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posted March 31, 2009 02:08 AM
 Edited By: entropy on 5 Apr 2009 12:11
A special thanks to Doug Meyer!!!
Doug,
You are THE MAN!
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to come to the Mile and then, going WAY beyond the call, and getting my heap going again. I would have missed Sat racing without your help.
You are THE MAN!
I'll even forgive you for going faster than me on my own bike! 
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woppi
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posted March 31, 2009 02:46 AM
my mine:
there are 2 tremendous person working together ------- at an verry hard race weekend
Karl + Doug the " Dream Team"
---- thats fellowship !!!
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Johnnycheese
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posted March 31, 2009 03:20 AM
I just like being around the man, Karl you had the honor of having Mr. Meyer build something with you.
Ps thank you doug for your advice
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brendasue555
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posted March 31, 2009 04:08 AM
I can't wait to tell Ya'll how honored I am but you will have to wait a few more weeks. And it is quiet a story. Can ya'll imagine if those two lived close to each other!
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osti33
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posted March 31, 2009 05:00 AM
quote:
I just like being around the man, Karl you had the honor of having Mr. Meyer build something with you.
Ps thank you doug for your advice
+1
I agree with Mr. Cheese. It was great just having him there this weekend.
It was great being in Texas this weekend and just hanging out with everyone. I can't wait to do it again.
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posted March 31, 2009 05:43 AM
I have got to come down there and hang out, and help with the Abita......
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posted March 31, 2009 06:11 AM
Shall we get Karl to start the October list for whosw coming to tx?
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MadMike
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posted March 31, 2009 08:20 AM
quote:
quote:
I just like being around the man, Karl you had the honor of having Mr. Meyer build something with you.
Ps thank you doug for your advice
+1
I agree with Mr. Cheese. It was great just having him there this weekend.
It was great being in Texas this weekend and just hanging out with everyone. I can't wait to do it again.
+2!!!!
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posted March 31, 2009 08:39 AM
If you did not know who he was, you sure would not hear it from him! Maybe in 10 or 20 years I will be able to Humble myself enough to see the class that man has! When it comes to mechanics, the only other person I know in his class is Kevin Cameron! The difference is Cameron thinks he is speaking at our level and we cannot understand 50% of what he just said and Dr. Doug stays at out level and we ALL can understand everything (well almost) he says! He is the Man and I knew that a LONG LONG Time ago (About 25 or so years ago!)
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posted March 31, 2009 09:24 AM
Doug is the man!
If i win the lottery, can i get the dream team to build me a 1427? IF i can watch and ask questions
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posted March 31, 2009 12:59 PM
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Doug is the man!
If i win the lottery, can i get the dream team to build me a 1427? IF i can watch and ask questions
WHAT!! Next you will want to take a Look in Jay Leno's Garage??
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KZScott
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posted March 31, 2009 01:21 PM
is he offering tours?
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01 ZX-12R 8.84 @ 156.3 no bars, DOT tires. Pump Gas, NA.... turbo 8.47 @ 164.
00 ZX-12R 8.62 @ 165.2 no bars, slicks, Pump Gas, 55 shot.... turbo 8.32 @173
00 ZX-12R Fastest NA Kawasaki in the world 1: 222.046 1.5: 226.390 Loring AFB
00 ZX-12R street turbo 1: 227.9 1.5: 234.1 Loring AFB
00 ZX-12R LSR turbo 1: 263.1 1.5: 266.5 Loring AFB Worlds fastest ZX-12R
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posted March 31, 2009 02:02 PM
It was a pleasure hanging around with you Mr. Meyer. Hope to see you again soon.
Maybe at the salt some time soon. lol
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lowflyer
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posted March 31, 2009 03:45 PM
It was a pleasure, as always, to hang around with all the TFA's and everyone else. Except for maybe the non-TFA Harley guys who got in a heated verbal exchange around midnight Saturday. Karl and Doug acted like they do all-night builds all the time, no big deal. The only down side to staying in a motorhome on the grounds was missing out on the evening TexMex, and getting to chat over a beverage. Still got to meet BrendaSue and rub elbows with a bunch of other like minded folks. Congratulations to all!
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posted March 31, 2009 05:39 PM
Lowflyer, we need a pic of you, the bike, and the number you ran. Sorry I missed talking to you much, I was gone on Saturday and when I looked for you Sunday afternoon, I think you had already left. Next time we'll have to smuggle you of the track for dinner with TFA!
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posted March 31, 2009 05:54 PM
Edited By: SteveWFL on 1 Apr 2009 01:55
Hi, I hardly ever post over here. I have hardly nothing to add or no business being here except to lurk a tad. But anyway, a guy in another forum was thrilled to meet Doug and maybe Doug will see my post and appreciate his words:
JAYSTENSEC4CYL wrote:
Everyone was so super friendly and helpful it was crazy. I have never met a more laid back and accepting group of strangers in my life!! I freaking met Doug Meyer (sp?)!!! That guy has been in motorcycle magazines as long as I have been reading them!! He has been working with Muzzy's Kawasaki forever. Freaking guy was so laid back and nice, treated me like I was his equal...lol As if!! He was on a very nasty ZX12, that you could not look away from when it was running!!
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whitehendrix
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posted March 31, 2009 06:07 PM
that is an absolute dream.
absolute dream.
wow.. you guys are sooooo lucky!!!!
i'm going to do everything in my power to at LEAST get to maxton in june (i think it was?) and do even more to get to Tx in oct if i can.. might not run, but i'd love to meet the legends and absorb maybe .001% of the infinite wisdom that was probably flowing this time around.
i was stuck setting electrical panels, running conduit, and rebuilding tiny streetbike engines this weekend all in the hopes that i'll be able to afford to get back on the road..
i commend all ya's for just being kick-ass.
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posted April 01, 2009 03:12 PM
Good for you entropy!!
Hey, DM... your impact with this group and myself is beyond words!
Way to go!
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posted April 02, 2009 08:28 AM
Karl,tell us exactly what went wrong and how you guys got together to fix it,it sounds like one of those great racing stories you read about in a magazine...I know Doug wrote briefly about it but can you give us some specifics it sounds like it would be a great read.
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entropy
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posted April 02, 2009 11:58 AM
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Karl,tell us exactly what went wrong and how you guys got together to fix it,it sounds like one of those great racing stories you read about in a magazine...I know Doug wrote briefly about it but can you give us some specifics it sounds like it would be a great read.
wreckshop,
i posted this on another thread
my story:
I got to the Mile with a motor which was tested several times on the dyno, and had a banner leakdown before bringing it to Goliad.
First pass on Fri it died and coasted to the 3/4mi marker ay 9:30am WTF????
When I got back to the pits Dane showed up with some Abita beer which I needed GREATLY, thax man!!
At 10:30 Doug Meyer & I left the track, headed back to Houston to see what we could do in my garage to revive it.
At 2pm we arrived and rolled it on the lift, yanked the motor and saw the most spectacular rod bearing damage (all 4) I have ever seen; the pan was full of black crinkly things, no gold here.
One rod had kicked off it's cap, knocked a cute lil hole in the cases & window in the cyl block. All rod big ends were black, mains in much better shape.
cases, rods, crank, block = junk ( Osti & Mike know exactly what bushes they will end up at)
Luckily head was fine, Doug tested it
sooooo... while Doug did the forensics, i started rooting in my retired parts, normal wear parts, shop supplies collection.
found:
- offset stroker crank semi-retired with chunks outa the starter gear
- rods retired as being suspects in pistons tagging the head (prob innocent)
- 87mm pistons retired with deformed skirts, .0032-.0035 piston to cyl clearance
- cases retired as suspected of being warped
- 87mm offset cyl block with scratches from ingesting sand (was gonna send it to Millennium "someday")
- new sets of rod & main bearings, cam chain, headgasket
Doug transferred trans, shifter stuff, oil stuff, all that stuff from the trashed cases to the replacement, i prepped the new guts.
At 2am we fired it up, loaded bike and tools, quick snooze, headed out for the track at 4:50am.
Arrived back at the track at 8am, did 1st (track was #2) heat cycle, put bike on the grid. Then Osti discovered it was leaking coolant. Doug said "Barr's Leak"!!!! stat !!!!
Emergency call to #1 Son and wife still in Beeville, and 45min later the leak was gone.
Pass # 1 - wouldn't button shift; fiddled with stuff
Pass # 2 - wouldn't button shift, still got a 199.5
Doug fiddled with the Muzzy shifter, pronounced pressure regulator faulty
Osti pulled the one off his bike YAY RYAN!!!!
Pass #3 - 208.740mph WOO_HOOOOOOOOOOOO
Doug took it next and got 208.793mph
Thus Doug has made the fastest pass on a NA Kawasaki that I know of, beat me with my own bike
I gotta say i absolutely could not have done it without Doug Meyer.
He is a fukken garage animal, works non stop, knows where everything goes, checks everything twice.
A true soft spoken gentleman, motor guru, Kawasaki expert sans pareil (sp?)
This was a VERY special weekend for me!
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osti33
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posted April 02, 2009 12:30 PM
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Hi, I hardly ever post over here. I have hardly nothing to add or no business being here except to lurk a tad. But anyway, a guy in another forum was thrilled to meet Doug and maybe Doug will see my post and appreciate his words:
JAYSTENSEC4CYL wrote:
Everyone was so super friendly and helpful it was crazy. I have never met a more laid back and accepting group of strangers in my life!! I freaking met Doug Meyer (sp?)!!! That guy has been in motorcycle magazines as long as I have been reading them!! He has been working with Muzzy's Kawasaki forever. Freaking guy was so laid back and nice, treated me like I was his equal...lol As if!! He was on a very nasty ZX12, that you could not look away from when it was running!!
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osti33
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posted April 02, 2009 12:33 PM
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cases, rods, crank, block = junk ( Osti & Mike know exactly what bushes they will end up at)
This part makes me LMFAO!!!!!!
Not that your parts got busted up. That sucks!
The bushes!!!!!!!! 
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