Maverick 250 ride 5/8/07

**Brett** · 6th August 2007, 20:06

Originally Posted by YamahaR64Life

haha yea bro I tried the 2nd gear wheelie today in the rain had it up a good 3-4 kms hit 180 then ran outa balls

stable as.. lucky for me its geting done under warranty. Good eye spotting it, cheers for that. I thought ur gixxer was a thou? not a 600? cud b wrong...

Raj.

Nah, its a six hundy...the can makes it sound a bit deeper than 600's usually sound.

**ehab2weelr** · 6th August 2007, 20:46

this is some advice from one who got binned, to all riders new and old, as i found out my self things dont allways go as planed

luckly i was wearing a leather jacet but that just saved my uperbody , so if your going out for a ride be sure to WEAR FULL GEAR !!!!

we got binned gonig at 60km/hr we were lucky to get away with miner bruzing

but my knee has a prety nasty cut which is the cause of wearing jeans, one other guy got stiches. only one guy walked awy with no cuts because he was wearing the full gear

pleas fellow riders take my advice and be ready for anything wear your gear

thanks

**delusionz** · 6th August 2007, 22:05

60kph BS. I looked down at my speedo before that corner came up and it read more than twice that. The lesson you learned is ride your own ride, not what the guy infront is doing

**McJim** · 6th August 2007, 22:19

Originally Posted by delusionz

60kph BS. I looked down at my speedo before that corner came up and it read more than twice that. The lesson you learned is ride your own ride, not what the guy infront is doing

you need to have your speedo calibrated then. GPX250 can't do more than double 60kph

**Sleepr** · 6th August 2007, 22:25

Why would he need to lie? I was part of the slower groups which was lead by Mav, and we hardly touched 90. Well I was doing about that, people behind me were doing about the same, and the people in front of me were going a little faster but they did keep us in their rear view mirrors. Now since the bins happend after us, I am assuming they were part of the slower group as well and riding even slower. If they wanted to go fast why would they be in the slower group in the first place?

Anyway as I was saying, we were pootling along nicely, came to this junction kinda thingy and pulled over for the slow riders to catch up, then we heard the news from some people in the van that there were bikers down. So Mav headed back, and the rest of us slow riders got escorted to where the medium/fast ppl were. We were then lead by Zilf I think to the place where we had lunch.

**McJim** · 6th August 2007, 22:51

Originally Posted by Sleepr

We were then lead by Zilf I think to the place where we had lunch.

Zapf I think. good guy. Zilf is like Lucy Lawless - Zena I'd like to ....no let's not go there she's a kiwi icon

Yes, I know it's spelt with an X (The voices....does anyone else have pedantic voices?)

**Brett** · 6th August 2007, 23:17

Originally Posted by delusionz

60kph BS. I looked down at my speedo before that corner came up and it read more than twice that. The lesson you learned is ride your own ride, not what the guy infront is doing

I would hope that one of the main lessons learnt is that you go where you look a lot of the time. From what I heard on the day, sounds like a bit of target fixation - one person crashes and the rest behind go 'oh shit' climb on brakes, see the corner, dont get off brakes, low side.
It is a very hard thing to learn to do when you find yourself off your line and puching wide towards the side of the road or centre line and to MAKE yourself leave the brakes and focus on leaning the bike over and looking where you want to go. I had to lowside before I learnt that lesson.

Glad you blokes came away unscathed. The tar demons can be a lot less forgiving!

**zeocen** · 6th August 2007, 23:38

Originally Posted by McJim

you need to have your speedo calibrated then. GPX250 can't do more than double 60kph

I'm happy to prove your statement false ;p

**Sleepr** · 7th August 2007, 10:31

Originally Posted by McJim

Zapf I think. good guy. Zilf is like Lucy Lawless - Zena I'd like to ....no let's not go there she's a kiwi icon

Yes, I know it's spelt with an X (The voices....does anyone else have pedantic voices?)

opps I knew it started with Z and ended with f, so I filled in the rest of the letters

He is a good guy alright, he started talking to us noobs about target fixation, lines, speed, road surfaces, hazards etc etc.

**ehab2weelr** · 7th August 2007, 12:23

[QUOTE=Sleepr;1161780] I am assuming they were part of the slower group as well and riding even slower. If they wanted to go fast why would they be in the slower group in the first place?

i actuly was part of the lost fast group, we took a wrong turn some where hah some how i was leading the group so not sure if it was my foult we got lost

, any ways we turend araund one of the riders sade he knew the way back sorry cant remember your name

so he lead us back and on the way back is when my bike found its way to its side

**ehab2weelr** · 7th August 2007, 12:25

[QUOTE=Sleepr;1161780] I am assuming they were part of the slower group as well and riding even slower. If they wanted to go fast why would they be in the slower group in the first place?

i actuly was part of the lost fast group, we took a wrong turn some where hah some how i was leading the group so not sure if it was my foult we got lost

, any ways we turend araund one of the riders sade he knew the way back sorry cant remember your name

so he lead us back and on the way back is when my bike found its way to its side

hahah