RS Motorcycles

Sunday is always bike day, and this weekend was no exception. Robert was off on the Distinguished Gentlemans Ride.
Previously we have run our van as a support vehicle but this year year Robert helped as a parking marshal and a mid pack rider.
The turnout was unbelievable and everyone had a great ride, raised a lot of $$ and some very cool bikes made the ride.
DGR support the Movemember foundation money raised goes to men’s mental health and prostate cancer , this year Wellington smashed it with over $24000 and 240 odd bikes. Well done team!

Been a while since we dropped a race report… and this one is from Robert, our chief mechanic, owner and team principal.
So I came out of retirement this weekend at the Victoria Motorcycle Club Race meeting.
10 years ago I ran my last race on a CBR250… this time I ran a KTM RC390 in the Supersport 300 class. With a practice day Saturday I got pretty comfortable on the bike, and as we had heavy rain in the afternoon I got to rediscover using wet tyres.. my pace was a way off but I went in to race day feeling good and confident I wasn’t going make too much of a fool of myself.
Sunday morning and the rain stopped but the track was still very wet.. so the wet practice was good. I went out late to try and find my own pace and not ruin anyone else’s laps. I came in to applause and pats on the back from my team mates. Unbelievably I put our little KTM on the front row in P4, turns out I can still ride in the wet😁
Race one was a real baptism of fire as one of my competitors had an unfortunate incident on the grid which saw me clip her upturned bike and take a wee tumble. No harm done and I made the restart , just, thanks to the team.
Race starts didn’t go to plan in the morning and I lost heaps of places so I had to battle back through the field. Got my groove on though and the last two races I managed to keep my P4 starting position into turn one.
So many awesome battles all day, every race was in a group of four or five riders scrapping for the last spot on the podium. My weekend went 3x P4 and 2xP3 in class with P4 overall for the weekend.
So far above my expectations I cannot believe it!
Massive thanks to my team who not only supported me all weekend, but managed their own race day without me. Turns out I’m not indispensable after all 🤷‍♂️
Of course none of this would be possible without the support of my wife Simone, the S of RS , who helped me all weekend . Food, drinks, calming words and pep talks when needed😎
Maybe we will do it again….

Don’t forget this is happening on Sunday, lots of raffle and spot prizes up for grabs and of course you will be supporting a very worthy cause.
BBQ will be rocking from 9am👍