Mental Trousers
4th November 2013, 10:43
What a great day for riding!!
On the Wednesday I'd done the test day at Taupo after having swapped out the left side brake disk because the bike had picked up a nasty chattering under brakes. I'd taken the front mud guard off and ridden down the street in second gear and could look down through the fairings and see the left disk wasn't straight so the Wednesday test day was useful to firstly see if the braking was ok now, reacquaint myself with Taupo and have a look at the surface as winter can be hard on the track. It looked like I wasn't the only one who wanted a look at the circuit as there were a decent number of bikes there, the likes of Jaden and Aaron Hassan, Toby Summers, Glen Orwin and others getting out onto Taupo for testing before summer as well.
I was surprised to see only one single seater race car and no tin tops there so we'd be doing every second session, meaning lots of laps all day long.
As it turned out the front end was still shuddering quite badly under brakes which meant I wasn't able to sort out braking markers all day as I had to button off early and only brake gently. This wasn't the only problem I was having though as I wasn't able to hit an apex all day long with the front end pushing wide mid corner before I got on the throttle, consequently I'd get on the gas late and I was just slower everywhere.
Click .... (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/2839-Bridgestone-VMCC-Round-6-Taupo)
On the Wednesday I'd done the test day at Taupo after having swapped out the left side brake disk because the bike had picked up a nasty chattering under brakes. I'd taken the front mud guard off and ridden down the street in second gear and could look down through the fairings and see the left disk wasn't straight so the Wednesday test day was useful to firstly see if the braking was ok now, reacquaint myself with Taupo and have a look at the surface as winter can be hard on the track. It looked like I wasn't the only one who wanted a look at the circuit as there were a decent number of bikes there, the likes of Jaden and Aaron Hassan, Toby Summers, Glen Orwin and others getting out onto Taupo for testing before summer as well.
I was surprised to see only one single seater race car and no tin tops there so we'd be doing every second session, meaning lots of laps all day long.
As it turned out the front end was still shuddering quite badly under brakes which meant I wasn't able to sort out braking markers all day as I had to button off early and only brake gently. This wasn't the only problem I was having though as I wasn't able to hit an apex all day long with the front end pushing wide mid corner before I got on the throttle, consequently I'd get on the gas late and I was just slower everywhere.
Click .... (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/2839-Bridgestone-VMCC-Round-6-Taupo)