danger stock on road

Got seriously bent last night and went to the “Pink Floyd Experience” concert in town with my best mate

It started out a bit slow but by the secound half the “brain food” started to peak and it was a great night out

Not a bad show at all, I never got to a real “Floyd” concert so I cannot compare it to one but the music that was played last night was “raw” enough for you to know it was “live” but so professional that it could well have been “the Floyd”

earlier in the day i went into the bike shop and ordered the ferring for “Motto Beasty”

I was talking to the mechanic and he has put me onto a race day to be held at the levels raceway near Timaru in a couple of weeks he was saying that i will be able to get some coaching on how better to ride my machine, then get to go onto the track and try out the coaching tips knowing that theres no traffic coming the other way if you drift wide coming out of a corner and that I can get different “grades” of coaching and then when on the track I’m riding with other guys of the same “grade”

so I’ve chosen to have a go at the medium skilled grade with passing on the outside of the track on straights only, again that way if I drift wide I figure I wont push some poor bugger out passing me in the corner of the track

I’ve ridden in some good sized packs on club runs, toy runs, poker runs, funerals and stuff and some times at high speeds but in a run you keep your place, its a run not a race is the saying

So you know if you get outta shape the guys around you will keep their position, you dont have to worry about some one coming around you, a lot of the time you are riding two abreast 3 meters from the bike in front of you at 140kmph but [surpriseingly] its a safe way of riding

theres a rythm to it, as the “pack” comes up on a vehicle the guys on the inside slow slightly and drop back and right coming into the 3 meter gap between the machines on his outside then single file pass the vehicle then throttle on slightly and drop back into position two abreast again

remember this is all done at 140kmph [most times, sometimes faster or slower] which is an ideal cruiseing speed on a “Big Block” Harley Davidson, its absolute magic when you’re doing it

But that was the old Stock now I ride a motto Guzzi sport bike its about racing so ‘best I learn how to race from the guys who actualy do it under a controlled enviroment [see what happens when you get old you get all logical and shit, I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or not haha]

So I’m looking forward to it and hopeing for a good weather window on the day, it’s only $60.oo so I figure if it helps to keep me upright and smiling its 60 bucks well spent

I’ll also get the opportunity to “Gun” the beasty and not have to worry about the “nice policeman” and his radar nasty piece of works that he is [yeah I know he’s a nessacary  EVIL]

Danger STOCK on ROAD