Motorcycle Road Racing Update
This past weekend brough fantasic weather to the Summit Point Motorsports Park
in West Virginia. The holiday weekend race was 4 days long with 2 days
of track practice and 2 days of racing. Unfortunently for team EmpireGP
we showed up a bit too late for the absolutly jammed packed weekend and
ended up getting a less than ideal pit spot in the paddock. On the plus
side though, our area was much more relaxed.
Testing on Saturday went well but resulted in some so-so lap times maxing out in the upper 1:21's. However the bike was performing well and I wasn't feeling the need to destroy the machine before the weekend really kicked off. With a sold out event I was entered into 5 races: the GTU ,GTO, Unlimted GP (trophy dash), Middeweight GP and middleweight Superbike.
more details and pictures after the jump
0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:39 PM - Categories: Motorcycles | Racing | General News
I'm
replacing my 2001 GSX-R 600 with this bike and in the 120ish miles I
have on this bike so far, holly crap is this bike a big upgrade. I'm
use to the nice suspension on the race bike, but it cost about 2k. So
to go from a worn-on 01 Gixxer6 to an almost never ridden 05 ZX-10 it's
been quite the nice step.
One year ago I purchased a paid of 
The Klucky pucks have a high quality Velcro back that in my 3 sets so far has yet to fail me in any way. The slider material is a hard semi-greasy almost consistency that provides solid feedback/drag from the track yet slides well, doesn't get caught up, and more importantly doesn't seem to over heat and melt like many others.
During out lovely visit to Deals Gap in North Carolina/Tennessee we managed to shoot about 15 hours worth of film. several dozen minutes of that film didn't completely suck :) We were plagued by rain, equipment issues and just plain old bad camera positioning and mountings.