Paeroa pix (17 February 2013)

[Chooky]

Not much of a crowd there..........?

[silver_duck]

I enjoyed myself... and my son thought it was great (3 yo) - on the way home he was asking to go to motorbikes again.

[Fast Eddie]

Not much of a crowd there..........?

aye!?? haha, there was enough people that it was hard to find and squeeze into a spot to watch from the sidelines..

was my first time there though so not sure how it compared to previous years

[slofox]

Not much of a crowd there..........?

Looks like a couple nice bums though...

[Big Dave]

aye!??

Compared to other years it's virtually empty - in these nice pics anyhoo.

[Devil]

Yeah definitely a noticeably lower crowd number than previous. Might have been related to the $30 ticket price! Not to mention them wanting another $2 for a programme. Hmm. Well at least it made it easier to get around. Was a typical Paeroa scorcher!

[Ixion]

I was there. It was a lot more crowded than appears in the pictures. I thought at first it was perhaps a few less people than previous years but then decided it was maybe that more were getting off the footpath and into shade.

Still hard to edge along the footpaths for the crowds. And the pubs were pretty full.

The bike park areas actually seemed fuller than last year.

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Smaller fields than usual, especially the motards.

[boman]

I agree. I thought that the event was practically deserted. Hell at 3pm, you had the choice of viewing positions anywhere on the front straight. There seemed alot of bikes around, but naff all people.

The quietest Paeroa I have ever been too, so far...

[Banditbandit]

Looks like a couple nice bums though...

They had more than nice bums . I'd use those legs to keep my neck warm ...

I thought the crowd size was about the same as usual ... maybe a little down ... but still hard to get a good view spot in most places ... hard to walk down the footpaths ...

A good day's racing (apart from the bad incident on the track)

[Banditbandit]

I agree. I thought that the event was practically deserted. Hell at 3pm, you had the choice of viewing positions anywhere on the front straight. There seemed alot of bikes around, but naff all people.

Yeah .. but the main straight is boring ... bikes going passed very very fast ...

[Crasherfromwayback]

A good day's racing (apart from the bad incident on the track)

Bummer. What happened?

[Banditbandit]

Bummer. What happened?

Not sure - we arrived while it was very quiet on the track ... the announcer finally said there had been "an incident" and it was delayed in getting that sorted ..

Someone I talked to said a rider had dropped it and been hit very hard on the helmet by a following bike ... I have no idea of the outcome ... it didn't sound good. Whether that was the incident the annoucer was referring to I don't know ... but there was certainly an ambulance on the track when I arrived and it took a while to get everything back up and running - that usually indicates a very serious incident ..

[merv]

Bummer. What happened?

This http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times...r-Paeroa-crash

[oneofsix]

Not sure - we arrived while it was very quiet on the track ... the announcer finally said there had been "an incident" and it was delayed in getting that sorted ..

Someone I talked to said a rider had dropped it and been hit very hard on the helmet by a following bike ... I have no idea of the outcome ... it didn't sound good. Whether that was the incident the annoucer was referring to I don't know ... but there was certainly an ambulance on the track when I arrived and it took a while to get everything back up and running - that usually indicates a very serious incident ..

Rider in Hospital, saw it in the online paper this morning but can't find it now, yeah I'm useless at web searches but try The Herald, make that Stuff