Team GPR

**F5 Dave** · 9th December 2012, 17:28

That is a shame, he was a nice guy.

**seymour14** · 10th December 2012, 18:16

Some more old footage, Palmy North, 1999.

**Bert** · 12th December 2012, 05:53

Some other racing worth thinking about:

PMCC - Summer Series
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130447010

Nationals
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130435287

KOK

North Island Series:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130434014

One good thing about living in Palmy; we're close to everywhere else

**Bert** · 17th December 2012, 07:51

Short set of photo's from North Island Championship Rd2.

Mainly of the A Grade boys in action; (when we could get the chance to get the camera out).
A few others sunk in

Great Weekend.
But a mixed bag of results across the team; but none the less points in the bag for A-graders.

Quick summary.
Saturday saw Team GPR's factory racer (Regs) blow a head gasket only to find a pulled stud on his new FXR engine; so some bike swapping allowed for qualification (mid pack).
This was going make it hard to keep up with Richban & Rick; both whom were flying.
Saturday evening a complete engine swap was under taken out of Crazyman's development bike into the GPR150 frame, so that Regs could attempt to chase down the leaders and hopefully get some good points (possibly taking the lead in the Series). Nothing like some brotherly love & thumbs up to Big K for lending Crazyman a bike to carry on racing for the weekend. Full team effort.

Race Day:
Two seconds and a third for Regs; massive starts helped close the grid gap. but Richban & Rick had the pace up front; none the less they were great races to watch.
(Hopefully this will put him top of the series table).
Crazyman finished mid pack on the borrowed bike; which was a sterling effort.
Big K dominated B-grade (claiming pole and leaving everyone behind); but couldn't quite get through all the traffic in the last race (after starting off the back).
and I had a shocker (and managed to de-tune my bike even more; issue found today -> powervalve nearly 45 degrees out... total 140 degree duration at full rpm = no power)

..
The sidecar didn't really happen (eating sparkplugs) but did a couple of laps... Next time.

Big thanks:
Steve and the Team for running a great event.
And the Tokoroa Kart club for having us back (after Rich's mess last year).
Mr Farmaken for leaving a BBQ for us all (and not to mention some lovely cow meat).
Henk for the loan of some bits and pieces; plus the port roadies after sunset (I slept like a baby)..

Lets hope the world doesn't end on Friday cause this is just sooo much fun.

**crazy man** · 17th December 2012, 11:30

love the pic's was that semore of his face in the tent lol

**seymour14** · 17th December 2012, 12:36

Having spewed my ring out moments before, took up shaky camera in hand and got the first A-Grade race of the day.

Please ignore chunder on the camera lens.

Near miss Crazyman! Damn dirtbikers!!!!

**seymour14** · 17th December 2012, 17:41

2nd A-Grade race, sorry Richban, you knew this one was coming, have a quiet drink instead.(not a Crazyman brewed one that is)

**richban** · 17th December 2012, 18:07

Originally Posted by seymour14

2nd A-Grade race, sorry Richban, you knew this one was coming, have a quiet drink instead.(not a Crazyman brewed one that is)

Yep missed a gear then chose the wrong one. Never mind. Gave me the incentive for the next one.

Maybe you feel like a 50/50 burbon now you have got over your little bit of (FOOD POISONING)

**grantnz** · 17th December 2012, 18:15

Originally Posted by seymour14

Having spewed my ring out moments before, took up shaky camera in hand and got the first A-Grade race of the day.

Please ignore chunder on the camera lens.

Near miss Crazyman! Damn dirtbikers!!!!

So there I am, having a quiet dump, on a Sunday morning, when someone enters the cubicle next door and starts to chuck. He politely apologizes, and blames the breakfast that a guy named Ronald cooked for him.

**crazy man** · 17th December 2012, 18:20

Originally Posted by grantnz

So there I am, having a quiet dump, on a Sunday morning, when someone enters the cubicle next door and starts to chuck. He politely apologizes, and blames the breakfast that a guy named Ronald cooked for him.

lmao semore blames Ronald ha ha. maybe it was a bourbon burger

**Str8 Jacket** · 17th December 2012, 19:14

Originally Posted by grantnz

So there I am, having a quiet dump, on a Sunday morning, when someone enters the cubicle next door and starts to chuck. He politely apologizes, and blames the breakfast that a guy named Ronald cooked for him.

It's not what we're drinking....!!

**seymour14** · 17th December 2012, 20:19

Last of the evening, will have a go at uploading some onboard action tomorrow night.

This was the 2nd B-Grade race that was stopped for the unfortunate accident. Missed the restart by 30 seconds, but only got a few more minutes of the restarted race before the tape ran out. Not my weekend all round really!!!