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Back to tire topic, took some photos of the track bike tires... front is even wear but rear is a bit off. Need to play with rebound damping and up the compression damping according to Dave Moss (scalloping on rear edge of tread).

If you're up in the air on going, still vote. I should be good for either of the 2 days.

It's a 3 year old leftover. They want to cut their losses and clear room for newer bikes on their floor that will sell quickly and give them some kind of profit.

Forks set 5mm below old height to reduce trail a bit on the duc. Wrenching on god damn clipon bars trying to figure out why the throttle bar is not 7/8" but is in fact 7/8.1" so it won't fit in the clipon. New gold bars on the way to replace anyway... Need to welt borked fairing bracket... Need to put 1mm spacers on front calipers to move then in a bit... Need new fuel line that works on 100+ octane fuel... Going up to check out what spare parts the guy who raced this bike has tomorrow, hopefully I won't end up in his meat freezer. What a borked fairing bracket may look like:

I didnt request any specific cabin when I booked ours. The lady knew about our group when I brought it up so I assumed the cabins would be somewhat close together... I can call and see I suppose.

holy hell that thing is light.

wellp, been nice knowing you Tonik.

You better be on Blue for the spring epic ride.

Assploder assploded eh? And Tim doesn't want the SV, he wants a street triple 765.

Interesting fact - back in the early days of powered flight (WW1) and rotary-engine aircraft, the gyroscopic effect caused by most of the engine rotating at high speed would cause pitch/yaw to be affected without direct input from the pilot. This caused a good number of novice pilots to lose control and crash, resulting in the eventual move away from the rotary engine.

Make a dank whoolie video on one of these and I'll be impressed.

@Tpoppa can tell you all about the Gladius.

If you hit a turtle mid-corner, you're going to have a bad day. But that's true for pretty much anything. Except for a beautiful gravel beach, as @Isaac's Papa has shown us.

The even wear on the triumph probably comes from following you on the fall trip. I'll admit I started actively trail braking on the street last spring and it's now become habit. You and Tony are correct though, setting entry speed before gives a slightly larger margin of error in case of gravel/debris/turtle.

Figured as much. My track bike's front and rear are cupping after just 1 day. Running Q3's at 32/33 on that bike. Was hoping to get more life out of them on the track than 2 or 3 days but it doesn't seem likely. May try Bridgestones next as it was what the previous owner was running, S21's. Will fit rear without chain rub too. Profile is about 2mm too wide on the Dunlops :/

If I'm around, I'm in. Won't know until we figure out a date.

Makes me wonder what tire wear differences you'd see between someone who brakes before entry and someone who trail brakes. My front on the triumph (about 3000 miles on it) has even wear, the rear however is cupping a tiny bit. I have been running 36psi cold on PP3's front and rear. The cupping on the rear was from the fall gap trip (new rear mounted right before trip).

You are about 0.5 tims though as far as the bike is concerned.

It's a buddy's rally car shop. He's nice enough to let me use a bit of it to work on the track bike.

productive day. she isn't 100% back together (996 clipons are too small for my current bars, need to get them milled out a bit), but she's close.

The company I work for runs every event in the convention center.

No out of town stuff yet on the calendar that conflicts. Will get down there when I can. Might meet you down on a vendor day if that's what you end up doing, Tim.

I wonder if the FZ-09's patented auto-loop technology voids warranty like launch control does in the GTR.

makes sense, decide to unload it instead of going through the rigamaroll of getting a rebuild title + the few extra pieces it still needs.