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Lets see your track bikes!!!!!!!!

Dont care about sparky knee pucks. Wouldn't waste any more money on sparks then i need too :)

The camera was facing me, but its really WAY WAY TOO shakey to even watch
 
casacrow said:
Bolted together a new toy. Paint scheme might look familiar to some.
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Sic!
 
Holy **** xtina! Good job chicky!

Now come play at on the east side of Toronto

Gonna have to step up my game. Duct tape seating is brilliant
 
Mina said:
As far as I know, they're actually not allowed at most tracks?
I could be wrong though, I just remember reading about it here a while ago.
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Funnily enough I don't see sparky sliders named and banned per se. More frowned upon, probably a general rule violation and EXTREMELY distracting to your fellow rider. Chances are you'd get to use them for one session before you got a complaint.

I used them at Mid O and showered my mate with sparks who was behind me. I also used them for a session at 'bogie and was then told to lose them by the track day organiser. I think they're one of those things the wearer thinks is cool. Whereas everyone else on track thinks you're a ********.
 
Fiery254 said:
Yep, there's no hiding with a bike like that. I'm intrigued to see the matching leathers.
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No matching leathers though they follow the theme of the bodily fluid bike with the brown, yellow, white (tehe) and the suit has red in it.
 
meme said:
Holy **** xtina! Good job chicky!

Now come play at on the east side of Toronto

Gonna have to step up my game. Duct tape seating is brilliant
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Lol thanks. The seat is fabric, but I bought matching duct tape to fix it when I dump it.
 
HBHarrison said:
The camera was facing me, but its really WAY WAY TOO shakey to even watch
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Ahhh. My rear mount is set up so I can mount it either way, haven't tried facing it at me yet so everyone can see my awesome body position ;) The mount is rock solid though, my china cowl cover presses hard on the rear tail bodywork (yay for paint rubs :(), against the subframe, so I think that's why my rear bodywork is so stable :) At idle it's a little shaky, but at speed she's good to go.

[video=youtube;y9gfxv6d8xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9gfxv6d8xk[/video]

-Jamie M.
 
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toysareforboys said:
Ahhh. My rear mount is set up so I can mount it either way, haven't tried facing it at me yet so everyone can see my awesome body position ;) The mount is rock solid though, my china cowl cover presses hard on the rear tail bodywork (yay for paint rubs :(), against the subframe, so I think that's why my rear bodywork is so stable :) At idle it's a little shaky, but at speed she's good to go.

[video=youtube;y9gfxv6d8xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9gfxv6d8xk[/video]

-Jamie M.
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Why is your gps facing the wrong way?
 
RockerGuy said:
Why is your gps facing the wrong way?
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What do you mean "wrong" lol. I find in "portrait" mode it's WAY better because you can see the streets way further ahead! You can see two, three, four streets ahead even zoomed in enough for it to display all the names :) In normal/landscape mode the corners of the GPS cradle barely touch the airbox cover at full lock, so I didn't want it scuffing the paint so I just tried it in portrait mode and fell in love :) I could add a spacer underneath the cradle if I ever wanted to run it in landscape mode.

-Jamie M.
 
Fiery254 said:
Funnily enough I don't see sparky sliders named and banned per se. More frowned upon, probably a general rule violation and EXTREMELY distracting to your fellow rider. Chances are you'd get to use them for one session before you got a complaint.

I used them at Mid O and showered my mate with sparks who was behind me. I also used them for a session at 'bogie and was then told to lose them by the track day organiser. I think they're one of those things the wearer thinks is cool. Whereas everyone else on track thinks you're a ********.
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I don't recall ever seeing track day tech rules that disallow them, but SOAR certainly doesn't permit them.
 
YellowDuck said:
I don't recall ever seeing track day tech rules that disallow them, but SOAR certainly doesn't permit them.
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Some track days don't allow sparklies. SOAR or any decent race organization wouldn't allow them either.

Btw... sparklies are ghey.
 
Mina said:
As far as I know, they're actually not allowed at most tracks?
I could be wrong though, I just remember reading about it here a while ago.
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Its a black flag at bogie'

As it should be, ever ride behind someone with them? Super distracting, extreemly pointless and all around dooo-shea.
 
toysareforboys said:
What do you mean "wrong" lol. I find in "portrait" mode it's WAY better because you can see the streets way further ahead! You can see two, three, four streets ahead even zoomed in enough for it to display all the names :) In normal/landscape mode the corners of the GPS cradle barely touch the airbox cover at full lock, so I didn't want it scuffing the paint so I just tried it in portrait mode and fell in love :) I could add a spacer underneath the cradle if I ever wanted to run it in landscape mode.

-Jamie M.
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I need to give it a try
 


Fresh from a winter makeover that involved taking pretty much everything apart except the engine.

New Dymag wheels, 17 x 3.5 front, 17 x 4.5 rear, built to my specs - intended to be a direct drop in replacement for the stock wheels, which are now impossible to find good tires for. Same axle dimensions, same brake rotor attachment dimensions.

New Bridgestone slicks from RIPP Racing, 125 and 165 widths. Same sizes that 250GP uses.

New Braketech cast iron brake rotors and Ferodo Platinum brake pads from Bluestreak.

New Woodcraft handlebars, brake lever guard, and rear sprocket guard from Bluestreak. Some of this is due to new tech requirements at SOAR, but the new handlebars is so that I can now use the same style of handlebars that practically everyone in the paddock uses, just in case. New grips, too, because the original ones were shot.

New Armour Bodies bodywork - but with my old tail section, because the one that came with the Armour Bodies is not even remotely close to correct for this bike.

New paint job from TJ at Reflections Auto Refinishing in Niagara Falls, a.k.a. carboncat on this forum.

Hand fabricated brake caliper relocation brackets with the finishing done by Trevor Daley at OneSpeed Chop Shop in Mississauga, who also TIG welded new rear stand spools on the stock swingarm so that I can now use the same style of rear stand that everyone else uses.

Suspension work - helped out by Brad Clarke - Compulsion Racing.

This is on top of some other miscellaneous bits, like a Shorai lightweight battery (from Glen at Flying Squirrel) and a new, modern Shindengen MOSFET voltage regulator to keep it properly charged. Goodbye and good riddance to the stock FZR voltage regulator. The battery is sitting at 14.4 volts right now ... fully charged, indicating that all is well.

When I had the bike apart, I also stripped down the subframe, bent it back closer to the shape that it's supposed to be (there is a cartwheel crash somewhere in that subframe's history, although I didn't do it), fabricated and welded on a new bracket to properly hold the reservoir for the rear shock (no more hose clamp), and fabricated a new attachment bracket for the new voltage regulator, and painted the subframe, so it is all neat and tidy back there.

What's it weigh? Right now, "not much" is the only way I can answer that. Haven't checked.
 
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^^^ so that was you. I was on the black zx6, my buddy Dave on the green zx6. Was that you riding back and forth in the pits? What were you doing ?
 
Breaking in new brake rotors! They come with a coating on them that you have to scrub off using the old brake pads, then after most of the coating is off, you install new pads that are meant to work with cast iron rotors ... and that's where the trouble started. It turns out that the calipers were not precisely centered on the rotors (because a certain spacer wasn't fabricated exactly to spec!) and the new pads - which are thicker than the OEM pads! - did not have enough clearance. I did 3 laps on the bike, but there was excessive drag from the front end, so I called it a day. The situation is now fixed.
 
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