The RL Test Ride
A bunch of welding, some Gray Hammertone (Hammertone is the BOMB!) and a couple more fabbed parts to get the fuel tank to fit again without the top triple-clamp trying to bang holes in it, and we're ready to go and see if this sucker will turn now. We headed for The Nubbie Memorial Section.
Well, turn it does friends, and the handlebars don't seem to have the leverage over me that they once did. A big hit on a log or a basketball sized rock that might of once been disaster is now shrugged off and the bike is a lot more composed in an ugly situation. Hallelujah and Mucho-Appreciado to my Mad Scientist and a quart of his favorite blended Scotch-Whiskey is in order I think. Hell, I'll even help him drink it.....
Now we just need to hone my riding skills as we get ready to head for Daytona in a fortnight. Maybe this season I can actually win an AHRMA National on the damn thing. It won't be for lack of motorbike. Crossing my fingers....
Sweet.
posted by Pee Wee @ 7:42 PM
7 Comments:
Did you make it out of the Section?
A pix of you crossing the End Marker might have been a little more impressive.
Congrats on the bike VERY COOL!!
Dude, just cause the bike turns don't mean I can! haha
Man is that the truth. You all should have been there! Entertainment 101!
We need to now work on some techniques...a lot of them! Front wheel placement, front wheel lift, throttle control, second blip, and most of all get the lead out your ass and unweight! All at the precise moment!
Yes a large bottle of Buffalo Trace is in order...I won't need any help drinking it thank you for offering!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob
did you fall over or just dab?
I like the Mick Andrews jersey. You look like a 2 line rider to me.
PW, lets go to an AHRMA event in Calif. We both might be able to win one out there, maybe even on their wimpy 2 line.
In keeping with the cutting edge nature of blogging, I thought I should report the latest Breaking news here on pwa's rounded edge news breaking blog.
Daytona Fl, 2/2/06;
Yamaha has decided to shake up and/or sweeten the pot in this year's Formula Xtreme series.
No, they ain't gonna field an all-Roberts team, including the patriarch himself (who I'm told has big Honda bills these days. Who knew?). But speaking of the King, there is a rumor I need to quash right now, right here, in a violent manner. There is no truth to the story that a movie about Kenny is in production, telling a 20-year story of a love that dare not speak its name. "Brokechain Mountain" was allegedly to tell of Kenny's illicit lust for Honda racing engines; an affair so shocking the man had to keep it a secret even from his own family for decades. Now that Roberts has "come out" so to speak by acknowledging his arrangement w/Honda for his MotoGP program, sources that are lying scum have said the movie was underway, with Ron Howard playing Kenny (only taller).
But I degress, back to the news story.
Yamaha, who already has a pretty good 600 for Xtreme use, has taken note of this odd XBRR Buell bidness (ie, the AMA's approval of Buell's XBRR as it is called, with a huge V-Twin engine and is a one-off race bike, kind of like Harley's VR1000 was back in Superbike. Remember that thing?),
and is going to embrace the AMA's current culture of Whatever in a big-ass way. This means rules, laws, tech scrutineering, and that useless, nebulous concept of Right and Wrong don't mean Jack any more. Just do what you want, man! Pursue your agenda. Push the envelope right off the edge of the desk, and into the trash.
To this end, my sources tell me Yamaha will introduce the M6 for sale which is a 600cc race bike ideal for, oh I don't know, Formula Xtreme perhaps? In fact, it may just be a de-stroked M1 MotoGP bike that will be sold "in small numbers" at a cost of like eleventy gillion dollars. "This is of course a spiritual successor to King Kenny's YZR500, so in a way the company has come full circle," said a cut-and-pasted press release I found blowing down my driveway.
Wow. you too can play at this game, eh? (AMA, AHRMA, ITSA, whats the difference) Let's have some pasta, and let the fun, be it fair or foul, begin.
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