Speed Week 2017 - Lake Gairdner

[Jackster]

Actually spoke to you Andy. Last year, about day 3, out on the lake. Awesome bike!

[Hipsi]

I drive a Mk1 Escort Sports Sedan now which is plenty fun in itself, but you can’t throw that around quite like an Aussie.

[Dimal]

G'day Hipsi...

Those Aussie Racing Cars looked like a heap of fun to be involved with. Can understand why you would take up an offer to drive one again....

Mal.

[Hipsi]

Owned the forerunner to the FJ1200, the 1100...

Great bike and lots of fun to ride at any time. Imagine the 1200 was not too dissimilar...

Mal.
P.S.
My 1100 was not the forerunner as I thought, being an XS1100 not an FJ.
It was designated as an XS1.1 and sported a mini-fairing. Colour was a near black metallic paint. Looked superb.
Was a great bike...

Surprised it took me this long to read this thread, I owned the heart of the FJ1200, well in fact quite a few of them. Only it was used on 4 wheels rather than 2. In other words I had a few Aussie Racing Cars for a number of years. For those not aware, Aussie Racing Car is not just a generic term, google it, they are miniature replicas that use the gutsy FJ1200 engine for a powerplant. Loads of fun to drive, haven't been in one for the last few years, but would take the opportunity in an instant if it came along again.

[Biker12]

...it's a great resource made-up of many, many great people from vastly different backgrounds... all with at least one common interest.

Enjoy!

At least one common interest - COFFEE (in it's various ways of preparation) ! ! !

That's why I signed up here.

[Biker12]

Now that you've started posting mate, keep it up...

Mal.

I can't promise there will be much useful information from me - but I'll try with my own thread now that I can post anywhere. Thanks to Readeral keeping me going late last night.

But I'll NEVER catch up to you Dimal:
" Posts 15,176 " (and still clocking up more!)

I just looked at Andy's post count. You 2 are neck on neck....

[Andy]

Wrapping it up: Best of luck for your next outing on the big salt, Andy. Enjoy the buzz and keep all limbs attached!

Limbs attached -- check.
(it was actually fairly high on my requirements list at the salt although if I'm being really honest it might not have been higher than "go really fast" though).

Glad you love the community here, it's a great resource made-up of many, many great people from vastly different backgrounds... all with at least one common interest.

Enjoy!

[Dimal]

Appreciate your kind comments Biker12...
Most of use around here really enjoy helping others get started in this terrific pastime, hobby, obsession, and am glad to hear that some of my ramblings may have been helpful.

Now that you've started posting mate, keep it up...

Mal.

[Biker12]

Hi Andy, Dimal, Readeral and others!
I'm quite pleased this thread is still active. It's my first post and this thread has really touched my first love of life - racing, engines, power and all the technologies that make those 3 things happen in the best possible way and push it forward each year. It also makes the person involved in it push themselves each event.

I am also pleased this is Andy's thread so I can thank him for running this site and allowing us others to lurk around for ten years (->me) and enjoy all the great info that those passionate "coffee snobs" impart (I'm thinking of Dimal, whose article on the BZ Minibar/BZ35 restoration I first read on the site, 10 years ago because I acquired a used BZ35DE) on the naive souls that find their way here when they do a Google search on their first espresso machine (usually of $200 value for most of us mortals, mine was a Breville Ikon BS400XL) and end up finding the best, and realistic responses right here on Coffeesnobs.

Then they find out, the "Snobs" are no different then the rest of us and have interests outside of beans, roastings, pointy end machines and grinders that cost over a thousand dollars (Readeral - I followed your Profitec Pro 64 discoveries on this site and decided on the ECM S-64, a twin of sorts).

Now these are just 3 of the knowledgeable people that I remember, certainly not the only ones who have helped me along the way.

I've had this thread open for ten days and wanting to say something to make up for 10 years of being an anonymous lurker. Clearly, I am not an avid writer and may not contribute anything of value to the coffee community.

But heh, it was just meant to say a big thanks to Andy, Dimal, Readeral and many others. I doubt you know how much you are read around the world. (Or maybe you do, because I know you read home-barista.com from time to time).

Wrapping it up: Best of luck for your next outing on the big salt, Andy. Enjoy the buzz and keep all limbs attached !

[Andy]

interesting article.

I agree it's interesting but also pretty much the same conclusion. A good salt tyre is one that is still intact at the other end of the race track.

DLRA General meeting on the 21st of May in Thomastown Vic if anyone is interested, details available on the website.

I would attend the meeting but not on my anniversary! That would be a sure fire way not to get a "pass out" for the salt next year.
Maybe the next one.

[SJG351]

DLRA General meeting on the 21st of May in Thomastown Vic if anyone is interested, details available on the website.

[Dazzler]

Traction

interesting article.

[Andy]

Thanks Otago.
It really was a great week away.
I didn't notice that the 8 passes was "that" high, I did know that I would have done 8 a day if the queues moved faster and I would have been happy to run at night if the lake didn't close at 6pm.

Hmmm... night racing on the salt would be wicked. A fair bit cooler and as long as you had a wide enough beam you could still see the track markers.


The biggest gotcha with salt racing is that it's really "in my head" now. I'm seeing aerodynamics everywhere I look and sometimes in really odd places, I can't sit and watch telly without drifting off into thought about how to improve the bike next year and get more of that power it's making down to the ground. I don't have answers yet but I have plenty of ideas.

Can't wait!

[Otago]

You're too modest Andy. Just checked DLRA results and see that your 198.238 (the one that you backed up to the third decimal point!) set a 1000 MPS-BG class record (=1000cc Modified Partial Streamline Supercharged Gas). Also, on my counting, your 8 passes was equalled by only one other competitor. Surely that is also testament to your preparation and attention to detail. Wasn't there a motorcycle Rookie award? You must surely have been in the running for that. Congratulations!

[tempeman]

Great pic. Andy. It took days to clean up our concrete bunker after the failure, just get the brooms out on the drag course I presume. Very different constraints with the dragsters tho', not just top speed but getting there in such a short distance, so massive grip needed. The Grand Prix Sunday was interesting from the tyre point of view.