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Alex · January 20th, 2009, 12:50 AM

The RRW February 2009 issue has even more Ninjette coverage! First, there's the second installment of Brian Bourgeois's series about racing a 250 at Willow Springs. He evidently got hooked on one of Richard's bikes (documented in the first installment) and ended up picking up a ninjette of his own, and quickly outfitted it for racing duty. And won his second race.

The very next article is about Melissa Paris (Josh Hayes' wife) hopping on another one of Richard's bikes to compete in the 250 cup, and having a blast. She ended up banging bars, elbows, stuffing her competitors, anything to keep that ninjette at the pointy end. She crossed the line exactly even with one of the folks she was racing with the whole race, and their transponders registered .000 seconds between them (the place was awarded to the other guy, but that's pretty close!). For reasons that would become obvious to those who have ridden actual GP125 and GP250 racebikes, a close-to-stock Ninjette isn't going to give quite the same racetrack experience, but she still mentioned how much fun she was having during the race.

Definitely worth the read...

January 20th, 2009, 12:50 AM	#12
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	The RRW February 2009 issue has even more Ninjette coverage! First, there's the second installment of Brian Bourgeois's series about racing a 250 at Willow Springs. He evidently got hooked on one of Richard's bikes (documented in the first installment) and ended up picking up a ninjette of his own, and quickly outfitted it for racing duty. And won his second race. The very next article is about Melissa Paris (Josh Hayes' wife) hopping on another one of Richard's bikes to compete in the 250 cup, and having a blast. She ended up banging bars, elbows, stuffing her competitors, anything to keep that ninjette at the pointy end. She crossed the line exactly even with one of the folks she was racing with the whole race, and their transponders registered .000 seconds between them (the place was awarded to the other guy, but that's pretty close!). For reasons that would become obvious to those who have ridden actual GP125 and GP250 racebikes, a close-to-stock Ninjette isn't going to give quite the same racetrack experience, but she still mentioned how much fun she was having during the race. Definitely worth the read... __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)