Idiot Weatherman

[Grumph]

Loads of the top guys used to use brake clean to rub it off their slicks at the track. Then they all just decided to not worry about it, shit is gone by the end of a corner in each direction anyway.

Before tyre warmers it was the thing to do. I suspect it's volatile enough to be largely gone after some time under the warmers.
I've said it before here - Holden stopped us doing it, he reckoned it was more fun left on....

And as far as weather forecasts go, we always sent someone up to the top of the spectator bank at Puke to tell us what was coming - slicks or wets....
One National round, i think every race got fine and wet segments.

[pritch]

Speed Triple is 150NM or something.

Would you believe 55Nm?


Nah. That's the pinch bolt. The owners manual does not cover removal of a wheel.

[malcy25]

You'd think that after a lifetime of cynicism, sarcasm and opinionated umm ..opinions .. I'd have learnt by now not to trust or blindly believe anyone else's.
But, shamed as I am to admit it, that's exactly what I did when I believed the fucken weathermans highly informed prediction of widespread, heavy, unrelenting and violently stormy rain on Saturday. On at least 5 different weather sites that I visited daily for the preceding week the same dismal forecast was predicted, up to and including Friday evening.
So, my options were drive 150kms, ride around Hampton in the wet (or just make excuses and sit next to the bike in pit garage pretending) OR drive 150kms, stand in the rain and wind, and watch my son play 1st fifteen rugby in his final year of school.
TBH, neither appealed but the option was work.
So (obviously or I wouldn't be here) I ended up standing under a VERY warm, VERY dry and QUITE sunny sky watching my son play 1st Fifteen rugby in his final year of school.
They lost.
I lost $170 (trackday fee).
How the fuck could they get it so wrong ... rhetorical, I actually know.
So who's the idiot here ... rhetorical, I actually know.

Metaphorically was there with you yesterday. All sorted to go, but looked at the weather all week as well.

I do this for enjoyment. I don't enjoy wet weather, ergo I don't ride in the rain much these days as I don't "have" to, so didn't go.

A little miffed it was dry.....! Ah well, 2 July maybe.

[caspernz]

Even with rain radar and a forecast, weather patterns are sometimes hard to predict. In February, I left home in Coromandel in the dark in teeming rain to do my first ever trackday at Hampton with severe mental images of binning it bigtime. Halfway there, the sun came out, the track was bone dry and had an awesome day. Today, I was supposed to be in N-W Auckland on the bike but canned it on the basis of last night's dire forecast. As it happened, the morning would have worked out ok.

Might have been ok out in West Auckland, but on the southern side of the Bombay it's been varying degrees of torrential most of the day so far. It seems 50 clicks in either direction and it's a different micro climate almost...

No need for that brick wall Geoff, from where I sit you made the right call

[Blackbird]

Might have been ok out in West Auckland, but on the southern side of the Bombay it's been varying degrees of torrential most of the day so far. It seems 50 clicks in either direction and it's a different micro climate almost...

No need for that brick wall Geoff, from where I sit you made the right call

Rob, I actually woke up to rain this morning but then it fined up until about 1100. A few days more and we might get decent weather for a run together - better get our the goat entrails and work some black magic

[pritch]

I looked at the sky and thought it looked OK for a walk along the beach. Not long after I got home the (unforecast) rain came down. That could've been worse.

The forecast is for cloudy tomorrow, then showers, then a string of sunny days. Here's hoping. I might head up to Mokau on the bike for a whitebait fix next week if the forecasters have it right.

[Gremlin]

Well on the bright side (since I avoided mountain biking or motorcycling) the miserable weather encouraged me to sit down and establish a VPN between two branches for a client... Perhaps boss and client will be happy... (or not, when I tell them it's working and they find minor things that aren't)

[SVboy]

We had a nice ride in the rain to Akaroa this morning. No one dissolved.

[OddDuck]

176NM for my Streetfighter (130 ftlb). Needs a decent length wrench! Hmmmmm maybe a excuse for a compressor and air tools ...........

Speed Triple is 150NM or something.

My mates BMW with single side arm has 4 or 5 (can't remember) hub bolts just like a car wheel. Easy. Does not look so cool though ......

A mate had a 800 Monster, we had to get the rear wheel off for a chain and sprocket change - 230 Nm sounds familiar.

He works for an engineering company, they had the big 3/4" drive torque wrench and sockets which he could borrow. It was nearly five feet long. Absolute beast of a thing. Hate to think how much it was worth. Ducati's eh? Stylish but my god, the maintenance...

Rattlegun is not a good way to torque up, it's way too easy to overcook it.

[Maha]

Yes I accept the valid point ... if you were in fact making one, ie ... it's going to be wet, accept it and get on with it.
When I was racing I abided by that philosophy, although I never enjoyed it much (wet weather racing) because binning the bike = $ but I always went. In a perverse way it can be fun.
Track days are a bit different, for me anyway. I do buggar all road riding so the whole point is simply a high speed adrenlin rush every month or so.
One of my points was that the weather forecast was pretty much the polar opposite of what was actually forecasted for the day .... that and the fact that I should have gone regardless cos they often do get it so wrong.

No not making a point all just sharing a riding experience where adverse weather played a part.. We were riding for charity on that day and had to do it.

[James Deuce]

I went to band practice for a birthday gig coming up in a couple of weeks then worked on an original with the other band. Went for a ride in the rain and wind afterward and had a great time including the stand up single finger given to the BMW driver who decided I was a distant car, not a close motorcycle when he started his overtaking move. I enjoyed that one. The sliding about on cow poo was great fun too. I mean fun too, not sarcastically.

Stop whinging.

[mrchips]

Get some good gear & ride... fuck what the weather is doing

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[Owl]

Brake Cleaner? Nah

Fair enough, but it does work and work well.

[Owl]

176NM for my Streetfighter (130 ftlb). Needs a decent length wrench! Hmmmmm maybe a excuse for a compressor and air tools ...........

Speed Triple is 150NM or something.

S3 is 146Nm. Sod all really compared to the SDR which is 250Nm for the rear wheel nut. I did have to go buy another torque wrench though.....and breaker bar.