Since the dealership wasn’t able to get my bike up and running for the weekend, I wasn’t really looking forward to this weekend.\u00a0 It was wonderful and flattering that people offered me bikes to use for my races.\u00a0 But really, it’s just not the same.<\/p>\n
I ended up using Daryl’s SV, which is a fun bike, even if it is 1\/2 the hp of mine,\u00a0 has interesting brakes, and\u00a0 the suspension feels like that of an old caddy with shot shocks and partly because of all that it was a blast to play on. I can’t thank Daryl enough, for letting borrow it. \u00a0 I even managed to drop my lap times down into a range that was respectable.\u00a0 I learned a few new things riding it, like it is possible to go into a couple of turns so much deeper then I thought, and I can stuff it up under others without problems when I have no other choice.<\/p>\n
The new configuration CW is a lot of fun, and it is a whole lot more tiring then the std config.\u00a0 Maybe it was just because it was so hot, but I was wiped out and I didn’t ride as much as I usually do.\u00a0 I’m sure that part of it is that the 675 is so much easier to ride then the 13 year old SV.\u00a0 I managed to drag hard parts for the first time, and my toes a few more… even though I kept pulling them farther up on the pegs.<\/p>\n
I really should have practiced a launch or two on it before sunday.\u00a0 It didn’t even occur to me to do that until I was heading to the grid for the Nov GTO race.\u00a0 I almost didn’t make the race, I missed the warmup lap.\u00a0 I didn’t hear any of the calls for the race, funny since I even had a radio…\u00a0\u00a0 So had one of my worst launches in a long time, and was pretty much last off the line.\u00a0 I managed to get back a couple of spots so I was pleased and I was feeling much more comfortable on the bike after that too.<\/p>\n
The Am GTU race went even better, still didn’t have a great launch, but I finished even better so, again over all I was okay with the result.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Nov GTU race went even better… hum… pattern…\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I actually had a good launch and I finished a little better, if I had had just a little more hp I would have been able to finish better in all three.\u00a0 So riding that SV was a great lesson for me.\u00a0 I found that I was able to carry some really good corner speed, but my drives out weren’t as good as they could have been.<\/p>\n
If we hadn’t gotten rained out again in the afternoon, I bet I would have figured out just how to ride that bike faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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