Haha yep, that's him alright. The paint work is in a bit better shape in that photo compared to now! I wonder if I'm any quicker than him![]()
Haha yep, that's him alright. The paint work is in a bit better shape in that photo compared to now! I wonder if I'm any quicker than him![]()
Not sure now... but on that day I reckon his best was a mid-46 or something like that so if you've done any faster there's a chance!
Nice mate![]()
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I think it was you I had a few little battles with at ec the other day mate! Nice bike indeed !
Hey Andrew, this a mate of yours?
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Finally after 3 months and a missed track day due to torrential rain.........First day out on the BMW
Only issue was my exhaust burnt a hole through my belly pan and right through my new paint job! Nothing a new sticker cannot fix.
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hahahahahaha
I do today what people won't so I can do tomorrow what people can't
Hahaha .. Fastest rider keeps number :p nice work nick they look the goods, was admiring SAMs Suzuki the red and black one at creek on Sunday![]()
Still trying to get my knee down...
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Isle of Man TT Apprentice.
Racing... it's life. Everything else is just waiting.
2008 Suzuki GSXR1000 Race bike -SOLD
2010 Kawasaki ZX6R Race bike (my chariot for the IOMTT)
2011 ZX10R track/race bike
ZRX1200 road bike
Period 6 ZXR 750 race bike
P6 250 production RMX250 motard race bike
2015 YZ450F Dirt track/motard
TE511 trail bike/motard
1st Dec
Weeha! Back in the red after 4 years break.. The visor hides a similar face to the front guard.
Thanks Ray.
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No...I'm not loving that and I'm not loving that!But I'm loving this!
http://www.break.com/video/ugc/oran-...il-2009-702765
http://www.break.com/video/ugc/track...d-video-625380
Pre Modern Formula 1 Champion 2013 (GSXR750T)
www.wet4uracing.com.au Race bike & mechanical prep, fairings and parts - www.bikeshop.com.au (Protech Motorcycles)Tyres, parts and dyno tuning www.stayupright.com.au motorcycle rider training from learners through to track skills - http://worthingtonmotorcycles.com.au BMW, Honda, MV Augusta, Moto Guzzi and Aprilia
I just look like an unco fuckwit in all of mine. Consistency !!
The year is 1995. I'm living in Cherrybrook and my housemate (yes he was Asian) comes home with a nearly new Fireblade with a Yoshi pipe, top of the line Arai helmet and custom made race leathers with his name and cool sponsors stitched all over. (you must look cool when riding around the local shopping centre)
I was in awe, and hadn't ridden a bike since I was a kid. Not to be outdone, I went and bought some magazines and started researching and looking for the fastest bike you could buy. I didn't know that they should also handle, I just read "the fastest production bike in the world" so I bought a ZZR1100
I got it from the Kawasaki dealer in Parramatta. I didn't know at the time but Wetty worked thereI arrived to pick up my bike and of course all my new gear with a mate who had just got his rider L's. I still had not ridden a bike since I was a kid and also did not yet have a license. There was a bit of a discussion about legalities with the salesman and the key was handed over. I take 20 mins in the car park working out how to put this gear on etc and then came the comedy act of trying to get it off the centre stand. Work it out eventually and get it started then proceed to wobble literally down the drive onto the street.
I concede and tell my mate I'm too nervous to double you, you'll have to double me. I do go and get my lic and do a stay upright course to learn to ride faster and discovered the track. So I then proceed to turn the big girl into a track bike and decide I need more power to catch the other bikes - custom rearsets, solo seat, big bore kit Yoshi cams, head work and jet kit, thanks.
A little over a year later I'm digging track riding and want something more suitable and lighter zx9b (not)
I ride another year and then park the bike due to business and other things getting the way. It sits in the garage until I sell it and don't touch a bike again.
2011 rolls around, approx 14 years since my last ride. My brother turns up to my place on his just purchased K8 GSXR1000. I start researching the fastest bike I can buy..............
The rest, most of you know![]()
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Pre Modern Formula 1 Champion 2013 (GSXR750T)
www.wet4uracing.com.au Race bike & mechanical prep, fairings and parts - www.bikeshop.com.au (Protech Motorcycles)Tyres, parts and dyno tuning www.stayupright.com.au motorcycle rider training from learners through to track skills - http://worthingtonmotorcycles.com.au BMW, Honda, MV Augusta, Moto Guzzi and Aprilia
Hahahaa I was 8 then
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I'm glad you made in home with the ZZR-1100 Rick! I bought my first bike after doing my 20 Q test at the RTA at 16 and 9 months (the minimum age). I bought the GSX-250S that night & stalled it all the way home.
I grew up in Cherrybrook by the way! Terrorized the place on mg RGV's and CBR-900's. I renewed my L's every 6 months 11 times cos back then you had no points on your L's so you couldn't lose them!
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Pre Modern Formula 1 Champion 2013 (GSXR750T)
www.wet4uracing.com.au Race bike & mechanical prep, fairings and parts - www.bikeshop.com.au (Protech Motorcycles)Tyres, parts and dyno tuning www.stayupright.com.au motorcycle rider training from learners through to track skills - http://worthingtonmotorcycles.com.au BMW, Honda, MV Augusta, Moto Guzzi and Aprilia
Brilliant writeup Rick, love the old leathers! That beemer is a beautiful bike, but scarey fast.![]()
Me at Cadwell Park earlier last year...
Crazy wee course that - narrow, narrow track with next to no run-off around most of the corners.
Scary times, not to mention the freaking Mountain!!
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Awesome track that everyone should have a go on at least oncegreat pic
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Here's a couple of up to date piccy's of me and Nelso.
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Here's some of my little Honda RS125 with all of it's 38 horsepower.
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I see your purple Dainese leathers, Rick, and raise you purple Dainese leathers with a matching purple helmet!! I have the same model Gaerne boots as you, but mine were red....
This is 1999, on my '98 Blade at Oran Park.
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And here we go.... me racing at Bathurst in 2000. The first is at the end of Conrod, tipping into the Chase, and the 2nd is obviously Murrays. Not great photos, but it's all I've got :(
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Oh...Oran Park. May it rest in peace!
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Nice Pics Nick, Ed, wish Bathurst was still running bikes, that would be amaaazing
I had A LOT more of Oran Park but saved them all on imageshack in case my computer crapped itself (which it did) but for some odd reason that stupid website seems to lose some of the pictures over time. Never again.
My 1st track day at Eastern Creek (SMSP for the kids), road bike and all! Good times with the annoying crack around T2 and the red and white strips
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Ill have to see if I can scan some of mine and load em up.. yes kids I raced before digital cameras were invented !!
Found another oldie!
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That's quite the '90s getup, Marshy.... Did you have a matching shell suit?
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