Hello, Anyone out there? - 2

**MrJan** · 7th Jan 10, 08:29

Tut tut, talk about taking the thread off topic Pat, that's a terrible example to set

Already seen this on FB but wasn't sure if it was worth joining, so many groups are just bulls**t (if we get 90,000 members Bernie Ecclestone will stab himself in the eye etc.etc.) Will lend my support now that a stand up chap like yourself is championing it.

**NinjaMaster** · 8th Jan 10, 11:57

I'm in Pat. Might not make the planned parade tho...

**The Phantom** · 8th Jan 10, 13:49

MotoMatters recently revisited the '09 MotoGP season with a great Scott Jones pictorial review.

This shot blew me away... I knew Craner Curves was downhill, but MAN!!!!

I'm in - this track has to be preserved.

**MrJan** · 8th Jan 10, 13:53

Originally Posted by The Phantom

This shot blew me away... I knew Craner Curves was downhill, but MAN!!!!

It looks amazing when you stand in that spot and watch them change direction as they go over the brink. The thing that amazed me was how steep it was compared to how it looks on telly and the realisation that the Corkscrew at Laguna already looks insanely steep on the telly

**Roby44** · 9th Jan 10, 10:46

Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Tut tut, talk about taking the thread off topic Pat, that's a terrible example to set

Already seen this on FB but wasn't sure if it was worth joining, so many groups are just bulls**t (if we get 90,000 members Bernie Ecclestone will stab himself in the eye etc.etc.) Will lend my support now that a stand up chap like yourself is championing it.

Good old Face book!! Some of teh groups on there are just

But I'd join one if BE was going to jab himself in the eye!!

Don't forget to join the Roby ones on FB!!

Or the Bring Bracksy Back to MotoGP Commentary Team.. One of the Admins on that one is very nice girl!!

**The Phantom** · 11th Jan 10, 21:32

Originally Posted by Roby44

Or the Bring Bracksy Back to MotoGP Commentary Team.. One of the Admins on that one is very nice girl!!

Pic??

Jan, yeah the Corkscrew must be incredible. I know a Norwegian girl who was studying in the US, she took her VFR to the 2001 WSB race there and did a trackday the next day, lowsided in the Corkscrew

(she was fine)

The Bathurst/Mount Panorama track that the V8 Supercars run at also has a steep downhill section descending the mountain. TV can't capture how steep it is, when you drive down it (it's a public road) you feel like you're hanging in your seatbelt.

**leopard** · 12th Jan 10, 02:21

Originally Posted by NinjaMaster

Gotta love the good ol' 2-strokes Leopard. I've been semi-seriously considering getting a chook-chaser this year as my brother and a bunch of guys I know have 'em. 'Cept they all have WR and YZ 250F's. And I like to be a bit different. So my initial thought was of course for something green. And 2-stroke. KX125 or 250. Figured they should be cheaper to buy and also maintain (especially rebuilds). Problem is, they aren't cheaper to buy. So KX250-F pops into my mind til the realisation that my dirt riding really is quite suckful. So electric start is waving at me and I'm kinda seriously considering buying a fluffy dog (tho there is a KX still pinging away in the back of my mind)...

Dirt rides as is street fighter looked fine though...

I'd prefer 2-strokes of KRR150 to the bigger 4-strokes 250R, besides it just looks too big its price extremely expensive, I'd rather wait for another quid to make it is worth a second-hand Volvo estate...

**Roby44** · 12th Jan 10, 10:26

Originally Posted by The Phantom

Pic??

We don't want broken pc's now do we!!

**NinjaMaster** · 13th Jan 10, 12:16

Originally Posted by The Phantom

Pic??

Jan, yeah the Corkscrew must be incredible. I know a Norwegian girl who was studying in the US, she took her VFR to the 2001 WSB race there and did a trackday the next day, lowsided in the Corkscrew

(she was fine)

The Bathurst/Mount Panorama track that the V8 Supercars run at also has a steep downhill section descending the mountain. TV can't capture how steep it is, when you drive down it (it's a public road) you feel like you're hanging in your seatbelt.

Ye olde but you get the idea.

Originally Posted by leopard

Dirt rides as is street fighter looked fine though...

I'd prefer 2-strokes of KRR150 to the bigger 4-strokes 250R, besides it just looks too big its price extremely expensive, I'd rather wait for another quid to make it is worth a second-hand Volvo estate...

Motards!

**tha_jackal** · 14th Jan 10, 01:08

that bathurst footage is spine tingling!

crazyness.

**TheFamousEccles** · 16th Jan 10, 02:40

Love the Bathurst footage - no silly "castrol chase", just good old top speed blast - they called it conrod straight for a good reason in the olden days

**TheFamousEccles** · 16th Jan 10, 02:48

Originally Posted by Roby44

Or the Bring Bracksy Back to MotoGP Commentary Team.. One of the Admins on that one is very nice girl!!

Hmm, I don't mean to be provocative, but if you have been subject to Bracks' (and Wooton's - a former bike magazine editor here in OZ) inane, purile banter being passed off as commentary at PI for the MotoGP/250/125/support classes, you may not be as keen. Like many comedians, they write 'em better than they deliver 'em...

Anyhoo, just my 2c.

**Roby44** · 16th Jan 10, 10:43

But Bracksy is a great chap.

We get on well, not that I get to see him often...

**TheFamousEccles** · 16th Jan 10, 23:24

Maybe Wooton is a bad influence... In which case, I would apologize to the guy for bagging him, but advise that nonsense and in-jokes don't travel well over a PA system. (that's me backpedalling furiously

)

**Roby44** · 17th Jan 10, 00:08

NO worries, we can't all like the same things and or people! It's what makes the world turn!!

Bracksy is a nice bloke, easy to get along with, He's pretty well known and liked in the pit lane..

I don't like listening to the fellow who took over from him George...But Dorna, or Gavin Emmet, know best!!

**Roby44** · 21st Jan 10, 19:54

Have you seen these !!

http://www.crash.net/tailenders/vide...s_problem.html

**Roby44** · 21st Jan 10, 19:55

http://www.crash.net/tailenders/vide...chumacher.html

**NinjaMaster** · 22nd Jan 10, 11:51

Hehe, nice one Roby. The Vale/Jorge one was particularly funny.

**TheFamousEccles** · 22nd Jan 10, 13:08

What! Aussie Col is not an actual tornado? (spoiler alert...)

**Rod Richardson** · 25th Jan 10, 04:29

What am I doing on here when I'm meant to be working?..........Australia Day tomorrow.....Cheers to my fellow Aussies..........Doesn't matter where you're going, just remember where the nest is!