FZRSupport: the FZROnline Archive

I need to make this a bit short as it hurts to type.

Last lap out of 10

4 turns out of 14 to go to the finish.

diceing with my enemy (Actually a good friend)

Came in to a 100 km/h corner WAAAAY to hot and heavy on the brakes
Made a decision. Hold the brakes and dumper her or let go, hook up and high side. I took the lesser of two evils and dumped it.

Smashed my elbow pretty hard. Before I dumped I saw smoke coming from the front tire I was pushing her in that hard, kind of dirt track style a bit Gary Macoy-ish

back home now but hurting pretty bad in the shoulder and arm.

I got TONS of great pics on the way as I had a pro photographer there taking publicity shots for my sponsor. Lots of hot umbrella girls as well.

Got some good on board camera video as well.

I got up to 265 KM/h on the front straight (About 163mph) and went through corners dragging knees at 165 km/h (About 100mph) dragged my toe in one of the fast corners and reached my max lean angle on the bike as it began to slide a bit at that point. loads of fun

Corner I crashed in is notorious for smacking riders mostly high siding them. Guess I can be happy I beat the track and low sided instead ha ha.

Titanium on the shoudler worked but I crushed it I hit so hard. If not for that I htink I would have broken the shoulder bone. Same for the titaniumon the boots saved the ankle bone really well.

Time for my meds.
Steve

Sorry to hear that man, get well soon

Sorry to hear that Steve! Get better and keep us posted!

163mph??
what the hell were you on! (I mean what bike were you on...not drugs)

I'm very sorry to hear that. I wish you fast recovering and to get back as soon as possible on the track.

csofos wrote:I'm very sorry to hear that. I wish you fast recovering and to get back as soon as possible on the track.

Steve ,
sorry to hear about the soil sampling do not be off the bike too long it takes the edge off real quick.You will heal hows the bike much damage ? Best of luck on the next race.

Major bummer Steve. Speedy recovery to you. When is your next scheduled race?

that sucks. hope you feel better and get back on the track again.

Rock on! You said you were going to push it - now you know the limit!

Hope you heal, so you can get back to the track. I'm dying for a Track Day over here.

darrin

hope you and the bike are feelin better Steve!

Man what the hell are you doing?? There are only a few of us FZR racers left! Im just about to start the season at Easter http://www.barrysheene.com.au & you crash.
Im entered in the biggest meeting of the year>>
Come on mate, chin up & get back into battle.
Hope you are feeling better & you heal up fast, & get back out there.
All the best buddy.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Basically I am Ok now and ready to go for another round. Still hurting like a bitch in the elbow but EF it. I would race right now if had the chance.

I got a few pics on te hway and soem on my gallery page her but can;t seem to get them to transfer over to this thread.

Comuters been acting up lately. Buddy is here to help fit up soem new body work so I got to run.

Alls well - READY TO GO DO BATTLE AGAIN.

Steve

Here ya go Steve...Glad you're getting better...

As it turns out I had a guy stop buy the house last night that is trying to organize racign at the Shanghai F1 rack where they had the Moto GP for a few years. Its a very fast track reaching speedds of 300 KM/h (Thats about 187mph)

So since I am a bit well known here he just partcially sponsored me a ride there for the first time everyone gets together with a car club. we wil share the track with them adn alternate sessions of 25 minutes each.

But this happens on this coming Sunday. So of course I said YES! I want to be able to say I went 300 KM/h that woudl be a good goal to bust through. Not a race but just an organized event for now. They are trying to ge racing there. Problem is the track is owned by the government so there is a bit of a lack of enthusiasm on their part. Efen suits don't know what real fun is I guess. ha ha

China_Racer_1 wrote:As it turns out I had a guy stop buy the house last night that is trying to organize racign at the Shanghai F1 rack where they had the Moto GP for a few years. Its a very fast track reaching speedds of 300 KM/h (Thats about 187mph)

So since I am a bit well known here he just partcially sponsored me a ride there for the first time everyone gets together with a car club. we wil share the track with them adn alternate sessions of 25 minutes each.

But this happens on this coming Sunday. So of course I said YES! I want to be able to say I went 300 KM/h that woudl be a good goal to bust through. Not a race but just an organized event for now. They are trying to ge racing there. Problem is the track is owned by the government so there is a bit of a lack of enthusiasm on their part. Efen suits don't know what real fun is I guess. ha ha

Thats pretty cool that you will get to run that track and to go that fast. Have fun and be careful!