Monsterdood
Mon 3/19/07, 10:45AM
Here's what I learned this weekend, you need to practice in between races. I practiced on Friday for the first time in probably 6 months or more and instead of racing hard, protecting my line, and trying to score points, I just went out and worked on body position, turn in points, and throttle control. It paid off with a 1:35.5 in practice on old tires that had 8+ races on them.
On race day, I tried out the Bridgestone DOT's on the EX500 and they just didn't work for me. The bike was sliding around a lot (somewhat) controllably though, but it was a bit disconcerting so I didn't have much fun in the 1st two races. The highlight was in BOTT LW racing for 3rd with Ed on his older Duc 650. It wasn't easy to pass him but, I could get by him in turn 8 or out of 9 mostly at will so I figured I would just chill out and set up a last lap pass for 3rd.
Well, he got by two lappers a lot cleaner than I did on the last lap and I wasn't able to drive past him out of 9 so I had to settle for 4th. I think I can beat him more often than not, so maybe next time.
On the SV I had two awesome races. I felt good on fresh Dunlop slicks and Andy from West Coast GP Cycles had helped adjust my suspension a bit on Friday and I was able to race with the front half of the pack in 550 SBK. I followed Kurt hom in 4th, ran laps in the 33's and one in the 32's and beat JC so I was pretty stoked.
Kurt skipped Formula Twin LW and I was able to take 3rd running solid 33's and feeling pretty good out there. I got a contingency check from West coast GP Cycles so I gotta thank Andy again for him helping adjust my bike so that I could win his money. I also got into the money for the Dunlop contingency so all in all it was a good race weekend.
It was actually my 1st trophy on the SV so I was pretty stoked. Now Kurt was spectating, Chris Rogers had crashed out of 550 SBK, the 07 SV650 superbike from up North didn't run, and Cody's bike stopped shifting so I kinda lucked into the podium this month, but I feel like I was running respectable times so I'm still pretty darn satisfied....
Here's some awesome photos my buddy Gary took of the 550 SBK race. I've got the full res versions if anyone wants (we'll discuss fair compensation depending on how good they are ;) )
http://picasaweb.google.com/chris.speights/March2007WSMC550SBK
On race day, I tried out the Bridgestone DOT's on the EX500 and they just didn't work for me. The bike was sliding around a lot (somewhat) controllably though, but it was a bit disconcerting so I didn't have much fun in the 1st two races. The highlight was in BOTT LW racing for 3rd with Ed on his older Duc 650. It wasn't easy to pass him but, I could get by him in turn 8 or out of 9 mostly at will so I figured I would just chill out and set up a last lap pass for 3rd.
Well, he got by two lappers a lot cleaner than I did on the last lap and I wasn't able to drive past him out of 9 so I had to settle for 4th. I think I can beat him more often than not, so maybe next time.
On the SV I had two awesome races. I felt good on fresh Dunlop slicks and Andy from West Coast GP Cycles had helped adjust my suspension a bit on Friday and I was able to race with the front half of the pack in 550 SBK. I followed Kurt hom in 4th, ran laps in the 33's and one in the 32's and beat JC so I was pretty stoked.
Kurt skipped Formula Twin LW and I was able to take 3rd running solid 33's and feeling pretty good out there. I got a contingency check from West coast GP Cycles so I gotta thank Andy again for him helping adjust my bike so that I could win his money. I also got into the money for the Dunlop contingency so all in all it was a good race weekend.
It was actually my 1st trophy on the SV so I was pretty stoked. Now Kurt was spectating, Chris Rogers had crashed out of 550 SBK, the 07 SV650 superbike from up North didn't run, and Cody's bike stopped shifting so I kinda lucked into the podium this month, but I feel like I was running respectable times so I'm still pretty darn satisfied....
Here's some awesome photos my buddy Gary took of the 550 SBK race. I've got the full res versions if anyone wants (we'll discuss fair compensation depending on how good they are ;) )
http://picasaweb.google.com/chris.speights/March2007WSMC550SBK