race schedule for Southwick this weekend

 www.stimilon.com

Be there or be square.

Schedule/Race Order
Gates open at 3pm - 10pm Friday May 27
Gates open at 630am - 10pm Saturday May 28
No vehicles or people will be allowed in or out outside of these
times

Gate fee is $25 for weekend, $15 after 5pm on Saturday for those who
have to work and want to still come party
Camping is allowed on site during the event.

Race Order (subject to change)

1. Keepin It Real
2. 250 Rockstar*
3. 250 Wanna Be
4. 250 Hack
5. Brittle 40C
6. Brittle 40 ABBA
7. College Boy
8. Headlight
9. Ladies...
10. Jobless 25+
11. Never Ever
12. Yoots
13. Crusty 35+
14. Decrepit 45+
15. Open Hack
16. Open Wanna Be
17. Open Rockstar
18. Old 30C
19. Old 30 ABBA
20. Staff/Sponsors (1st half) da States Relay (2nd half)

For the two dudes that signed up for KIR and 250 RS, sorry guys you
are back to back (it couldnt be helped but you are rockstars, you can
handle it :)

Tentative Schedule of Events (this is our best guess from past
experience…)

Friday May 27 (all in military time so 1500 is 3pm)
15:00    Gates open
15:05    The cocktails start flowing, so we are told
17:00    Registration and check in opens. All Racers must check in to
get info
18:00    Let the games begin – walk around and play – Pong
Tournaments, RC
            cars, Pit bikes, go nuts, just Honor the Code!
            Vitamin Water Pit Party Challenge Judging begins.
18:10    Someone without supervision starts to act like a tool, and is
warned
20:00    Registration and check in closes for Friday Night
21:20    The warning went unnoticed and “that guy” is removed from
            property– there always is one… The dude is not missed and
the rest
            of us go one like nothing happened.
22:00    Gates close for the night – no one else allowed in until
6:30am Sat.
            Rage at own risk (don’t forget you have a race in the
morning –
            whatever)
04:00    Mandatory curfew – all generators off, shut up and pass out!

Saturday May 28
06:00    Wake up call
06:30    Gates open, Registration/Check in for all the slackers (make
sure to
            let them know what they missed last night)
08:00    Registration/Check in closes
08:10    MANDATORY RIDER MEETING at Stimilon Registration
08:30    Practice starts
10:00    Racing starts, pit festivities, random lurking
18:00    Racing ends – awards can be claimed 45 minutes after your
second
            moto ends.
18:05    Parties begin – more Pong, Pit Bikes, 93/94 activities, etc –
HONOR
            THE CODE!
20:00    Vitamin Water Pit Party Challenge judging ends
21:00    Kobra Kai plays at the Pavilion over by the legion bar.
            Narraganset Beer Specials at bar (while supplies last)
            Vitamin Water Pit Party Challenge awards announced
00:00    Kobra Kai finishes
00:17    Cops show up, sacrificial riders offered to police to meet
quota,
            hailed as martyrs.
00:23    Nobody remembers who got hauled off, party resumes
04:00    Mandatory curfew – all generators off, shut up and pass out!

Sunday May 29
10:00    Bikes start up, hangovers everywhere get a little worse,
Hangover
            Rider Day begins for those who purchased a ticket
15:00    Hangover Ride Day Ends – get out!
FIN See you next year, or at community service – which ever comes
first.
Drive safe! Enjoy your BBQ and parade Monday

 On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:17:59 -0700 (PDT), Dean H


I guess I'm square, how did your Roundness do?

A cold and wet weekend for us spoiled our plans to give the new
trailer a test run. Going to try again next weekend.

DJ

 
It's not the kind of thing you want to write twice...
you'll have to imagine the photo entitled Blotter Spooge.

so, poached form GasGasRider.org:

This is the wad of paper towel that I left in my exhaust manifold.

<:-(

So, she fired on the third kick. And as you might imagine, she sounded
a little funny. Really it just sounded like it was loading up rich. I
suspected maybe the assembly lube (2stroke oil) was fouling the plug
or... I just didn't know what to think. I just knew I was in to the
first and most important heat cycle, attempting the SwazziMatt
technique held elsewhere on this site...

I let her cool and then tried to solve the problem with a fesh plug
and some play with the air screw. I went for my practice session and
quickly decided to get her out of that sandbox. But at Southwick, four
turns has you about as far away from the pits as you can be. I cut the
course in two spots to get back to the track exit, and rode back to
the pits.

<Edit:> I actually went to the gate for Headlight Moto 1, but the wad
of paper must have made the final journey to the end of the silencer
right as the ten second board went up. She began to really bog and
die. The gate dropped. I left the gate, looked behind to make sure
everybody had gone, and did a U-turn on the start straight. <End Edit>

I was about to dial up Jim Cook. Then, the light bulb flickered <bzzt,
sizzle, bzzzt,zip, zap, BING!> and I suddenly could not pull up the
film in my cranial cinema of me pulling out the paper towel. I
wondered, and in a flash, I was sure that was it. I pulled the pipe
and stuck a tie wrap in the stinger end of the expansion chamber. The
tie wrap must have caught an edge there, offering a temporary
resistance, and it fooled me that I had popped the towel back into the
fat part of the pipe. I spent considerable time chasing that wild
goose before I checked the silencer and found this.

It was nice to solve the problem, but I'll never know how bad it was
for my new top end.

My Decrepit 45 race went several laps longer than I expected. I kept
coming around looking for the white flag and didn't see it. Finally,
they threw it. The guy I had been chasing - we were right on pace with
each other for a few laps and I was just maybe ten bike lengths back
in the fast sections - that guy pulled off after the white flag. So, I
beat that guy in my book. Anyway, it's the last lap and about 2/3 of
the way around is the famous two-trees-turns (my name for it). Uphill
to a two line, two berm right semi-hairpin onto a short steep downhill
into a bigger two berm hairpin left and hammer it hard up to the next
big right..

buwuuuuhhhhhhh rrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr

just when I go to hammer it back up the hill I run out of gas. And it
never has done a lean rev when I ran out before, but today she does.
It seemed like eternity but it was probably only three or four
seconds. I think I had already hit it over to reserve when the lean
rev started. She never stalled and I continued, but she was injured.

I let her cool and took a pit ride. It seemed OK maybe. But the next
morning, glorious weather, perfect track conditions, open riding with
maybe three people on the track at a time...
I took her out there and rode one lap. It was running well enough to
have fun, but it was far, far away from running right or healthy.
Breaking up badly. Not knowing what or why, I decided to pack her up
and not do any more damage.

I guess I'll be pulling my head this week. Can I re-use those o-rings?

It sure was good to be riding. The rest of the bike was feeling really
good. I need to get this bitch up and running.

 
OMG. You bastards don't CARE!

 In article



Dang it. I can see why you'd think that, but in this bastard's case it
was more a matter of lack of courtesy, combined with recoiling from the
pain that feels only too familiar.

I should've posted some kind of condolences, but I didn't and now I'm
sorry that I didn't say sorry, at least.

I did go on and find your thread on gasgasriders hoping to see the
photos but it wouldn't let me without signing up so I moved on and got
distracted by something else...

And, I felt badly that my little bit of butting-in over the cylinder
stud torqueing turned out badly as well.

Anyway, I do feel a small part of your pain, I know you put LOTS of time
into this project and shared it with us here--thanks for that!--and I
hope you say dammitalltohell, I'm gonna fix this sucker one way or
another.

Go for it!

--
Charles
'99 YZ250

"It's bad luck just SEEin' a thing like that..."