Port Nelson Street Races 2007

[Rashika]

Here's one mate.. you was goin sooo fast I didn't even have time to get him in the frame...

hehehe. COOOLLLL!

[dangerous]

Well... that was a fucked up day

1st into the pits I think we were, set up camp and waited for the rest to arive, KB camp soon grew with the arivel of the foreners, Frosty, Nicko, Sparky... and the usuals.

Riders briefing was an hour late so I was thinking this aint a good start, some north Is tard rider was loosing his rag after being told that tards wont be in F3 and BEARs... even tho per round they will get TWO races... out came his paper work shouting says' here I can race in these classes' If I was the organiser I would have grabed the paper and a pen and crossed it out and said 'now it dosnt'... fuk man respect the organisers decision, then the comments strted being hiffed his way 'cut there power off for a day and they bitch for a week'

Well thats about as far as brefing went... nothing mentioned about entry and exiting of track or any safty concerns, not a good breifing in my eyes.

Pratice , finely got under way and I went out on the Kat, with the reminder of how much harder a road race is.
F4 (buckets) pratice was straight after and mixed in with the classics... once again a reminder of the pot holes, man holes oil and lack off run off came back to me.

Race 1 And the time is now one oclock... due to tard riders arseing off F1 bike loosing his oil filler cap (twit for not tying it in and a bigger twit of a scrutenear for not picking up on it) and shocking organisation.
Post classics cant remember much but was running about 1/2 field and really noticing the bumps and weight of a 1/4 ton bike.

F4 The MB uses a home built frame and is very light the front end was pogoing and sliding every were so I hanged in there and think I came at the back of the front group.
I heard after that they closed the gate on Rashika, then opened it she shot out of the entry rd and was nearly cleaned up by the pase car doing over a ton down the straight... fucking stupid shit.

Race 2 Fuck knows what was going on but on the grid was classics, post classics and F4... WTF??? I was on the ront line trying to get back to let classics in but they wouldnt come forward so the flag was droped and I shot out into 2nd place... wasnt to the last lap when DC flew past so I was thinking I was hauling decent arse... but no it apaires when the flag was droped the grid up person jumped out in front of row 2 and was nearly ran over and a big pile up caused... once again WTF???
Second flag drop and the rest of a fucked up feild took off.

Well that was the day... one F4 race one pre 82 race and one very fucked up race... this just left the 'king of the port' race to be sorted with the top 5 riders of each clas racing.

Last race KOP ... well fuck me as the post classic class wasent that big I did finish in the top 5 so I should have cualified... but no my name wasent called out... yet a rider that was one of the last to finish... he was called up... fuck me what a ballsed up day.

Well good day by all, all the same and next year I think it should be called “THE MOTARD STREET RACE” after all their bitching they had up to 6 races compaiered to our 1-2.

Great catching up and riding with all KBers and sorry to those KBers that were there to watch as I may have seemed a bit rude and snobed some of yas but once Im in the race zone I kinda dont take a lot of the rest in.

See ya sll next year aye?

[TonyB]

Geeze! If it was that bad, I'm glad I didn't go!

Not sure if road racing is going in the right direction at the moment. Whats the point in paying a fortune to race at the top level and only compete in 1 class when Motards can compete in several while spending far less money? Why race an RS125 when you have to race with F3 bikes and now Motards, both of which get in the way on the corners and stuff your laps up? Why pay to go and spectate when heaps of classes seem to have the same bikes in them?

Just a thought.... I looked at buying a Motard, cause at the moment they are getting far better value for money than any of the other classes. Maybe thats not such a good thing?

[Rashika]

ah well, got my first street race overwith...and I came away with very mixed feelings.

Firstly I have to say that I really enjoyed the actual racing on the street.
I was pretty nervous about it after having heard all the horror stories about street racing but when i was out there both bikes felt great. Stuck to the road really well, and even the bumps weren't any major issues, i even road over a few on purpose to see what effect it would have, but both Elsie and the bucket were fine. Guess there is one advantage to having the same type of frame on each bike.
It was pretty cool to occasionally look around and see people watching you...very novel having them clap as well

I have to say ta VERY much to Thunder for making it a great competition in the first pre 82 and bucket/f4 race... I really enjoyed having someone to chase, especially as i always seem to start off the back due to some reason or another.

And also ta to Frosty and Nicko for their inspiration, great to play at bitbitch briefly till the other one turned up...eventually
Nice to see you again too Sparky Bills! Glad to see that ya managed to keep it upright this time

And yet more ta's to SuziQ and my pops for taking lots of piccies, which hopefully soon (when i can get away from work and SuziQ meanders her way back from nelson) we will get to see some more piccies.


So anyway the races...

Practice pre82/post classic:
went out for practice... lined up on the grid...hmm novel i thought, usually its just go out and blat around a couple of times, dont usually have a flag drop but oh well...go with the flow. So got a roaring start...ummm errr no. I have REALLY got to work on those starts!!! mutter mutter
So managed to catch up with Thunder and just pip him at the post... was thinking Cool this is gonna be fun. The nerves had gone and i was feeling great!
so it was...

practice for buckets/F4:
get back to see Dangerous trying to start bucket and it not working....fuck...
no electrics. It seems that the bucket altho when started earlier was fine, she had decided that all the rain in Nelson was just NOT on and it was time to toss her toys outa the cot! So i sat while all the rest went out for a play. Luckily we have some very helpful groupies and they set to to figure out the problem. And when Stanko got back and had finished a wee tantrum at his onboard camera going boohoo as well , he came over to help sort it out too. After pulling out all the electrics, it turned out to be water in the kill switch, so easy fix...cut the wires & rewire.
Even after spending more than an hour fixing the bucket we still had about 1/2 wait till our first race, being the last 2 races in each round.

Race one: pre 82/Post classic
yippee, got out on the track, warmup one lap, then back to the start for a REAL flagdrop this time round, but the usual crap start, so at the back again. Altho there were only about 10 or so of us in total, so managed basically a repeat of the practice, only got past Thunder a little earlier this time so spent the rest of the race trying to avoid him passing me again and watching out for the big boys to lap me...which they managed but ONLY on the final lap

Race one (and ferking only!!) Buckets /F4:
raced to get on the bucket only have issues getting my gloves connected to the tether switch, mere seconds later i was heading out and they had closed the rope. They proceeded to open it for me and wave me through right in front of the pace car... sheesh....just as well i stuck to the left.
Decided not to bother going round again as they would have to wait ages for me so just went to the start line and waited, no warmup lap, no practice on a bike we had modified rather a lot and I had not yet riden... but surprisingly after the hear miss from the pace car i was actuall cool , calm and collected.

This race start was similar to pre82... checked to see what gear i was in, usually start in 2nd cos first has nothing at all, noticed it said 3rd so whipped it down, but somehow it went back up, so damn near stalled it. damn it, i usually have a good start on the bucket...never mind...head off and chase down a couple of bikes before sttling in to chase Thunder (again! )
But this time the bucket doesn't quite have the oomph of Elsie and I cant quite get past him on his std FXR...bugger...so thats one each now.

An hour or so later we have the 2nd round:

Race 2 Post classic
well that was a bit of a balls up to say the least. All the post classics are sitting on the dummy grid waiting, then a couple of buckets turn up and we get waved out.... Huh?? I'm thinking, dont say they have combined the classes???? So anyway manage a warmup lap this time and get back to the start, and as damhgerous said it was a complete cockup, left in 2 waves i think, about 15 secs after the first batch. Got so befuddled by the start with this bloke running in front of us with the flag, that ballsed up the start (AGAIN!) so tottled off after the other classic and most of the pre82 bikes, to catch up with the buckets and slowly get past most of them...Stanko.. thunder on his Pre82, then even (bugger me days!) Diesel Pig....woooooohoooo...now i know how it feels to be in the front with the fast buckets, tho i had to do it on my 250
tried to catch James but too much of a head start and couldn't do it...
But all in all i was chuffed with the last race, had fun passing a few people...even if they were on buckets and pre 82...


and that was it....

Complaints: (unfortunately a LOT)

Not one but 2 marshalls letting me out in front of the pace car. (I was gonna check...habit... but I decided to trust them)

Pace car: okay so it is a race (and it did sound good going past), but not a race for you...ok? Shooting past the start/finish at a zillion miles an hour was prob not required when you had a 1/2 a lap headstart on the bikes, 'cept perhaps F1.

Running postclassics and buckets straight afterwards, about half of the post classic riders were in buckets so very quick change... not impossible but not easy either with gloves having to be swapped around to fitted tether switches, etc. They said they would makes sure there was time between the races...yeah right. Guess it didn't matter cos we only had one race like that, they didn't run anymore hence...

Biggest complaint:
What was the thinking???? of combining all the last 3 classes into 1 race, not only are the bikes quite vastly different in speeds, but half of the riders were in both classes.

So in the end I got 2 races on pre82 and 1 on buckets, pretty damn slack given i had 2 bikes and probably should have had closer to 3 races on each.

Really pissed off that after combining our classes they proceeded to have ANOTHER round for all the other classes EXCEPT the class that had already missed out. So all told they got 3 races each class, except the super-retards who got 5 races each. HEY did we NOT pay the same money to come and race?? In fact considering a lot of us travelled from chch and further we should have had the support of at least the same number of races as the other classes.

So altho I was and still am peeved about, i still enjoyed what little racing i got... would I do it again YUP, but only if they sort their shit out.

Letter of complaint will be going on behalf of all the riders who missed out, effectively all the classic, post classic and bucket racers

[Rashika]

Geeze! If it was that bad, I'm glad I didn't go!

Not sure if road racing is going in the right direction at the moment. Whats the point in paying a fortune to race at the top level and only compete in 1 class when Motards can compete in several while spending far less money? Why race an RS125 when you have to race with F3 bikes and now Motards, both of which get in the way on the corners and stuff your laps up? Why pay to go and spectate when heaps of classes seem to have the same bikes in them?

Just a thought.... I looked at buying a Motard, cause at the moment they are getting far better value for money than any of the other classes. Maybe thats not such a good thing?

actually the motards DIDN'T get to race in the F classes, the race guys said that MNZ has said no more to them competing in those classes. Only in Supermotard races, hence the reason they had 2 races per round and could go in both if they wanted. Quite frankly I think that sucks... we have to have 2 bikes to go in more classes and we didn't even get even close to the number of races they got with one bike and supposedly only had one class.
So bugger em, they should have the same restrictions we have.

Keep the Monster, much better cos you can do Bears and F3 and noone will have an issues with you doing both

[MyGSXF:Me]

And also ta to Frosty and Nicko for their inspiration, great to play at bitbitch briefly till the other one turned up...eventually

HHmm... yeah.. well.. I uummm.. had a weee electrical fault of my own to deal with.. namely the alarm clock.. bloody thing kept making noises.. so I had to pound it with me hammer & grind it to a pulp... till it stopped...

thanks for holding the fort till I got there tho girlie!!!

AWESOME write up mate!!!

[Rashika]

HHmm... yeah.. well.. I uummm.. had a weee electrical fault of my own to deal with.. namely the alarm clock.. bloody thing kept making noises.. so I had to pound it with me hammer & grind it to a pulp... till it stopped...

thanks for holding the fort till I got there tho girlie!!!

AWESOME write up mate!!!

yeah i feel a bit knackered after all that....

[Kickaha]

Letter of complaint will be going on behalf of all the riders who missed out, effectively all the classic, post classic and bucket racers

Make sure all the riders who are pissed abut the event either sign it or their names are on it

[Buddha#81:Me]

Make sure all the riders who are pissed abut the event either sign it or their names are on it

Fark.......are you still alive?

Spud Racer race report to come.

[Rashika]

Make sure all the riders who are pissed abut the event either sign it or their names are on it

yup and they can help with writing it too

[TonyB]

Keep the Monster, much better cos you can do Bears and F3 and noone will have an issues with you doing both

Thats why I bought it. I had considered a Motard before buying the Monster- I'm glad I didn't get one.

[nsrpaul]

best thing mnz has done in a long time turfing the motards out of the formula classes, different kind of riding
a mate of mine racing a motard at the port was all for it, as he used vto race a 125 at ruapuna, one day came screaming around the hairpin, to find some dude on a motard with his foot out and ran over his leg!!!!

[dangerous]

best thing mnz has done in a long time turfing the motards out of the formula classes, different kind of riding

So are you saying that it wasnt a decision made by the nelson organisers?
That in fact nation wide there well be no retards in F3 and BEARs F3 ???

[TonyB]

Personally I think it was a good idea as far as MNZ F1 F2 & F3 goes. Not so sure about the BEARS though- you sure they're banned there too?

I wonder if the ruling will stay in place though, there are an awful lot of guys riding Motards and they're not going to be happy about it. If they get to do Motards and BEARS they are getting two classes out of one bike, which is more than pretty much EVERYONE else gets.... except those cunning enough to buy a European manufactured air cooled carburretted 2 valve twin If only I could have found a pre 82...

[nsrpaul]

was told that was how it was in wyndam as well and it was an mnz thing, if it was the locals then it was the best thing they did