cockercas

Should really do it every year.

Its no different to the engine and the valves/shims will gunk up making the bike handle like shit.

1 up and the rest down on a race bike avoids getting the foot trapped under the lever whilst changing gear lent over

The only place its ever helped is devils elbow at mallory park.

It’s only 1 ↓ and 5 ↑ on road bikes.

On race bikes it’s 1↑ and 5↓

Just to mess with your head

And it feels way more natural to change in 1up 5down

 

I was doing some work on my RVF 400 years ago and me and my friend accidentally put it back in race shift, once I'd worked out what we'd done I kept it like that for a week then changed it back, if I'd have gotten used to it I think it would be ok, can see why people who race or do a lot of track days prefer it.

I thought the switch would be hard and take some getting used to.

I can only remember one time where i clicked the wrong way.

It’s only 1 ↓ and 5 ↑ on road bikes.

On race bikes it’s 1↑ and 5↓

Just to mess with your head

 

but how often do you use 1st on a race bike ?

pulling away and that's about it

Hairpins, if you leave it in second when you should be in first you will drop down the grid rapidly.

It’s only 1 ↓ and 5 ↑ on road bikes.

On race bikes it’s 1↑ and 5↓

Just to mess with your head

And it feels way more natural to change in 1up 5down

UPDATE:

Having baited up a couple of likely looking spots around the outside of the warehouse with peanut butter for a few nights and finding it all gone by the next morning, I turned up with the air rifle on Sunday evening ready to give Mr Ratty some lead for pudding. I settled myself in to a perfect sniping position and waited. And waited...

And then one of the fattest hedgehogs I've ever seen made a direct route from bait station to bait station, hoovering up all the feed before buggering off into the field. As I sat there in disbelief, Ratty popped out of the undergrowth, ambled right past me and was gone before I could even take aim.

Just for good measure he set the warehouse intruder alarm off again at 02.30h this morning, just to remind me that he's still around.

Stick the peanut butter ontop of a bucket or a pile of bricks.

The rat will still get it but the headgehog wont.

Trouble is the warehouse is often open for extended periods whilst equipment is moved in and out - especially apiary stuff or equipment used in field trials. Once a rat gets in, there are a hundred and one places to hide undetected.

 

In which case you remove or otherwise deal with any access to a food supply so the rats are forced to eat poisoned bait. And tell your warehouse people that doors must be kept secure when not in use or unattended. if rats can get in so easily then so can thieves and Im sure you wouldn't hesitate to take steps if you were robbed. if equipment walked out the door.

Poisions are only any good if the rats eat it and its changed for a diffrent poison regular, if anyone farms maize local then poisons don't work.

A old bloke asked if i could shoot a few rats in his barn because the poison wasn't working and he was feeding them it in the kilos.

In 3 nights two of us shot over 200 rats, well we killed quite a few with shovels because they would run up our legs

Right - that's it. I got a call from the office alarm monitoring company at 2 o'clock this morning to say the intruder alarm in the warehouse had been triggered. Our usual key-holder is on holiday, so I had a 90-minute round-trip (25 minutes there, 40 minutes trying to evict the rat that set it off and stop him getting back in, and then 25 minutes home) before I could crawl back into bed at just after 3.30 this morning. On the plus side, I had turned up there expecting to deal with a completely different type of vermin.

Anyway, the office is surrounded by farmland, and as you'd expect there is plenty of evidence of rat activity. We can't exclude them from the warehouse, and in addition to the mess they leave behind they have also chewed their way through several bits of equipment we store in there. We use a commercial pest control company, but despite all the traps, bait-stations and fluorescent tracking powder they have put down they have only managed to catch two rats in the last five months. I could have done better than that sitting outside one of their burrows with an axe.

So the time has come to dispense with their services and take matters into my own hands. I'm far too insubordinate to have lasted five minutes in the army, but if I'd been forced to join up I could have quite fancied being a sniper - partly because blowing someone's head off from half a mile away sounds like jolly good fun, but mainly because you get to lie down a lot. So that's the way I'm thinking: stake out a good spot, entice them out with something tasty and then blap them with an air rifle. From my visit last night there's no shortage of quarry.

Generally speaking I dislike the idea of killing things, but these buggers have got it coming. So, if anyone has any suggestions I'm listening!

The way we used to shoot them as kids was to mash some tinned catfood up so there was no lumps.

Smear it on a brick and then shoot them at dusk/dark using a lamp.

If the farm had a light that could be left on we would leave it on for a few nights and throw food down so they wasn't bothered with the lights and we didn't have to take a lamp.

Flat head pellets are the best for rats, keep it to about 20m.

Just had a look and it looks like there is no new ones.

. My parents have also long hated bikes and think they are dangerous,

My dad hates me riding. The amount of times ive crashed you would think he would be used to it by now.

Il watch the videos, its happend so me watching it isn't going to change anything. I might even learn something.

Donny has loads of run off and gravel in the right places.

Just book on and enjoy yourself.

Let 5/10 psi out of the tyres, drink water and dont have a massive lunch.

My mate did track days for a long time before he got into a racing league, I may be corrected but I think you need some good experience (quite a few track days) before you can get a race licence. Then you can start the proper racing, rather than doing track days . That's the route he took anyway, he got into the advanced group before he joined a racing league, now he's piling all his money into keeping his bike race ready . There's probably faster ways to do it, but I guess there's no rush if you're a new rider .

 

No need to do loads of trackdays.

I know lads who have only ever done 1 trackday and they run with the front pack.

 

That's what I was unsure of, I didn't know if you needed track experience before doing the race licence . That must have just been how he went for it.

Nah just jump in and have fun.

Yer me riding around at 50mph and dodging potholes isn't my idea of fun.

My mate did track days for a long time before he got into a racing league, I may be corrected but I think you need some good experience (quite a few track days) before you can get a race licence. Then you can start the proper racing, rather than doing track days . That's the route he took anyway, he got into the advanced group before he joined a racing league, now he's piling all his money into keeping his bike race ready . There's probably faster ways to do it, but I guess there's no rush if you're a new rider .

No need to do loads of trackdays.

I know lads who have only ever done 1 trackday and they run with the front pack.

as above . Too many people try to use track riding on the roads ... it doesn't work .

Tracks you have a better field of vision around bends and no oncoming traffic .

Also regardless of your experience and skill levels .Work out what you want to gain from a track day before you get there .

ie do you want to learn what you can do with a bike ie how far they will lean how your body position reacts on the bike ...or do you just want to see how fast you can go before you shit yourself !

go to track days with a huge level of humility and realise that from the start you are not as good as you think you are and learn from it . Get decent advice from instructors and other racers but beware not all advice is decent from the pits.

the final thing is ENJOY yourself ..if you start berating yourself why you can't do xyz corner like the others ... stop and work out why .. not keep on trying in the vain hope you will emulate them thats when it goes horribly wrong

50% of the advice is bull shit. Its up to you to figure it out.

Most trackdayers talk crap.

Forget insurance, its a waste of paper.

The ron haslem thing is more of a taster.

Book a day and hire a bike if you don't want to risk your road bike.

As for the racing, road miles count for nothing, fast lads on the road are at best fast novices on the track.

Get on a TD and see if you enjoy it first.

Then book onto an acu course, get an eye test and join a club.

Then go racing.

Im at brands 27th/28th/29th if you want a chat.

So whens the next one?

 

I was toying with the idea of doing the elite one in the summer, on fireblades, but I really need to get more practice in. Perhaps I'll do one of the cheaper ones first on 600's before progressing to a true monster bike.

Hire a trackbike (£240ish) it includes all fuel and tyres etc and book a day in novice group.

100% you will learn more doing it that way.

So whens the next one?

I've watched it now Wow!

The start was a farce! I feel really bad for Miller.

As for the rest I think Zarco should have been penalised for his move on Pedrosa

I don't think Marquez's penalty was harsh enough

They couldn’t punish him anymore because of the poor decision with cannet in Moto 3 practice.

Just watched it, well done cal but Marquez is a prick,he would be the 1st(is) to cry about hard racing then he does that out of desperation,it's clear to see a lot of rossi haters on here but Marquez will never be in the same legend catagorie as Rossi no matter how he tries,Rossi hasn't moaned as much about this as Marquez did on the so called kicking off which was bollocks anyway,race hard but at least race fair

Rossi has done the same over the years and taken people down.

Its racing, rossi left the door open and marc took the oppertunity, like you do in a race. Ive hit other bikes and been hit myself.

The worse move was the 1st rider he hit.

Zarco caused pedrosa to break bones, binder crashed into navvaro. It was a drying track, it makes the passing closer.

The start was a complete **** up, cleverly bending the rules, feel sorry for jack because he should of won by a country mile.

Then #93 stalling on the grid, if he started from pit lane like you should for stalling on the start then he would of only had a 7/8 second disadvantage and would most likely of won been 2 seconds a lap faster then the others.

It made good viewing though.

Pretty sure brembo M/c bleed nipples are 11mm

Im also type 1.

3 year licence, yearly eyetest and medical for my race licence.

No biggy, just stick some needles in my arse a few times a day.

Im fitter and stronger then i ever have been.

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Align the "T" mark on the ignition pulse generator rotor with the index mark on the right crankcase cover.

- Make sure that the timing marks on the cam sprockets are facing outward and flush with the cylinder head upper surface.

If its half a tooth then its probaly just because the chains streched.

I never removed the cams, theres just enough room to lift the buckets if you push the cams out of the way.

Iirc from doing mine ones intake and ones exhaust.

A manual should tell you.

The chains skipped a tooth.

How did you lift the buckets? Did you remove the cams or just push them out of the way?