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Richard Rollings
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Starting
Do you remember push starts and want them to make a comeback? Or do you prefer clutch starts?
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Alan Richardson
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Re: Starting
push starts........done lots and no way would i like to see a return to that.
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steve-e
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Re: Starting
it's amazing how heavy a baker suzuki is when there's one person pushing, and how uphill the startline at Snetterton is.. doesn't seem anywhere near so steep when it's a clutch start!
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kew
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Re: Starting
That's your fault for having a long bike, with a short bike the driver can push as well.steve-e wrote:it's amazing how heavy a baker suzuki is when there's one person pushing, and how uphill the startline at Snetterton is.. doesn't seem anywhere near so steep when it's a clutch start!
BRING BACK PUSH STARTS!!!!!!!!!
I took the shell off my racing snail thinking it would make him faster.
It just made him more sluggish.
It just made him more sluggish.
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ChrisWells
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Re: Starting
I'm looking forward to seeing Kew "running" alongside his short F1. (Has anyone ever seen kew run?)kew wrote: That's your fault for having a long bike, with a short bike the driver can push as well.
BRING BACK PUSH STARTS!!!!!!!!!
Chris Wells
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Ottawa, Canada
2015 IOM TT Compeitor
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2013 SRA East F2 Championship (Driver)
2013 SRA East Overall 2nd Place (Driver)
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kew
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Re: Starting
See, everybody wants to be fatist.
I used to push my BSA.
I used to push my BSA.
I took the shell off my racing snail thinking it would make him faster.
It just made him more sluggish.
It just made him more sluggish.
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G JONES
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Re: Starting
That doesn't surprise me...kew wrote:I used to push my BSA.
Agree with you again though (twice this week...
BRING BACK PUSH STARTS!!!!!!!!!
2 strokes are the future...
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Rent-a-Ballast
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Re: Starting
Only done 1 push start at Spa last year. down hill and when the Krausser fired it nearly left without me sod doing that again
I can only please one person a day and today is not your day. and tomorrow does not look good either
Re: Starting
Did lots of those dangerous starts and there's no way i'd do them again!
When you're on the poll and your bike doesn't fire it's a pretty scary place to be on a 25 bike grid
Does everyone remember the George O'Dell & (i think Kenny in the chair) or out of the chair as the case may be. When he was pushed up the track by all the other bikes??
When you're on the poll and your bike doesn't fire it's a pretty scary place to be on a 25 bike grid
Does everyone remember the George O'Dell & (i think Kenny in the chair) or out of the chair as the case may be. When he was pushed up the track by all the other bikes??
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Re: Starting
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Re: Starting
Happened too me at Snet, bike fired up quicker than usual, driver aboard and sodded off - me flat on me chops in the middle of the second row 
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sidecarracer51
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Re: Starting
Bugger that push start business, clutch starts give us old uns a chance.
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sidecarracer51
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Re: Starting
Happened to me at Cadwell, we were on the second row, bike lit up, the one in front didn't, we stopped, the bike behind us didn't, until it ran into us and broke all my toes.
As I said in previous post, bugger push starts.
As I said in previous post, bugger push starts.
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Richard Rollings
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Re: Starting
I kicked the outfit into neutral while pushing at the start once 
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ChrisWells
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Re: Starting
Never had the pleasure of push starting at the start but until I developed a better feel for it my old TZ-750 rig used to fire so violently when starting in the paddock we had to ask inexperienced people to stop trying to help push us, as we kept leaving them lying face down on the pavement
Chris Wells
Ottawa, Canada
2015 IOM TT Compeitor
2014 Pikes Peak Competitor
2013 SRA East F2 Championship (Driver)
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2012 & 2011 SRA East F1 Championship (Driver)
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2007 CSR F1 with 05 Honda CBR1000RR (SOLD)
1990 Honda VFR750F
2001 Suzuki RM250
Ottawa, Canada
2015 IOM TT Compeitor
2014 Pikes Peak Competitor
2013 SRA East F2 Championship (Driver)
2013 SRA East Overall 2nd Place (Driver)
2012 & 2011 SRA East F1 Championship (Driver)
2010 MRE F2 with Yamaha R6 (SOLD)
2007 CSR F1 with 05 Honda CBR1000RR (SOLD)
1990 Honda VFR750F
2001 Suzuki RM250