race bike

[baileyboy]

hi everyone

i didnt realise there was such a big biker community on the forum thats the main reason why i got the pajero, to pull a trailer with all my bike stuff. i made the decision a few years ago that i was going to end up dead if i kept my road bike any more(fireblade 945) and the adition of a new family member , so after a few track days i was hooked and traded up and got a track bike. now 4 years later i want to go racing in the derby pheonix class ( apparently its the best and the hardest compeat in). so the tackle ive got now is a suzuki gsxr 1000 k4, with all the trimings. (tuned to the limit, about 169 bhp!! ) tyre warmers, stands etc, etc.

the pajero has not let me down once at getting me to the tracks and if any of you have been to cadwell park you will know that its in the arsehole of nowhere!!

maybe ill  meet some of you at a trackday ( my local track is oulton park) just look out for a guy with his head in his hands because someone has just wiped him out

[ANDREW]

 

[fireblade]

hi everyone

i didnt realise there was such a big biker community on the forum thats the main reason why i got the pajero, to pull a trailer with all my bike stuff. i made the decision a few years ago that i was going to end up dead if i kept my road bike any more(fireblade 945) and the adition of a new family member , so after a few track days i was hooked and traded up and got a track bike. now 4 years later i want to go racing in the derby pheonix class ( apparently its the best and the hardest compeat in). so the tackle ive got now is a suzuki gsxr 1000 k4, with all the trimings. (tuned to the limit, about 169 bhp!! ) tyre warmers, stands etc, etc.

the pajero has not let me down once at getting me to the tracks and if any of you have been to cadwell park you will know that its in the arsehole of nowhere!!

maybe ill meet some of you at a trackday ( my local track is oulton park) just look out for a guy with his head in his hands because someone has just wiped him out

hi mate .... weres the pics of it ........done a little racing meself for about lets see 16 years on motocross tracks ...a small amount of track days on a zxr 750 h2 ... at oulton park also competed in the nora sport national supermoto series.... and i now the bus ya get so keep safe and enjoy ya racing 

[baileyboy]

i'll try and work out how to get the pictures up of me on my bike( im not very good with computers ) did you say you did a bit of supermoto, had a crf 450 to try and calm myself down on the roads but ended up wheeling everywhere, not a good move when your attracting every scally in manchester!!! little robbing sh** houses

[fireblade]

i'll try and work out how to get the pictures up of me on my bike( im not very good with computers ) did you say you did a bit of supermoto, had a crf 450 to try and calm myself down on the roads but ended up wheeling everywhere, not a good move when your attracting every scally in manchester!!! little robbing sh** houses

yes mate...crf 450 is awsome on the road mate i had the xr400 bullet proof bike mate.... im presuming you had i nicked then mate 

[ANDREW]

  i know the feeling

[baileyboy]

they tried but ive got a very small but very alert little doggie, which sleeps right next to internal garage door .
once the little bastards knew it was there i swear they kept on trying to break into my garage every other night
not only that if you went to the shops or on a little erand, you knew they were just waiting for you to leave it outside somewhere and lift it into a van or something
i swear if i ever get hold of the robbing little toe rags i'll *******

[fireblade]

  little barstewards ain,t they 

[baileyboy]

cant be bothered with all that road bike stuff now , not got the time anymore now ive got a 4yr old whos in to bikes more than me!! will be getting him a crosser in a year or so, pajero will come in very handy for that. just got to find a decent club as im not going down the route of taking him on a field. one thing that trackdays/racing have shown me is that you need an organised setup. medical facilities, marshalls, etc. not only that once he gets oldler i dont want him thinking its alright to take his bike and mates on a field and act like dicks. think id be getting visits off some not very happy parents
was thinking about getting a crosser myself, never done it before looks like a laugh

[ash]

Good choice of bike  . I've ridden my mates K6 and it was quick without really feeling it if you know what I mean.

I binned my ZX6R last summer at Llandow  (still rideable though, but the later sessions were rained off) , and know loads who have seriously hurt themselves on the track (multiple broken bones and brain damage ), so I'd say that there is just as much risk as you ride 100% of your ability on the track if you catch my drift.

CRG engine casings, crash bobbins and trackday plastics are the best thing for racing (oh and plenty of spare levers :lol:

[baileyboy]

i agree totally about the track day thing, but at least theres no 18 wheelers coming around the next corner! you can never have enough spares when trackdaying it!! a mate of mine come off under the dunlop bridge at donnington i still dont know how he did it but it was at about 135/155 mph. the bike carried on but he just shot back, amazing how leather grips tarmac!!! and the bike managed to take out 2 other riders. he wasnt popular lets put it that way!!!!

[ash]

i agree totally about the track day thing, but at least theres no 18 wheelers coming around the next corner! you can never have enough spares when trackdaying it!! a mate of mine come off under the dunlop bridge at donnington i still dont know how he did it but it was at about 135/155 mph. the bike carried on but he just shot back, amazing how leather grips tarmac!!! and the bike managed to take out 2 other riders. he wasnt popular lets put it that way!!!!

Did he run wide coming off coppice, as I found you can straighten out the double apex with the right entry line.
I found that the downside to doing trackdays on a 600 is that you end up overtaking the litre boys on the outside in the sweeping corners, and then watch them blast past once they hit the straights ad-infinitum.

[baileyboy]

no he was just going under the bridge and as you know there is a slight dip in the track, if your going quick enough the front end will rise into the air . at the time he had a rsvr millie, and the throttle kept sticking open now and again( maintence wasnt his thing ) so he decided to touch the front brake . now with the front wheel in the air this isnt advisable, the front just washed out when it landed, he was only a couple of meters in front of me just off to my left. good job really or i'd of gone over his head
it was a typical last session of the day and id been riding rings around him all day. think what miffed him was the fact id rode up with the no intensions of riding the track just watching while he went round on his race bike. sun was out and i couldnt resist. silly really as i had no way of getting back if i trashed it so thats when the penny dropped and i got a track bike
never looked back since. only problem is the weather in this country is ******* ****

[ash]

I know exactly where you mean now  , and it makes perfect sense . I lowsided at Llandow because I ran wide through a corner as it tightened up (was on the gas) rolled off the throttle, and the front just washed out . Had some monster bruises from it 

There is a dip coming onto the start/finish straight at Llandow which can get the front in the air on my 600 in 3rd gear. you have to pull yourself forward over the bars to keep it down on the ground, so it must be really interesting on a litre bike 

[baileyboy]

yeah it can get quite interesting sometimes, oulton park for instance. coming up to druids you go under the yokahama bridge and as your doing this, you cant see where your going your banked over to the left and your doing a wheelie to top it all off and your trying to over take aswell scary but it gets the heart beating i wouldnt swap it for anything in the world