What did you do to your track/race bike today

When I said I got seat time at the Dragon, this was a new Q2, now with 1340km on it. :)'

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It's not the track, but the cobwebs definitely got swept out, as this was literally my first ride(s) of the year.
 
doozerdave said:
If you adjust the lever to GP shift pattern you'll have no more issues with upshifts. :)
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I just converted mine to GP shift. Probably gonna drop it off to Dave at Competition Cycle for them to figure out how to get a quickshifter sensor on it :)

-Jamie M.
 
Prepped both bikes and the trailer. Ready to go.
 
I bought from and had Raj from http://motorcycletna.com install some R&G fork sliders today!!! $30 INSTALLED, parts AND labour?!?! Insane freakin deal!!!

Thanks again for the awesome service Raj, and CRAZY business hours (check his website), lol.

-Jamie M.
 
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What did I do to my new track bike last night? Flushed the coolant system. It took 16 litres and starting/warming/stopping it like 30 times to get it flushed to the point where I was satisfied with it for now. Still not 100% clean, but I'll run it to clean the last of the grunge. Can anyone tell my how the hell an aluminum cooling system can build up brown, nasty, chunky rust? I bought this bike from my friend and when we got it we flushed the system because it was full of antifreeze. We put in distilled water with water wetter. Now it looked like, well, nastiness. I've never seen any bike do this before. I've run water/wetter for a decade in all my bikes without issues. Even if there was still an air pocket floating around in the system for a few years how could it rust brown with aluminum?
 
my bike did/does the same thing. each time I drain the water or coolant its never ending brown water and sludge. I took the water pump apart over the winter to replace the o ring and it was all.rusty inside. a spare i have is too
 
doozerdave said:
Even if there was still an air pocket floating around in the system for a few years how could it rust brown with aluminum?
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Maybe the distilled water wasn't pure enough and there was still iron in it?
 
kellen said:
my bike did/does the same thing. each time I drain the water or coolant its never ending brown water and sludge. I took the water pump apart over the winter to replace the o ring and it was all.rusty inside. a spare i have is too
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Very strange. I think I'll do several flushes this season and keep an eye on it. Maybe enough flushes will eventually clean out whatever is causing the brown crap. I dunno...
 
Bigevildoer said:
Maybe the distilled water wasn't pure enough and there was still iron in it?
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It's possible I guess. Not sure how you can distill water without distilling it though. Iron doesn't evaporate and condense when boiling the water.
 
My R6 too...same deal. Who needs water wetter when you can use mud....the Fireblade never has that issue though.
 
omnivore said:
My R6 too...same deal. Who needs water wetter when you can use mud....the Fireblade never has that issue though.
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For reference, mine's a 2007 zx-6r. My old CBR and the SV never had issues. Maybe new bikes use the new iron aluminum. haha...
 
The people that sell Motul's MoCool claim that the Redline Water Wetter does not have any protectants and the water will always go goopy brown. Of course they also say that their MoCool has protectants and works so much better.............
 
Lowered the fork tubes down, now they are flush with the clamps on the tripple, so the front was raised 5 mm. I suspect the much taller race slick in the rear was a partial cause for some of my handling problems at the last track day.
 
What is the best way to actually flush the coolant?
Bike came with water/water wetter and all I did was drain it and refill with coolant for storage.
I'll be swapping out the coolant this weekend and I'm wondering what's the right procedure?
I was just going to drain and refill again.
 
i just drain it out the water pump. leave the plug out and run the hose or a few pitchers of water through. if its really gunky like mine usually is, fill it with water, run to temp, drain, repeat.
 
I used distilled water this time rather than de-ionized filtered. I guess we'll see.
 
Corsara said:
Lowered the fork tubes down, now they are flush with the clamps on the tripple, so the front was raised 5 mm. I suspect the much taller race slick in the rear was a partial cause for some of my handling problems at the last track day.
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my front is dropped 1/2'' helps with wheelies, and turns in way faster
 
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