Cemetery Circuit Prize Giving

[Robert Taylor]

Programmes at the Cemetery Circuit this year were a fund raiser for the wanganui Hospice, there was also some money donated to the Hospice from some tickets sales through charity auctions via a third party. And paeroa has a few local organisations on their team of helpers as fund raisers for their clubs etc

That its a community effort is somehow very apparent in Paeroa, thanks for the clarification that this very much also applies in Wanganui.
Whilst I still very much maintain that safety needs to improve, the day ( if, as or when ) we lose such street racing would be another piece of NZ that goes awol, just like losing the traditional Kiwi Christmas at the beach / bach.
Things were simpler a few decades back and that in many ways was not so bad.

[Katman]

I remember going to Onekawa in about 1984 and some friends who raced a sidecar who shall remain nameless went out in first practice and were missing after 3 laps. They limped into the pits and the swinger with helmet off, covered in vomit, along with the sidecar deck. We had been up until about 2.30am the night before.

My guess would be Spyda.

[wharfy]

From Crosby's website...

Accidents were part and parcel of racing on the street circuits of New Zealand.
Head butting lamp-posts and gutters were always a possibility and losing skin was an occupational hazard but surprisingly very few injuries plagued the top riders and certainly no fatalities were suffered so all in all remove the thought of blood and the odd compound fracture it Wanganui was always a safe racetrack.

I was speaking to Croz at Whanganui in 2010 - he mentioned in his book seeing a possible fatal crash at Porrirua - I told him I witnessed that also and the rider didn't make it, he low sided, slid across the track feet first, hit the curb, flicked upright and smacked full length into a lamp post, it had a hay bale in front of it that just disintegrated when he hit it.
I have also witnessed a spectator being killed at Hamilton street races, a kid sitting on his dads shoulders. A bike flipped over the hay bales and hit the kid full in the chest. Minutes before Chris Bishop (who recently died in India) and I had been standing in that spot, we only took 30 seconds to decid it was dumb place to stand and it was only when we moved we saw the rope and restricted area signs had been trampled into the mud. We were looking around for a steward or someone to tell when we saw the bike come sailing through the air into the crowd. It was a very sobering experience.

[Edbear]

I was speaking to Croz at Whanganui in 2010 - he mentioned in his book seeing a possible fatal crash at Porrirua - I told him I witnessed that also and the rider didn't make it, he low sided, slid across the track feet first, hit the curb, flicked upright and smacked full length into a lamp post, it had a hay bale in front of it that just disintegrated when he hit it.
I have also witnessed a spectator being killed at Hamilton street races, a kid sitting on his dads shoulders. A bike flipped over the hay bales and hit the kid full in the chest. Minutes before Chris Bishop (who recently died in India) and I had been standing in that spot, we only took 30 seconds to decid it was dumb place to stand and it was only when we moved we saw the rope and restricted area signs had been trampled into the mud. We were looking around for a steward or someone to tell when we saw the bike come sailing through the air into the crowd. It was a very sobering experience.

Regrettably, far too many people do not think about where they are standing watching a race. All racing suffers the idiot spectator problem.

[jellywrestler]

My guess would be Spyda.

Nah mate, may drink a lot of piss but did not hit it before racing especially when I'm responsible for someone else Steve. try Vince Steur...
He had a rep for that.

[cowpoos]

Thats it im going to pull mine out next time i see you and slap you round with it!!!!

dip it in beer first and he'll probally nibble a little on the end of it...

[quickbuck]

Nah mate, may drink a lot of piss but did not hit it before racing especially when I'm responsible for someone else Steve. try Vince Steur...
He had a rep for that.

Something to do with the Air Force culture at the time

[BIG DOUG]

Oh yea those 50 cent stubbie nights ruled,$10.00 for a good night out

[wildman]

That its a community effort is somehow very apparent in Paeroa, thanks for the clarification that this very much also applies in Wanganui.
Whilst I still very much maintain that safety needs to improve, the day ( if, as or when ) we lose such street racing would be another piece of NZ that goes awol, just like losing the traditional Kiwi Christmas at the beach / bach.
Things were simpler a few decades back and that in many ways was not so bad.

I think street circuits have an atmosphere all their own and i prefer them to a true race circuit as they do involve the local community and offer a chance to really see riders up close. But i to have seen some real rocket scientists standing in places that make them human safety fences, and when i've tried to educate them on the possible dangers my birth heritage gets questioned. You can't make circuits idiot proof and i remember when we use to have methanol and open class karts running on street circuits what an awsome site, hopefully bikes and street racing doesn't go the same way becoming just memories from the past.

[Shaun]

Nah mate, may drink a lot of piss but did not hit it before racing especially when I'm responsible for someone else Steve. try Vince Steur...
He had a rep for that.

I will clarify your choice of words here Spider as Vince is a fukin good mate of mine

when you say before racing, I asume you meant to say " The night before racing" !!!!!!!!!!!

and don;t talk shit either, you did just as much on occasions in the old days as the next man did, I was there back then remember dude and one of the party pigs also just as Bob Toomey, john hepburn etc, should I go on

[Viscount Montgomery]

No doubt there are a few non-egotistical down-to-earth bike racers, but it's obvious reading these columns that the motorcycle racing crowd in general is a breeding-ground of mouthy unpleasant un-likeable types with snarky attitude.

Their own heads firmly up their own arses with a sneering self-importance and contempt of others who they dismiss as "losers" or "soft-cocks" who are too "scared" to drag a knee at 250KPH or some crap..

Just tiresome prima-donnas who think they're special people or some shit. You know the sort, you find them in most professions, driven weirdo cunts who if you try talking to them just stare blankly into space with their heads fuck knows where...

With "friends" like these strange bastards who'd ever want enemies.

And BTW the Wanganui races have turned into an incompetently-run joke. A rasping shitty speaker system and constant delays and hold-ups and drunken aggravating pimple-faced gits along with 30 greedy bucks just to get into the fucken place, nah, BIG improvements needed all-round

[wharfy]

No doubt there are a few non-egotistical down-to-earth bike racers, but it's obvious reading these columns that the motorcycle racing crowd in general is a breeding-ground of mouthy unpleasant un-likeable types with snarky attitude.

Their own heads firmly up their own arses with a sneering self-importance and contempt of others who they dismiss as "losers" or "soft-cocks" who are too "scared" to drag a knee at 250KPH or some crap..

Just tiresome prima-donnas who think they're special people or some shit. You know the sort, you find them in most professions, driven weirdo cunts who if you try talking to them just stare blankly into space with their heads fuck knows where...

With "friends" like these strange bastards who'd ever want enemies.

And BTW the Wanganui races have turned into an incompetently-run joke. A rasping shitty speaker system and constant delays and hold-ups and drunken aggravating pimple-faced gits along with 30 greedy bucks just to get into the fucken place, nah, BIG improvements needed all-round

Do you actually know any motor cycle racers or is this rant based entirely on the shit you read on the net ?

[Crasherfromwayback]

if you try talking to them just stare blankly into space with their heads fuck knows where...

Have you just for one minute, ever stopped to think it's because you have absolutely NOTHING worth listening to? I've yet to see anything on this site from you, that's vaguely interesting, helpful or for that matter...funny. All you ever do is spout vile shit. Must go through a shitload of toilet paper.

Do you actually know any motor cycle racers or is this rant based entirely on the shit you read on the net ?

He's too good to bother with racers.

[scracha]

Do you actually know any motor cycle racers or is this rant based entirely on the shit you read on the net ?

As per usual, Viscunt Montgomery is fantasising about being scary bubba biker. As far as he's concerned, anyone who rides a "plastic japper" is a f#cking c!nt so that makes the majority of racers scum in his eyes. Not sure how he'd class a Bimota rider though

As with most relics from the 50's, just ignore as they'll soon be dead.

For the record, most racers are very passionate about the sport and there's nothing wrong with that.

[Shaun]

No doubt there are a few non-egotistical down-to-earth bike racers, but it's obvious reading these columns that the motorcycle racing crowd in general is a breeding-ground of mouthy unpleasant un-likeable types with snarky attitude.

Their own heads firmly up their own arses with a sneering self-importance and contempt of others who they dismiss as "losers" or "soft-cocks" who are too "scared" to drag a knee at 250KPH or some crap..

Just tiresome prima-donnas who think they're special people or some shit. You know the sort, you find them in most professions, driven weirdo cunts who if you try talking to them just stare blankly into space with their heads fuck knows where...

With "friends" like these strange bastards who'd ever want enemies.

And BTW the Wanganui races have turned into an incompetently-run joke. A rasping shitty speaker system and constant delays and hold-ups and drunken aggravating pimple-faced gits along with 30 greedy bucks just to get into the fucken place, nah, BIG improvements needed all-round

you are so correct, now fuk of you jerk soft cock cunt hiding behind a bullshit name on a wb site, you are so strong it makes me proud to be a kiwi male PUKE