The Racers Forum Racers Picture Thread

[budman]

Aight guys..let's put 'em up! Pick your favorite pic's (10 Max. each) and post them here. A little blurb on What it is your riding and doing and when would be cool.


I would like this to be Racers only..not track day pic's so I will remove those and any Posers..like Rossi or Edwards..:laughing will suffer the same fate. Of course if you got number plates on the bike and it was a track day how would I know? :teeth

Have at it and enjoy the Forum members doing what they love best! RACING :thumbup


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[ontherearwheel]

Racing involves more than a race bike and a number plate.

Was after my looping experince leaving the hot pits, Turn 0, at Thunderhill

 

[budman]

The Pic...:teeth
Okay Way to start Greg...

Here is the Flip side..still no action, but the Sweet taste of Victory.

1989 24 Hour Race at Willow Springs.
"Bay Area Fast Boys" ( an AFM team ) on the victory stand.

Armin Zipperle on far left hidden behind John Fosgate (Current AFM announcer), Kurt Mariner, Budman and Daughter.

1st Place 600 Stock Production on a Kanatuna! (Katana)




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[ontherearwheel]

Hey, anyone can post a pic of them racing........the only reason I posted this one cause I could not make my mind up on which race pic to post, I'm so fricking good looking in all of them to have to choose just one. :teeth

 

[DanZX9R]

Post race last weekend holding my self up with the bike!

 

[budman]

Nice! All the neccessary Accesories Dan!

Here is a start of a AFM 600 Production race in 1986.
Pictured are...
Front Row : 637...that is me on my ninja closest to camera.
Skip Gatrell #374 on the Interceptor 500.
Eric Kondo #193 Fz600
Kevin Crowther on the yellow Ninja w/ red stripes.
Jim Jepson # 788 on an FJ600 (He won AFM #1 this year)
Row 2 you can just catch Kurt Marriner wheelieing his Fz600.

Eric, Kurt and myself all were from Palo Alto..so it made it more fun! :teeth

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[Holeshot]

Turn 1, Sears, passing Chris Story (up the hill)

 

[Holeshot]

I also was shocked when I saw this one, as #69 is James King, One of the Fast guys in the class, and he didn't ever get by me...

 

[Holeshot]

Another Chris and Berto Show! Turn 5, T-hill. I loved racing Chris as he's one of the cleanest racers around... Cool guy too!

 

[Holeshot]

So is Mike Mullen. Cool guy, great rider/racer...

 

[Holeshot]

Hey Dennis where ya at??? Show the photo shopped one you have where you switched us!!! HAHA!

 

[Holeshot]

Dave (No Quarter) getting ready for a pass...(on the bike in the back). T-11, Buttonwillow.

 

[Holeshot]

And of course I look like I'm sucking dick and Dave looks like a clown!

Can you find John Haner, Chris Perish...?

 

[budman]

The KSJO Rock Bike Arrives

In 1987 I was lucky enough to Hook up with South Bay Suzuki (defunct) and KSJO radio to create the KSJO ROCK BIKE. RGV Gamma 500....a four cyclinder 2 stroke.
The bike was owned by BARF's own Jim Doyle and sold to South Bay and I talked them into letting me go for the sponsorship.

This was even before Lemont and Tonelli ..remember Perry Stone?

Girl scout cookies anyone? :laughing

I only got to race the bike 4 times and totalled it on a practice day at Sears falling in before turn 1 ( no chicane) at about 115mph on a oil slick from a blown motor. After hitting the tire wall between 1 and the drag strip, a ambulance ride, arguements about cutting off the leathers ( I won) , and X-rays for neck and Back (negative) I walked away.

Loved that bike.



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[Holeshot]

That's a cool shot!

 

[NoQuarter]

Turn 10 at Sears Point, from May '02 AFM race, 600 Superbike.

 

[Baptistro]

And of course I look like I'm sucking dick and Dave looks like a clown!

Can you find John Haner, Chris Perish...?

:laughing :laughing :laughing Berto sucking dick :laughing :laughing :laughing

 

[JeffKoch]

Ha, I recognize Greg (I think that was his name) the heart surgeon in the back row, second from the left. He was at my first Spencer class, and had already done three or four before that. The guy on the far right of the back row looks familiar too, from another class - maybe John from SoCal, races an R6 and has a HOT girlfriend?

 

[NoQuarter]

Yep, you got both of the correct. But I think John has moved up here to San Jose, he's planning on CCS this season with a formally organized team, I think. And yep, his girl is smok'n.

Greg actually went down on the first lap of the first day! Oops. After 20 minutes worth of "if you fall you're out, no matter what" from the coaches.... But they gave him a free pass on that, considering it was like his 5th or 6th time at the school. (I suppose throwing $12k there way makes them a bit more lenient with ya).

Good stuff, the Spencer school rocks. I highly recommend it to anyone serious about good coaching.

(And I'd rather look like a clown than like I'm sucking dick!)

_david

 

[JeffKoch]

Dohh, first lap on the first day... He was a decent rider when I rode with him (a bit cocky though) - must've been cold tires. I totally agree on Spencer's school, it's an awesome motocycling experience.

My most unique photo, taken while I was doing the obvious in old T11 at Sears:

Trying to haul down T5a at Thunderhill:

Cruising through old T11 at Sears and looking off-line:

Trying to haul through T6 at Sears:

And a small one which would be cool with better resolution, through T8 at Thunderhill: