Wearing her street clothes, at Hallett Motorsports Park near Tulsa, OK on 9/7/08. My first track day. My form needs a little work, and my knee puck velcro on my pants needs to be moved lower on my leg...
Doing some 'outside only' passing:
Here's a guy having not-so-much fun right in front of me:
You don't want hard stuff, its too brittle. The stuff you want is similar to shark skinz, which is a bit more flexible. I'm always shocked how flexible the shark skinz are, compared with E-racings or DP for example. I have a friend with DP fairings and its hard to stretch them onto his bike, he couldn't use extended frame sliders because the fairing simply wouldn't stretch.
As somebody else pointed out in a previous post, shark skins are pricey because they're the best. If you don't need or want the best, save money, get the E-Racings, they're STUPID cheap and for the price of 1 set of shark skins you can get two! This way, when you crash, you've got a spare set waiting! Its what I'm gonna end up doing...
OMG, I wanna go to new hampshire international speedway SOOOO badly! I was there this summer for a race event, sans motorcycle!!! AAK!!! I was so pissed off, I wanted to race so badly! I didn't have any of my gear, or I would have just rented a bike...
OMG, I wanna go to new hampshire international speedway SOOOO badly! I was there this summer for a race event, sans motorcycle!!! AAK!!! I was so pissed off, I wanted to race so badly! I didn't have any of my gear, or I would have just rented a bike...
I've been thinking about a WERA tour for a while. A track day wouldn't mean enough, racing on the track, would be worth while. I know somebody who wasn't a good rider, but one the WERA championship because he showed up to every single race! Its gonna take me another year of riding to become fast enough for a stunt like that. I'm seriously debating buying an RV and working from the road for a year! WOW, what a hoot that would be!
You don't want hard stuff, its too brittle. The stuff you want is similar to shark skinz, which is a bit more flexible. I'm always shocked how flexible the shark skinz are, compared with E-racings or DP for example. I have a friend with DP fairings and its hard to stretch them onto his bike, he couldn't use extended frame sliders because the fairing simply wouldn't stretch.
As somebody else pointed out in a previous post, shark skins are pricey because they're the best. If you don't need or want the best, save money, get the E-Racings, they're STUPID cheap and for the price of 1 set of shark skins you can get two! This way, when you crash, you've got a spare set waiting! Its what I'm gonna end up doing...
Hard and expensive! At least with Shark Skins, they're made in the US, so your not having to pay for import taxes and such. If you had a xx8 bike, I'd say, find a nice used set of REAL carbon fiber DP fairings, they're schweet! But the xx9 and newer, its much nicer to have the shark skinz due to the design and flexibility.
Hello all,
The bike is a 996 with 1000DS motor in it, I bought the bike "as-is" and the previous build work was done by a reputable mechanic.
The steering is notchy and the steering head bearings need to be replaced.
I have the top triple off but I can't seem to get the steering stem nut...
Hi all, thought I'd share a new project I've started, rebuilding a crashed 998.
It was in pretty sad shape, not a major crash, but damage all round. Frame, forks and swingarm straight. No holes in crank case but...
- All fairings and tank damaged
- some sub frame damage
- most controls...
SO... bit of a problem discovered after unwrapping two Superbike forks from long storage. In the darkest chapters and verse of Murphy's Laws and Corollaries, Volume 3, there exists the clause:
"When said event gone wrong is left unmitigated, whether through malfeasance, tort or gross...
Went out on a beautiful day here riding my 03 999R. I got home and eyeballed a hairline crack in the triple tree. The tree is clamped by on by one hex bolt that I could see. I removed the tree once about nine years ago to install woodcraft raised clipons.
The way the triple tree is secured...
Hi all. First time Ducati owner after trading my 2007 R6 for a 2004 999 Biposto last weekend. It has roughly 26.4k miles on it, and the previous owner claimed that at 24k mi the engine was fully rebuilt, which was also roughly 3 years ago. He claims he hadn't done any maintenance to it since...
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