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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Jan 17, 2018 19:26:58 GMT
Thanks for the overly optimistic placing spuu but everyone would be better off if I was riding shotgun in the ambulance, nursing an esky full of VB and ether. Oh someone make this whole thing happen. |
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Post by neilf on Feb 4, 2019 11:08:40 GMT
Well, that's Philip Island and Kayalmi off the table for the club; £3,000 was too big a p ill for most members to swallow. So instead, we're heading to Estroil for 3 days in early September; it's not a track that I've ridden before, although Farside have been there on numerous occasional, so I'm looking forward to it. The only thing that I have to decide is whether or not I'm going to ride there and back! I reckon a 8 day ride through France, Spain and Portugal, plus 3 on track, would be a nice trip away  |
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Post by neilf on Jul 13, 2019 13:52:03 GMT
My Estoril trip is coming up in September and, following a trackday at Castle Combe in July, I'm looking to change my Pirelli Diablo Rosso 2 for something a bit more track orientated, but still useful on the road. I'm by no means a 'fast group' rider, although I can hold my own in the 'medium group'. Also, I won't be using tyre warmers.
My first thought would be a pair of Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa 2 as the standard road Rossos are superb. Other options are;
Dunlop SportSmart TTs
Bridgestone Battlax RS10
Any thoughts?
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Jul 13, 2019 15:24:02 GMT
Also, I won't be using tyre warmers. I wouldn't worry, neither did ELav at the 1st race  motobanzai.freeforums.net/post/7636/quote/386?page=3Estoril looks a fun track, plenty of fairly fast corners, up and down, some fast straights. Should be fun. I never used to bother with tyre warmers when I did trackdays. I just took it easier for the first lap. I could still go fast enough at Donington to get my knee down at Redgate on the 2nd lap. It gives time to get your brain up to speed again as well. You have to go at a decent pace to get the tyres to warm up, going too slow they will take longer to warm up. I remember Performance Bikes doing a tyre and bike test around a track. The old Kwak 750 came out bottom. The Bridgestone whatever came out as the slowest tyre. I went to a PB trackday at Pembrey and timed Gus Scott on a Kwak 750 on the Bridgestones and he was doing way faster than anyone else. |
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Post by mekon on Jul 13, 2019 21:21:08 GMT
My mate wants to do Cadwell but I've said no. The VFR is great for the road but I think, from previous experience, it will be too soft to enjoyable on the track. When I had the ZX6R it was a bit of twat for modern shit roads but made sense on the track. I can just see the VFR bottoming out on the brakes or wallowing about in the bends.
Would you still go on a softly sprung bike? I'm not fucking about with it just to ride for 90 minutes one day. There's not really any adjustment I could do other than change for oil weight and preload.
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Post by neilf on Jul 15, 2019 7:50:53 GMT
The only time tyre warmers make sense is as you are using dedicated track tyres and all you mates have them!
After reading some reviews and chatting to some of the guys from Farside, I'm probably going to go with the Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa II's; some of them use these on the road as well as the track because they warm up quickly. If you do most of your rising on the road in the summer months as I do with the occasional trackday thrown in, they make sense. I just wanted something with a bit more edge grip because of the long corners at Estoril.
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Post by no66 on Jul 15, 2019 10:23:00 GMT
hehe, not gp, but European round with Abraham and Pirro, Pirro won.
Pretty rusty now, but chased a 1000cc bike to work today. Smug git blew close past me on the straight, caught him on the twisty section and pushed him hard. Think he was suprised. (aprilia rs125) Good fun, but can easily end in disaster.
No, must not get back into racing, too expensive and still having fun racing skateboards.
But should you win the lottery, I'm up for PI!
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