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    Greymouth Street Race

    Got up on Sat morning and finished packing, hit the road to the Hoogies to pick up Al's CBR, had a good drive over and met up with the Hoogies and Yow Ling. Got the sign in sorted and headed off to the motel room.
    There was a bit of rain overnight but Sunday was warm cloudy but dry with rain threatening.

    Practice: dry but damp track the buckets were mixed in with the older classics and never really got a good run after a short 4 or so laps practice was over, straight out on the Pre 82 and had a ball on it.......I think it was made for Greymouth.

    Pre 82 race 1: It was wet......very wet the bike started missing on the warm up lap but seemed to clear on the grid, the start light went out and the bike ran like it should to turn one i managed to pass about 5 bikes under braking only for it to die totally, it coughed and spluttered its way back to the pits, A bit of crc from Tony Mac on the electrics she wa good to go.

    Bucket race 1: Wet track with light rain. Gridded up on the front row with the three Hoogies, a rose amongst three thorns. I got a ok start and was 5th or 6th into turn one and by turn two Al Hoogie and I were rubbing shoulders for first place, Al and Kevin Orr got past on the straight between turn two on three. I was having massive rear end loses under hard breaking. Al was on full wets and Keven was on New BT39's so I was bloody happy with my third on slicks and was pushing for second most of the race.

    Pre 82 race 2: Damp track. I had no grid position from race one I started off the back. had a ball on the wee 250 which is like riding the bucket, ended up finishing about 5th.....good fun.

    Bucket Race 2: Pissing down! Due to Mr Lings FXR not enjoying being wet he had given up for the day so we pulled the wheels out of his bike so i could run his wets......both bikes are TZR 1KT frames but the wheels dont interchange......stink, ok plan B lets dry out his bike and get it running, which we did. I gridded up in 3 on the front row and got an ok start. I managed to pick off a couple of bikes and was in third in the back straight and manage to push into the lead by the start finish line. 1/2 way down the start finish straight i looked back and was surprised to see i had 50 meters on second place already. I touched the Brakes for turn 1 and bang i was on the deck sliding, I was winded and it seemed like ages before i got my breath and could get up. The flaggy was asking if i was ok and i couldnt answer him, my knee was killing me but limped clear. To make it worse my family and gf were watching at turn one I watched Mat Hoogie ride to victory and later found out Kevin Orr's MB expired and Al Hoogies bike was missing badly.
    I rode mikes FXR back to the pits and found the front brake lever needed replacing and i'd taken some paint off.....later we found the source of the bin.....the front tyre was almost flat.

    Bucket Race 3: dry track, spitting with rain, I went out on my bike and pulled the kill plug on the warm up lap and found the fault and got the bike going, gridded up at the back of the field, too flustered and sore to compete i finished mid pack after making some mistakes.

    Some racing highlights and lows but a great weekend away as usual.....pity the weather didnt play ball. Sorry about dinging ya bike Mike.


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    I had a ball, I certainly won't be worried if it looks wet next year.

    Had a great time on the GSX400 battling Ghostie on his RD400 in Post Classics, I got 9th in race one which put me on the second row of the grid for race2 , got bumped on to the front row before the start, not a place I wanted to be on a GSX400 twin, thought I was doing well to be contemplating passing a Ducati 900 on the outside on turn two when Budda passed on the outside of me, thought I'd passed him on the straight and then passed the ducati on the outside heading into turn 3 to find Budda had passed both of us on the inside. yahoo chuffed to get 9th again. The GSX died on the warm up lap of race3, waterlogged.

    The bucket was fun and I know I got 9th in race two. I got some footage featuring Budda in the post classic race 2 and some from bucket race 2, the camera fogs up in the pre 82 race, and get a bit isolated in the bucket race.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyzr1cIR-M&feature=plcp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5ANmj8yac&feature=plcp

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    Pedestrian crossing on corner entry and exit and its wet You guys are mad!

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    add slicks into the equation........ they use to sand blast the markings off the road the night before and repaint after the racing. Some years ago they used some flash larry non slippy paint, seems fine but in the back of ya mind your planned route has as little white stuff as possible........them man hole covers are a different story.


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    Fuckin awesome. Great weekend.
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    Oh yes, my first outing in post classic. Twas most fun. Some wet t-shirt comp. Ho ho..

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    Good bit of video there muzzab I even managed to spot myself standing there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gridcitypunx View Post
    Oh yes, my first outing in post classic. Twas most fun. Some wet t-shirt comp. Ho ho..
    Was that you who had lie down at the hairpin in race 1 post classic? I swerved to avoid the bike and then nearly run you over, sorry about that if it was you. Should have gone on the inside, my mate on the RD400 did and bet me to the finsh line, bugger.

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by gridcitypunx View Post
    Oh yes, my first outing in post classic. Twas most fun. Some wet t-shirt comp. Ho ho..
    Pleased to see the Kawa there - and sounding very crisp too. You have now had your Greymouth baptism....

    Hope all is Ok for next weekend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    Pleased to see the Kawa there - and sounding very crisp too. You have now had your Greymouth baptism....

    Hope all is Ok for next weekend.
    Whats next weekend?

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    yup was a great day we watched it untill 2pm and rode home back to dunedin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzab View Post
    Was that you who had lie down at the hairpin in race 1 post classic? I swerved to avoid the bike and then nearly run you over, sorry about that if it was you. Should have gone on the inside, my mate on the RD400 did and bet me to the finsh line, bugger.

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    Yep that was i... no problem, I had my dancing shoes on. It was a nice way to lay it down if ever there is a nice way. Ha! Too early on the gas... wet lesson learned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    Pleased to see the Kawa there - and sounding very crisp too. You have now had your Greymouth baptism....

    Hope all is Ok for next weekend.
    Thanks!! Yes bike is fine, little bark off the fairing. Can't wait to go back in time this weekend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gridcitypunx View Post
    Yep that was i... no problem, I had my dancing shoes on. It was a nice way to lay it down if ever there is a nice way. Ha! Too early on the gas... wet lesson learned.
    That's cool. Man your bike sounded awesome when it zipped passed me towards the end of the second race, you can really hear when it gets on song!! It must be a hoot to ride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kel View Post
    Pedestrian crossing on corner entry and exit and its wet You guys are mad!
    What you can't see is how f-ing heavily cambered the streets are in Greymouth (it rains a bit there i hear)

    The traffic islands are made removable by a very operative local council as well.
    Plus all the holes specialty made in the footpaths to hold the sleeves for the barrier fences.
    Plus the circuit only has one right hand corner.....



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