Tried out some Diablo supercorsa DOT race tires... friggin awesome. After the lightning day those things were TOAST... so I grabbed a set of fresh ones for myself. Did the 10-13 day on them and it looks like I'll be able to use them for my whole first race weekend in the spring.
The new set is soft front / soft rear aka green/green and I had a blast on them at thunderbolt on columbus day. By the end of the day I was feeling really good and getting up to a decent pace at least in my opinion (low 140s) and was concentrating on being smooth getting on the throttle since that was a weak point of mine. In the past I would get on it a little and then hamfist it as the bike stood up.
I did a LOT better with that at thunderbolt... the tire tells the tale. No tear anywhere, just smooth wear all the way to each edge and little bits hanging off.
After the second to last session at thunderbolt i had an instructor/racer talk to me after we met up for a few laps and he said some very flattering things... I'm very excited to start racing and based on some things he said I think I am well prepared to give it my best.
I bought a set of woodcraft tire bakers from a friend. Pretty awesome to go full tilt into T1 and not worry about things. Also the woodcrafts have a nice safety plug built into them so there is no chance of leaving them on when you go out and burning through them like the chicken hawks.
With the new drill press was able to safety wire a couple things... oil fill and drain, dipstick, filter... and the nearest bolts to wire them all to.
Now for the track stuff:
Track photos showed up:
Turn 6 group shot, coming up on a slower rider
Here is that video I posted it somewhere else but it's a lap around NHMS from the sept days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6QL8zjtV8
These are from the 10-12 Buell Inside Pass TD at the Lightning course at NJMP. It took me most of the day to get up to speed there, and by then the photog was done I think, so in most of the shots I look shitty. Anyways,
Here's a vid... I am the camera biking riding my buddy's 636 and he is riding my r6. I catch up to him mid-session and we switch around a few times. Then his bike ran out of gas
... that was fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeop6u-Jds
Like this one:
A Buddy and I:
Riding my buddy's 636:
Him on my R6:
Only a few shots from the 10-13 day at thunderbolt... think I have some vid too but I need to dig it up:
