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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: TT on January 03, 2011, 08:07:19 am
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Check out what Spanish rider Ignacio Chivite has entered on! ;D ;D ;D
(http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr37/Tony_T12/Bultaco2011.jpg)
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he is keen. wonder how many pistons he has for the event.
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Wow, what a psycho ! Good on him !! ;)
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I like it....maybe I should set one of my PE250B's up like that? ;D
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I'm pretty sure Toofasttim posted a link to the guys website on trialscentral, from memory he's finished more than 1 of these events on the bike before
Oops, wasn't Tim but heres the link
http://bultaco-dakar2011.blogspot.com/
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...therefore, he must have many pistons....
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going by the rear sprocket he is more interested in top end speed to keep the revs down ;)
should be good for 1000 kph :D
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It,s not his first Paris to Dakar on that bike......................
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Talkin' about plenty of piston's imagine how much late model 4 stroke stuff they'd be goin threw ::)i'd say those trucks would be full to the brim of topend rebuild kit's for each nightly rebuild :D Go the bully!!!
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Damn i missed this, what day did it start?
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1st day of racing on SBS at 530 today
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Ignacio`s on a winner there, the only thing that will slow him down is the Thousands of Young Female Fans lining the track, it happens when you ride a Bultaco! ;) ;)
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Ok looks like i didnt miss much then. Totally forgot about it. Will probably be on at 6pm in SA
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Yeah, :D with that rear sprocket he'll been down there in two days sitting round the pool sippin' corona's- senorita's in toe 8)
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On the ADV site there is a link(many links) to all things Dakar.
There is a thread that tells of scrutneering and how they lock the engines so they can't be swapped MORE THAN TWICE!!!
That's right, they can swap the bottom-end twice but the top-end can be changed every night if they want and probably even at lunch if they have parts with them!!
So much for it being a rally.
I vote for the guy on the Bully. probably has Donny Newell on his crew complete with a heap of nos pistons :D :D :D
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I reckon that little brown bag on the rear of the tank might be the auxilliary spark plug container.
Not too sure about needing a lot of pistons for it per day,that would be the brown bag on the rear guard.The clutch sure would be in for a lot of work as soon as you were headed for the sand sections.
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Keen as mustard 8)
http://www.vmxmag.com.au/03_news_events/vmx_bultaco.html
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I read on SAVMX that he had come in 148th yesterday 8)
does anyone speak the lingo ??
http://bultaco-dakar2011.blogspot.com/
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Reading the comments for stage 6 it looks like he's out after crashing & getting hurt
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mmmm...cant really work the scratch,stage overall placings out..
Though we do have Aussies coming in 33rd Jacob Smith on a Honda and 70th Simon Pavey on a BMW. 8)
edit;refreshed and on scratched rankings Simon 47th and Jacob 50th.
cheers
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Heres a movie of him riding the bike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McR6rJ371xM&feature=related
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Heres a movie of him riding the bike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McR6rJ371xM&feature=related
:P :P :P :P
so good to see the globe via a pre80 ;D
cheers
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Reading the comments for stage 6 it looks like he's out after crashing & getting hurt
got this info:He was out of the race two days ago because it has a lot of sand in the engine, the Bultaco has the air entry too close to the ground.
cheers A
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sweep
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The Dakar Rally is as much about adventure as it is about winning.
While the limelight may rest with the leaders like KTM's 3-times winners Marc Coma and Cyril Despres, there are dozens of other passionate KTM riders who fulfill a dream by competing in this great rally. One of them in 2011 was Luis Belaustegui who also did it in quite a remarkable way.
Luis is perhaps the perfect example of living the Dakar dream, the Argentinean-born American citizen not only set out to achieve the almost impossible; he also did it riding a KTM 150 XC machine and because of this heroic attempt, Luis very quickly became a media star.
Luis made it through to Stage Six and that in itself was a mega achievement on a small bike and in a field of 186 of some of the most hardened and experienced tacticians in the world. He eventually had to withdraw because he ran out of time and was 12 minutes too late getting to the final control point in the tricky stage from Iquique to Arica, almost on the southern border of Peru. And he did this not because of any problems with rider or bike, but because he chose to stop and assist many riders along the way. That's the true Dakar spirit and it deserves to be recognised.
In fact, while he may have been out of the official standings after the incident at Stage Six, Luis kept on going and rode all the way to Buenos Aires.
"I decided to keep riding the KTM 150 on the assistance route," he said. "I rode all the way from Arica to Buenos Aires at 120 km and the bike was marvelous." Spanish TV was so impressed with this courageous effort that they fitted Luis with a helmet camera to record the last four hours of his epic trip on the KTM 150 right up to to the finish in the Argentinean capital.
This gallant rider may have been on the smallest bike in the entire field but he captured the attention and the hearts of the media along the way.
He was interviewed by Eurosport and by German, French and Spanish TV - indeed Spanish TV made him a favorite and interviewed him every day. Luc Alphand, the Dakar TV host interviewed him and congratulated him on his efforts. He was in demand for interviews with local TV stations and radio stations from Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina and Chile.
"In all of these interviews I made a point of saying that the KTM 150 had no problems and no failures at all. I said that the bike could handle any kind of terrain," Belaustegui said.
Luis was also a star of the online and print media and should he decide to compile a record of his press clippings, he will have a very large scrap book. These included a feature story for the online version of Clarin, one of Argentina's leading daily newspapers. The story was the most read article on the website that day, consumed by 45,000 readers.
Luis succeeded in completing some of the toughest and most challenging stages of the Dakar 2011 and while he may have had to retire because he did not make it to the final check point in time, he still learned a lot about the rules and he even hopes to tackle this marathon rally a second time.
"Now and after talking to riders and other knowledgeable people, I understand my mistake and, even though I will stop to help riders, I will do it in a way that does not affect my race," Luis said. "I have learned a lot about the rules of the Dakar. I have learned a lot about how to help and how to use the safety instruments."