Project Buzz: 09 Ninja 250r

[MIZ RX3]

MOAR!!!

Being Silly...
Pic by Whickle



Pic by MickLC



Pic By MickLC



Pic By Ado



Pic By Ado



Pic By MickLC - Should have High-fived you as i went past!




I think this pic sums me up perfectly - Pic By Ado

[zx-10r]

these are some cool pictures. Thanks for posting them.

[MIZ RX3]

I Passed my P's Yesterday

[robracer]

Congrats Stace, thats great news

[MIZ RX3]

Congrats Stace, thats great news

I did the full-day course and didn't get a single point

now, its only 12 months til i can buy a real Kawasaki!

[GPZ_Jim]

'grats

[dutchy]

Congrats

[MIZ RX3]

Ooright. Now that I've actually paid for my P's License (quite proud to display the P Plate!) its time to get her out to EC for a real track day.

This evening will see the mirrors off, Ventura rack off, Healight disconnected and taped up, Chain lubed, and she'll get a tubs before being loaded up in the van ready to go! She wont get a camera this time round, that'll go on the Gixxer. Maybe if i find my helmet cam... I hope to take her out for at least one session, depending on how confident i am on the GSXR of doom.

Sadly the little Ninja has been running a bit sluggish of late, like its just not getting enough spark. And its not just in one spot in the rev range, its all over and sporadic. Plugs will be changed tonight, and the tank should come off for a drain and flush of the tank and filter.

Fingers crossed its not something more serious, she's due for her 18k km service in 1500km, so hopefully if something is still amis, Brett at MotoGarage can fix it up.

[Whickle]

Leave the camera in the pits Stace! EC get a little shirty and tell ya to leave if they catch you with a camera

[MIZ RX3]

Leave the camera in the pits Stace! EC get a little shirty and tell ya to leave if they catch you with a camera

Gayness - The monster has one permanatly mounted on it...

[MIZ RX3]

So I took her to the track - EC in fact. and had a freakin ball! After all the dramas with the Gixxer (we shall not mention that devil spawn any futher) I didnt have much of a choice. Either take the Ninja and ride to 6/10ths and hope the misfiring blows through or don't ride at all.. Well stuff that for an option!!



I may have been in the Slow group - but i definelty wasnt the slowest out there! Had a ball rounding up a VFR and a Ducati 1198S (admittedly they were very nooby) most sessions, and enjoyed every minute of it! Getting to turn in later and later and later, then when someon faster came up behind, expecting me to turn in early, and getting to surpise them (and myself) by turning in as late as possible - and carrying my speed through the corner - without being overtaken (or undertaken as it were)!

I had a complete and utter ball out there. Even today I am still riding around the track in my mind, trying to remember as vividly as possible the lines in the corners like I was still out there! The atmosphere of the pits - every single rider there is there do do exactly the same thing - RIDE! Its what brings us together - The freedom of being able to just hang off your bike, To do as fast as your bike will allow without waiting for Mr Policeman to flick on his disco-lights. The utter exhilerating feeling of leaning so far over you're over the ripple strip, stuffing it up the inside of your latest victim.. LOL


In my mind I was Casey Stoner for a day (albeit, not as fast, but fulfilling a childhood dream of getting out on the track is more than enough!). I was on a bike i know intimately, and going hell for leather down the straight and keeping it pinned through turn one. Keeping the throttle wound as far as it'll go for as long as i dare.. Then hard on the brakes out to the right as late as possible and just throwing it through turn 2, before i know it i've flicked it over to the right for turn 3, GASGASGASGAS!!! up over the rise, down and into turn 4, hanging off like a monkey as far as i dare... Telling myself over and over turn late, turn late, not yet, not yet, not yet... NOW!! TURNturnTURNturn through 5, on the throttle up to and through 6, ready for 7, on the gas hard out of 7, Crouched down, chin on the tank, up to the Footbridge, late into turn 8, giggling with excitement, every time i turned later and later.. Hard on the brakes for turn 9, hopefully catching that VFR, hoping to get past before turn 10, "Don't brake, don't brake" ease off NOW brake, late into Legs 11 and late as i dare into 12, early on the gas, and pray to god noone buzzes me on the pit straight (wishful thinking).



I just cant wait for my next fix. A wise man once said, Motorcycling makes a herion addiction look like a mild craving for salt...

[P4nza]

i still passed u...

[bobtrx]

there is no cure you are condemned to every lasting track time. I usually start grinning as soon as I book a day

[EDU]

That lap blow by blow was a cracker!

It takes guts to take T1 pinned even on a little bike, congrats! I'm still trying to tell my brain it can be done without braking but it refuses to believe it...

[MIZ RX3]

i still passed u...

ONCE!! And i was taking it easy that sesh.. :p

:lol: That lap blow by blow was a cracker!

It takes guts to take T1 pinned even on a little bike, congrats! I'm still trying to tell my brain it can be done without braking but it refuses to believe it...

Thats EC from the inside of my helmet - it may not give me the perfect lines, or the fastest way around, but by god its the most fun way!