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Post by mookie on May 11, 2010 22:04:58 GMT -5
 Just picked her up today. She purrs like a really loud, mean kitten. |
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Post by will on May 11, 2010 22:53:49 GMT -5
What did you do with the Husqvarna?
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Post by mookie on May 12, 2010 11:34:41 GMT -5
Not really sure. Might keep it and maybe get it more set up for dirt/adventure type stuff or more realistically, I'd like to maybe trade it for a track bike.
I was planning on keeping it, but the more I think about it the more I realize I just bought another bike in the same little shaded part of my Venn Diagram of motorcycle fun.
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Post by mookie on May 12, 2010 13:18:11 GMT -5
Here's a better pic in front of somebody elses house  |
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Post by will on May 12, 2010 13:47:17 GMT -5
You have a track bike. A Duke works just fine on the track, although you have to hang on pretty tight at 130 or so. Dirt wheels on the Husky gets them out of the same shaded area, more or less.
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Post by john on May 12, 2010 15:15:57 GMT -5
BROTHER!!!!!!
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Post by mookie on May 12, 2010 18:31:15 GMT -5
You have a track bike. A Duke works just fine on the track, although you have to hang on pretty tight at 130 or so. Dirt wheels on the Husky gets them out of the same shaded area, more or less. Yeah I'm definitely excited to get this thing out on the track and see how it goes especially after no track days all last year. I'd really like to step up to something dedicated for the track so I can get something less powerful and cheaper to crash learn on. Plus I think I'd like to start racing rather than just doing track days (passing on the inside looks like much fun) |
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Post by will on May 12, 2010 21:35:44 GMT -5
Passing on the inside IS a lot of fun. An SV is the way to go for club racing, but it sucks as a novice bike. There's always some moron on a liter bike. You already know how that goes. Once you graduate from novice and join the thundering herd of slow, it's a lot more fun. I can't wait to have money again so I can get back on the track.
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Post by john on May 13, 2010 10:44:25 GMT -5
Yeah I'm definitely excited to get this thing out on the track and see how it goes especially after no track days all last year. I'd really like to step up to something dedicated for the track so I can get something less powerful and cheaper to crash learn on. Plus I think I'd like to start racing rather than just doing track days (passing on the inside looks like much fun) I have found the Duke to be faster around a racetrack than most other sportbikes. You've stepped up already. |
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Post by will on May 13, 2010 10:48:41 GMT -5
Yeah, stepping down to a dedicated track bike is a decent way to put it. There are the occasional crazies who race a Super Duke, too. I can remember two of them which came out to play last season. I don't remember which class, but there's always somewhere to put any bike which can pass tech.
The 610 would be eligible for open singles, so it would race against 125 GP bikes. When a big 'tard gets on the track with those guys, it is pretty entertaining, since they are so different. One of the SV650 classes generally runs at the same time, too, so there's always going to be somebody to play with.
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Post by john on May 13, 2010 11:10:42 GMT -5
125s are easy to disrupt, if you have a torquey bike.  |
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Post by mookie on May 13, 2010 11:44:48 GMT -5
125s are easy to disrupt, if you have a torquey bike. Ooooh that sounds interesting ;D Do they typically run road-race bodywork or just go out like a supermoto? I'd love to set up the 610 like those Roland Sands 450 conversions - hell of a lot of $$ for that though. Maybe just some clipons and a number plate would work... |
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Post by john on May 13, 2010 12:01:53 GMT -5
Ooooh that sounds interesting ;D Do they typically run road-race bodywork or just go out like a supermoto? I'd love to set up the 610 like those Roland Sands 450 conversions - hell of a lot of $$ for that though. Maybe just some clipons and a number plate would work... Run it like you brung it. Bodywork is overrrated. |
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Post by will on May 13, 2010 18:44:57 GMT -5
'Tards race with a flyscreen at most and a catch pan in case you blow it up. The 125s run full bodywork, as you would expect when you are trying to go fast with about 14 horsepower. I haven't been out on the track wit them, but it's pretty funny, because the 125s swoop around corners and go about the same speed all the time. 'Tards come screaming in sideways, scrub off a lot of speed, act like a putz, then go ripping back out. The lap times are not so different, but the lap behavior sure is.
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Post by mookie on May 13, 2010 18:45:16 GMT -5
Hey John, any good cheap mods worth doing that hasn't been done yet? They guy I bought it off of says the 1st/2nd gear throttle limit's been removed and it's got a motoholigan airbox (which I'm not so sure about - theoretically it would make low down torque worse) and some Leo Vince pipes. It doesn't have a PCIII or tuneboy and he said it had the ecu flashed with a custom map - is that even possible? Think I should I get a powercommander and get it tuned on the dyno? It feels super strong but it does pop a little on decell so I'm thinking it's a little lean.
How about suspension? I was thinking that it didn't seem to like initially turning in (again, I'm coming off a Husky supermoto so that's all relative and I'm still getting used to it) and kind of liked going straight. Normally I'd raise the rear but it doesn't seem that adjustable - maybe I'll raise the forks a smidge instead. Any recommended suspension settings?
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