Whoo Hooo!
That must be a rush going that fast on a bike. How did it handle and what was the turbulence like?
How far of a run do you make?
Congrats!!!!
That is amazing!
How does in handle at 175?
It's a total rush, and no doubt addicting. Maxton is a 1 mile run, with 1/2 mile shut down. There is zero turbulence behind my fairing, thank you Mr. Ducati.
My first run was the "hardest", as the track is
VERY ROUGH and has 2 dogleg turns in it! At 126 MPH you feel every **** seam, crack, and repair in the old concrete runway.
My second run was the "sweetest". I knew how to handle the 2 doglegs, where to shift, and couldn't feel the bumps at 148 MPH.
My third run was the biggest adrenaline rush I've had in years. Don't ever let anyone tell you that all this takes is balls... this is a mind game. At 175 MPH the steering went way FN light! If I hadn't cranked down my steering damper all the way, there would have been no controlling the shimmy. The force of the air pressure at 175 lifted my CF front fender, bending longitudinally at the front tip, causing the sides to rub the front tire. Scary ****, but you don't know it at the time. I held her right at 175 through the trap... and then had to navigate the dogleg into long shutdown at something around 160. I've got nothing but
RESPECT for the men and women riders that do the traps at 240-260 MPH!
When you roll off the track and see the lady with the sign that says "174.947 MPH"... there ain't no way you're not going to do it again!
Congrats again, Walt . I could not resist the temptation to.... broadcast your achievement on language ('Merican parlance for "non-english") sites. Languages aside, respondents unanimously label it "awesome" .
Aye. Jamie
Thanks for that, Jamie! Feel free to borrow any of my photos for our Euro friends.
There's video on R3Power network, I don't know how to upload video here.
