OYL's Mini Roadracers Forum

[Seth]

After 5 years on a YSR, I still felt like a new racer everytime the flag dropped... So, I'm not sure if I'm returning as a New Old racer, or a Old New racer...


Anyway, for those of you that know me, Hello again!

For those of you that don't, it's nice to meet you!

I'm Seth Coleman. I started coming to the YSR events as a spectator in '98 (Wow, has it really been 11 years?). My Dad worked with Maverick (Club founder). I came to 3 or 4 events in '98 and watched the races, "helped" pit, and probably got in the way asking too many questions about all the bikes.

My Parents and Mavericks parents became decent friends, and when Mav passed away in an unfortunate streetbike accident, we drove to Central Ky to pick up his Bike for them. In return they sold me Mav's YSR (It was #66 then, the logo of the club for those who don't know), and gave me his gear in an effort to help a motorcycle/engine/engineering obsessed 15 year old get some seat time on a bike. I clumsily rebuilt the bike and started racing in the '99 season. I slowly but surely learned how to rebuild/tune/and squeeze little bits of ooomph (I'm reluctant to call it power) out of the little two-strokes. Many, many sets of rings, crank bearings, and main-jets later I was building some quick bikes and riding with Brian, Jordan, David, (and a few others that came and went) as part of Team Quazzymoto.

By this time I was in college at Ohio University ("Studying" Industrial Technology), working two jobs as engineer at 3 different radio stations while building drift cars with friends and restoring a '78 El Camino SS. The cars and bikes were fighting for my money, and eventually the cars won. It started with an old VW Fox, then an 80's GTI 16 valve, then a '97 Jetta GLS... and Then I graduated from college. I had a job right out of school, but I also had too many cars, a few motorcycles, and I moved 3.5 hours away from home to Northern KY for work. I stopped riding cold turkey.

It's been a little over three years, and I'm still with the same company in Northern Ky (In the 'burbs of Cinci). I work for an Italian company that makes industrial bar-code scanners and design/install/support large bar-code scanning system all over North America. I've worked in every type of factory/Warehouse/Distrobution center you can image in 45 or so states. The last three years I traveled about 80% of the time, but that has started to slow down. My job has changed slightly and I'm around a lot more now.

I've been riding freestyle BMX and mountain bikes to keep myself on two wheels, but I'm jonesin' to ride mini's again.

I just moved to a new house, and I have a GARAGE! So, my plan is the get the old worn-out horse down here and roll it out in the spring as a new machine. We'll see what the '10 rule book holds but I might be looking at a lot of work!

See you at the track!

[Steve-o]

Seth, glad to hear you are coming back! Pm me and let me know where your new house is.

[fireman_343]

Welcome to the forum Seth... for those that don't know.. Seth, he is a great guy and a fast rider! We use to have some knock out drag out battles back in the day between the two of us! He stopped building my motor for me after it passed his bike down the straight! HAHA He knows his YSR/motor stuff! Great builder/tuner for these bikes!
Hope you can stop by one of the last two races this season and say hi!

Here are a few pic's of you back in the day!

[MOTOHEAD52]

Seth,
Great to hear your coming back. You should buy Tom Hughey's YZ50 and build a YSR superbike. Soon to be legal in F4. Stock YSR is the same as it always was. Come up Saturday, it's the potluck and endurance race. I'm sure we can find you a ride and some gear.

[latency]

Seth, come to the darkside of NSR50's!!

GLAD to hear you are comin' back!

[JReid]

Seth - Awesome to have you back! Like Bill said, bring your gear and come to the race this weekend.

[Seth]

So who has a seat for me? Bill, Jordan. Bueller?

I'll show up with gear, and no expectations. I'll bring my cameras too.

[latency]

So who has a seat for me? Bill, Jordan. Bueller?

I'll show up with gear, and no expectations. I'll bring my cameras too.

Seth man,

You are welcome to ride the NSR50R for some races...I race F2 and F3 though, so we might have an issue with that (folks being lumped together you and I can't be out there the same time)

That being said, lets look at the heats and what would work...you could race it in F1...but it would be painfully non-competitive.

- Kyle

[blammo]

I have a stock YSR you could ride in Supersport. I'll already be riding it in the Stock Modified class & probably the endurance race afterwards, so I'm not worried about missing out on some seat time. It'd be great to see it out out there with someone who could actually be competitive on it!

[JReid]

So who has a seat for me? Bill, Jordan. Bueller?

We're talking about using my bike for the endurance race. If you're up for it the seat is waiting for you.

[Seth]

Jordan - Count me in!

Blammo - I might take you up on that! I'm not expecting to be too fast, but I don't expect to be dreadfully slow either.

I'm going to have to constantly think about "standard" shift pattern, all I've ridden is GP shift for the last 8 or 9 years.

Seth.

[JReid]

Jordan - Count me in!

I'm going to have to constantly think about "standard" shift pattern, all I've ridden is GP shift for the last 8 or 9 years.

Seth.

Excellent.

At least for the endurance race you won't have to think about it; my bike is GP pattern.

[blammo]

Jordan - Count me in!

Blammo - I might take you up on that! I'm not expecting to be too fast, but I don't expect to be dreadfully slow either.

I'm going to have to constantly think about "standard" shift pattern, all I've ridden is GP shift for the last 8 or 9 years.

Seth.

Well you are more than welcome to have at it! You can't hurt the thing, I have crashed on virtually every surface of the bike this season, so it's definitely "pre-disastered".

It's not GP shift though…so that might be a drag for you. Unless you know some quick way to switch it over.

[Seth]

I can steal the rearset with hacked up FZR 600 linkage from my YSR on Friday, in 5 minutes it can be GP shift. Do you have the setback plates on your bike?

[blammo]

I can steal the rearset with hacked up FZR 600 linkage from my YSR on Friday, in 5 minutes it can be GP shift. Do you have the setback plates on your bike?

Yes on the setback plates. I'm interested in checking out your linkage setup on the YSR; thinking about going to GP shift for next year, but I'll need to change my street ride (SV650S) as well.

[Seth]

The linkage was stolen from an FZR600 (That's engine made it's way into a Yamaha Blaster). I welded a stud to the stock rearsets and mounted the shift arm. I also extended the linage rod to fit.

The other way to do it easily is the shift drum from an RX-50 or a YZ-50, They use the same trans/engine (minor differnces) and the riding position in those bikes has the shift level facing forward, if you put that drum in a YSR you have GP-shift with no external changes.

Seth.

[blammo]

Cool, I happen to have an RX50 motor I pulled out of a junkyard just for that purpose. I figured I'd wait till the season was over before performing that kind of surgery though.

[SSR25]

ANOTHER SETH!? ...Good thing there's only one Gearbox!

[rmwitt]

Correction!

ANOTHER SETH!? ...Good thing there's only one Toolbox!

[Seth]

No offense to any other Seth(s), But I am the original. I was just on a short hiatus.