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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