WEBVTT - Girls Making History | Tara Morrison - 899 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:03.840 She said, it's now never. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.480 I got fighting in my blood. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.479 I'm tiff. This is Roll with the Punches and we're 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.119 turning life's hardest hits into wins. Nobody wants to go 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.599 to court, and don't. My friends at test Art Family 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:25.160 Lawyers know that they offer all forms of alternative dispute resolution. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.240 Their team of Melbourne family lawyers have extensive experience in 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.960 all areas of family law to facto and same sex couples, 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.280 custody and children, family violence and intervention orders, property settlements 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.720 and financial agreements. Test Art is in your corner, so 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.440 reach out to Mark and the team at www dot 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:54.200 test Artfamilylawyers dot com dot au. Tara Morrison, welcome to 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.520 Roll with the Punches. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.720 Thank you, sir, Fanin. Very happy to be here. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.320 I'm start here, my idol, here, my idol. I'm obsessed already. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.840 I want to be you. No, oh, thank you. That's 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.959 very nice. That's cool. I've listened to a few of 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.320 your other podcasts and yeah, they sound You've got some 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:20.080 really inspirational people on here, so I'm somewhat surprised, but 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.600 very very very happy to be here. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.800 Voluntier, Yeah mate, I got shout out to Alan Rourke. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.800 I got nudged by him a couple of times articles 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.760 of you sent through. He was like, this would be 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.560 a good I was like that because I bought a 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.040 motorbike last year. I had had a motorbike when I 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.400 was seventeen, a road bike, had a few bikes along 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.560 the way, and then nothing for eleven years, and then 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.120 in a heartbeat, wow, last February, I just all of 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.880 a sudden went, ah, I should Why don't I not 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.960 have a bike anymore? And then I went and bought 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.960 one and it was the best, and so obviously he 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.360 knew that connection, and I went all this chick's awesome. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.080 She raised his motorcycles Solute Superstar And how old are you? Tara? 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.520 That's so cool with me, thank you. I'm twenty one, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.760 just turned twenty one. Yeah apart right hand? Well sorry, no, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:10.519 go ahead. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.280 Go I think you're going to tell me anyway. How 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.280 did you get into motorbike riding and racing? 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:20.320 Yes, so I started when I was about seventeen. I 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.000 started on my first road bike at two fifteen. My 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.359 dad bought it for my sweet sixteenth. Actually yeah, good dad, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.440 thank you. But yeah, I had ridden like dirt bikes 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.000 a little bit beforehand, but nothing too serious, just for fun, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.200 just a little bit. But then yeah, when I got 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.560 my road bike, I started like a little go kart track, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.760 just wearing jeans and like a leather jacket, and my 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.080 mum and dad were both there and it was like 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.360 my first time riding a road bike. And they stopped 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.120 me after a couple of laps. I'm like, what's up? 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.360 And they were like, you can't be riding a jeans 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.440 You're gonna put some leathers on or something because I 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.560 was going going way fast than they expected. I'm like, hell, yeah, 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.480 that sounds good, awesome cool. And then my mom and 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.040 dad actually met stunt riding. So I've always been brought 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.600 up around on motorbikes and everything, and my mom had 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 letters that I can fit into with knee sliders and everything. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.680 And then I think the next time I went there 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 in my mum's letters, I started getting my knee downe 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.240 and stuff. And then we slowly started going to like 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.000 bigger tracks like track days and everything, and then started 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.359 doing club racing and then state racing, and now I'm 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.520 racing the National Championships, the National road Racing Championships, So 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.920 like some people. Also, when I say that I race motorbikes, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.160 I think dirt bikes. Actually it's actually road bikes. So 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.040 I'm a bitchmond on like circuit tracks and stuff like that. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:44.480 Yeh. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.520 But yeah, now I race in the National Series ASPK 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.080 it's called and I've also been to the Netherlands and 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.320 I've been to Spain and I'm hoping to go to 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.400 England in a few months. So I've also done some 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.560 international racing as well, which is so cool. But yeah, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.120 it's it started so slowly, but once we started, it 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.440 rested so quick. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.360 Yeah, at what point did you see? I mean, I 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.200 guess you started on a track rather than just cruising 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.400 around the road, so it was probably a fairly natural progression. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.600 But how like how soon were you like I want 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.839 to I want to race pretty quick? 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.680 Like I think I was. I think I did like 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.279 just like track days for like maybe like five months 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.520 after my first time riding a bike. I did have 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:36.320 my l's and I did ride the bike that is 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.560 now my actual race bike. I rode that on the road. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.000 But then when I turned seventeen, I yeah, once I 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.400 turned seventeen, I just used my car because I needed 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.360 to start carrying around engines and track tires and bike 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.960 paths and stuff, so I couldn't carry that on the 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:59.120 bike anyway. And then I turned my bike that I 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.720 rode on the road into my race bike, and now 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.080 I've got about four of those bikes that are all 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.080 race bike set up the exact same. I prefer to 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.880 spend all my time on the track instead. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:15.960 Yeah, understandably, yea, what is at what point did you 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.760 because it's I know, it's an expensive sport, right, yes, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.600 it's a super expensive sport. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.240 So at one point. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:28.599 Did you know or feel that you had potential to 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.320 chase this or did that matter to you? Are we 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.279 going to do it anyway? 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.160 Yeah? Just like I was saying, the progression was so 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.760 quick that I almost didn't really have time to think 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.680 about it. My parents have been in the race scene 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.320 for a while. My dad also owned a motorcycle shop, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.000 so and he's a like fully qualified mechanic and everything, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.200 so at least that part was all covered and he 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.360 was teaching me everything. We were doing all the stuff 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.920 to my bike just to a us just ourselves, but 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.839 also like he knew lots of people already, like Davo 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.359 Johnson who races, the Ala Man t T Yeah, the 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.440 biggest circuit racing in the world, the most dangerous as well. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.760 But he's been my coach since like go cut days 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.159 and he still coaches me to this day. And you know, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.040 he knew people like Lea by Day who also raced 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.800 like primarily in Europe and everything, like he did track 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.960 days as well. When I went there and they coached me, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.080 and then yeah, that's how that slow progression, well quick 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.640 progression actually should like to say, happened just being coached 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:44.640 by him mainly and having that competitive racing spirit I 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.960 think as well helps a lot. Just wanting to win 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.800 and then the urge to want to win makes you 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.480 go faster. And people like to say a little bit 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.279 of like natural talent, like it is in my blood 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.039 a little bit I think as well, you know, growing 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.360 up around it myself, going to the races, watching it 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.680 on a TV every weekend. Yeah, kind of. I don't 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.479 want to say it came naturally. It's a lot of 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.800 hard work, but at the beginning it did, and gods 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.040 of interest and people quickly started following my racing career, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.560 and yeah, I just really agree to love it and 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.920 wanted to take it as far as I can. And 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.320 even when people ask me now, they're like, what is 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:27.960 the end goal you want of racing? Like what do 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.280 you want to end up racing in? I just want 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.400 to keep going and going and going and to see 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.440 how far I can go. Pretty much that's the that's 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.280 the goal, just to go as far as I possibly can. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.080 I love that. What is what in terms of training 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.040 for racing? What does that look like? Is there any 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.360 physical training that you do or is it all on 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:50.840 the track? 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.320 No? Yeah, definitely got to physical training. That's alsort of 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:59.200 the misconception about racing is people in motorsport. I think 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.240 that some people don't think it requires as much physical 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.920 you know, energy as like other like all sports something 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.440 like that. But it does just as much. Because I 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:16.160 race against the boys in the ASBK racing we have here, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.880 there's no segregation to the boys and girls race against 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.040 each other. Yep. And at the moment, I'm the only 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.040 female entrant in the three classes the super sport three 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.440 hundred and six hundred zuperbikes. Really yeah, I'm the only 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:36.440 entrants to enter. Yeah, thank you, But yeah, in again 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.640 and dirt racing and stuff, they have girls and guys classes, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.880 but here in Australia in road racing, because I'm like 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.480 one of the only ones, we don't have enough girls 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.800 to make it our own separate class. We race against 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.480 the boys. Yeah. You know, there's a couple of female 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.760 races around Australia that race in the state championships of 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.160 each state around Australia, but there's just not an for 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.400 us girls in Australia to make a different separate race. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:09.160 So I'm racing against them. Obviously, it's easier for guys 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.880 that have a bit more like endurance and stamina. It's 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.040 also easier for them to have, you know, grow muscle 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.559 and everything. Yeah, so I've been talking to like a 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.280 nutritionists at the moment. Name's Emma had simpler health. She's 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:21.760 been help. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:22.439 Shouted out to Emma. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.599 Shout out to Emma. Yeah, been helping out heaps with 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.360 just like you know, diets on race weekends and out 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.720 of race weekends. And I do CrossFit as well. My 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.600 partner and I do that together, all endurance, you know, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:41.280 one rep max reps as well, just to grow muscle 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.200 but also stamina. And it's like you're working out but 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.920 with a leather suit on. So motorcycle races. When I 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.200 come back in, I'm like red as a tomato, dripping 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.320 with sweat. Like it's really hard work on the body. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.800 And because your mind is also working over time to 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.120 think of every like you know, every corner and every 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.280 time you overtake someone, it's really mentally training as well. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.520 So yeah, that you're always under that pressure physically but 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.360 also mentally, which wears you physically. So yeah, it's a lot. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:18.160 It's a lot so training and stuff. I yeah, I 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.000 take it really seriously. I'm always doing CrossFit and everything, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.040 and I'm on the motorbike every single weekend, whether that's 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:30.600 racing around Australia, testing at new tracks around Australia, doing 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.559 state titles, doing track days, trying out different bikes, trying 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:39.240 out different settings. Yeah, I'm always on the bike, always, always. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.959 It's all about seat time as well. So however much 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.280 you get to be on that bike, is how good 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.839 you're going to end up being? I reckon? 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.800 Oh yeah, oh mate, the envy. I've twice in my 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.719 life I've done a track day. Once was in around 0:10:53.960 --> 0:11:00.440 twenty and eleven. Yeah, I was dating a racer and 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.040 for our first anniversary he gave me a track date. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.440 I hadn't touched the bike for three years then. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.000 So he sounds like it was more for him than 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:09.520 It was. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.680 The second best day of my life. And I put 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.600 that just above my very first boxing fight, which was 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.680 the most incredible experience. So this came very close second 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.480 to that. And do you mind. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.400 Where did you do it? What track were you at? 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.400 At Broadford? 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:23.000 Oh? 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:28.560 Yeah, yep, yeah, on one of his mates six hundred ninjas. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.840 It was known to be one of the fastest six 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.320 hundred on the track. How how fast I went? But 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.600 I remember wobbling my way out of the gates. Oh, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.080 And his mate goes, dude, is she gonna be all 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.000 right on that question? And I came back in after 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:51.600 session one and just rife with adrenaline, but just looked 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.560 at them and went, I don't know how you do this. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.520 I just remember because there was so much tension in 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.280 my body because I just hadn't been riding, and there 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.560 was so much redlin that my arms and legs. I 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.400 just went, this is so physic I don't think I 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.559 can go out again. This is so physically draining. I'm sore, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.840 it hurts, I'm topped, like doms worse than the gym 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.080 has ever done. But the next session, so it was 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.040 more relaxed, was better than that. But yeah, I just 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.960 could not believe the physicality of the sport. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.800 Yeah it is. It is really physical. You know. That bike. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.920 I don't know if you had a six three six 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.000 that the newer six hundred, the Kawazarki ones, but they're 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.520 a really heavy bike and they've also got a lot 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:40.840 of power as well. I raised a Kawazarki Ninja four 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.880 hundred and I've just started racing a Yamaha R seven 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.040 this year as well. My Ninja's got about forty five 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.520 horse power and it's about one hundred and fifty kilos, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.839 whereas the R seven that I've just started racing this year, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.400 it's a bigger bike with about sixty five horse power 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.480 at about one hundred and sixty five kilos and I'm 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.400 only fifty five kilos so kilo me, you know, throwing 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.280 around it on one hundred and sixty five kilo machine 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:15.000 underneath me, it is pretty intense, like, you know, trying 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.360 to steer it in and yeah, you know, get the 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.280 bike to where you want it and handle the power 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.960 of it too. But a six hundred that's no mean 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.480 feet that would have been. That's not the easiest bike 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.679 to ride it, but especially for your first track day. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.160 So that's pretty cool mate. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.520 There was nothing to be seized at at all. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:32.880 No, that's awesome. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.640 It was almost the same. The first thing I did 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:40.120 when I bought a bike last year was I booked 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.480 what I really didn't process this well to I bought 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:48.160 what was advertised as a kind of a lady's road 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.840 ride day. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, I'm so 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.400 out of condition of riding that I really just I 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.960 need I need to be taught again. I need to 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.680 remember that everything I'm doing innately is actually correct in 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.640 controlling this bike. So I booked this day ladies ride day, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.120 and then as it approaches, I'm like, tip, this is 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.120 this is a track day at Broadford again, and you 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.200 remember that track day And I was so terrified. The 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.320 only reason I went is because I could remember how 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.560 great the day was. But I've never been so scared. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.560 I had arrived there, I got I made a friend 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.560 and made them come with me because it was all 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.320 my friends with bikes and dudes. Yeah, so I made 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:36.920 a friend. Yep, trying again, but so wonderful. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.840 Fun and the girls who have in the community are excellent. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.360 Like all the girls who ride you know, who do 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.320 track days and racing and stuff around Australia are just 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.720 the best. Like obviously, you know, a girl rider obviously 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.760 has an instant connection with another girl rider because there's 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.200 not many of us, so it's almost default mates. Yeah, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.640 but yeah, the community is great. We I just want 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:06.880 to try to influence girls to start racing because that 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.000 there's so many girls who are so great at doing 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 like you know, on their bike, gone around the track, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.880 doing track days and stuff. But to make that progression 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.040 to doing track days to actually go to your first 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.040 like club race or state race is a huge jump. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.320 But I really want to get girls into racing because 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.640 the increase of girls like getting on the bike and 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.920 going to the track is like growing heaps. I would 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.160 just love to see more girls racing. That would be 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.840 the dream country for me. That'd be really really cool. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.480 But back to Broadford ticking, I think I think Victoria 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.440 has the best and the worst track in Australia really yep, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.920 and Broadford is definitely on the worst end in my 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.400 because that's corner where everyone high sights yea, the crash 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.560 corner they call it. If you have to go to 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.400 a track and there's got a corner called crash corner, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:04.840 I'm not racing this track. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.000 The worst thing yeah, well someone come off in the 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.600 first session about ten minutes in. It was like someone's 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.800 someone's turfs already. The worst thing is since that day, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.080 I've done a bit of research on my bike. I 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.200 bought it just an mt O seven. It's naked bike, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:25.080 right the yeah, the high output one. So so it's good. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.920 It's a good quick bike. It's not the learner model, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.000 which as I was as I was signing the papers 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.240 for that, the BUK selling it to me was like, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.600 you know, this is not a learner model, because I 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.280 told him I hadn't touched the bike for eleven years. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.480 I rode out there thinking I'm going to I'm going 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.160 to flip this as soon as I get on the highway. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.200 No, don't think like that. I don't think like that. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.600 But I've read since I've been reading about the suspension 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.400 on them, and people just they're like, the suspensions terrible, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.560 you'd never do a track on it, throw you off. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.480 And now I'm ter take it to the track again. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.600 No, that's not aloney, that's that's bullshit. That's not true 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:01.880 at all. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.040 No, Hey, you talk to me about like I'm interested in. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:11.159 I guess that given the physicality of it and a 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.200 female racing males, what's the advantage and what's the cost? 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.240 So I imagine power to weight. Being lighter, I am 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.200 imagining is an advantage, but having strength is an advantage. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:24.200 What's important. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.360 I was gonna say, funny you say that technique because 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.000 the year I started in the ASBK they started a 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.560 minimum weight limit. Oh so about a kilo is about 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:41.680 like half a horsepower worth of horsepower obviously, So yeah, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.320 being light would be an advantage. But because we have 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.560 to meet a minimum weight, I have to add a 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.520 little bit of weight to my bike. So you have 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.360 a minimum bike weight and then you have a minimum 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.160 bike end right awight. Because I'm such a light rider 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.680 compared to the other, like twenty one twenty year old 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.960 boys I'm racing against, that I have to add weight 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.560 to my bike. Some of the guys I race against 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.480 as well are actually like a little bit younger or 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.439 a little bit lighter than me as well, so they 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.640 would have to add weight as well. But the thing 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.520 about the minimum weight limit is to make it all equal. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.760 But I'm someone who's a little bit lighter than the 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.480 guy who's racing against me. But my bike ultimately is 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.119 heavier because I've had to add the weight to my bike, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.440 whereas his bike's a little bit lighter than mine because 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.159 he is heavier. So stronger, heavier dude is dealing with 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.080 a lighter bike, whereas me, a lighter check is dealing 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:38.960 with a heavier bike. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.520 Would it make a difference, Well, what difference would it 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:47.520 make putting the weight on the bike or somehow putting 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.239 it on the rider? Could you put the weights on 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.280 you and change the dynamics of riding in that way? Nah? 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.280 I know, we just pop the weight under the seat. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.720 That is the best way that we've found the balance 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.000 of the bike to be, you know, really nice. Yeah, No, 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.199 it's like do they do that in jockey? Is that 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.359 what horse ridders do? They add the weight to themselves, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:09.280 don't they? Is that right? 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.560 Actually I'm not actually sure, but no we don't. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.440 I don't think you're allowed to add the weight to yourself. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.920 But that would also like hold you down. You'd prefer 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:24.160 the bike to be heavyer underneath you, but no, so yeah, 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.480 we add the weight to our bikes instead. But yeah, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.119 there's lots of there's lots and lots of rules like 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.959 that that you have to meet. But obviously our bikes 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:37.359 are all got like aftermarket suspensions front of hawks and 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.960 the rear shaker like a different brand than stock as well. 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.320 And we have like specific racing foot pegs and specific 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.720 racing handlebars like clip ons we call them. We also 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.240 have like mufflers that they all give output of different 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.040 horsepower too, So it's all it's all the little things 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.280 that add up to make a bike a race bike. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.040 But then have to make it fair because in the 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.840 Super Sport three hundred, they raise Kawazaki Ninja four hundreds 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.040 like I do, or they raise the R threes so 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.040 my bike. Also, the computer inside the bike has to 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.159 be restricted, so the Yamaha R threes, which have a 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.920 three two one cc engine, can keep up with the 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.840 Ninja four hundred, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.000 and then the R threes are allowed to fall exhaust 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.640 system whereas the Ninjas aren't, but they're made that they're 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.719 equals now. But yeah, there's all little knicks and tricks 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.560 like that, to make the bike as you know, as 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.199 fast as you can, Like one horse power makes a 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.720 big difference on the little bikes. So yeah, my bike 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.960 is pristine thanks to my dad and my boyfriend's work 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.960 and everything because he helps out too. So yeah, there's 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.840 all the little things to add up to make it 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:51.840 the best you can. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.560 How do you like? How did you choose which bike 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:57.600 you wanted to ride? 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.200 Yeah? Since the beginning, we like, we've been a Kawazarki 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:02.320 family quackers. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.480 My first bike was a Kawazaki to fifty. Thanks. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.520 Yeah me too, Yeah, me too, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.000 well my first road bike was but yeah, that's so cool. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.040 But yeah I had a like an Ininja two fifty, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:15.960 and then I jumped to an Injo of four hundred. 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.000 But yeah, we think that we think the Ninja four 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.000 hundreds are a bit cooler and better than the R three. 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.000 But now I've got an R seven, so I'm racing 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.640 Yamaha anyway as well. But no, no, I love both 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.800 the excuse me, no, I love both the brands. But yeah, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.320 just probably a bit a bit more primarily of a 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.119 quacker family. But my first bike was a Pee Wee fifty, 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.960 which is a little Yamaha. My parents bought that bike 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.640 before for myself, before I think I was born, so 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:46.560 I think it was next to my cot waiting for 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:48.119 my arrival after the hospital. 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:50.880 Best parents ever. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.119 Yeah, oh they what, They're wicked. They're very very cool. Yeah, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:56.960 very lucky to have them. 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:00.560 Yeah, oh that's awesome. Tell me more about what it's 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.479 like to be competing at a high level in a 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:10.600