More two wheel racing, this time with a motor.
While everyone was at sea otter enjoying the awesome downhill track they have there every year I was stuck at home racing motor cross, poor me!
My race of choice for the sea otter weekend was the 2nd round of Suzuki New Zealand National cross country series which doubled as round one of the Nelson club series and was held about an hour from home so after some scrambling I got the top end rebuilt in my 08 RMZ250 and did a couple of motos the weekend before to get prepared having not ridden my moto since the start of january!
With over 100 people on the start a le mans start was hectic but spread the field out a bit over the long start straight, I got a horrible start and finally got off the line about half way through the pack but straight away started putting in passes to try make my way through everyone, that was until about 5 minutes in I got collected by a guy cutting from one side of the track to the other and thrown over the bars onto my head which left me sitting on the side of the track for a bit working what had happened and getting passed by about 40 people!
After getting myself back on track I tried to settle into a good pace that I could run for the next 3 hours of the race, I started making passes and was running a good pace until about the 2 hour when I got forced off the track again by a lapper who couldnt hold his line, this time though I stayed on but came out of it was a flat rear tire. To put it lightly I was pretty gutted especially after how good I had been feeling up until that point even though it was without a doubt a big bike track with huge 5th gear straights that lasted close to 5 minutes at least!
I got the flat fixed back in the pits but by that point I was out of the running for a good result so it was just back out on the track for a couple of fun laps.
Looking at the lap times after the race was good and bad, my lap times were under 2 minutes slower than the leaders which was cool to see considering the bulk of them were on bigger bikes. The gutting thing was realising if it hadnt been for the flat I would of podiumed for the club round and been top 20 for the national! But theres allways next time so hopefully ill be around next year to race it again and be a bit better prepared for it!
KB
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