Tuesday 12 August 2014

Coming up soon .....

Just over a week  till the 4th round in the ACU championship - the Open Sport Nationals at Shakespeare county raceway.
No entry list as yet, or at least - i can't find one anywhere. It's a 3 day meeting this one and a bank holiday too! I'm waiting on a back tyre arriving before then, not much 'tread' as it were, left on mine. We use the car version of the Mickey Thompson 10" tyre as the only apparent difference is 3lbs of weight (more rubber) and about 50 more runs. Or at least that's the difference according to stories on the internet, whos estimates for the life of the bike version are something in the region of 8-10 runs apparently.
I've only bought 2 tyres in the 5 and a bit years I've been running this bike, so probably 60 or 70 runs out of a tyre.

I gave the bike a good check over and service at the weekend. Doing an oil change, valve clearances, epoxy checks, clutch etc. I modified a nitrous ramp for the controller too. An experiment really - pulling nitrous out at the same time as a lean spike on our wideband log. Only a bit, but if it works it would show up on the graph if i overlay a couple of old runs on top of it. If it makes any difference it'll make it pretty simple to lose it altogether.


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