Racing

[oldironnow]

I missed this.
 I bet the camping will only be in the everyday camping that’s at Laguna Seca near the Highway 68 entrance.

The track is in a county park, and those spots are different from the race-event camping.

I will try and look into it.

[oldironnow]

Super Hooligans have those fast PanAms out there.

I hope HD is beta-testing a liter engined twin.

Also, wouldn’t a PanAm-engined Road Glide be exceptional?





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[oldironnow]

oldironnow wrote

I missed this.
 I bet the camping will only be in the everyday camping that’s at Laguna Seca near the Highway 68 entrance.

The track is in a county park, and those spots are different from the race-event camping.

I will try and look into it.

https://www.ahrma.org/road-racing/outside-of-paddock-camping-at-laguna-seca/


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[oldironnow]

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[Fatfatboy]

^ Good view. I hope you are having a great time.

[hacksaw]

oldironnow wrote

Super Hooligans have those fast PanAms out there.

I hope HD is beta-testing a liter engined twin.

Also, wouldn’t a PanAm-engined Road Glide be exceptional?





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No.

[oldironnow]

Quite cold and windy, but always fun.

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[Mad4TheCrest]

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[oldironnow]

Good for Rins.
It will be great to see Morbi in MotoAmerica

The crowd was thin.
Must be honest.
Plenty of HD riders out on the fan laps.
I didn’t get to the far side of the track this year to check or ride, but it seemed like only Yamaha and CfMoto had test rides.
Maybe Indian did as well. They always bring a very lean setup; it could have been elsewhere.
HD did not seem to have a presence, but, again, it might have been shifted to a new position.
Ducati was not occupying Ducati Island.

Next year, i want to afford Rainey’s Ride.

[oldironnow]

All dirt oriented inductees:

https://americanmotorcyclist.com/ama-motorcycle-hall-of-fame-class-of-2023-announced

[oldironnow]

Lawson at the old Laguna Seca.

Mofo-ers had Armco around the outside of the first turns ????


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[Mad4TheCrest]

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[oldironnow]

Mad4TheCrest wrote

I remember going to AMA races at Laguna in 1978, and I think I recall hay bales in use at spots around the track. Maybe to block the Armco and soften the blow a bit? Of course, that was so long so that I am not confident in my memory 🥺

It a wilder-west then.
Note the lack of the current 'around the lake' section between what is now Turn 2 and Turn 5.




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[oldironnow]

WSBK Race 1 from Imola (last Saturday) is worth it.

[Mad4TheCrest]

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[oldironnow]

I hear ya'.
See that.
But my feeling is this is an artifact of the situation.
Testing.
Camera rig.
Some of it is late in the day - fatigue, track temp concerns.
And there's a need to maintain position, so as to keep the bikes in the picture frame.

Just racing a YSR50 for a short while showed this ham-fisted rider the elegance of having acceleration and braking completely delinked.

Eliminating the transition between the two modalities was sublime, making it easier to be definitive with commitment to throttle or brake.

I've never ridden a motorcycle that had a slipper clutch, but I would love to sample that experience. I think that does not split the baby. Rather, it puts it together.

As to the strong feeling of engine braking in the lower gears - I feel that, too, and chalk it up to the fact that I ride at waaay below racing speeds. I'm not up at the redline tipping in. I'm so low in RPMs that the engine easily falls on its face.
Especially the Buell.
Ratana the Katana does seem to slow more when rolling out in the upper RPMs.

I'm going to have to go out and test these posits.


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[Fatfatboy]

Even in four wheels Rossi dominates

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rQfCxwSFcN8&feature=sharea

[oldironnow]

Nice to hear his voice again.

[motogrady]

Ya I saw that.  
Good to see him still in it, even tho on 4🙁

[oldironnow]

oldironnow wrote

WSBK Race 1 from Imola (last Saturday) is worth it.

AH.

The rev limits were adjusted before hand.

https://superbikeplanet.com/story/333/wsbk-ducati-rev-limits-lowered-kawasaki-rev-limites-raised


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