Pete
Life's a Beach
Just back from a weekend away with an assortment of bikes with the usual stories to tell but had an experience that has left me wondering.
I was following a gen 2 hayabusa through undulating back country roads at reasonable speed when I entered a left hand sweeper with about a 10deg incline. The busa was 50 to 100m ahead and as I cut through the apex my peg feelers were dragging at about 100kmh and I shifted to fourth and opened the throttle to close the gap.
It was then that the rear tyre lost traction and stepped out to the right by about half a meter, I changed up to fifth at this point pulled her back on line. The back tyre is an exedra max at about 50% of its life. I’m not sure if the road temp played a part but it was probably about 40deg C.
The bike has a ramair fitted with standard headers and I’m considering performance headers with lush cams to boost hp in 2020.
I’m curious how others manage the balance between traction and hp.
Is it as simple as throttle control or do you get used to spinning up the back tyre in the twisties?
I was following a gen 2 hayabusa through undulating back country roads at reasonable speed when I entered a left hand sweeper with about a 10deg incline. The busa was 50 to 100m ahead and as I cut through the apex my peg feelers were dragging at about 100kmh and I shifted to fourth and opened the throttle to close the gap.
It was then that the rear tyre lost traction and stepped out to the right by about half a meter, I changed up to fifth at this point pulled her back on line. The back tyre is an exedra max at about 50% of its life. I’m not sure if the road temp played a part but it was probably about 40deg C.
The bike has a ramair fitted with standard headers and I’m considering performance headers with lush cams to boost hp in 2020.
I’m curious how others manage the balance between traction and hp.
Is it as simple as throttle control or do you get used to spinning up the back tyre in the twisties?