As you will remember I have not been getting on brilliantly with he GSXR on the track. With the modified footrests, one inch lower half inch back, I really liked the bike and was having fun at Cadwell but then I lost the back end at Mansfield. I thought it was the lower footpeg digging in and levering the rear tyre off the deck but now I’m not so sure. The next trackday I put the pegs back to the standard and while I stayed on the bike I couldn’t get on with the riding position. With my long legs and the pegs being so high I really couldn’t hang off the bike and I just couldn’t put a good …
National Rally 2014
Bladebert (now R-Bert) and I agreed that we would do the National Rally again this year as we had such a great time last year, to be honest I was thinking we must do this again on the way back from the last checkpoint in 2013.
We both sent off our entry forms, mine was in a little before Bladberts so I was number 36 while Bladbert was 136, there were around 515 entrants in total in the end. We didn’t get much chance to set a route, and after flirting with starting at the Ace Cafe in London we both agreed that a start point near Lincoln was the way to go.
We then fleshed out a route that first headed West then curled…
Suzuki GSXR750K2
So I sold the ZX6, I was sad to see it go but it was having problems moving me round the track. I had got the handling all sorted but I was getting frustrated on the track being held up on the straights. The idea was to get something with a little more umph. I was looking at GSXR750’s but ended up with a GSXR1000K5 for a short period due to an offer on my KTM Superduke. I was caught out a little with that one as I found out the front left engine mount had been broken off and was held on by liquid metal……. and not very well either!!! The 1000 was a brutal bike and accelerated like nothing I had tried…
