And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
great example right there, caught perfectly, thats "backing it in," steering with the rear brake, usually you use a thumb lever under the clutch lever, its a serious trip, time it with hitting the apex and rolling on the throttle to keep the rear slipping just enough to point yourself out of the apex, especially helpful on a four banger, but with a big high compression ratio V twin you can down shift, do the same thing, because like with a Ducati or Buell big twin the engines have a wide 170 degree firing order and the engine pulses are so far apart makes it easy to control the rear tire, long duration hook up with short slipping times, with a inline four, pulses are very close together, smaller compression pulse, tire spools up too fast and its very hard to control rear tire spin, so the thumb brake is very practical, saves you from deadly high-sides, similar with acceleration out of the apex, with the wide V twin pulses, its pretty much natural to steer out of the corner with the throttle, once you got it down, you hardly notice your rear wheel steering, you smoothly roll the throttle to WOT, in time with getting straightened out and more upright, its heck of a ton of fun too, thrilling when you nail it perfect, seriously increases your lap times, when you reach the too pro racing you almost have to do this or you never reach top lap times. its a serious thrill when your right up beside another rides, and you both trying to reach the corner exit first, sometimes you get right up and lean on the other guy, vice versa, then your really racing, nothing like it.
A friend was racing AMA at Laguna Seca on his big bore Ducati (the early style) and using the rear brake to control the corner exit. (he had re-angled the valves, plus porting, etc, and stated that the bike scared him at times with its power) Running third, the rear disc shattered, taking out one shock, the caliper, and took chunks out of the spokes of the rear mag. He passed the bike in 2nd place, before taking the exit for the pits.
He did the heads for my Moto Guzzi. Holy crap! did that wake that bike up. Dave told me not to tell anyone he did it, as he was never going to do that again, as the amount of milling and welding to put a decent port design into those heads was ridiculous. It would spin the tire in 3rd gear.
great example right there, caught perfectly, thats "backing it in," steering with the rear brake, usually you use a thumb lever under the clutch lever, its a serious trip, time it with hitting the apex and rolling on the throttle to keep the rear slipping just enough to point yourself out of the apex, especially helpful on a four banger, but with a big high compression ratio V twin you can down shift, do the same thing, because like with a Ducati or Buell big twin the engines have a wide 170 degree firing order and the engine pulses are so far apart makes it easy to control the rear tire, long duration hook up with short slipping times, with a inline four, pulses are very close together, smaller compression pulse, tire spools up too fast and its very hard to control rear tire spin, so the thumb brake is very practical, saves you from deadly high-sides, similar with acceleration out of the apex, with the wide V twin pulses, its pretty much natural to steer out of the corner with the throttle, once you got it down, you hardly notice your rear wheel steering, you smoothly roll the throttle to WOT, in time with getting straightened out and more upright, its heck of a ton of fun too, thrilling when you nail it perfect, seriously increases your lap times, when you reach the too pro racing you almost have to do this or you never reach top lap times.
ReplyDeleteits a serious thrill when your right up beside another rides, and you both trying to reach the corner exit first, sometimes you get right up and lean on the other guy, vice versa, then your really racing, nothing like it.
Great reply loved reading it. I only barnstormed and rode track days so obviously no where this level.
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appreciate you too for taking time to read it
DeleteA friend was racing AMA at Laguna Seca on his big bore Ducati (the early style) and using the rear brake to control the corner exit. (he had re-angled the valves, plus porting, etc, and stated that the bike scared him at times with its power)
DeleteRunning third, the rear disc shattered, taking out one shock, the caliper, and took chunks out of the spokes of the rear mag. He passed the bike in 2nd place, before taking the exit for the pits.
He did the heads for my Moto Guzzi. Holy crap! did that wake that bike up. Dave told me not to tell anyone he did it, as he was never going to do that again, as the amount of milling and welding to put a decent port design into those heads was ridiculous. It would spin the tire in 3rd gear.
Balance, speed and faith that the rubber sticks to the road and nobody had an oil leak.
ReplyDeleteI've done a lot of riding, couldn't do that on pavement, but it was fun in the dirt. I've had lots of wash outs and spin outs, only a few on pavement.
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