It was a good ride...I liked being in stealth mode...

Quote from: 'fighter pilot on July 21, 2013, 05:29:07 PM
It was a good ride...I liked being in stealth mode...

Not bad, eh?

It'll be a bit "iffy" for me this weekend.  My buddy, Wally, is here from the mainland and is going back to Texas this coming Monday. Might be doing other things on Sunday but everything is still in the air as of this point.

First autocross of the season for me...

Tell Wally I said hi.

Standing by... ?

Next week for me.  Tied up with guests in a good way.

Quote from: DRKWNG on July 26, 2013, 04:07:19 AM
Tell Wally I said hi.

Done.

Sleeping in tmrw, maybe a short one for myself.

Kind of a yucky day anyway. 

Hoping for a nice Sunday...

Quote from: 'fighter pilot on August 02, 2013, 11:50:34 PM
Hoping for a nice Sunday...

Yes!

 

Beautiful morning on this side...

Had a good ride with Sta, sorry you couldn't make it MD...

Weather/ride were good but the SF was exhibiting some odd behavior at times.   I wound up slipping the clutch pretty badly at the top of Ward on the way to Tantalus, after which I began getting some weird throttle response.

It was first noticeable on a couple of the Tantalus switchbacks where I would get more throttle than anticipated after a down shift and power out from the corner...at first I thought it was just me being sloppy until it happened a couple of more times when I was being very precise with the throttle.

Second time was turning onto Kam from the H3 off on the way to 13 turns, bike was acting like it was trying to die out and I kept having to give it lots of revs to keep it going, almost like I had a vacuum leak...it was like that all the way to the top of 13 turns where we took a break.

We let the bikes cool down a bit and things were fine until after lunch in Wapio when the bike stalled twice getting away from a stop using normal clutch/throttle action.

On H2, then H1 on the ride home the bike felt like it was surging somewhat, but I really couldn't tell if it was that or from strong wind buffeting and/or crappy road.

After I left the freeway the bike seemed fine the rest of the way home...