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I successfuly scared the CRAP out of myself on Saturday.
Draco,
Great run, why did it scare you..?
John
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I successfuly scared the CRAP out of myself on Saturday.
Hey it was a blast meeting you, you are a smart mofo...wish you lived closer sure we could make a monster. I was trying to have fun admist the stress, next time I and the bike will be better prepared. Nice pic!Greg,
Congrats on Deans 232 mph pass. Nicely built bike. Very nice meeting you.
My only questions is, if you didn't ride your own bike.....does that mean your runs don't count...
so here's my update. I'll post more later because I've got a ton of work to get done this week. I’ll post some pics later as well.
It was an unbelievable event! Saturday was more like trial runs for many. Sunday was the day. The conditions were nice n cool with the best tail wind you could ever hope for. Just about everyone I know bested there pre-Loring speeds by 10 or so mph.
I had finally gotten a stock clutch assembly borrowed from a good friend on Wednesday night. I had to find enough disks and fibers that were in decent enough shape to build the clutch pack. At 02:30 Thursday morning I had it all together in the bike. I wanted to be out the door by 06:00 but I over slept and we left a little late.
Once at the track on Friday morning we unloaded the bike and fired it up. It was running fine and the clutch worked. Tech was next and that went fine. I just rode the bike at low speeds down the runway to see how the track felt and get acclimated where everything was. At a low speed the finish line is that much further away. The shut down is even longer and the trip back to the pits is more than 2 miles away. For any Bonne folks this is a laugh since they're return ride is so much longer. Everything seemed fine with the bike and Saturdays first run has to be kept in the 175mph range so I figured it'll be a good opportunity to feel the bike out with the stock clutch and in the event of a catastrophic failure I would be a little more prepared for it.
Saturday morning I went for my run and my bike was completely blowing through the clutch. As soon as I would lay into the throttle the clutch couldn’t get the power down to the wheel. There was no reason to to fry this clutch so I coasted through the traps somewhere in the 1-teen range.
Back at the pits, a buddy of mine Todd had a set of new Barnet springs he passed along to me. I swapped three of these stiffer springs in and was ready to give it another go. Unfortunately my bike had other ideas. My bike just wouldn’t start. This really frustrated me since the only thing I did was make a mechanical change to the clutch which has no bearing as far as the engine starting.
Since it had to be an electrical problem the last resort was to disconnect every sensor that feeds into my logger. Problem solved and the bike fired up no problem. I took it for a slow ride through the pit area and the clutch felt a lot better too.
Up at the start line, ready to go and at around 3200 rpm the engine keeps cutting out for a millisecond or so. Just long enough for it to fall flat on its face and then come back on power and try and buck me off. Thinking about it I think I might have good possibilities at being a rodeo bronco rider. Lol
So I couldn’t get the engine to go past 32-3400 rpm. I tried in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th to get past that rpm in case it was some way GPS related but it just wasn’t working. I shifted into 6th and just rolled through the traps at around 3k rpm with a speed in the 120’s. I was pretty frustrated at this point and decided to hang things up and just concentrate on helping others at the event.
Didn’t know Greg was planning on going to the event. I was talking to the cheeseman and he did say that Greg took the time to introduce himself and to try and settle their differences. I did here that someone had a turboed 14 that had boost leaks every where but I never did put 2 and 2 together.
All in all I was just thrilled to be at this first event. I think everyone I know set a personal best at this event. Hands down, for pavement land speed racing, I would say Loring is the place to be.
I wanted to meet Draco but without name tags on everyone it would have been difficult to figure out who is who. I have commuta-busa written on my wind screen so I'm easy to spot. I didn't see any busa with Draco on it so I was out of luck trying to discover him in that manor. There were more than a few orange and black Gen 2's around and I wasn't about to walk up to each rider asking "are you Draco"? Maybe we'll meet in Sept. at Maxton.
1st pic... from the start line
2nd pic... from the finish line
it's so far away all you can see is the mirage off the pavement.
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Very nice, you guys gotta be proud~!~
Draco,
Great run, why did it scare you..?
John
Nice Video. We tried to get one on the 265mph pass but the camera would cooperate with us!
We tried to get one on the 265mph pass but the camera would cooperate with us!