While on the piss at Shano's party on Sat'dy night, a cunning plan was hatched whereby it was decided that our 2 aforementioned Heroes would attend the 4th annual Two Wheel Torque motorcycle dragracing event at Heathcote Raceway the following day. [8D]
After approx. 3.5 hrs sleep, yours truly awoke mildly hungover & commenced preparations for said event, my mate Mark was bringing his 750/4 powered Post Classic Sidecar outfit along for a thrash (to practise his starts really) & turned up with the Outfit & my ZX9 Racebike already loaded, Deano turned up 15 mins later & we were away, 1 1/2 hrs later we arrived at Heathcote ready to race.
Truth be told, none of us actually knew it was the TWT event, we thought it was just another Test & Tune day so we were surprised to see so many bikes there, it was run alongside the normal T&T program so there were about 20 - 25 cars & maybe 40 or so bikes.
It's a pretty laid back deal at Heathcote, scrutineering consisted of "Is it safe mate?" & there were some bloody rough & ready units racing I can tell you - still nobody got hurt (except for 1 Asian fellow but more on that later) You just jump into the queue in the staging lanes wherever you want & nobody says boo, as I said, a very relaxed vibe, no power hungry officials, big egos or dramas.
Deano & I had about half a dozen runs together & a few seperately as well, I had a go in Mark's Chair which was interesting to say the least, 100 mph with your face about 6 inches off the ground & no control over what's going on.
Towards the end of the day they had a bracket type DYO elimination event for the TWT trophy which was an unexpected bonus, poor Deano got knocked out in the first round (by me) when he choked
& stalled it on the line, I managed to make it through all the elim's & into the final against a bloody Hardly of all things & to cut a short story shorter - I fuckin LOST [:0] ......... oh, the shame [V]They still gave me a trophy for Runner Up though & interviewed me & Harley Boy for the show which should send their ratings through the roof, I had my ASF T shirt on for the interview but it was about minus 2 degrees so had to wear a jacket as well (Sorry Gix, I'm a weak prick) I tried to keep the jacket open a bit so you could see the logo at least. My mate Mark got the 1st place trophy for the Sidecar class as well against some stiff opposition - he was the only entrant! [
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Mike from OCD was there as well, racing about 1/2 a dozen different bikes - lucky Bugger!
Me & Deano had a ball, for $40 we got about a dozen runs in, got to watch some quick cars & bikes, smell some quality tyre smoke, talk some quality shit & really give our bikes the berries, I'm keen to go again nextime.
Best numbers for the day were;
Me - .41 R/T, 1.92 60', 7.2 1/8 mile, 11.01 @ 130 mph.
Deano - .51 R/T, 2.0 60', 7.7 1/8 mile, 11.6 @ 121 mph.
In case Rexie's interested, the Chair ran 14.0 @ 104 mph 2 up.
Also worthy of a mention is that in all our side by side runs, Deano's 1127cc Gixer NEVER beat my 899cc Kawasaki
The Asian chap I mentioned before turned up in a Ricer 200SX or summat & a Yam R1Z import (tricky Spondon style tube frame & v-twin 250cc 2 stroke) First, he stuck his car into the wall HARD whilst trying to drift it in a straight line [] - what a fuckwit! It's lucky he isn't an ASF member or Iceman wouldn't be anywhere near the Biggest Tool anymore.
Drag racing is heaps of fun, I recommend everyone try it at least once if they can, but take it from me, it'll be a lot easier if you have a cooling fan, a sidestand, a starter motor & a flywheel. [V]
Keep an eye out on TWT in about 3 weeks for the coverage of the event & to see my shiny head on telly!
The pics are too big to post but I'll email 'em to Gix & he'll put 'em up for me I'm sure, Deano also has some pics.
ZX9R - 1
GSXR 11 - 0
I reckon we should organise an ASF crew for the next one - anyone keen?
] I'd done heaps of runs all day & it never did that 'til the air got that cold, shows the efficiency of Mr Kawasaki's legendary Ram Air system I reckon & the effect cold, dense air has on horsepower.
