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I was paranoid about my engine blowing up the whole time I was there, as well as water getting sucked into the intake (which actually became a problem). No more engine troubles though after replacing the old head with a stock one. Sadly the ported head was causing detonation, even on the coldest plug and 104 gas with -8 degree spark - so pretty much it was not fixable without a new head.

It was fine on the dragon but I wouldn't want to ride it on any roads that aren't really tight twisties, would get bored fast.

Yeah longevity is my biggest concern with the Q4s. I know I'd get more life out of an SC2 or 3 rear for about the same cost per tire.

I did learn that the CBR is gentle enough on rears that I should be able to get 3 or so days out of a Q4 rear, at least at Mid-O. More abrasive tracks, I don't know. Want to try SC slicks next to compare, though I doubt I'll feel much difference where I'm at, which says a lot for the Q4s.

Yeah it's a monster. He blew my doors off at about every section of the track that he wanted. 90ftlbs of torque means you go fast whenever you want to go fast.

the grom's not fun unless it's on a track

was a great day out there today, besides getting shit on by jake's new GSXR. fuck that bike and its 180rwhp.

broke in the new Q4s at the track. pretty phenomenal tire.

you could show up and crash the ride. maybe there will be someone else there to crash the party as well and you can be bestest buds 🤷‍♂️

**freshly rebuilt top-end grom! what a disaster the port job on the old head was 😐

Crashing sucks, glad you and the bike are ok.

You've just opened yourself up to untold harassment. UNTOLD. I'll be putting around on my grey grom with 802 number plates on it.

you forgot your chrome spray before the race so you weren't juiced enough. WITNESS ME

Behold, the pain train behind someone who parks it in every corner but swoops across the entire track on every entry and exit -- and is a rocket ship on every straight. The final boss for any rider over 230lbs.

He keeps saying Monday but he means Tuesday. I may go Tuesday but I don't know yet. I have no certs. Duct tape boots pass tech right?

going to vintage sat/sun, then maybe trackday tuesday 7/9.

We are out at Pitt racing minis this weekend. Saturday 4pm-8pm is practice, Sunday morning/day is racing. Bring him by.

no excuse from the usual Pitt crowd for not swinging by and having some fun this time I think.

I'll be there on the 29th/30th for mini's! If the stars align I may have time for a big bike day there later this year. Not sure yet though.

Hope to make it to Pitt someday... I pussed out this weekend because of weather. No racing for me :<

We tried using fedex to ship some gear down to Jacksonville earlier this spring - it got there ok, the job happened and it came time to load the gear back on the fedex truck and ship it back to Ohio (we had another full semi trailer full of gear along with the fedex truck). Well, we get a call an hour after the truck is supposed to be on the loading dock telling us that the "truck is too big to fit in Jacksonville so it won't be arriving." Ok? the same truck that was parked at the dock the day before has now somehow grown too large to enter a city. cool. Also, they won't give us the contact info for the driver to tell him how to get the truck to the building we are in. Seems fishy, we were trying to figure out the reasoning behind this, only thing we could guess was that the driver was unreachable/out of hours or drunk and they didn't want us to know any details. "Hey that's great, do you have another truck that CAN drive into Jacksonville?" "No, but we can try to get something to you within a day or two for the pickup!" Meanwhile our flight leaves at 7am the next morning (8pm at this point, the original time we were supposed to be done), and we need to have all the gear out of the building by midnight or our client gets charged a bunch of extra money. We ended up voiding out contract with them and packing 2 trucks worth of shit onto one truck. Every single axle was within 300lbs of being overweight, one was 50lbs under. It took what should have been a 1 hour truck pack for 8 people about 6 hours. Not to mention we lost 4 people about halfway through because they had a hard out at 9pm. Thanks fedex.

Forecast will probably change before Monday/Tuesday. With rain possible I doubt they will be anywhere close to full, you could probably just walk up day-of if the weather turns around.

Was good to see you, buddy.

fake, no bears.

Suspiciously it's MY grom that's missing from that trailer. Jacob... is the wheelieometer going to be reading higher than when I left it when I look at it next?