{"id":139,"date":"2009-04-20T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/2009\/04\/20\/seafield-road-motorcycle-hillclimb\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T22:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:15:13","slug":"seafield-road-motorcycle-hillclimb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Seafield Road Motorcycle Hillclimb"},"content":{"rendered":"

My good friend Steve TXT’d me about a hill climb, or sprint, whilst I was in Washington DC at a workshop in mid-March. I’ve been to hill climbs at Te Onepu and Salisbury Rd a few times to watch a variety of cars give it a go. However, I missed the point of Steves TXT when I was in DC. On Saturday past I got a TXT from Steve about another hill climb. I called him that evening to discover that he and a group of local bikers had arranged for the road closure at Te Onepu and now at Seafield Road to allow bikers to legally thrash up the road as fast as they dare.<\/p>\n

The road was closed from 0900 until 1630. In that time they hoped to get as many runs as the time, number of riders and any incidents allowed. On the day there were 35 bikes and they should manage maybe 6 or 7 runs through the day for the princely sum of NZ$40 (GBP15). If I had the DRZ ready with the supermoto wheels I would have given it a go. But given the fact that I had way less than 24 hrs notice and the fact that I’m a bit rusty having not ridden much over the last month or so, I wasn’t prepared to risk it on the Speed Triple which could bite back much harder than the DRZ. I’m definitely up for it next time.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, some photos from the day.<\/p>\n

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\nSteve launches the CBR off the line and keeps the front wheel on the floor<\/p>\n


\nHaven’t seen one of these for years. Well used, but smelled and sounded the same!<\/p>\n

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\nFamiliar sight of the day – big thumper hoists the front off the line…<\/p>\n

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\nNot sure if the full moon was out….<\/p>\n

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\n… but more sane than this in my book.<\/p>\n

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\nThankfully the owner\/rider didn’t attempt to run this up the hill. With a 350 c.i. Chev motor in there it is extremely long, wide and heavy. Must handle like a pig, but sounded pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My good friend Steve TXT’d me about a hill climb, or sprint, whilst I was in Washington DC at a workshop in mid-March. I’ve been to hill climbs at Te Onepu and Salisbury Rd a few times to watch a variety of cars give it a go. However, I missed the point of Steves TXT … Continue reading “Seafield Road Motorcycle Hillclimb”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}