Motorized Bicycle racing in Tucson Arizona

Awsome, I got so pissed when I realized the cam had crapped on me. Looking at the warranty, it expired about a month ago. No way we can have too many cameras going during the main.

I'll be dressed to lay it down, so I won't. Don't have real leathers, but will have on pads, racing gloves, leather jacket, and full face motorcycle helmet. I am leaning all the way again though. The tire change did help. I don't freak on leaning, but in practice, the dang curbs do get scary. Or those 100 ft cliffs on Emory pass. I'm getting real comfy at the full speed of this slow bike.
 
dogman said:
Awsome, I got so pissed when I realized the cam had crapped on me. Looking at the warranty, it expired about a month ago. No way we can have too many cameras going during the main.

I'll be dressed to lay it down, so I won't. Don't have real leathers, but will have on pads, racing gloves, leather jacket, and full face motorcycle helmet. I am leaning all the way again though. The tire change did help. I don't freak on leaning, but in practice, the dang curbs do get scary. Or those 100 ft cliffs on Emory pass. I'm getting real comfy at the full speed of this slow bike.
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Hey bro, I'm sure Methy will send you a super controller, I can send you my battery pack, and my leathers fit a 6ft person about perfect, I'm 6ft-2", so they're a little tight on me, but I can send them down with superbike gloves and a shoei if you would like the extra safety. The suit has built-in solid kevlar slider pads in the knees, and the gloves are carbon fiber and titanium, and I've never had a wreck injury my hands with them on. If you're interested, let me know and I will get ish sent out ASAP so you can have time to mount it and get comfortable.

You're representing for the electrics and ES here, and I think everybody on this board will do what they can to help you. :)
 
Thud said:
I just orderd a 49cc gas motor kit :mrgreen:
I love the smell of pre-mix in the morning.
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hehee not as nice as racing A (Methonol) :mrgreen:

Did i read you said that die cast cant be anodised Thud? just spotted a thread on motorbicyling
guy doing his own anodising on his HT 49cc motor-->

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If so can i get a Thud two speed in Blue pleeeeeeeease???? :mrgreen:

KiM
 
Thanks so much for the offers. Really appreciated, but again, I really don't want to show up fast enough to crash for sure. It sucks I'm the only one close enough to show up electric, but since the fastest thing I've ridden lately is a 150 cc chineese scooter I do need to stay in my current speed envelope. Next year, with a few months to practice with something fast, and a real frame is another story. Track experience this year will really help me know what speed to build for next year. I think getting back to 40 mph fast enough would win it, and not crashing.

I have the carbon knuckle gloves already. Road find at the dirt track Whoo HOOO! They are sweet gloves! And a decent full face helmet I use on the scooter, not a bike hemet. I've mastered the laydown in my youth, so I don't really fear injury. I don't think I'll be hitting corners much more than 30 mph, and should stop pretty fast before jeans rub through too much. A slide is no prob. Just hope I don't end up running up the ass of some dumbshit that thinks the apex is where to brake. Over the handlebars sucks. Will try to leave the guys who don't knee drag behind on the first two corners.
 
dogman said:
A slide is no prob.
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Indeed, its when you start to roll and tumble at speed you start breaking stuff... :: sigh :: High sides are the worst you become a passenger at the mercy of gravity and the hard hard ground then haha

KiM
 
Yeah, high sided a honda 350 when I was 15 yrs old at about 40 mph. I ended up sliding along with the 350 pound bike on my chest, with the pipes branding my sternum. Would you belive a 110 pound teen can throw a honda CB 350 8 feet?

After that, I began to learn the art of the laydown, and allways rode on top in a crash from then on. Biggest mistake a motorcycle rider can make is never owning a bike you can go out and learn to lay it down on. Some old piece of crap honda 125 is perfect. Fortunatley some good riders mentored me then. One of em lives in Showlow, and I hope to see him at the race.

I guess I'm still a little bit durable, I got to fly a friends hot air balloon this morning, and really screwed up the landing. Boy am I out of practice. Fortunately nobody injured beyond a bruise or two. Laying down a bike is much nicer than todays landing. But I gotta not lay it down at all to have a prayer of a decent finish.
 
Yeah, that's how I screwed the landing. It takes a lot of practice to get it right. I only have about 4 hours in my logbook in the last 2 years. Damn I miss having our balloon legal to fly! Wind conditions were tricky so we were having to do high angle landings to keep from missing the little landing areas. Much harder to drop in like a brick, and then stop it 10 feet from the ground. To be able to do those kind of landings takes several flights a month to keep up the skill level. At $350 an hour, we haven't flown our balloon since 2007.

About 10 seconds time for the heat to reach the top of the balloon, and the mass of the air is about 3000 pounds. So it takes a bit of time to turn 3000 pounds into a new direction of movement. Most of the fun of balloon piloting is trying to land in a specific spot, when you can only steer by hunting for wind going the direction you want at different heights. Yesterday the ground wind was much stronger and in a different angle than at 500'. So you had to fly to the field, and then drop it in before the direction change dragged you into power lines. Very tricky flying for the first flight I piloted since last november.
 
dogman said:
About 10 seconds time for the heat to reach the top of the balloon, and the mass of the air is about 3000 pounds.
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A lot of people think the mass is just the balloon and the crew, but the air inside the envelope is part of the craft too, so its huge.

Anyway, I'm not an expert; I've only flown one once, many years ago, when we had swap session between the balloon club and the fixed wing club. What did surprise me to learn was that the balloons use as much fuel as we do.

Nick

PS. We are slowly drifting off topic.
 
Yeah, well, not so many following by now with just me running in the race.

Balloon time costs between $200 and $350 an hour, including the party after, travel, the truck. So we haven't flown much for two years. Another year of paying off citibank and we may have another go at it. About $70,000 we spent on it in 8 years of flying. Worth every damn cent. Nothing compares to getting your hands on that pilot certificate! You have to buy bigger hats right away.
 
Thanks. Luck will be my only chance it seems. I'm starting to wonder if the battery will even last to the end of it. I should last 1/2 hour for sure. Been working on getting nice and balanced last few days.

But if I get lucky, lots of other dudes corner shitty and crash or just get slow. Spooky says over and over, just don't crash and you have a chance. I'm hanging out a leg and cornering OK last few weeks.
 
dogman said:
I'm starting to wonder if the battery will even last to the end of it. I should last 1/2 hour for sure.
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I can't remember what you're running but I just received two Turnigy 6S5Ah 25-35c's. You can use those if you want.

Are you coming in early? I plan to go up to Tucson in the morning to see the swapmeet, then hit an Asian market, then off to the track.
 
Icewrench said:
Best of luck this weekend Dogman.
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Ditto's Dogman! Hang that leg out, it works like a charm in MotoGP ... at least for Valentino!
 
I've got one more person to try to get down there with, if that doesn't work out I'll have to wish you good luck from afar, dogman!
 
amberwolf said:
I've got one more person to try to get down there with, if that doesn't work out I'll have to wish you good luck from afar, dogman!
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I've been racking my brain about driving up to get you. The bigger issue is the end of the day. Round trip would be 8-9 hours(?) and I have a big project due at school monday am. I'm already running the risk by taking most of the day off.
If you can work out a ride home I'll blow off the swapmeet and come up there to get you Sun am.

Triton
 
GOOD LUCK DOGMAN! :mrgreen:

Seems like this guy Joey running the gas guzzler with the red rims may be your primary competition. He was the first place winner from last year.

Funny thing is, winners get a pic of their bike posted on the webpage. http://spookytoothcycles.com/blog/34-blog/282-death-race-2010
It would be hilarious to see an ebike on the page considering the entire site is geared toward selling gas conversions.

I wish you the best of luck! Be careful out there and have fun!
 
Wouldn't that be cool. I also considered driving up to get Amberwolf, but that dirve between Tucson and Phoenix is a bear and I expect to be tired after that race. Gonna be fun as hell to lean into corners with no curbs or suprise cars around the corners. I agree, there seems to be only one person who really can corner that I saw in videos, but perhaps they've been practicing. My main plan is to not crash. Mabye the turtle could win the race if the rabbit is off the track.

Driving out today, and will appear at the track around 1:00 PM. The swap meet is interesting, but perhaps best if I stay away.
 
tritonwow said:
If you can work out a ride home I'll blow off the swapmeet and come up there to get you Sun am.
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I appreciate the offer, but I can't imagine anyone I know being down there that could give me a ride back up here.

I'll know sometime tomorrow if my final option works out or not.
 
If it wasn't a 40hr drive, I would pick you up Amberwolf. [No-homo] I think you're awesome and I like you and your creations. [/No-homo]
 
Only 40? :lol:

One of these days I intend to have a bike (more likely a trike) that will have the battery capacity to make it down there on one charge. :) At 20MPH I guess it'll be a nice long trip, too!

Preferably while hauling the bike I'll race on. :lol:

Honestly, as much as I would like to go to at least meet people and watch, I don't think it's worth anyone's time to take me down there and back anyway, since I don't even have a bike I could race on right now. Well, DGAmII could be ridden but at max of maybe 25MPH I don't think it'd do too well, and the NiMH pack'd run out of juice long before the race was over. :roll: Might even damage the motor; not sure how long it can be run that hard. And I'd probably smear myself all over the track a bunch. :) On CB2 the smearing might happen a lot less, but I can't fix it before the race.
 
Hey Dogman,
I'll be at the track at about 12:30 as a spectator. I'll be there for anything you might need, dogsitting etc. and will be bringing lawn chairs, camera and gallons of water. PM me if you need something specific. Weather forcast is for 90 degrees and partly cloudy.

LETS GET IT ON!!!!

shockdyno in Tucson
 
Cool, or rather not cool in terms of weather. But at least there is no big wind forcast, that will really help me make the end of the main with a bit more battery left. I already re thought the idea of wearing leather coats and full face motorcycle helmet. I'll be wearing sweats we can soak in water, and a half shell DOT hemet, with some pads on the knees and elbows.

The track is nice! The pix will be awesome since the track is in a field of blooming wildflowers at the moment. Looks like the worst hairpins on the track are still wide enough for me to get around in one piece, but the track is very narrow.

See ya there, if not at the GABA swap. Look for an old hippe wearing a red ballooning ball cap.
 
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