So what are we doing today?
We're at the Nelson street races, January second, 2018.
Obviously I'm from Nelson so I try to do this event every year and
represent my local sponsors and see a lot of the fans which come along to see me ride.
It wasn't on last year due to a re-surfacing and the year before,
I had a mechanical so it's been three years since I rode so,
pretty excited to get back, I really enjoyed the first race in the wet
and yeah, just starting to find my feel back on supermotard.
I got into it because there was an event in Europe called,
Mettet Superbiker and it's the best superbike riders,
road racers and motocross guys combined in a class
and they paid a lot of start money, it was a very big event
and of course I wanted to have a go and earn a few dollars at the same time
and then I sort of got hooked on it and started to enjoy it and here I am.
So, quite a lot of changes, we've got more power to start off with because you need it for the bike,
much different gearing, motocross gearing is 13, 48,
we have 16, 49 on this so,
effectively sort of about, 12 teeth different.
We have an oil cooler because we're running a lot more compression so we need to keep the bike cool,
Suspension is a lot lower and stiffer,
smaller front wheel, we've got slick tires on,
massive front brake to pull you up.
We've got a kill switch that's connected to the body so if you crash your bike doesn't keep running.
And that's about it, I don't do as many mods as the full time motard guys because,
quite often I only do a couple of events but,
yeah, that's about it for this bike.
A real shame there for Josh Coppins.
What the hell happened there, Josh?
Got a bit excited, just dropped the clutch and that was it!
Too many motocross starts, not enough motard ones.
Bit of a disaster aye?
Was a little bit.
You seemed to be going good though, were you in third for the most part?
Yeah, and I was planning on getting those two superbikes but,
the new rule is, two red flags and it's all over so,
another guy crashed and that was it.
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