TD3 Tyre Talk

[emaN]

Just an aside:

What speed were guys you doing on the exit of the left-hand sweeper and into the esses before getting onto the drag-strip-straight?

this was the only time the whole day i glanced at my speedo - it was around 90mph...so @150k's

made a decision not to look again after that.

[skelstar]

Yeah fair enough - not much lean as dont trust tyres at that speed yet. Was just curious about my speed at the time I guess. Have no idea what gear I am in half the time either .

[2much]

just to be different, all the wear people were getting on the rear, i got on the front and killed it good and proper, the rear is still mint, go figure!

Yep, had the same thing on the front while the rear was nice and smooth. Michelin Power Race's, 30psi rear, 35psi front.

Just an aside:

What speed were guys you doing on the exit of the left-hand sweeper and into the esses before getting onto the drag-strip-straight? I was doing about 120km/h but was braking way too hard into the esses apparently.

Just want to know for relevance/comparison. I want to know from all skill levels/bikes.

Was on the limiter in 2nd doing 195k's through the last part of the sweeper. found I could just hold onto Bruce and Darrell along there, gonna have to change to race pattern so that I can select 3rd.

[dss3]

Yep, had the same thing on the front while the rear was nice and smooth. Michelin Power Race's, 30psi rear, 35psi front.




Was on the limiter in 2nd doing 195k's through the last part of the sweeper. found I could just hold onto Bruce and Darrell along there, gonna have to change to race pattern so that I can select 3rd.

Yep, I change into third just as you enter the "sweepery" part of the corner after you come out of the tight left hander. Don't think that would be so easy to do with the standard gearshift, wouldn't be able to get toes under the shifter.

[2much]

Yep, I change into third just as you enter the "sweepery" part of the corner after you come out of the tight left hander. Don't think that would be so easy to do with the standard gearshift, wouldn't be able to get toes under the shifter.

Yep, that's exactly where I was thinking it would be nice to be able to change cause you pick it up abit before leaning it back down into the sweeper. But I wasn't keen to to get my foot jammed under there.

[skelstar]

Were you guys holding much of that 160-180ish km/h into the esses? I braked HEAPS (changed down twice) into them before pitching over for the turn into the drag strip.

[dss3]

Were you guys holding much of that 160-180ish km/h into the esses? I braked HEAPS (changed down twice) into them before pitching over for the turn into the drag strip.

For what its worth, what I did was try to stay tight to the inside of the sweeper, then at the end of the sweeper you can pick bike up and accelerate a bit before the "esses", then brake hard, still braking as you went past the first cone on the right, then get off brake and tip it over to the left to take the corner, don't brake too late though cause you run wide exiting the corner and its really slippery. My opinion anyways...

[Karma]

I never looked at my speedo the whole time... too busy trying to get the corners sorted.

I know I came into the first turn at the end of the start / finish straight a bit hot a couple of times, nearly locked up the front on one of them, that would have been interesting....

[Mental Trousers]

I was at about 12,000rpm (red line 14,500rpm) in 3rd gear by the time I hit the brakes for the esses onto that straight. Dunno what that works out to.

I was short shifting after the short full throttle bit coming out of the left hairpin (turn 7) into 3rd then nailing it all the way through that sweeper. I don't think others would want to do that as my bike comes standard with a close ratio box so I wasn't dropping many revs by short shifting.

[Two Smoker]

For what its worth, what I did was try to stay tight to the inside of the sweeper, then at the end of the sweeper you can pick bike up and accelerate a bit before the "esses", then brake hard, still braking as you went past the first cone on the right, then get off brake and tip it over to the left to take the corner, don't brake too late though cause you run wide exiting the corner and its really slippery. My opinion anyways...

I do the same... BUT IM MY OPINION..... dss3 is a homo...

[emaN]

During lunch when Stroudy was getting a few laps in, it sounded like he was short-shifting 'round that l/h sweeper

[kiwifruit]

he told gsf bandit he was coming out in forth so he could get it down early

[Matt Bleck]

nice avatars

[skelstar]

Avatars brought to you by babyB's camera no-doubt.

[motobob]

You might want to rewrite that before ya missus sees it Motobob. Are you saying he shags toothless wahines or you do? ha, got ya.

Maybe I should chase the Wahines that way I can pick my speed up if I think one's chasing me. Good thing I didn't see this last nite or I would have had nightmares thinking about it.

It is intriguing that every one has different experiences with their tyres out there.