Monday, June 14, 2010

Raced with CCS on May 28-31st race weekend. Quick updates.

CCS UPDATE May 28
Engine on the new bike blew while control riding. I only put 6 miles on it and it blew. MRP Motorsports did the work and the previous owner had a $3500 receipt for the engine work. I put 6 miles on it before it popped. I wasn't even racing WTF!

Spoke with the engine builder and my assumption was that he was going to take care of it, but instead I find out that he wants to charge me $1700 to fix it.

During the CCS Race weekend, I had to run my old bike that has 104hp and I was able to run a 18.4 at Summit and came home with 5 3rds, 1 1st, and 3 4th.

WERA UPDATE JUNE 12
Decided to race WERA June 12th to make some $$$ or break even but instead I was having mechanical problems, I had 0 engine braking going into T1 and T5. After 6 laps in the MW SOLO race I had to pit in. I ran a 19.7 on the 2nd lap and I actually went through T4 14mph faster than usual. MW SOLO DNF, HW SOLO DNS. FML $370 down the drain, 1st race weekend I've had that I've come home w/o making any $.

BIKE UPDATE 6/13
Once again big thanks to Gus for all the help he has provided me since I 've started racing. Without him I wouldn't be racing at the moment.

Sunday am we decided to work on the bikes, I showed up at his house by 7am and we dropped the engine out of the C Bike. The A bike currently does not have a engine, has crappy suspension etc... After we dropped the engine out of the C Bike, we went to the B bike and checked the clutch/friction plates to see if they were within spec, it seems that they were way out of spec. We replaced them with a new set to see if it fixes the no engine braking problem I was having. We removed the 25mm kit and TTX off the B bike and replaced it with my 20mm kit and my Penske Triple Clicker. On the A bike we removed the crap and replaced it with the 25mm and the TTX and now we have to finish installing the engine.

Hopefully we can get the bike dyno and ready for VIR. I will be extremely busy for the next weeks. Racing at VIR on the 19th with CCS, the week after that racing at Lightning on the 26th with CCS, the week after that back at home racing at Summit Main on July 4th with CCS.

Big thanks to RNR Cycles, Gus, DC-Moto 785graphics, Pitbull, Shoei, Michelin

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