at wanganoo eye on the Dominator

    getting dominated..
    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Fkn crack up. Most awkward interviewee ever i reckon haha.

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    Schrgd, sure I went backwards last meet, should have left the balance shaft in. I did manage to crash 3 times over the weekend though. I've only ever managed to beat you in the wet and I think that's because you are smarter than me. Fitness tips? spend a few years doing enduros, four to five hour races make your average bucket race a breeze, only downside is it takes me about 3 laps to warm up. Gatch, I'm sure you'll love it, the atmosphere is great and the amount of encouragement and help you'll get is astounding. The amount of parts (and whole bikes) that I've seen going out on loan to keep people going over a weekend is unbeleiveable and part of what makes the bucket scene (in Auckland anyway) such a great thing to be part of, I doubt it's verry different in other parts of the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    So I can learn to race with the best of them

    I imagine bucket racing would be cheap as chips depending on how hard out you want to go with your set up..
    yep cheap and you lean heaps
    much more than you would racing classics

    you also get to race with some of the country's beast races (depending on where you go)
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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post


    Cool man, TRRS ? If its around Christmas it won't be the go. I'll be at wanganoo eye on the Dominator

    getting dominated..

    then it's up to Taupo for the TRRS thats why it's then and not any other time
    come to both just get the entry in early or you may miss out
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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    Cool man, TRRS ? If its around Christmas it won't be the go. I'll be at wanganoo eye on the Dominator
    make it a racing christmas, Wangas on boxing day, driveup to taupo; race the next two days (TRRS). could not ask for a better excuse for not dealing with the relatives....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bert View Post
    make it a racing christmas, Wangas on boxing day, driveup to taupo; race the next two days (TRRS). could not ask for a better excuse for not dealing with the relatives....

    Pretty sure my bike would end up smashed with a tyre iron if I even suggested that we should spend Boxing Day, and some of Xmas day, racing motorbikes. TRRS maybe...but Wanga! Ha, I'm dreaming
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bert View Post
    make it a racing christmas, Wangas on boxing day, driveup to taupo; race the next two days (TRRS). could not ask for a better excuse for not dealing with the relatives....
    While I would love to, the owner of the bike isn't keen, only wants to do a few rounds of the classic register (ending with the festival) and cemetery circuit. Can't complain really, Chris looks after transport, the bike, the fuel and has even paid half of the race fees so far.

    I'll make the goal for the spada buckets first race Taupo eh.
    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Fkn crack up. Most awkward interviewee ever i reckon haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    I'll make the goal for the spada buckets first race Taupo eh.
    I'd hope you see you out there before then...
    There is a few of us that venture to welly and the bay on a adhoc basis. get your bike sorted and I'm sure we can fit it in/on something...

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    I'll make the goal for the spada buckets first race Taupo eh.
    I would get some testing in first
    you dont test and make sure it's all going good then you end up like a few we know
    who park the bike up and watch for the weekend (not so likely to get hurt that way)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bert View Post
    I'd hope you see you out there before then...
    There is a few of us that venture to welly and the bay on a adhoc basis. get your bike sorted and I'm sure we can fit it in/on something...
    Cool man, I would hope that is the case as I'm not too keen on getting a tin top just to carry bikes around..

    Quote Originally Posted by Buckets4Me View Post
    I would get some testing in first
    you dont test and make sure it's all going good then you end up like a few we know
    who park the bike up and watch for the weekend (not so likely to get hurt that way)
    If this was the case, I'm sure I could rouse up a bottle of something nice to keep me company..
    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Fkn crack up. Most awkward interviewee ever i reckon haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    If this was the case, I'm sure I could rouse up a bottle of something nice to keep me company..
    Thats the spirit you will fit in well
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    Well the old spada is looking pretty trim. Aside from the crucial "adding motor" modification. I think I'll fab up a new sub frame that has less bolts holding it together (4 instead of 10), some new handle bars as the stock ones are very moto-x esque. Then, takes the grinder to the rest of the frame and remove all the extra tags and brackets. Should look pretty cool.

    Heres a massive picture of it..
    http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=199435
    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    Fkn crack up. Most awkward interviewee ever i reckon haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatch View Post
    Well the old spada is looking pretty trim. Aside from the crucial "adding motor" modification. I think I'll fab up a new sub frame that has less bolts holding it together (4 instead of 10), some new handle bars as the stock ones are very moto-x esque. Then, takes the grinder to the rest of the frame and remove all the extra tags and brackets. Should look pretty cool.

    Heres a massive picture of it..
    http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=199435
    looks nice mate, you cant go past honda build quality,

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