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.
I've read a lot of the old threads about dry swapping an 848, and the idea of swapping a 1x98 clutch in always comes up, but I've never seen it done. Just going off the parts diagrams it looks like you'd need a clutch rod, clutch assm, 1100 primary gearset, clutch cover, trans input shaft, plus...
Morning All,
Had this problem for a while now, my tacho seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes on startup it idles at 5000rpm (well, that's what the tacho tells me), othertimes there is no reading at all, then it jumps to life. Occasionally when cruising it just bounces, say from 4k to 5k...
Hey guys,
I recently went on a trip from Sydney to Melbourne, and on the second day I first noticed some terrible stumbling issues when in either 5th or 6th gear, rolling on from around 3500-4000rpm. At first, I thought it was bad fuel and tried my best to run it down and dilute it with more...
I have a pair of 5 spoke mag wheels for my track bike that need to be stripped, inspected, and assuming all is well, coated. Any and all recommendations appreciated. If you have first hand experience with them, all the better and please let me know that detail. Thanks in advance.
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...
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