scuzeme

Well its been a long while since my last blog in this serial which was mid May, since then me and my family have relocated out of wellington and moved up to rural Feilding. The whole Superstock question of whats going to be the bench mark for Nationals entry bikes has only now been formulated, agreed and published recently, so the R6 has been sitting out in the shed, infact ive only done 800kms on her giving the bike a good blast after the first 500kms. Very smooth super fast from 140kmh to over 200kmh but feels restrained and not punchy like my 06 R6 for obvious reasons.
I have recevied a number of parts from overseas for the new bike during the long wait including, braided lines, Driven drive and final gears, Power commander 5 and auto tuner, i also have a full Graves titainium exhaust (but will only be able to use the carbon muffler at the nationals), KnN air filter and finally my fairings have arrived.
The next step is strip the new bike down, fit the fairings to make sure they sit properly and then get them off to the painter for a nice Yamaha 2 tone special finish, which will match me new Celtic leathers (i know rather squidy but need to look the part to represent Yamaha NZ). I have spoken with an exhaust specialist who will make up the new mid pipe to go between the header and end can.
We are allowed to make some changes to the suspension and im lucky i have atleast another spare stock suspension so i will need to send both rear shocks and the front forks to Robert Taylor who will be using my bike as a platform to optimise the stock Yamaha suspension for the Nationals.

Shit loads to do but i have relaxed my time line for a Tri series debut (i hope), at this stage the projected budget without including the cost of the bike or the new leathers is approximately $3500 and i estimate atleast another $1500 - $2000 if i include rear sets scintered brake pads frame protectors and suspension costs. I would sumise (at this stage) that the difference between setting up a Nationals competition 600 supersport bike against the costs of setting up a Superstock bike is about $10k less for the Superstock bike this is my opinion based on my own observations as ive been working through the process.

Hopefully my next blog will include some pictures