Moped mayhem

[Gazdaman]

Right, it's at Lydden hill, it's a 3 hour endurance race. Teams of 3, £150.

80cc geared, or 125cc auto. Cheating is positively encouraged.

Anyone wanna be in a team, and/or have a knackered old scooter that could be used?

Oh, Sat 20th Jan.

Gaz

[G]

I'll be in a team.

Always fancied it.

Do have some track knowledge there

Don't have a bike, but sure one could be acquired somehow.

[Korn]

Oooh oooh ooh!

Is that £150 per team, as in fifty quid each?
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[G]

Should be.

And... got a link to the regs gaz?

[Gazdaman]

The regs seem very brief.

But they're HERE.

I've ridden Lydden twice, and have been known to do it quite quickly on low powered bikes.

Has BCF moped mayhem team just been formed?

Gaz

[JonB]

I've ALWAYS wanted to have a go at moped endurance.

When i'm older I might look into starting a team.
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[Shaun]

[G]

Moped 'madness', not mayhem.

It's run by Bemsee .

And if you can use seriously tuned 125cc 2 stroke scoots, err, could be interesting .

We'll be getting owned .

[Shaun]

I'd be going for a bored out RS50 myself

[byke95]

hmm, I'll be spending £180 on an off-road day in Jan so despite loving the idea, I wont have the money; but if there's spectator/heckler space I'd love to come along!

Where exactly is the Lydden track?

[G]

Should be plenty of room for supporters/pit bitches .

Lydden is a bit further up the A10 from dover.

[byke95]

[Davo]

I'll pop down to watch/get in the way.

[Gazdaman]

[G]

I know they said cheating's encouraged, but a C90 is a tad too obvious I'd have thought .

My thoughts were.... crashed RS50 on ebay - RS250 forks, 675 fairings, 80cc bore and exhaust modified to look like a trumpet one.
Halfway through, we swap the bike for my trumpet, on which we'll have a baffle in the exhaust. We then add an amp/speaker playing a much louder small 2 stroke sound and kick ass .

[Gazdaman]

Why would a C90 be out? Surely you could blag it as an auto. Doesn't it have that funny honda semi geared thing. Never ridden one personally.

I thought it was mainly c90s.

I was thinking we bodge C90 plastics on the MZ. Sounds about right, probably makes about the same power sadly!
Or cross a zero off the bandit.

Gaz

[G]

It is 'semi auto' - I believe it has a centrifugal clutch on a manual gearbox.
This means you let the revs drop a bit and it disengages the engine.

It is more 'manual' than auto, though, I believe.

It also has a front end that rises when you brake.

A c70 should be allowed.

[Gazdaman]

Bet something could be blagged from a breakers.

Gaz

[Shaun]

[G]

My idea was to tart my trumpet for pre-season publicity .

[Korn]

So, erm, does anybody actually have a moped?

If not, I suggest we buy something like this, and ghetto-tune the bollocks off it. For example throw away the head gasket (for uber compression), pour in some airplane fuel and see how long it lasts...
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[G]

Just discussing in IRC. I suspect they may have different classes as they do in moped mayhem.

Toss up between going tarty (bored rs50 etc) and seriously un tarty (the above).

[Gazdaman]

I think Korn's more in the spirit of it.

As far as I can tell there won't be classes, just one big free for all weston style.

Bar the TT starts.

EDIT: Bit of orange paint and a couple of HRC stickers and it'll be tarty. In fact I have some HRC stickers.

Gaz

[G]

From what I can see moped mayhems have a free for all, but with classes for different types of bikes (all racing together).

I believe weston is the same - they have sub classes in the main race (not 100% on this, but other enduros do).

[Korn]

I'm thinking more Scrapheap Challenge than World Superbikes here...
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