lördag 9 augusti 2014

Well ridi'n is just more fun than writing.

Another summer has almost passed. And I have noticed that I tend to ride the bike less each season. so far this year I have only gotten a few  1000 km:s on the thing including a weekend trip with the swedish VTR-club to Norway and a couple of trackdays.
     I guess that reality caught up with me and i have to take all the little things and expenses in life in to consideration more now than what I had to before, nothing unnormal it's just life I guess.
   Anyways, the bike has run fine although i hade a minor issue  with it burning oil when cold and spat out blue smoke. that occured while I was on the trip to Norway and ehen we set of in the morning the temperature wasn't more than 6 degrees celsius. I Haven't hade the same issues later on in the summer when temperatures where more reasonable. I will check out the cause of it none the less.
     On the trackdays the bike worked perfectly, I have struggled a while with the bike doing some really loud exhaust noices when off the throttle. The problem didn't go away with doing the flapper and PAIR- mods so I was a bit frustrated to say the least. It turned out to be the exhaust clamps for the rear cylinder was completelely knackered and couldn't hold the pipe in place during the heavy enginge braking thus causing air to leak into the pipes causing the bang. The pipes where refurbished with new screws and cleaning of the threads and a bit of new paint and the problem is now gone.
     So back to the trackdays then. On the first one i used the OEM exhaust, wich was a bit of a bore.
On the second one I got hold of a pair of db-killers  meant for a set of Leovince pipes, so what I did was just drill a hole in my Termis and in they went. I really tried to make it as loud on the track as possible doing some low gear full accelerations just below the sound equipment on the track to see if it the db-killers did the trick and it did :). Got some desent laps and a good fight with a 954 fireblade. The weight of the Sp1 (and myself) did that the blade got ahead on the straights but I soon caught up with it again in the twisties.