SOAR 2024 Round 6 Double Header

Stu

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. […]

SOAR 2024 Round 5

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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

Stu

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 […]