WHO'S GOING TO BE THERE?

stan · Post by **stan** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:48 pm

Grow up

Post by **FZRDude** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:17 am

stan wrote:I thought this was a forum of support and encouragement for like minded people, leave the knives in the draw, there not welcome.......

stan

sbutler wrote:
stan wrote:I thought this was a forum of support and encouragement for like minded people, leave the knives in the draw, there not welcome.......

stan
What happend Martin? Who's been digging someone in the ribs?

stan wrote:Grow up

Ummmm...... did I miss something here? I'm hoping that Stan thought he was on a different forum.

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:33 am

Well, I was there and I had a ball, even though it didn't quite go to plan...

Everything arrived safe and sound and we got un-packed on Thursday, and arrived bright and early on Friday for a days practice.

By the last session I was feeling that I was starting to figure out my way around what can only be described as the best bike track I've ever had the pleasure of riding on.
By Saturday morning, one of my knees had totally packed up ( I think kneeling down at 150kph last year may have had something to do with it) resulting in me limping like an 80 year old man.
It would appear that I'm using a lot more effort than I used to to get the bike round these days and the truth of the matter is that the bike has a bit more 'motor' in it than I can really handle, and no - you don't tend to back it off as there's always someone to chase.

It turned out that one of our faster riders had lunched a cam in his brand new GSXR1100 race motor, and after a bit of discussion, I suggested that he should ride the FZR as I wasn't going to be able to do a particullary good job of it myself.
So, Pete headed out on the bike for the first time and put it on the grid in 25th place with a best lap of 1.57, yes it's slow, but remember he's NEVER riden an FZR before, and only rode the track for the first time the previous day.
When he came in from qualifying, he couldn't stop talking about how he couldn't upset the handling of the bike, and in the place where his GSXR was tying itself in knots, the FZR just laughed at him and asked for more!!!

All weekend he kept improving his lap times, finally getting down to the 1.47's and still never getting anywhere near the bikes limits even though I told him if the front wheel's not in the air - then he's not getting off the line quick enough and to change gear when it bounces off the rev limiter ( he never did either).

I had an absolute ball watching someone ride the bike in anger and have made the decision to hang up my helmet (only when it comes to racing) as I've achieved everything I wanted to locally.

Pete's decided that he has too much money invested in his own race bikes so I'll be aproaching a local top rider with a view to him riding the bike fro now on (apart from the occasional track day for me...), and also coming back to the BSFOS next year with the aim of moving up the finishing order significantly with the new rider.
We'll also have a go at getting the number 1 plate in NZ cause the bikes always been up to the challenge, and if I can talk the rider into taking it on, I reckon we have a good chance of upsetting a few of the local hot shots

And here he is - kiwi stig (aka Pete)

kiwi stig sussing out the opposition

kiwi stig and duke22

I'm still trying to find the results on line, and I'll post them when I do

SJTFZR1000 · Post by **SJTFZR1000** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:56 am

hi kiwi

sorry to hear you are hangin the helmet up m8,here is the site for the bsfos results

http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/resul ... 4/2011.RRT

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:10 am

Brilliant, thanks Stuart, good to meet you and Steve over the weekend too, it looks like everyone had a good time.

We eventually got the race number sorted and then we were into it.

PERIOD 6 (NEW ERA) F1

1 85 NIGEL TAYLOR (NSW) MOTOTECH AUST YAMAHA 1000 25 25 25 25 100
2 16 JOHN RICKARD (VIC) YAMAHA 1000 22 22 22 22 88
3 34 MICHAEL ONRUST (NSW) YAMAHA 1000 20 20 20 18 78
4 94 MICK JOHNSTON (NSW) NORTH COAST V TWINS BIMOTA 900 18 18 18 20 74
5 15 PETE SMITH (NZ) YAMAHA 1000 15 16 15 15 61
6 139 DOUG FAIRBROTHER (NZ) DUCATI 851 14 15 14 14 57
7 26 KEITH HIGGS (NSW) HARLEY 1260 16 0 16 16 48
8 4 PETE SMITH (NZ) SUZUKI 1100 0 0 0 0 0
9 27 JOHN MANWARRING (NSW) THE BIKESMITH KAWASAKI 1000 0 0 0 0 0

We got to know Nigel Taylor over the weekend as well, top bloke and what a bike - Mick Doohans ex-factory Malbough FZR1000 Superbike!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and the Kiwi's won the Trans-Tasman challenge by ONE POINT!!!

You guys better head over this side for a bit of settling the score.

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:18 am

Opps, I sold Pete a bit short:

Qualifying:

23 15 PETE SMITH (NZ) YAMAHA 1000 1 NFI 4 4 1:53.0240 0:11.1630

And talked him up a bit as well:

Best Lap:

20 15 PETE SMITH (NZ) YAMAHA 1000 1 NFI 4 7:36.0100 4 1:49.5560

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:22 am

Hmm - double post

stan · Post by **stan** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:11 am

Sorry to hear about the knee, and it sort of explains why we couldn't find you on the results sheet over the weekend. We were a bit worried when you didn't even come up as a DNS, but glad you had a chance to ride around Eastern Creek, and live the life of an International rider for a while

stan

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:54 pm

but glad you had a chance to ride around Eastern Creek, and live the life of an International rider for a while

Yep - that's my 15 minutes of fame over and done with

Mike_SS · Post by **Mike_SS** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:00 pm

I was also wondering why you didn't appear on the time sheets but did notice some Pete Smith guy going alright

Glad you got a chance to ride the Creek and still hope to maybe catch up in NZ at the end of the year.

sbutler · Post by **sbutler** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:14 pm

Great pic of you & I waiting on the dummy grid. Im bike 20 with the yellow wheels!!

Big Jon · Post by **Big Jon** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:59 pm

If you ever feel like taking some time to visit Canada while your winter season slows down, I could use a team owner to help me move from back/mid-pack to solid mid pack racing!

Too bad to hear about hanging up the helmet, going out on your own terms is always better than pushng yourself into an injury.

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:27 pm

Great pic of you & I waiting on the dummy grid. Im bike 20 with the yellow wheels!!

I thought it might have been

, but that's Pete on the bike, I was the ol' lame bugger behind the camera.

If you ever feel like taking some time to visit Canada while your winter season slows down, I could use a team owner to help me move from back/mid-pack to solid mid pack racing! Wink
Too bad to hear about hanging up the helmet, going out on your own terms is always better than pushng yourself into an injury.

Tempting offer BJ, but I suspect one rider will keep the hands in the till more than enough at the moment.
I'll still get out on the odd practice day on the FZR (all in the name of testing, of course), plus there's always the SV1000S in the garage for those weekend back road rides, but I have a few 'projects' that are going to take up a lot of my time over the next year or so and another racing injury would be a disaster, and if I didn't kill myself - the wife would finish the job

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:39 pm

Glad you got a chance to ride the Creek and still hope to maybe catch up in NZ at the end of the year.

Sounds like a good plan to me, with a bit of luck I'll have the new rider well and truly up to speed, he runs rings around me now on a hot CB900 Bol'dor so I don't think he'll have any trouble adapting to the FZR.

hotcam · Post by **hotcam** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:50 am

Looks like everyone had a good outing, sad I missed it! But congratulations on some great results... GO TEAM EXUP (and non-exup fzrs too!) and ex-exup GSXRs as well

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:43 am

sad I missed it!

There's always next year cam

sbutler · Post by **sbutler** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:14 am

hotcam wrote:Looks like everyone had a good outing, sad I missed it! But congratulations on some great results... GO TEAM EXUP (and non-exup fzrs too!)

What about a non exup GSXR?? Im still an EXUP'r at heart, & maybe some day get another. :sad

hotcam · Post by **hotcam** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:28 am

. GO TEAM EXUP (and non-exup fzrs too!) and ex-exup GSXRs as well

Fixed

JasonL · Post by **JasonL** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:17 am

Great results all round, I'm annoyed I had to miss it but there's always next year....or later this year in NZ??

sbutler · Post by **sbutler** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:01 pm

Come over to UN ZUD with as J, the Mrs & I are gonna use it as a little holiday with some racing thrown in. You should do the same...