The Delta Project

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Check out the riding style. I haven't seen him ride like that before.
1st photo was taken on or about the 3rd lap at the first practice session on the Saturday.
The rest were taken on Sunday.
Looks like the bike handles rather well.

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The Delta ran superbly up in Auckland for it's first meeting I was stoked with it. Came away with a couple of issues to resolve.

The bike didn't run too well with the pumper carb. So I ran it with the original carb at the Auckland meet. I think there may have been an inlet leak at the homemade manifold. Talked to Tim Fraser who's just fitted a pumper and used his idea for another manifold. Need to check it out at the track now.

Had some issues with the front brake, worked well but very spongy, which is a bit of a bummer at the bottom of the fast Mt Welly straight going into a tight left turn. Changed the front master cylinder. Brake feels a lot better now.

I think suspension was way off, although the bike handled superbly, I was touching my footpegs (which i'd already shortened 20mm), and getting my kneed down no problem at all. Under hard braking again at the bottom of the straight the rear wheel was bouncing. Heart stopping stuff when your side by side with another rider going into that left hander.
The rear was way to hard. so i've softened up. The front was the opposite way too soft, I've done some mods to the springs and spacers. I think it's a lot better.

Need some track time to check out all the mods. We are going to the Taumarunui track for a couple of hours tomorrow afternoon for some testing.

Looking forward to labour weekend and putting them Jaffas in their place.

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The bike was handling so well that Steve just had to try and take Rob on the sweeper. Unfortunatley........the bike headed off in the wrong direction

Pic one is the crash and pic 2 is the grass on the bike.

After crash no2....(yes crash no2) on the same corner in almost the exact same spot, the DELTA is back on the table for repairs.
And maybe some MODS. Gota go faster now. Gota beat that GP125!