Bears Round 6

**gav** · 13th November 2006, 20:18

Thanks! Kickaha just beat you out again, huh Stanko?

**TygerTung** · 13th November 2006, 20:20

Oh was that you who was neck and neck with me on the last lap of the last race kickha? That was really funny 'cos I wasn't looking where I was going after we went over the finish line and I went straight through, though I saw somone else did just in front of me

How was my riding, I scraped a foot as well as a knee at the same time that race, was I getting the bike lent over quite far?

**stanko** · 13th November 2006, 20:21

I couldnt get out of bed early enough, packed my lunch , then mucked around for a couple of hours before setting out for my big days racing.

I had my new trade me tyres on the LC, and the FXR was ready as always.

I was feeling pretty brave and in each race the usual suspects didnt dissapear into the distance quite as fast as normal, I think the Greymouth street race exorcised a few deamons. In the last race in pre 82 I swapped bikes with Kickaha, I thought his bike would be similar to mine but it wasnt, it was just horrible. It squeaked round right handers and shuddered badly round the sweeper plus too many other things to remember, but then he has no trouble seeing me off on it so it cant have been as bad as I thought.

Race 3 in the buckets let me squeak past Dangerous on his CB which used to disapear into the distance.

Awesome day out, great turnout from the KBers as usual, and a couple of new faces in the F4.

Now I just need to make the LC faster to make up for my lack of bravery ( and just in case Kickaha decides to fix his engine)

Yes Gav Ive still got my gardening gloves on

**TonyB** · 13th November 2006, 20:25

Spent Saturday doing 1 hours work on the Monster.... it took all day. With marriage patched up I headed off to Ruapuna early (for me) on Sunday. Holy shit I even beat Dangerous there!

The Monster needed some serious lockwiring, so yet again I mooched off Stanko- the idea being that I’d do it- apparently my effort wasn’t up to scratch tho, cause I was demoted to clutch and brake bleeding. Big thanks to Don from Pitlane for lending the vacuum bleeder, shit that thing makes life easy!

The Monster flew through scrutineering, I had to laugh when Speedy Girl saw me pushing it along- her mouth popped open and she started spluttering “what th…whe….how…….nice bike!” I’m still coming to grips with the fact its mine too… The bucket got through again, but the back wheel was wobbling a lot more than usual. I was puzzling over it when Stanko pointed out that some of the spokes were so loose they were rattling. Caused by the crash in Greymouth???

Bucket practice went OK, I could see immediately that TygerTung was going to be quick now that he had a good bucket under him- awesome stuff mate, a few of us are expecting big things from you. Next was F1/F2 practice- I wobbled out on the Monster for my first ever ride, aside from a 30second blat the day before, but sadly didn’t even complete the first lap before she broke down. I knew of two possible suspects- either a kink in the fuel line or the main relay, which had played up the night before. ‘Twas the fuel line, so after a bit of cranking she fired up and I managed one lap. Things went much better in Super Stock practice, aside from a bad stutter on partial throttle, which made my two least favourite corners (hairpin and dipper) a bloody nightmare! Oh well, the handling was the best I’ve had, the Brembo brakes were awesome, and the soundtrack was magnificent.

I flagged the bucket after the first race, with various reasons for this- lack of fitness, trouble adapting to the Monster, and a bit of a wobble in the back wheel from my amateur spoke tightening all adding up to “Meh, can’t be bothered” The races on the Monster all went according to plan. The plan was to take it easy and wobble around at the back while learning to ride it. So, on that basis, the plan worked astoundingly well! A bit too well actually…. I was last in every race… VERY last. Meh. I had fun!

By the time the All In came around, Le Mans and I had decided the monster was running lean at small throttle openings, because the stutter was very bad for about 2 laps then it got better, almost disappearing by lap 4… or was that rich…hmmmm. He thought rich, I thought lean. It wouldn’t idle either.. lean??? So finally after 6 races I finally realized I had to adapt to the problem, by trying to square the corners off (brake,stop,turn, whack the taps open and go) early on, and then try and flow more later in the race. It KIND of worked, but on reflection, the lines I used early on weren’t right for squaring off. For once I didn’t finish last, but I was holding people up and eventually Dangerous got by me on an RD400… which says it all really. I got by him once, he repassed, then I sat behind him and let him do his own thing in the tight sections, so he got away.

I was supposed to ring up and enquire about having the carbs looked at today, but never got round to it. So will probably race in clubmans and buckets this w/e for some more track time….. if my wife lets me…

**gav** · 13th November 2006, 20:28

So what track is being used for the Xmas round?

**stanko** · 13th November 2006, 20:32

Originally Posted by gav

Thanks! Kickaha just beat you out again, huh Stanko?

Are you so old you forgot you posted this already?

**Joni** · 13th November 2006, 20:35

Originally Posted by stanko

Are you so old you forgot you posted this already?

Hehehe thats what I was thinking, age does strange things to a man

**gav** · 13th November 2006, 20:41

Friggen internet, upgraded (hah!) to some latest Broadband plan, its just bollocks, keeps dropping the connection etc. I hit the rfresh button, tells me that my post is the same as the first one, and it'll take me to my original post, but its posted it twice, farked if I know whats going on, suspect xtra overload or something...

**Rashika** · 14th November 2006, 08:33

Originally Posted by Kickaha

and maybe some practice out the back roads somewhere on my starts

yup, thats just one of the areas for me to work on.

The brakes on Elsie were the hold up for me initially... was even thought that I may not have been able to race after dangerous was making motions about Elsie being pushed off the end of a BIG boat

But after a whole lotta work on Saturday, and swearing (I'm pretty sure there was an awful lot of that, I didn't hang around to find out) he managed to get the brakes to stop grabbing all the time and she was good to go. After hearing all the sqeaking going on while i was racing, i was being extra cautious for the practice & first race, but it was feeling good so i relaxed a little and started to race a bit.

Got caught behind 2 ducatis on the 2nd race, spent the whole time trying to get past the back one, finally did it in the dipper (wow for me!) on the last lap, no chance to catch the front one, oh well...
next time the plan was to make sure I was infront of them at the start, and that would have worked a treat if a certain someone on a 350Lc hadn't duffd up the start so i got bogged as well trying a avoid him, so that let her back in front of me again...but i must have be improving cos i got her in the dipper (again?! bugger me I thought as I went past, I actually CAN pass here!) on about the 3rd lap and then managed to get enough ahead that she couldn't pass on the straight and was able to leave her behind this time
tried to attempt to catch up on the other 350LC and one ducati monster being chased by said Lc, but just not enough race left, still I had a heap of fun trying

Was an awesome day all up

As for the bucket, well it has gone from being so damn cramped to being ajust a bit too high so that I can barely touch the ground and had all my weight on my arms and couldn't get my position right, tho it did improve as the day wore on, so more work required on that. The tri-oval is an interesting track, very short but had some fun with some of the guys eh Kwaka Kid~ or whatever he wants to call himself when he gets his A into G and onto KB! Good to see you out that having a go... now we just need to find you a bucket of your own

**Joni** · 14th November 2006, 09:34

Originally Posted by Rashika

The tri-oval is an interesting track, very short but had some fun with some of the guys eh Kwaka Kid!

Sorry I dont mean to be rude but who is this Kwaka Kid you refer to, because I did not see my good friend Logan anywhere :spudwhat:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/member.php?u=178

**Rashika** · 14th November 2006, 09:55

Originally Posted by Joni

Sorry I dont mean to be rude but who is this Kwaka Kid you refer to, because I did not see my good friend Logan anywhere :spudwhat:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/member.php?u=178

obviously its a different one, not sure if he is actually on kb yet, i thought he was but it might be the other forum.

**Joni** · 14th November 2006, 09:58

Originally Posted by Rashika

obviously its a different one, not sure if he is actually on kb yet, i thought he was but it might be the other forum.

Maybe we can suggest he chooses another name on KB, as he would be naming himself after an iconic member and KB Mod, there can only be one KK, but hey Im biased

**Rashika** · 14th November 2006, 17:15

Originally Posted by Joni

Maybe we can suggest he chooses another name on KB, as he would be naming himself after an iconic member and KB Mod, there can only be one KK, but hey Im biased

yup, I'm sure he will figure that one out if/when he EVER gets on here. We keep talking about him, but its not as much fun if he doesn't get on here and read it

maybe if I talk about him getting beaten by a girl, not once... but twice on Sunday

Think that will work?

**SpeedyGirl** · 15th November 2006, 07:06

Originally Posted by TonyB

The Monster flew through scrutineering, I had to laugh when Speedy Girl saw me pushing it along- her mouth popped open and she started spluttering “what th…whe….how…….nice bike!”

yeah baby, tis a beauuutttiiiiiiiful bike.......