all4A50s newbie experience

Sunday morning and rain is looking as though it is settling in for the day, which is a real bummer after the progress Amy made yesterday;

She figured out how to use the clutch so when she is not reading all she is wanting to do is ride. I had her follow me on a DS80 and we went to a very little used dead end street that has a couple of nice bends in it. By the end she was riding along in fourth quite happily. Still is skittish about cornering, but that will come.

I ...

I have decided to put Zensen and myself on diets as I am heading back off to A Grade. After winning B Grade for the second time I'm sort of in the position of being really too fast for B but not quite fast enough for A Grade.

So to hopefully gain the 1-2 second improvement in times I'm aiming to slim the bike by 20 kg. Amy and I removed the fairing and mount, losing 4.5 kg. Next I'm going to remove the rear cone off the exhaust and see how much that saves versus noise (as in I'll ...

Got the 1st for Motorad B Grade and a 3rd for King of Kaitoke and to top this off I managed a not last and not lapped A Grade race on a very wet track;

The day started with my daughter cross-threading one of the front caliper bolts while helping me change to wets. Luckily we found another bolt, after a few words were spoken under my breath.

Practice race; Started on pole and got a nice clean run.

First points race; Started on pole (as Mark hadn't ...