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OK, i have a little bit of time, lets do a proper write up:

The trackday was a bit of a shitty time for me from the start, i am used to under the lights events and was not ready to be there at 6am like the rest of the crowd, to be honest i was still in bed when the gates open, i thought they opened at 9 and riders meeting was shortly there after, wrong. the riders meeting was at 8 and the first group went out at 9, so when i pulled up the riders meeting was about half over, not good

I had a new set of pilot powers and a set of lydell gold pads put on the day before, more on that later, what i failed to do was change out the coolant, but knew it was going to be an issue so i brought a thing of water wetter and two gallons of distilled water.

put tape on the mirrors, headlights and rear passenger pegs and went to tech, passed, put the sticker on and then as he was walking away, he asked what was in it... i confesed what ever the factory put in to it.... he quikly tore the sticker off and i was off to the pits to change the fluid, it took all of 10 mins with the help of thumper, dude is a rockstar seriously...

went back to tech and sat till the riders came back and teched my bike, so at this time i had missed two sessions and there was one more session before lunch and then the afternoon sessions started up.


Buell vs RC51... Nashville style

there were tar snakes everywhere, the entire track seemed to have just been tarred like 30 mins before we got there it seemed like, to hold the proper line you would cross like four snakes and they were not forgiving at all.

first off, i dont care how hard you ride on the street its not nearly enough to get comfy with it at track speeds, my first session i was a back marker, blew every corner by not being used to the buell brakes, which for the first session sucked so bad i thought i was going to die, I have never had a faster entry speed before and it was only cause i couldnt slow down fast enough!

the second session went better but i was still considerably uncomfortable on this new beast, i wasnt as much of a back marker, more of a pest for ppl to go around but it was getting more comfortable towards the end, buell engine was deceptivaly quick, and quite

third session was were things started to click, i got behind some riders that i was actually faster then and made some good passes coming off of 1 into 2 late on the brakes and just turning in to make the tightleft.

the best part of the bike was short shifting into the long left and just giving it gas all the way to the transition to the nascar oval without shifting until 5th then 6th on the oval, i think i saw 140mph a few times ':\

fourth session was spent playing tag with thumper and his sumo, he was quicker then me in the infield, but i would catch back up in the straights, i didnt pass him, but i would of, i just enjoyed watching him throw the sumo around too much to bother for a few laps, once we hit traffic he was better at passing so he took off and i stayed back, stuck in traffic, it was fun to pull a new zx10 on the infield and onto the front straight, but god it took forever to get the drive right to pull that off, was stuck behind him for 3-4 laps

I got used to the brakes or they seemed to perform better as the day went on, i had one guy crash infront of me, and i went off the track once when i hit a false neutral during a transition on the back straight from the oval to the infield, i was fine and the bike stayed up right, but it was the last session so i pulled her in and called it a day, in teh end, i had to ride the bitch back home so no reason to push it.