What did you do to your track/race bike today

The balancer isn't that expensive, and the stepped cones should make life easier. I will break even this year on the changer but should be in the money next year in terms of costs.

NICE!! What sprockets did you get??
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A 43 and 44 tooth rear for the 1000. Currently it's got a 45 but I am running out of RPMs around 280km/h with at least a couple seconds of straight to go, though I like the overall feel of the setup. I am going to try the 43 as well to see if it will let me use 2nd more effectively in areas I'm using 3rd now.

And do you ever balance the rear, or just the front?
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Both for the street bikes. Probably both for the track bikes too, just because i'm retentive.
 
Shaman said:
A 43 and 44 tooth rear for the 1000. Currently it's got a 45 but I am running out of RPMs around 280km/h with at least a couple seconds of straight to go, though I like the overall feel of the setup. I am going to try the 43 as well to see if it will let me use 2nd more effectively in areas I'm using 3rd now.
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What do you run in front? I installed -1/+3 on my 1000 (16/45) with the hope to shift more than never at TMP, but I'm thinking whether I should get me a smaller rear to carry with me and switch if I find it too brutal.
 
Corsara said:
What do you run in front? I installed -1/+3 on my 1000 (16/45) with the hope to shift more than never at TMP, but I'm thinking whether I should get me a smaller rear to carry with me and switch if I find it too brutal.
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-1 on the front sprocket. However, stock rear sprocket on that bike is 43 tooth. It has enough power that I'm not concerned about it. More to the point, really, I think it needs more gear to be faster as I can't use second effectively a lot of the times where I'd like to. Of course it ALL depends on how I'm riding that day...

Hrm. Well. I just went on to gearingcommander.com and discovered I made a mistake by not listing the tire as 200/55, I had it listed as 200/50.

Seems I was topping out a bit under 290 at Calabogie. My bad. :lol: I guess that explains why I kept blitzing past the guy at 'bogie that made a point of coming over to tell me how much faster his ZX-10R was on the back straight, than everything else at the track.
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I think that -1/+1 is probably where I am going to end up. That gives me a 295km/h top speed at 13,000 RPM which I might use at Calabogie or Mosport. Bear in mind that this bike (with fresh fuel anyways) is somewhere around 185whp. Not very comparable in several ways to a stock 2003 setup, not the least of which is that the motor makes its peak power about 2,000 RPM higher.
 
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TomC said:
nobody ever said riders had to get the blingiest paint job in the world with ohlins superbike forks and autoblippers up the ying yang.

You could just buy a bike and ride it.
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That is what I did last year and had a chain come off in the middle of the back straight at Grand Bend, then had to take the drive of shame on the back of Ken's truck to pit lane, lucky I didn't kill myself.

This year I feel a lot better, I know my bike is as save as it can be with new parts.

A steering Damper is needed for safety, tires you need for safety, Fixed plastics you need so pieces don't fall off while you ride and so you can pass inspection which I hardly did last year when I just bought a bike and rode it. You also need a trailer and a hitch and I I think going out on track without tire warmers is not smart, I did it so i know (a whole other topic already discussed) on and on..... Painting the bike was one of the cheapest things I did thanks to Carbon cat.

I don't have an autoblipper and never will.

Even after you just buy a bike and ride it, that is great for the first and maybe even second year, but then you want more, so the shopping list starts to increase.

I am lucky I have support from Competition Cycle, I can just imagine if I didn't. If there is someone that supports the local race scene is Dave among others
 
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Statement wasn't aimed at you...as I know you don't have an autoblipper :P

well, its just funny no one really mentions what makes us broke...which are the trackday/org fees, and TIRES, and gas/lodge/time, and repairs - true operational costs.

Everything else are just nice-ities or nice-to-haves, and also usually recoverable costs.With trailers, parts etc, you can usually make your money back once you sell it, assuming its been maintained properly.

Also, I'd just buy a bike already set up the way I want it to be. I know there are others that like customizing and doing it themselves, but I just don't get the complainers that talk about being broke when there was a choice not to go that route. Complain about tires, gas, instruction, race/track fees burning a hole in your wallet? Sure why not, because they are unavoidable costs after all.
 
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dricked said:
Because we don't know what a set of chain and sprockets looks like? I'd rather look at a map of TMP.
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Some are prettier than others ;)

-Jamie M.
 
I installed my spare gas tank today, which I painted black. Well...i tried to install it: moved pump, cap, everything. When I proceeded to mount it, it turns out that it is so very slightly longer than my OEM tank. Well, the tank is absolutely the same, but the back of it (towards the seat) the mounting assembly is sticking out an inch more than my OEM. I think that bike is from a 2004 gsxr 1000, so long for 03 and 04 being the same :( So I mounted back my original tank, and the hell with it---I'll ride a black bike with a silver tank. Might paint it at some point in the summer, for now I totally lost inspiration.
 
Corsara said:
so long for 03 and 04 being the same :( So I mounted back my original tank, and the hell with it---I'll ride a black bike with a silver tank. Might paint it at some point in the summer, for now I totally lost inspiration.
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Just like they say the 2007 and 2008 R1 are the same. Was having some weird TPS readings in DIAG mode and found a new in box OEM 08 R1 TPS sensor. Went to install it, totally different size, mounting holes, etc!!! WTF?? :(

-Jamie M.
 
toysareforboys said:
Just like they say the 2007 and 2008 R1 are the same. Was having some weird TPS readings in DIAG mode and found a new in box OEM 08 R1 TPS sensor. Went to install it, totally different size, mounting holes, etc!!! WTF?? :(

-Jamie M.
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The differences don't end there. I have a friend with a 2008 R1, and the Yamaha mechanic found out the hard way how many differences there were... Yamaha didn't say much about it at all.

And that's because he'd put a new head on two 2007 R1s and a rebuilt top-end a second time on one of them that year, when the head on the 2008 started knocking. Not tapping, knocking. The owner rode it all the way back from Calabogie losing power the whole trip (~170km). The 2007 head and the 2008 were different. But enough of that. ;)
 
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Mina said:
Please explain.
I know you can tell a lot about suspension set up from tire wear.
I'd be curious to know what the potential problem would be with the above pictured bike/tire.
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It's hard to identify what particular problem he's having just from the pic, it could be one of a few things. It could be rebound tear, or cold tear or from bottoming out the shock.
 
caboose483 said:
It's hard to identify what particular problem he's having just from the pic, it could be one of a few things. It could be rebound tear, or cold tear or from bottoming out the shock.
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Is it from when he's getting on the gas would you say?
 
carboncat said:
decreasing rebound, sag was off a bit so the shock was going a bit too low....like caboose said.
also, tire pressure was to low
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I wish I was at the point that I knew to do that! After my last session at Bogie last year my 211's looked just like that pic. I just stared at it knowing something wasn't right, but had no idea where to start other than pressures. My bike came with a great suspension, just need to figure out how to make those types of adjustments based off of cues like tire wear!
 
triggerhappy said:
I wish I was at the point that I knew to do that! After my last session at Bogie last year my 211's looked just like that pic. I just stared at it knowing something wasn't right, but had no idea where to start other than pressures. My bike came with a great suspension, just need to figure out how to make those types of adjustments based off of cues like tire wear!
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Dunlop rears are very sensitive to being off temp. If you're not a fast rider (read: trackday guy) I'd suggest running the hardest compounds available. In cooler weather I still struggle to keep a rear at ideal operating temp and that can lead to tearing.

The harder compounds are a lot more tolerant though.....

Just an FYI
 
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