Patea TT

**sidecar bob** · 19th May 2014, 21:26

Id like to do it on a solo, but my pre '63 Norton will probably do half a lap on methanol before it runs out.
My pre '76 BMW solo racer on the other hand will do a couple of hundred km on a tank of petrol.
I do hope they open it up to pre '76.

**jellywrestler** · 19th May 2014, 23:40

Originally Posted by nodrog

I'm trying to source more info, but from what I've been told its pre'63 solos and pre '76 sidecars.

If anybody has more info (a map of the track would be helpful for a start) post it up here.

they run patea nine times from 1948 till 55 and i'm reasonably sure they didn't run sidecars. Sidecars started at the Cemetery circuit in 52 so they were around and were always a big drawcard and after having ridden myself round the course i'm sure they didn't have them there as it was simply too narrow over the bulk of the road, if not all, to allow passing.

whatever happens there will get my support but will only be fast laps rather than racing.
they tried in later years to have staggered starts like at the T.T., this was in an effort to appeal to the spectators. any sidecar 'race' for this one would pretty well only work if they did the same and had careful handicapping to ensure it all worked well.

**tri boy** · 20th May 2014, 04:32

Long track, nostalgia racing in Patea= WINNER

This has to be a Kiwi classic in the making.

Add a camping site and its a slam dunk in my books.
Take it International Patea.

**Pumba** · 20th May 2014, 06:06

Just because I was curious http://goo.gl/maps/9DokC

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**Shaun Harris** · 20th May 2014, 08:53

ah Patea my home town, done many many laps around that track over the years as a kid with my father on a Norton Commando 750

**Shaun Harris** · 20th May 2014, 10:32

Does any one know who the organiser is?

**Skunk** · 20th May 2014, 11:22

Yup. Got it at home.

If it ain't smokin', it's broken.

**sidecar bob** · 20th May 2014, 13:07

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

whatever happens there will get my support but will only be fast laps rather than racing.

That was all I had in mind too.
Riding quickly so as to get to the after do function early is how I would approach it.

**pritch** · 20th May 2014, 13:20

This seems like a cunning plan. In the fifties there was road racing at Tikorangi and in the sixties there was racing at (the old) Bell Block Airport. Modern bikes would be just too fast for the narrow roads and the box thorn and barbed wire safety barriers. The machinery of the day might be different though. I hope it works for them.

**jellywrestler** · 20th May 2014, 21:22

Originally Posted by pritch

This seems like a cunning plan. In the fifties there was road racing at Tikorangi and in the sixties there was racing at (the old) Bell Block Airport. Modern bikes would be just too fast for the narrow roads and the box thorn and barbed wire safety barriers. The machinery of the day might be different though. I hope it works for them.

you could stand a bike upright in the drains round a lot of it and they would still be below road surface level...

**sidecar bob** · 21st May 2014, 12:36

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

you could stand a bike upright in the drains round a lot of it and they would still be below road surface level...

So a whole heap safer than the I.O.M with its stone walls everywhere then?

**Shaun Harris** · 21st May 2014, 13:36

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

So a whole heap safer than the I.O.M with its stone walls everywhere then?

sudden stops hurt whether it be into a concrete wall or a dirt bank dude, or even a motorbike lying in a narrow narrow road, but nothing will ever be perfect when it comes to street racing.

**sidecar bob** · 21st May 2014, 14:56

Originally Posted by Moto-Dynamix

sudden stops hurt whether it be into a concrete wall or a dirt bank dude, or even a motorbike lying in a narrow narrow road, but nothing will ever be perfect when it comes to street racing.

I understand through a third party that MNZ think this event is a terrible idea & if that is the case I can totally see their point.
Possibly it could be run as a rally with a demonstration of historic TT racing.
Im all for a brisk pootle on a closed country road, followed by an evening of refreshments with like minded individuals.