On board video of my run up Pikes Peak

Very nice. The snow along the course adds an interesting visual element. Not something you see on many motorcycle race courses, unless it is motorcycle ice racing that is.

Thanks for posting that up.

Someday I will have to go watch that in person. On the inside of a corner of course.

 

Ran Pirelli slicks, SC0 in the rear and SC1 in the front. Course is always so-so, they don't sweep it or anything, so it is what it is.

Here's the actual bike in last years race:



And in this years race:

 

More pics from 2013. This is entering "George's Corner"



Same corner, different photographer



Exiting the same corner

 

How much practice time on course do you get?

 

Holy F, I can't believe they let spectators that close

 

Practice is the week prior to the race and it's rather unique. The (toll) road needs to still be available to the public at 9am so the drill is that you get up at the crack of way before dawn and get up on the mountain about 3:30am. Then you practice from daylight until about 8:45.

You practice in sections and get anywhere from 4-6 runs on that section each day. For instance, this year the schedule for the bikes was:

Tuesday - Upper Half
Wednesday - Middle Third
Thursday - Upper Third
Friday - Bottom Third

So, in effect we got to practice the top sections twice and the bottom once. Next year the bikes will be on the bottom twice. The only time you see the entire course at speed is the one time it counts.

 

Holy schnikes. That's crazy! Are some of those idiots actually trying to reach out and touch you? Looks almost like that at the 7:30 mark. Jeez...at some points it looks like you could crash into the sky. That must be an insane ride.

 

Wow thats amazing man! I would've been going much slower on the upper sections

 

So what kind of bars did you use? I can't really tell from the photos, looks like maybe the stock clip-ons?

Oh... and same question for rearsets... stock or aftermarket?

 

^Looks like clip ons to me.

 

This is awesome. I would love to enter. Thank you for posting the vid.

 

Woodcraft clip-ons and Graves rearsets

 

sweet... so another question i have is... what do you do when you get to the top? Do you just throw your bike against a guard rail and chill out until the event is over?

 

Cool stuff!


Hey, I gotta ask anyone, anyone ever hit a deer in that event? :wow: It's all I kept thinking as you were heading up!



That Loeb video was totally badass and the first time I saw paddle shifters actually useful. LOL!

 

That was cool.

Are you the only one on the coarse or do they let the next guy go after so many minutes ?

 

That takes some balls

 

Pretty much, yeah

I honestly don't know but this was the 91st running so I would imagine it must have happened at some point. This year one of the drivers hit a spectator who was in the road trying to get a better camera angle

They let the bikes go at about 20-30 sec intervals. Fastest qualifiers go first so in theory you shouldn't catch anyone.

 

Effin badass.

 

So, after reading the rule book, I don't see much on rider qualifications. I see it says something like "invitational event" and each rider is evaluated, but I don't see any real guidelines. Do you know of any, or is it really just an "apply and wait for approval" kind of thing? I was looking specifically for expert license for x events, or x amount of expert points or something, but I don't see anything like that.