Very cool forum! (sugilite)

**dickytoo** · 21st November 2006, 17:08

Originally Posted by sugilite

Though since we are airing all the dirty laundry, in the next segment I'll be recounting your design and execution of creating a 500 cc vibrator that would get even the likes of Margret Thatcher off to a roaring orgasm!

I just thought you needed hardening up!

I'll swap you the story about your first attempt at jumpstarting the ZX9R.

Just thinking about it now makes me want to laugh out loud!

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**dickytoo** · 21st November 2006, 17:22

Originally Posted by sugilite

You owe me a ZX10 R ride for that snafu, oh wait.....

You got the lease on a certain OW01 for that one. Hang on, that means YOU owe me one, now. You should quit while you're ahead!

**chanceyy** · 21st November 2006, 17:33

lmfao .. funny arsed shit .. keep it coming .. pretty plz

**sugilite:Me** · 21st November 2006, 19:16

Originally Posted by dickytoo

I just thought you needed hardening up!

I'll swap you the story about your first attempt at jumpstarting the ZX9R.

Just thinking about it now makes me want to laugh out loud!

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Hey, Dirty pool!!! Besides you still have not stopped laughing from when it happened! OK, I'll see your ZX9 jump start story and raise you, your liking for guzzling gas in the pits!

Originally Posted by dickytoo

You got the lease on a certain OW01 for that one. Hang on, that means YOU owe me one, now. You should quit while you're ahead!

Thats not fair, you were paid a titanium conrod for that! You know how rare those are? You go around the local neighborhood knocking on doors and asking, I bet you will only find about seven others that have one!

**babyB** · 21st November 2006, 21:04

oh stop teasing you two & just spill da beans will yas

**sugilite:Me** · 21st November 2006, 23:04

Kawazuki RGV500
Yeah, some pussy named Kevin Shwantz was not riding hard enough so Suzuki gave me the ride, yeah right!

After two seasons of doing the nationals, my finances were well and truly exhausted. I still had the racing bug REAL bad, so I decided that it would be real cool to get a cheepie F3 racer built. I dreamed up a strange concoction indeed, putting a air cooled KX500 motor in a RGV250 frame!

Now, funnily enough, it was because of this bike, that I found Kiwibiker as White Trash started a thread about it and dickytoo sent me a link to it.
So pretty much my 1st post involved this bike.
Hence I'm shamelessly going to rip off my own thread and post it in here lol
For those interested, White Trashes post is here...
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=18859

OK, heres a few of my favorite yarns concerning the bike.
Originally it had a aluminum frame cradle, and this combined with Dickytoo deciding the top engine mount was way to heavy to use, made for a mind numbing 1st and last lap! Thank God it was a practice day, I was sharing the track with a porche at the time, as I came down the back straight the alloy cradle fractured and it vibrated so much that even Margret Thatcher would of achieved orgasm, hell multiple orgasm's even! My hands literally started opening by themselves, it felt like a massive electric shock! It belatedly dawned on me to pull the bloody clutch in and stop the show! After that, we had a steel cradle made and it took care of a lot of the vibration, now I know that will raise the eyebrows of those that had it after me

Though Daiman built the exhaust and fitted it into the frame Dickytoo did a lot of work on it too. With the limited budget, things were tough!

The 1st time I took it racing was at the Masterton street circuit. I remember taking it down the straight waiting for it to hit the power and I blew a bite sized chunk out the piston, spat every bit into the exhaust, I guess I was expecting a bit much from it...poor thing, it was not it's fault that I'd just stepped off my FZR100 proddie racer

We bored the keihn carb out from 38mm to 40mm. It ran much worse, moral of the story is NEVER bore a oval shaped carb throat lol
From there, it only got better.
We fitted another 38 off my KX250 mx bike and it went much better, said 250 also donated ignition and other goodies hehehe.
Anyways, we took it down south to the Ruapuna round of the nats. On the Friday I qualified around 15th fastest, that night Dickytoo fitted the 2nd RGV disc brake and fabricated a airbox for it complete with crude ram air! what a difference!!!
Saturday Morning I qualified 2nd fastest, only a fraction of a second behind Tony McMurdo on only the 3rd lap of practice!!! unfortunately it lost 3rd gear on the 4th lap lol. Hell who needs 3rd anyway, shifting from 2nd to 4th still kept most of the hordes behind me, though we decided against racing it as other gears were getting pretty suss too. Turned out to be bent selector forks.
I notice it was written elsewhere here that the handling may have been suss due to weight distribution, the only comment i can make is it handled bloody well when ridden at class lap record pace

Unfortunately I never got it to Wanganui, I reckon it would have kicked butt there!

So, why do I still have faith in the concept? Well, On my KX500 Supermotard bike I've lapped Manfield at a 1:18 flat, and that is with my slow cast iron liner barrel on, at least 7 to 8 hp down on my nikisil barrel, so it's safe to say I'd crack a 17, now thats on a motard bike with all the aerodynamics of a brick, so imagine what a water cooled motor in said rgv chassis with a ram airbox would do! (go project cowpoos!)

The weird thing is, I moved from Wellington out rural 25km's from Dannevirke, and what do I see in the local garage...said bike! The guy was running it without the airbox. I told him to run it, but as yet, it is still sitting in his garage, go figure!
The bike was actually being raced at the Taupo race just run. It was a 1st time racer who had borrowed the bike, so that would of been fun for him....hmmm, wonder if the current owner would lend it to me for Wanganui...Would need to fit the airbox 1st though!

I toyed with the idea of buying it just to torture Dickytoo with, but figured he had enough of a job keeping the ZX9R going! I'd better keep on his good side, as he has just about single handedly turned the ZX9R from a heap of steaming crap into a bloody great racebike.

While we were down south, a kind bloke let me go for a spin on his fully worked ZXR750. It was a unusual bitter sweet experience. Sweet, because it was a awesome bike, bitter because I was very close to the pace for superbikes and I knew I really should be riding in that class, not in F3.

Would I realize the dream of entering the Superbike class the next year? Find out in the next long winded installment!

**sugilite:Me** · 21st November 2006, 23:10

Oh yeah, the photos were taken in the very early stages of development.

**sugilite:Me** · 22nd November 2006, 00:25

So young, so innocent, then I had to go and crash it!

**dickytoo** · 22nd November 2006, 00:37

Originally Posted by sugilite

Thats not fair, you were paid a titanium conrod for that! You know how rare those are? You go around the local neighborhood knocking on doors and asking, I bet you will only find about seven others that have one!

I still haven't figured out that deal yet, 1 relatively pristine GPz900A5 in exchange for a much loved, very used titanium con rod. I know I'm not the sharpest tack around but methinks I've been diddled!

You, know, after losing the old Ninja, i tried riding that Titanium conrod around but it wasn't very comfortable, especially after the KY wore out!

Funny thing, i still have that con rod in one of the boxes in my basement.

**dickytoo** · 22nd November 2006, 00:44

I Like this picture. Looks like someone shrunk your bike!

And here's something I had a lot of practice in - fixing up the bikes after yet another prang! This was the one Anthony was talking about before where the FZR1000 launched itself into some wire netting.

Others in the picture, Anthony McCarthy, Paul Mcquilken (?) Juan Pearson and Tony Rees (in red jacket) walking away from us in disgust after seeing what Anthony had done to a fairly innocent Yamaha

**babyB** · 22nd November 2006, 01:10

lov the shrunkin bike pix
cool way to wind up a day

**dickytoo** · 22nd November 2006, 01:23

Originally Posted by sugilite

So young, so innocent, then I had to go and crash it!

So that's what a shit eating grin looks like! I've always wondered

Before I met anthony, i had never been refused entry into any food establishment. After we started touring together, it was no longer a surprise to me and I got used to eating at greasy spoons. Sad to say, this is a true story.

**sugilite:Me** · 22nd November 2006, 11:18

Originally Posted by dickytoo

So that's what a shit eating grin looks like! I've always wondered

Huh?

Originally Posted by dickytoo

Before I met anthony, i had never been refused entry into any food establishment. After we started touring together, it was no longer a surprise to me and I got used to eating at greasy spoons. Sad to say, this is a true story.

Well the Invercargill one did us a favour barring me, when I did get in the next year they served the worst meal I've ever had at a resteraunt!

You should have seen Richards face at the CHCH one, They took one look at me and said "we are full tonight" So I looked over the top of his head, and said, "no ya not!" (the place was near empty

)

He seemed to be embarrassed when I gave granny of grannies tea rooms in Putaruru a bit of a serve too, go figure!

Now our roles are reversed, he is a speedster driver and I get to play the good cop now!