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

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:27 pm

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

Lainie · Post by **Lainie** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:17 am

Z1000? Z1300?

mobile · Post by **mobile** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:57 pm

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 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:16 pm

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 · Post by **Lainie** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:19 pm

Z1000? Z1300?

What bout the bikes???

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:26 pm

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 · Post by **Tones** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:44 pm

Would you be referring to a H1 or H2 tripple?

Sulli · Post by **Sulli** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:53 pm

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

Sulli · Post by **Sulli** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:10 pm

Shaun Kuriyama and Patti Moore, Team Fubar ???

Lainie · Post by **Lainie** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:33 pm

Ok mate ya have done my head in on this one

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:23 pm

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 · Post by **mick_dundee** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:51 am

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

Lainie · Post by **Lainie** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:30 am

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 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:09 am

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 · Post by **Smitty** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:33 am

Gosling1 wrote: 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