Tell us your funny stories.

[roadracingoldfart]

I was chatting recently to a few mates and we were recalling some of our funniest racing moments . It was hilarious and i got to thinking there must be so many worthwhile tales that should be aired for all to know and cemented in history somewhere.

I will learn to type faster than the loggin duration and post one of mine soon but lets get the ball rolling.


Paul.

[gixerracer]

I watched Jason Easton race a 600 and a superbike once years ago and yea

I was chatting recently to a few mates and we were recalling some of our funniest racing moments . It was hilarious and i got to thinking there must be so many worthwhile tales that should be aired for all to know and cemented in history somewhere.

I will learn to type faster than the loggin duration and post one of mine soon but lets get the ball rolling.


Paul.

[cowpoos]

I watched Jason Easton race a 600 and a superbike once years ago and yea

How about the chequered flag episode at hampton downs bettween your bad self and Jimmy??

[fuknKIWI]

Watching Stu Mac fall off at Ruatapu & him crawling on his hands & knees to get to the bike & get back on, there were bikes down all over the shop that day.

Seeing John Britten fly past my Bonnie at the Sound of Thunder & thinking how can anybody ride that fast. Later in the race his bike (the cast iron Triumph) was on its side & he was sitting on it watching the race, it was then that I realised you can't ride that fast if you want to finish. That made me feel a lot better cos he really demoralised me when he blew me away, it was the same corner he stepped off at.

[codgyoleracer]

1) Jarod Love, Burt Munro first meeting
2) An extraordinary 2nd riders brief was held (headed by Jarod) - absolutley banning wheelies and risky antics
3) Closely followed a short while later by a flip over bike destroying wheelie whilst showing off after race win .....(by Mr Love of course.....) :-)

Oopps, sorry Jarod

[Biggles08]

I seem to recall seeing a Honda MUV suspended on 4 rubbish bins at Teretonga at this years Nationals...that produced a giggle or two!

[Ivan]

best one I remember would have been either 03 or 04 season of the wellington bucket champs,
Bayden Sprozen ends up with his bike miles up the bank at Kaitoke turn 1 in reverse up in a tree and him on ground standing at bottom looking up hill at it never will forget that would have beeen a good 20-30 foot up bank

[FROSTY:Me]

not funny at the time but 07 nats at levels. Hayden fitzgerald launches his bike into space. Up and over a fairly high fence and almost cuts a nissan terrano in half when it comes back down.
Insane antics back in the late 80's doing the south island nats--Mostly involving water guns and the louge.-and other stuff not for telling the public

[CHOPPA]

1) Jarod Love, Burt Munro first meeting
2) An extraordinary 2nd riders brief was held (headed by Jarod) - absolutley banning wheelies and risky antics
3) Closely followed a short while later by a flip over bike destroying wheelie whilst showing off after race win .....(by Mr Love of course.....) :-)

Oopps, sorry Jarod

Or when he rode around the Taupiri SX track naked with Jenny Caulfield chasing him....

[Robert Taylor]

Last round of the Nats two years back when we built mock electronic suspension servos for Sam Smiths R6. We had maybe 75% of the paddock believing it as Sam was a lot more competitive than he had been all season, that being attributed to it being his home track ( Pukekohe ) and having just installed Ohlins ''NIX 25'' system inside the forks.

There was a look of concern and ''unfair advantage on a rival team managers face and it was a real insight into human behaviour / reaction. ''Its new, it seems to work, we havent got it, lets have it banned.

Craig Shirriffs, privy to this elaborate and convincing hoax played his part beautifully in letting on that we had something special and ears picked up when he made mention.

Davy Cole and I standing in front of the R6 and watching old man Cole walk into the pit, round to the back of the bike and out again without saying a word. Even the ''Puff Adder'' tried to have a sneaky look.

We were wetting ourselves all weekend, it was a lot of effort to make all this stuff but it turned out to be very entertaining.

[Jantar]

1975 (or 76) sprints at Alexandra. I had been given the nod to go but I couldn't because there was this old guy holding onto my hadlebars and telling how he makes his own pistons. Burt someone from Invercargill.

[Shaun]

I have decided to race again.

[ellipsis]

....on my second visit to the IOM in ,82 I had decided I needed to be closer to the machinery and riders so I planned to take a tent and park up somewhere near the pits and start line. A little brother of a person I'd met in England was pretty impressed with the motorcycle mania I exuded and was keen on lending me his little tent, so I took it and a sleeping bag as my accomodation. I threw my bag over the fence round the pit area at the top of the track up from Douglas and tried to look like I was supposed to be there. A fair swag of riders and bikes were already getting ready for practice and the first road closure the next day, I was doing pretty good looking nonchalant and fading into the background. I took out the tent from its little bag and fuck me if it did'nt have big pictures of american indians with their feathered headdress on. Blew my cover right out the window... still ended up parked up there for the whole two weeks, it didnt seem to bother anyone , especially the Irish bloke who was pitted a few feet away, with the yellow Arai and the fast Honda that seemed to have a smile on his face every time he looked at my tent.

[gimpy]

Craig Shirriffs once told me a story how he was going to win a superbike race ,he even said he was going to do it on a honda , that just sent me into tears of laughter

[gixerracer]

I got told he has fallen off his honda less in 2 seasons than you did in 2 race meetings?????

craig shirriffs once told me a story how he was going to win a superbike race ,he even said he was going to do it on a honda , that just sent me into tears of laughter