Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:53:55
-0700 (PDT)
From: havoc23 <carcosa@eskimo.com>
To: NW-YSR <nw-ysr@micapeak.com>
Subject: [YSR] Bremerton, 13 June
I was feeling kind of discouraged
on the drive to Bremerton Raceway
yesterday morning...so many YSRs
in the area, so little participation...
Still, once there, the SuperTT follies
were enough to cheer me up, that is
a definitely nutso series! Kudos
to WMRRA for bringing it back again this
year!
The clouds burned off and it turned
into a scorcher, what, 90 degrees? I
set up a practice course on the
back access road and sorted out Pikachu,
(YSR50) which for the moment was
running fine, having crapped out on
Briggs last time at SIR...more
in a minute...
Next I tried to fire up Spawn,
(YZR80) and was rewarded by a spew, (not a
spit, not a trickle), a spew of
fuel out the exhaust pipe! Can you say
"kill switch"!? A little known
fact is that on old stock YSR fuel petcocks,
you can turn them horizontally the wrong way and it will
stay open...don't
ask me why, its a hardware problem...anyway, I had cleverly
turned
the gas "off" the night before
in the wrong position and _filled_ the
pipe with fuel as a result, oboy.
After draining it out and letting it sit
a while, restarted it up, vroom!
Ok!
As ever I went around and shanghied
"volunteers" for help, thanks to Jack
Tavares for flagging, kd, Kitty,
TXD and Brittany for cornerworking, and
especially Pete Neilson for setting
the far end of the course as well as
cornerworking and lending his bike
to Amrita Ibolds! Jenner took more
photos, which should appear on
the website soon, thanks dude!!
As for weeks I had been told there
would be extra time for YSR's, and the
flyer cleverly read "YSR racing
-200 laps" we ran two 10-lap sprints,
which after the first one I had
to practically fight to run the second as
"the schedule was behind". Come
on guys, it only takes minutes to run
these YSR races, I have enough
trouble getting people to come out (and
pay) to do it at all, it sucks
being the sacrificial lamb! </rant>
The grid consisted of myself on
Pikachu, Jim Broglio on Spawn, Derek Grove
(YSR50), Amrita Ibolds on Pete's
YSR80, and Ted Abernathy on a ??
mini-dirt bike! Got a good start,
but my motor finally wore out, and
lost all compression before halfway
through...o well, new top end before
Wenatchee! Jim and Derek battled
it out the whole race, and Jack almost
whacked Jim on the head with the
checkered flag at the finish! Amrita
_really_ was hanging it out, and
got caught out by the slick transition
in the apex of the big sweeper
nearest the pits, but jumped back on to
finish!
Second sprint I took over on Spawn,
and got another clean start! I think
Derek must have got held up at
a corner as I expected to be passed any
moment, but he stayed a few bikelengths
back and i held it for first,
whee! The YZ80 motor is finally
sorted out and really ran well, wish there
had been more out there, this was
a nice technical track layout and mucho
fun! Amrita repeated her
performance, same spot, and with a flamboyant
bow to the spectators earned their
cheers and admiration - you go, girl!
I was _very_ glad I'd brought the yellow-hello-kitty umbrella
that Jim &
Keri got me for Pikachu as the
sun was merciless and I'd have burned
without it...also a small child
came up and pointed at it, saying
"Pikachu!", heh!
All in all an excelent time, though
a bigger field would be nice, there
are easily a dozen woosers out
there that never race, what's with that?
That's why I want to give Pete
extra recognition for bringing his out and
lending it, thanks again Pete!
Next stop SIR next weekend!
NW-YSR