| bucket racing
mt wellington - 20th june 2004
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| polini
or in english small
italian sausage |
pit
action, race preparaion |
gavatron
ver. XIV |
gp
takes the ss on the outside ? |
px
tussle |
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red shoes and flowers that squirt water comes to mind |
paul
jones, another small racer on its way... |
must've slipped on a banana peel
from that last race |
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faster pooman |
quick time movie of the start (1.2 mb) |
mpeg movie of the start (8.5 mb) |
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| much
thanks to peter mangin for his images and movie footage |
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prizes thanks to scooter e'motion
the winner - t5 todd: a 4 litre pack of Motul Scooter 2 stroke oil (semisynth.) second - pooman: "service set" for his bike (matching spark plug, resistor cap, gearbox oil) last - un claimed: latest SIP Catalogue and a lolly |
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Holy shite, that
racing yesterday was choice. We arrived some time after 10 and
did the usual riders breifing and taping of headlights. We
decided to race/practice clockwise initially - but this proved to be
way too technical and slow. So back to the favoured direction and
ruining the lefthand side of our tyres. The practices were
generally without incident except for Francis and Armstrong, on their
ss90's, inspecting the track closer than normal on their right and left
sides respectively. Armstrong had buried the boot coming out of
the pits and then tipped his bike in a bit hard without letting the
tyres warm up, nice slow lie down, though Neil later told me the tyre
was old and the rubber off - poor selection.
The best lie down of
the day was had by Rupert Hunter, evil racing alias of Peter, coming
through the hairpin after a close start he tried to go up the inside of
the pack, with some selector box contact he came unstuck and low sided
into Armstrong. I only witnessed the aftermath, where Ruperts
bike had tried to mount the Galvatron with little success and instead
just tore off a part of her cooling shroud casting, and if possible the
PX managed to come off uglier than it was before.
The restart was
clean, Cochran out in front followed by Poo and Mackley. Mackley
was quick to take advantage of one Cochrans many mistakes in the second
lap, but Cochran managed to hold Mackley's tail for second place and
keep clear of Poo...
The second race was
a handicapped grid, with T5 todd the terminator, taking top honours
from amongst the buzzing hoards. At the back of the pack, Poo,
Neil and Cochran grappled to get past each other but only succeeded in
slowing the group from catching up with the pack.
Brilliant days
racing, with only the brief threat of rain, the podiums going to
Mackley, T5 todd and Poo - Mackley conceded his placing due to track
prowess and superior sponsorship, so Todd took home the 4litre pack of
Motul and Poo the maintenance kit for Vestas. Next race date is
the 3rd weekend of July. Sunday the 18th.
Matt Cochran |
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| race no. |
rider |
scooter |
modification |
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| 69 |
damian kurth |
vespa px200
disc |
standard | |
| 99 |
neil mackley | lml
sensation |
speed holes | |
| 21 |
neil armstrong | vespa ss90 |
px220 polini barrel + malossi piston & 60mm crank. standard carb with no box, pm tuning exhaust | |
| 82 | peter hunter (rupert the indian love child) |
px200 disc |
vortex carburettor, scootrs chamber | |
| 51 |
matt cockran |
lambretta gp150 | west
coast lambretta 200cc sx barrel, taffspeed crank, short gear box,
dellorto vhsa 32mm, kegra krp3 chamber |
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| 75 |
christiaan
liebenow (dry
balls) |
vespa ss180 | px210
mallossi top end, custom rd350 reed block, tmx carburettor, rz chamber |
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| 50 |
johnation
pearce (pooman) |
lml sensation | pk130cc
polini top end, zirri exhaust |
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| 10 |
david kelly (mr chan) |
vespa gs160 | px210 mallossi top end & reed block, dellorto 30mm, sito plus exhaust | |
| 74 |
roger bourne |
vepsa px200 disc | 60mm
crank, sito exhaust |
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| 07 |
michael
"punjabi"
davies |
belladonna
rv150 |
sito
exhaust |
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| 19 |
francis
linehan (schnauzer) |
vespa ss90 | 135cc
top end, zirri pipe |
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| 76 |
yuri
erakovich (mr G) |
vepsa ss90 |
heaps... |
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| 666 |
nicolai |
vespa px200 disc | standard | |
| 8 |
scooter emotion | vespa px200 |
px210
mallossi top end |
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| 2 |
scooter emotion | piagio zip |
velcro
flaps & press dome |
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| blah
blah blah... |
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o t e : these race numbers are by no means official
but to stop duplication
please update this list
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