Starting
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:18 pm
Do you remember push starts and want them to make a comeback? Or do you prefer clutch starts?
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Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:50 am
push starts........done lots and no way would i like to see a return to that.
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:54 am
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!
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:32 am
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!!!!!!!!!
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:54 pm
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!!!!!!!!!
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:59 pm
See, everybody wants to be fatist.
I used to push my BSA.
I used to push my BSA.
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:10 pm
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!!!!!!!!!
Re: Starting
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:56 pm
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
Re: Starting
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 3:55 pm
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??
Re: Starting
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:29 pm
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 
Re: Starting
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:28 pm
Bugger that push start business, clutch starts give us old uns a chance.
Re: Starting
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:35 pm
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.
Re: Starting
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:12 pm
I kicked the outfit into neutral while pushing at the start once 
Not one of my better moments
Not one of my better moments Re: Starting
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:56 am
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