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Title: A comedy of errors... almost to make you cry... Post by: ryandalling on June 22, 2010, 03:17:46 PM So I did the PSSR track day today. Here is how crazy it was for me...
Day starts and I have a cold... sneezing like crazy and not sure if I even want to go to the track today... First session: Not having been out there since my last wreck I was still a little spooked... I felt like the rear wheel was all over the place after two laps... thinking that I was just freaking out and it was all in my head... I came in... then I checked my rear wheel and it was 10 pounds over... Okay, it wasn't all me, even if I was feeling out of sorts. Second session: Two laps in and things feel great... I go to shift up from 3rd into 4th... coming out of T5... and I can't find the gear shifter... I look down quickly... and the shift rod had fallen off... I had just put on new rearsets with a fully adjustable shift rod... and I had forgotten to loctite the damn thing.... I put my hand up to signal I had to get off the line... and Czysz almost takes me out on the left... I get over... exit... and re-attach the shift rod... (not noticing that I had lost the adjustment piece... so the lever was pointing more up than down) ... I go to re-enter the track... and slam my helmet sheild down harder than normal... and take off... the visor popped off on the right... and I am flying down the front straight franticly trying to figure out how to save the visor from flinging off at speed.... anyhow... I am shifting through the gears by taking my foot completely off the peg and lifting up... pain in the ass... and holding my head at an angle to keep from tearing the visor off... I make it around the track one lap and exit... I pull off and take the time to fix it all right... Third session and beyond: Finally the track and the bike come to me... the rest of the day rocks.... I flew around the track tailing Del who was acting as an instructor in A class... then Del recks it in T7... so I decide to call it a day. Thanks to Maurice who let me borrow his old fairings while mine are being painted. Although, without a front wheel fairing, you get real weird air flow from under the the bike... anyhow.... Saturday should be a good race weekend... I finally feel right again. Title: Re: A comedy of errors... almost to make you cry... Post by: scott_araujo on June 22, 2010, 04:48:57 PM then Del recks it in T7... so I decide to call it a day. Discretion is the better part of valor :) Title: Re: A comedy of errors... almost to make you cry... Post by: duc_fan on June 30, 2010, 08:23:19 AM Dewd... you have some of the best trackday stories. [thumbsup]
then Del recks it in T7... so I decide to call it a day. Discretion is the better part of valor :) +11tyB |