Team F.U.B.A.R - Updated

[mick_dundee]

Sounds like a job for a Jedi still I reckon, calling all Yoda's, can you please come to this thread!!!

[Lainie]

Z1000? Z1300?

[mobile]

All I can say Gos is well done, I decided to throw in the towel and see if someone else can answer the questions, but just as a recap, was the acronym for F.U.B.A.R correct from GPX.Lainie, or not?

[Gosling1]

Yoda is too busy scanning his new book, looking for the answer !! Thats why he hasn't jumped in yet !! its in there

Yes Mobile, both Lainie and Red Dave have correctly answered the first question......Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition......

[Lainie]

Z1000? Z1300?

What bout the bikes???

[Gosling1]

sorry mate, it was'nt either of those......

It wasn't a 4-stroke and one of Team Green's most *famous* names was involved in this team..........

[Tones]

Would you be referring to a H1 or H2 tripple?

[Sulli]

got to do with the graham crosby era or the willings and hansens ???

[Sulli]

Shaun Kuriyama and Patti Moore, Team Fubar ???

[Lainie]

Ok mate ya have done my head in on this one

[Gosling1]

aaahh, starting to warm up now - Tones is looking in the right direction, and Sulli is also getting warmer.......

but not Kuriyama and Patti Moore....

Will post up the answer in the morning gotta put you out of your misery mate.......


Next week : What colour underpants did Joey Dunlop wear in the Ulster GP of 1982 ??????

[mick_dundee]

Time to cal in the cavalry, pming Yoda with te url

[Lainie]

Will post up the answer in the morning gotta put you out of your misery mate.......

Yes a very good idea I am thinking

[Gosling1]

OK here we go..........

#1 - the correct answer has been established for F.U.B.A.R

#2 - The team riders were Yvonne Du Hamel ( father of current AMA superstar Miguel Du Hamel), and factory rider Takao Abe.

#3 - Team FUBAR raced during the 1975 and 1976 seasons in the US.

#4 - They raced a highly-modified KR750 triple.

#5 - Due to the nature of the modifications to the KR750, the only nickname they could give it was the one chosen .... check the picture - it really was fucked up 'beyond all recognition'.

A quick history lesson.........

During the 1975 US Formula 750 series, the KR750 benfited from constant development, and by August there was an experimental FUBAR model, with a linkage parallelogram swingarm, which *allegedly* provided anti-dive and anti-squat capabilites. This swingarm had been in development by Kawasaki Motors Canada for several years, and had initially been tried on a KMC H2R. Du Hamel practised on the FUBAR at Laguna Seca, but the latest exhaust system wouldn't fit, so he raced the normal KR750.

By the Ontario round, Kawasaki had a very strong team including Du Hamel and Abe riding FUBAR's, with revised exhausts, accompanied by the regular KR750's of Mick Grant and Barry Ditchburn from the UK, Wada from Japan, and Gregg Hansford and Murray Sayle from Oz riding their KR750's for the first time in the US. Both the Aussies felt they could have gone quicker on their well-developed H2R's.......

Due to the nature of the FUBAR KR's, they just couldn't prove competitive enough against the more-standard English and Aussie versions, so the whole thing just quietly vanished from the scene........

So there you are - a quick history lesson on one of the best 'factory' racers rerleased by Kawasaki during the early years.......thanks to 'The Kawasaki Story' from Ian Falloon - as Yoda has pointed out, this is a great read !!

Check out the swingarm it was hideous, and weighed considerably more than a stocker.........

[Smitty]

:lol: Yoda is too busy scanning his new book, looking for the answer !! Thats why he hasn't jumped in yet !! its in there

Yes Mobile, both Lainie and Red Dave have correctly answered the first question......Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition......

I knew the answer..........but kept stummmm

our drinking team at Uni (and that was a long time ago..like in the 70s)
was called Team FUBAR

and boy, did we assist CUB to make money

cheers