Yay, it looks like we might get some nice weather towards the tail-end of the week, according to the new voice of authority when it comes to weather forecasts, metcheck.com. So four friends and I have booked us some places at Silverstone for next monday, the bank-holiday. It'll be a day after the WSB races are held there, so we should get some pretty good grip, and who knows, the WSB boys might be there testing as well (on a different layout). The weather forecast at the moment is 20c and dry, superb!
Bike-wise, there's some PP Tuning rearsets, a Power Command III usb, some carbon parts and an Ohlins rear shock winging their way to me at the moment. Fingers-crossed, I might be able to get the shock in time for the trackday. I hope everyone's got some nice plans for the weekend, it could be a scorcher!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Monday, May 16, 2005
Green-Light
Sorry for not posting up lately, all my computer time has been taken up with looking after the new londonbikers.com website, finding people to help provide content, galleries and other contributions. The site has been well received, but now comes the difficult task of building an amount of quality content that will bring people back to the site frequently.
After waiting four weeks, the K5 has now been serviced (200 miles over the first-service milage point), officially giving me the green-light on hard riding, not that this stopped me doing a few sessions at a Silverstone GP trackday recently, oops. I've tried to keep true to my thought of not going over-the-top with the modification of the K5, I know exactly what I want to do it, and don't feel the need to have such an aggressively modified bike, as the 750 was. Some blue rim-tape has been installed to give it a race-bike look and some goodridge braided hoses. There's a batch of goodies to take care of the basics winging their way from the States as well right now. Pictures of the K5 with the current mods are viewable here.
I've also been selling items from the 750, as I've rather dissapointingly discovered that next to nothing was transferable between the two bikes. The only thing that has gone over is the rear wavey disc, the clipons, ohlins shock, rearsets, chain adjusters, power commander, carbon accessories and the like, all didn't fit. It's all time-consuming selling these items, slowing me down with modifying the K5. Next up is the Ohlins shock though, I want that installed as a priority for some trackdays planned.
I missed last Fridays bike-night as I was out with some friends from work, but the word is that people have been turfed out of the stunt meet at Staples Corner that we have every Friday night after mid-night. Apparently the land-owners were represented along with the Police and people were asked to leave, with the warning that if they came back again, there would be trouble for those people. Not a big problem though, it's not like London is short on car-parks where this sort of thing can safely and quietly take place.
After waiting four weeks, the K5 has now been serviced (200 miles over the first-service milage point), officially giving me the green-light on hard riding, not that this stopped me doing a few sessions at a Silverstone GP trackday recently, oops. I've tried to keep true to my thought of not going over-the-top with the modification of the K5, I know exactly what I want to do it, and don't feel the need to have such an aggressively modified bike, as the 750 was. Some blue rim-tape has been installed to give it a race-bike look and some goodridge braided hoses. There's a batch of goodies to take care of the basics winging their way from the States as well right now. Pictures of the K5 with the current mods are viewable here.
I've also been selling items from the 750, as I've rather dissapointingly discovered that next to nothing was transferable between the two bikes. The only thing that has gone over is the rear wavey disc, the clipons, ohlins shock, rearsets, chain adjusters, power commander, carbon accessories and the like, all didn't fit. It's all time-consuming selling these items, slowing me down with modifying the K5. Next up is the Ohlins shock though, I want that installed as a priority for some trackdays planned.
I missed last Fridays bike-night as I was out with some friends from work, but the word is that people have been turfed out of the stunt meet at Staples Corner that we have every Friday night after mid-night. Apparently the land-owners were represented along with the Police and people were asked to leave, with the warning that if they came back again, there would be trouble for those people. Not a big problem though, it's not like London is short on car-parks where this sort of thing can safely and quietly take place.
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