Not too much to say right now, I now have 2 R6's to race. Been going broke buying new parts for the race bikes. FML
Friday, May 21, 2010
New updates
Not too much to say right now, I now have 2 R6's to race. Been going broke buying new parts for the race bikes. FML
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Crazy race weekend. CCS NJMP Tbolt May 1-2
What a hectic crazy weekend.
Arrived to NJMP Thursday night, unpacked and got everything ready. I had been nervous the entire week because my lap times were not great at all. The week before I had a mechanical issue with my R6 that caused me to lock the front brakes and tuck the front end.
My best time that week was only a 1:37, in my opinion it was not fast enough to run with the front runners to finish top 5.
Friday practice I was only able to get 2-3 sessions in until my bike died on my during practice. I thought it was a battery issue, so we let the battery charge overnight and replaced the rectifier.
Saturday I had signed up for 2 races the GTU race and the MW GP race. In the GTU race I was gridded front row, going into the 5th lap, my quickshifter stopped working, check engine light came on, bike was losing power so I decided to pit in. Ended up getting 41/43. My 2nd race was only 3 races after, my friend Donald let me borrow his R6, I switched my tires over and bodywork, went through tech. Gridded front row again, in this race I felt ok I was getting used to the bike, I noticed the brakes didn't bite as hard as mine did. Towards the end of the race as I 'm getting ready to pass someone a checkered flag gets thrown out, on the way into pits another checkered flag gets thrown out wtf was going on. We went to go see the results and officials stated that the entire front row had jumped the start
. Instead of getting 5th place I ended up getting 30/40, within a few minutes we tried to protest the scoring and after going back and forth between officials we were told to suck it up and results stand as they are. I ran a 33 on Donalds bike.
At the end of Saturday night I started to take my R6 apart to check the stator, after removing the stator cover I noticed my stator had been burnt. FML, not having a bike for Sunday.
Sunday came along texted Gus(600killer) and he told me to ride his bike. Took my Michelins off my R6 and his slicks of his bike and got them swapped, teched, etc.. Missed 1st practice, 2nd practice came around and I was ready to go. Let's just say I've been spoiled with a slipper clutch. Coming down the straight away braking for turn 1 I hear and feel chatter and the whole time I'm thinking to myself its the front forks bottoming out, but then I figured out that the bike did not have a slipper. I was running 39's with Gus' bike and I did not feel comfortable on it. I had bought a 5 gallon of MR12 to run on my R6 and I was debating if I needed to use it on Gus' bike, but at the end I sucked it up and ran the pump gas thinking I wasn't going to do good and finish top 5 or podium.
Race time
Unlimited SS there were 2 red flags issued and Nate Kern has a pretty bad wrecked. They decided to run UNL SS at the end of the day after the UNL SBK race. HW SS race 5/31, MW SS 4/44, HW SB 4/13, MW SB 3/31, UNL SB 1/11, UNL SS 2/10. Ever since I've started doing the Team Challenge races and the GTU races I can ride forever w/o getting too tired. On Gus' bike I was able to run 31's
Overall weekend, I had a blast. Big thanks to: RNR Cycles, DC-Moto, 600Killer(for borrowing his bike), Lucky, Zoli, Donald, Julian, Tim, Justin, Trackdaycustoms.com, and to anyone else that I might of forgot.
Good times racing with: Drew, Nick, Julian, Gus, Derek, Dan, etc...
Arrived to NJMP Thursday night, unpacked and got everything ready. I had been nervous the entire week because my lap times were not great at all. The week before I had a mechanical issue with my R6 that caused me to lock the front brakes and tuck the front end.
My best time that week was only a 1:37, in my opinion it was not fast enough to run with the front runners to finish top 5.
Friday practice I was only able to get 2-3 sessions in until my bike died on my during practice. I thought it was a battery issue, so we let the battery charge overnight and replaced the rectifier.
Saturday I had signed up for 2 races the GTU race and the MW GP race. In the GTU race I was gridded front row, going into the 5th lap, my quickshifter stopped working, check engine light came on, bike was losing power so I decided to pit in. Ended up getting 41/43. My 2nd race was only 3 races after, my friend Donald let me borrow his R6, I switched my tires over and bodywork, went through tech. Gridded front row again, in this race I felt ok I was getting used to the bike, I noticed the brakes didn't bite as hard as mine did. Towards the end of the race as I 'm getting ready to pass someone a checkered flag gets thrown out, on the way into pits another checkered flag gets thrown out wtf was going on. We went to go see the results and officials stated that the entire front row had jumped the start
. Instead of getting 5th place I ended up getting 30/40, within a few minutes we tried to protest the scoring and after going back and forth between officials we were told to suck it up and results stand as they are. I ran a 33 on Donalds bike.
At the end of Saturday night I started to take my R6 apart to check the stator, after removing the stator cover I noticed my stator had been burnt. FML, not having a bike for Sunday.
Sunday came along texted Gus(600killer) and he told me to ride his bike. Took my Michelins off my R6 and his slicks of his bike and got them swapped, teched, etc.. Missed 1st practice, 2nd practice came around and I was ready to go. Let's just say I've been spoiled with a slipper clutch. Coming down the straight away braking for turn 1 I hear and feel chatter and the whole time I'm thinking to myself its the front forks bottoming out, but then I figured out that the bike did not have a slipper. I was running 39's with Gus' bike and I did not feel comfortable on it. I had bought a 5 gallon of MR12 to run on my R6 and I was debating if I needed to use it on Gus' bike, but at the end I sucked it up and ran the pump gas thinking I wasn't going to do good and finish top 5 or podium.
Race time
Unlimited SS there were 2 red flags issued and Nate Kern has a pretty bad wrecked. They decided to run UNL SS at the end of the day after the UNL SBK race. HW SS race 5/31, MW SS 4/44, HW SB 4/13, MW SB 3/31, UNL SB 1/11, UNL SS 2/10. Ever since I've started doing the Team Challenge races and the GTU races I can ride forever w/o getting too tired. On Gus' bike I was able to run 31's
Overall weekend, I had a blast. Big thanks to: RNR Cycles, DC-Moto, 600Killer(for borrowing his bike), Lucky, Zoli, Donald, Julian, Tim, Justin, Trackdaycustoms.com, and to anyone else that I might of forgot.
Good times racing with: Drew, Nick, Julian, Gus, Derek, Dan, etc...
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