MNZ rule changes for 2015

[quickbuck]

I thought you had aftermarket rearsets on your one

Nope, still have the stock standard $220RRP Swiss Cheese original rearsets.... At least there is little chance of bending the mounts on the frame..... I do have after market pegs though.





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[Billy]

Nope, still have the stock standard $220RRP Swiss Cheese original rearsets.... At least there is little chance of bending the mounts on the frame..... I do have after market pegs though.





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Yea,

Or $18 USD from Tyga last time I looked

[quickbuck]

Yea,

Or $18 USD from Tyga last time I looked

Trouble is I couldn't race into the Tyga Show Room and nick one off the bike in there on a Saturday morning when I crashed on the second lap of practice at my first ever event.....
I was back up and running for all three races.

Bought a few spares at a lower than retail cost over the years, but never went after market.... More fool me?
Well, maybe...

[sidecar bob]

Re the case protector rule. I have been doing a bit of my own research with several competitors on 600's & Superbikes that have been around the pointy end of the field for a fair while.
I asked if any bikes in their classes had spilt oil due to broken cases sustained in crash damage, as I had no recollection of it myself.
Both said that they had no recollection of it at least in this century.
Maybe someone else could confirm if this is actually the situation.
If this is a fact then it beggars belief that competitors should be shackled with another cost to remedey a non existant problem.

[Drew]

I've seen classics do it, but can only ever recall mechanical faults causing modern bikes to drop their lunch.

[Shaun Harris]

I have not seen it here for a while as I have not been at the meetings if it did happen, but have seen it happen a few times in the past, so I think it is a good commen sense thing as I see preventitive maintainence better than than forced maintainence. It can also save your Alternator/generator and case cover, as well as it means less oil on the ground to clean up as well as saves time lost for the organisers and if it did happen to a rider it all but cancells out the original out lay for the parts in damage prevention also meaning you do not have to purchase and carry a spare cover and gasket etc

[malcy25]

I've seen classics do it, but can only ever recall mechanical faults causing modern bikes to drop their lunch.

Drew, not aware of any posties or classics doing it (that was a case break on accident, as opposed to a Suzuki rod through the bottom!!!

But, I do recall one Friday open practice before the Nationals, picking up from Castrol at Puke in the 90's a ZX9R that the Hippie was riding that puked a couple of litres of BP's finest on the track. Right hand crank end cover was smashed, probably busted as it rode over the ripple strips.

[budda]

Drew, not aware of any posties or classics doing it (that was a case break on accident, as opposed to a Suzuki rod through the bottom!!!

But, I do recall one Friday open practice before the Nationals, picking up from Castrol at Puke in the 90's a ZX9R that the Hippie was riding that puked a couple of litres of BP's finest on the track. Right hand crank end cover was smashed, probably busted as it rode over the ripple strips.

Which currently available protection wouldn't have prevented .......... but may have helped contain

[scrivy]

Fuck me.

Why don't we just go electric!!

[Billy]

Re the case protector rule. I have been doing a bit of my own research with several competitors on 600's & Superbikes that have been around the pointy end of the field for a fair while.
I asked if any bikes in their classes had spilt oil due to broken cases sustained in crash damage, as I had no recollection of it myself.
Both said that they had no recollection of it at least in this century.
Maybe someone else could confirm if this is actually the situation.
If this is a fact then it beggars belief that competitors should be shackled with another cost to remedey a non existant problem.

Yea,

I can think of several, The one that sticks in my mind was Rodney O'Connors ZX6 at Manfeild at the hairpin on the long circuit, Not only did several of the lead riders run off track due to the lake of oil left which Loren Poole consequently crashed in, But it held up proceedings for a considerable amount of time while it was cleaned up, Your thinking aligns with the experts who, Without consulting the commissioner had the airfence at Barrell 51 at HD taken away as nobody has hit it, Wanna talk to South Canterbury about how mmany people had hit the tyrewall that took Cam Jones life, Its a current rule worldwide AND in the grand scheme of things the cost is minimal in comparison to a life OR a meeting being canned, The clubs can't and shouldn't have to risk losing revenue due to a preventable fluid spill, I would have thought the question SHOULD have been, Why does the rule NOT cover all classes running on the full circuits or atleast at any National event???

[nodrog:Me]

I can go to attwoods packing and get enough bubblewrap for everybody if it helps.

[ellipsis]

I can go to attwoods packing and get enough bubblewrap for everybody if it helps.

...is it the good quality stuff or that asian crap that may not work as well...maybe it should have a standards rating before we introduce it...

[bluninja]

I can go to attwoods packing and get enough bubblewrap for everybody if it helps.

Can you get it with a cotton wool lining?

Of course you'll have to wait till next year to get bubble wrap into the MNZ rules Perhaps you could bubble wrap Shaun's goat. BTW is that the one that flaunts itself on the verge outside Powerco?

[budda]

Yea,

, Wanna talk to South Canterbury about how mmany people had hit the tyrewall that took Cam Jones life, ???

Shit Billy, you know better than most not to get all emotive, especially on here.......

The number is actually, as I'm positive you know, very, very low. BUT, one life lost IS too many, and steps have been taken there to help in the HIGHLY unlikely event of a repetition

Miss you Cam ..........

[sidecar bob]

Rodney O Conner & Loren Poole? So it seems we have to go back over a decade to pull up a couple of instances.
I wonder what else we can pull into the rules to create a business opportunity.
Im going to apply to MNZ for everyone to have BMW tow cars with ten airbags so they are extra safe while travelling to & from meetings.
Hey, I meet the critera, so why shouldnt everybody else?
Im sure if I go back a couple of decades I can find an instance where someone got hurt towing the racebike.