School me on: Racing over my head - Super Hooligans?

Bring it to Brainerd and I’ll show you all the best corners to throw it at the ground in.

 

You ride?

 

Loosely defined, perhaps.

 

My transport is coming back from Laguna to the Northeast- he might have a spot. If you're interested let me know and I'll ask for a price. He's VERY reasonable.

 

Whatever you do for a bike. Make sure you get adequate shake down testing before your MA race weekend. Line up a track day at a minimum or a club race weekend before hand. Do not let P1 at COTA be the shake down, that never goes well. Realistically you need a shake down window and then a tune and adjust window. Good luck!

 

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Oh yeah, I'm crazy, full of dumb ideas and I often follow through on them, but I'm not THAT crazy. Part of my criteria for locking in my entry will being very comfortable on whatever setup I've got.

 

Just saw that, currently as per the rules XBRs, having shipped with bar stubs that mount to the triple instead of traditional handlebars isn't legal. Sucks 'cause it's the same basic bike and frame and cuts out a ton of the potential options I've found.

 

LOL, ya that was me And thanks again for the support! Easier than I thought it would be and still runs great. I'm at a spot now where I'm 1.5 blocks from my shop and 3 blocks from my favorite brewery so It'd be REAL hard to make me commute in LA again. But I've been a wrench-for-hire before (the Hot Rod Magazine garage is around the corner), so if you find yourself in a pickle and need some emergency work, reach out!

 

Hmm, where do you live? What hours do you currently work? I'm sure some extra tire money and entry fee money would be nice.

I just hired a guy today, that can give me 3 days a week, plus evenings or weekends. I wanted full time, M-F, but in this economy of no one wanting to do dirty work, you take what you can find.

 

El Segundo, and no regular hours per se. Closed the shops and "retired" in 2010 and been just wingin' it since then Man, I feel ya about finding ANY help. It's hard to find someone that just shows up! Much less person thats a benefit. Sad state these days...

 

08 XB12XT in my garage, damn clean for it’s age, but the front brake needs TLC, massive judder and pads are just about gone. Rotor doesn’t show any visible wear, no signs of hotspots/etc, hoping a good cleaning and maybe a hone plus new pads and propper bedding in will clear it up. I’m going to replace the mounting hardware, flush the system and clean the caliper while I’m at it.

 

When mine did that, I learned from a former Bartels Harley mechanic to take it out on the freeway and do multiple high speed hard braking stops.

It made mine much better, but the pulse didn’t completely go away. I also sanded any glaze off the pads. Anyway, I had to buy a new rotor, hardware and whatever else came in a kit they had out at the time.

 

Cleaned the rotor, verified it's floating properly on the wheel, no improvement. You can feel it pulsing back to the lever when you climb on it. Caliper needs to be rebuilt as well as it's not retracting well so I'm just going to plan on a full front end refresh. While I was fighting remounting the wheel the first time, I invented some new curse words and the desire to just R6 swap the front end grew REALLY strong.

I got it out on the road today, redoing the shift linkage plus dialing in primary chain tension and clutch setup has it shifting 'well' for a glorified lawn tractor engine so I'm happy with that improvement. The bike is a riot on the road, very raw compared to my Pan Am, not fast by any stretch of the imagination but boy was it egging me on to be dumb on the street. Test was going well till it died under heavy throttle a couple times, like it was low on gas. 3gal to top off says it shouldn't have been starving for fuel, and when hot it's got a cough at idle... time to dig deeper. But I like the bike, I can see where the attraction is.

 

this has seemed like the coolest of the classes to run in if you ask me. those ktms are fast. the bikes sounds great. looks like a ton of fun.

 

I'm on the look out for a shock, STT or XT should both be the same overall length, dunno how many ever got Penske/Ohlins? I'm half tempted to get the OEM Showa rebuilt, there is a Racetech goldvalve kit available, though no one has XT data so no suggested spring rates, etc.

 

So what is the weapon of choice to have for this class

 

At the moment, top of the main class are the Indian FTR 1200, KTM Duke 890, and the Pan America is starting to appear on the podium as it's figured out. For the American Aircooled subclass the top bike is an RSD built Indian Chief, with some HD XR1200s and a big twin bagless bagger competing.

 

Bars - Renthal has a set of zero rise units, curious if anyone knows of any that are 'mild' clubmans that will push the bars forward with minimal rise, no drop but not have the hard cut/welds clubmans use? Basically I'm looking to emulate clipons on tall risers staying above the top clamp.

 

Just in case any of y'all needed more bad ideas.. I know nothing of it other than running across the ad on the facetubes....

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