Saturday Races 6 – Reverse Modified After the practice day, I swapped the well worn Bridgestone out for a Pirelli rear for the races. Thought I would do well after winning on this layout last time but I was struggling and didn’t want to crash out and settled for 3rd. […]
Racing
SOAR 2024 Round 5
Friday Practice Josh forgot to bring his wet tires so he wasn’t able to ride today as it was raining heavy all morning, I was feeling anxious and finally decided I’d better do a few laps to try and shake it off. It’s a good job I did because the […]
SOAR 2024 Round 4
Long layout Ride42 Track Day with Mike Black I wanted to give the B bike a run so when Mike suggested a track day we jumped on the next available one. I missed Seb Hothaza at CTMP when he had his racing debut in CSBK Pro Superbike class so it […]
SOAR 2024 Round 3
Friday Practice It’s reverse Modified layout this round so short sub minute laps again. I scraped the belly pan a fair bit last round and was going to lift the bike a bit using the preload settings but the rear was close to topping out so I’m going to try […]
SOAR 2024 Round 2
Friday Practice I had some nerves in the pits, I woke early and struggled to get back to sleep – that didn’t help, but I still managed to get 5 solid sessions in. Then Andy Horton came over and told me my times had been consistently good in the low […]
SOAR 2024 Round 1
The first chance to try out the new bike was SOAR practice weekend. Sadly the Saturday was a washout but we got a good few sessions in on the Sunday. The bike was hard to start and running rough at first, in the first practice session it didn’t even rev […]
2005 CBR600RR B Bike Upgrade
Well I didn’t have the money from selling the red #1 CBR600RR for very long! Admittedly I started looking as soon as the deal was done. I figured I might as well stick with Hondas for some commonality of parts but if I saw a deal on a newer R6, […]
SOAR Rounds 6 and 7, 30 Sept – 1 Oct 2023
The final rounds of the season! Ugh Zoe and I went up on Wednesday evening and after some remote working on Thursday, we got a canopy and the tent up and registered for the weekend. Friday Practice Danny very kindly installed two new tires for me, a Pirelli front and […]
SOAR Round 5, 9-10 September 2023
Took the blue bike back to Denny who found that a valve shim had fallen off during assembly – that was causing the misfire. There were a few leaks around the thermostat again and a couple of other minor things but he got it rebuilt ready for me to pick […]
SOAR Round 4, 25-27 August 2023
After the blue bike ran hot and lost coolant last round, I ordered a head gasket from Denny at the local store, TSR who was amazing and put the order through even though he was on vacation! Danny (and Dex) helped me get the engine out and then Rian had […]