March trackday at Manfeild?

**MementoMori** · 4th March 2007, 21:03

Was my first ever track day and it went really well!

I was the tassled tit on the VFR in the slow group that got in everyone's way. And it's taken me more courage than a sidecar monkey needs to admit that online so please don't hold it against me. Quasi is helping me out there though, thank goodness.

Anyway, was shocked to hear about Sallo's off but glad to see she was relatively OK. Bike looked a mess, but the photographer got an awesome photo of her and the bike sliding off the track.

And being a blundering fool I apologise if I held you up out there.

**skelstar** · 4th March 2007, 21:22

Diced with you for most of my last session (blue Gixxer)...passed you just as the checkered came out. You were making that VFR hoot along! Awesome.

**Beemer** · 4th March 2007, 21:29

Originally Posted by sunhuntin

does anyone know who had the purple and black ducati there? cos the fucker nearly rear ended me coming into turakina on the way home. 70k signs, i put the brakes on and slow up...doing about 75k.
slow down gradually till im doing bang on 70. car pulls out from the servo without looking, so im on the brakes again, slowin to around 50-60k to avoid going up the vans ass.
tosser with duc gets right up my exhaust before overtaking on a blind corner, with no where to go due to how small the gap was between me and the van. there were two on coming cars.

the duc was on a tray of a black ford falcon ute... to the driver: pity your such a tosser of a driver, cos i like the look of the bike. turakina is and always has been a 70k zone, and inspecting my exhaust will NOT make me speed up.

other than him and one other tail gater [also in a 70k zone, on the other side of manfield] it was a good day. my backs as red as a beet, and im looking forward to next year.

If this was Saturday and not Sunday, it would have been the Mother's Motorcycle Club track day, nothing to do with our track day.

**biggles1** · 5th March 2007, 04:12

My day on the track (my first ever) ranks right up there with my first skydive,but probably better cause you can keep going back for more a lot easier.Big thank you to Busted and all the guys from CD club. Bruce told me last year that they had best open trackdays,he was not wrong.

**phoenixgtr** · 5th March 2007, 07:26

Fantastic day guys!! I absolutely loved it. I didn't want to stop. That was probably my last (decent) ride on the FXR so it was a fitting finale. Awesome!!

Oh, and if anyone has any photos of me I'd love them

**RantyDave** · 5th March 2007, 07:56

Ditto. Does anyone know what the story is with the company who were there taking photos? They going to stuff them up on the web or what?

Dave

**Freakshow** · 5th March 2007, 07:57

That was such a great day!! Did my first medium session and loved it! I even powerslided out of a corner which was a new feeling. the video footage is not that bad and thanks to all that waved and pulled faces at the camera when it was rear mounted!!!

**Jase W** · 5th March 2007, 07:58

Originally Posted by RantyDave

Ditto. Does anyone know what the story is with the company who were there taking photos? They going to stuff them up on the web or what?

Dave

www.urbanmagpie.co.nz - they only have a small selection on their website though. I might email them later to see if there are any others.

**Lissa** · 5th March 2007, 09:14

Originally Posted by liftback

www.urbanmagpie.co.nz - they only have a small selection on their website though. I might email them later to see if there are any others.

I hope so... theres only a small selection on there, but I spotted myself and spinx so thats cool.

Does anyone know if sallo is ok? I hope so, her bike looked a mess.

**et al** · 5th March 2007, 11:12

Originally Posted by Freakshow

.... thanks to all that waved and pulled faces at the camera when it was rear mounted!!!

Nice to meet you - and guilty as charged!

**Hawkeye** · 5th March 2007, 16:57

Originally Posted by Beemer

And good on Angie (who may or may not be a KB member) on the GPX250 (I think) for getting out there and having a go. She was a bit nervous but looked pretty good in a couple of shots I got of her. I saw her riding slowly around the pits and she was very good at the slow stuff, so I think she just needs to get a bit of confidence.

I work with Ange and she isn't a KBer 'yet'. I only talked her into getting a bike a couple of months ago. Passed her learners 6 weeks ago. You should have seen her face today when she came into work. Grin was from ear to ear.
She has spent quite a bit of time as a pillion on a rocket ship but was a little nervous about taking over the controls. Now she is loving it and had an awesome day yesterday. Shame I wasn't there to see it. I know she is very proud of how small the chicken strips are on her tyres.

If you have shots of her can you pm me so I can give you an email address. She is trying to get a hold of any shots that have her in them.

.

**chanceyy** · 5th March 2007, 18:58

Originally Posted by Lissa

I hope so... theres only a small selection on there, but I spotted myself and spinx so thats cool.

Does anyone know if sallo is ok? I hope so, her bike looked a mess.

hey lissa .. yeah talked to sallo before I came home .. she was getting more sore but had on the gear which protected her .. & she is ok today .. still sore though

**chanceyy** · 5th March 2007, 19:07

well another goal has been reached ..

after attending track days & watching everyone else have fun .. all i wanted was a bike to go out there & give it a go ...

ever since I got RZ that has been my main goal .. getting her legal & getting myself as legal as i can so that i could attend

As the day got closer the excitement & nervous anticipation was taking a toll. Bearing in mind I have had a total of 5 road rides on this bike .. so yesterday was my sixth .. After not sleeping much on sat nite I was up early to take care of animals before heading to manfield.

Now a choice I had made was to trailer my bike up there, & so glad I did. Figured that the day would be pretty draining & if I rode home may have been tempted to be a bit more complacent & an accident could be on the cards. Not mentioning the fact I could take chilly bins, chairs etc so was more comfy up there. Talked U4ea into taking part & she was great company on the way up, esp when ppl passed us with bikes on back but two chicks in the truck .. looks were priceless. Thanks to Dogsnbikes for the loan of the trailer .. its an awesum trailer for bikes

Guess those who know me well could tell that I was not my usual social self, retreated a few times (being tired & nervous) just to think about what my goals for the day were.

a) to have fun
b) to learn how to corner
c) to feel my bike more
d) to play with the powerband
e) to have fun
f) to push myself to my boundaries (not past them .. but to them)
g) to look through corners
h) did I mention to have fun ?

did I reach my goals .. ??

well i sure had fun .. that goes beyond saying, after coming off the first session I dunno that i was smiling but i sure was inside.

Learning to corner, My Mentor pointed out that i was to far on the inside & the ins & outs of the consequences of that, he showed me some lines then followed during the day after that I could follow the stream & got more speed & a wee bit more lean as the day went on.

Feeling my bike .. damn straight I felt her all day long & she did not mind .. ohh we not talking like that.... umm yes I felt when i did not have the revs right & put her into top without having enough revs & that horrible engine noise coming into play, also came in a bit hot to one corner, grabbed a heap of brake went to down shift but downshifted to many gears .. umm that was interesting .. but flicked it up another gear for the corner & it was all good. This bike feels incredibly stable & I absolutely

riding her

playing with the powerband .. this wee bike has awesome pick up after the corners, had someone on a RD comment how he could not catch me .. Mind you he was gutted cause he thought the RZ was only a 250 .. think he felt better when he realised it was actually a 350...

taking the riding to my limits .. I recognised when I was tiring & stopped pushing the try, but it was interesting as the faster riders caught me on the last lap how i instinctively wanted to speed up to keep up with them .. but i had nuffing to prove to anyone else so tapped that feeling down. I trusted the information ppl esp those experienced riders have been telling me & trusted the bike to try & increase speeds through corners etc which is easier to do on the track than the road .. awesome

looking through the corners .. this is something that I was teaching Clive on saturday with the horses & how this works .. can honestly say it works on the bikes ... by taking a long focus to where you want to go you naturally distribute weight to push the horse/bike into the direction you want to go .. (attending the track day with shaun harris when he took the walk around the track explaining how he rides the track is where this insight has come from & I can understand his concepts as they relate to how I ride my horses)

Its taken me a day to assimilate how it all went yesterday & I am so thrilled to reach another goal. Thanks to everyone who assisted with getting me out there & the supportive comments through the day. Its hard to take it all in at times, & then I dunna do well with compliments .. so thank you I really do appreciate it (even if i seem embarrassed)