Kiwi Buckets from nearly 30 years ago

**T.W.R** · 26th January 2014, 15:21

Found this article in a Aussie MCN mag from mid 1985

Shame the pics are black & white

**seymour14** · 26th January 2014, 15:42

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Found this article in a Aussie MCN mag from mid 1985

Shame the pics are black & white

Awesome, going to flog (I mean borrow), this article, some day there must be a need for a book on Bucket racing...

**T.W.R** · 26th January 2014, 15:46

Originally Posted by seymour14

Awesome, going to flog (I mean borrow), this article, some day there must be a need for a book on Bucket racing...

that's what I posted it for.... a bit of a trip down memory lane etc.

**James Deuce** · 26th January 2014, 16:17

That fence looks familiar. I'm sure I've crashed into it.

**koba** · 26th January 2014, 20:42

Really cool!
Cheers!

Also got a technical thought from that...

**speedpro** · 26th January 2014, 22:09

Ahhh . . . . the 6 hour race at Whenuapai. That brings back memories. Actually it doesn't. I lay unconscious on the track for a couple of laps, until someone in the pits figured I was missing and that was what all the waving was about, and I can't remember fark all. We used to spend Friday night at Farrow's bike shop. 2AM was seen a few times with the motocross boys dropping in for cables and oil on the way home from a night in Auckland. The cops dropped in a few times around midnight as well to see what was going on and suggesting the bikes outside could be brought inside. A few names in the article I'd more or less forgotten about.

**TZ350** · 27th January 2014, 04:47

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Found this article in a Aussie MCN mag from mid 1985

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I see, one of the rules, "Alcohol for all", is mentioned at the top of page 45, bring back the good old days I say .....

**Flettner** · 28th January 2014, 16:36

Originally Posted by TZ350

I see, one of the rules, "Alcohol for all", is mentioned at the top of page 45, bring back the good old days I say .....

ACU fixed that for us

**Grumph** · 28th January 2014, 18:28

Originally Posted by Flettner

ACU fixed that for us

yeah...as i remember it was driven from wellington. there was a motion from the floor at one point to just ban Nitro but they threw the baby out with the bathwater...i was at that one as an observer and when that remit went through i walked out....

what pissed me off most was that i'd been involved that season running the fastest F1 bike in NZ on an alky brew - and my own club voted to ban alky.....

those of us who wanted to retain alky were pushing the green aspect - alky from renewable resources and synthetic oil too....

Too many minds made up on too little evidence.