Whether your racing your mates on pushbikes to the pub or racing professional racers on cutting edge machinery, at the end of the day you are still just racing. Its fun no matter the means or tool. But with all things involving blokes, the means will exponentially get more complicated and technical as that too is a race between blokes. The race to get the trickest and fastest race thing to race on. Anything involving blokes will get out of hand at some point and reach the ridiculous. I wouldnt have it any other way. Thats what being a bloke is all about. Twatting your mates. Kopes bike is the synthesis of what this is all about. Which is basically being a bloke and doing what blokes do.
what het fuzz was all about : DYNO CHART... what het fuzz was all about : DYNO CHART... the blue and green line is Lucs and my bike carrying a DP PRO pipe, sstk ecu and mapped and timing of the ignition done so pritty optimised at 183 on this dyno. the red is the mine after he got the full treatment... makes me smile every time i see it..
I like the look of the wrap. Makes it look like a proper racy thing. More hardcore. Nice beefy torque curve you have there. The grunt must be awesome. You might need to velcroe yourself to the seat.
Change gear at 11700 and straight back to max torq. Max power max torque x 6 equals big arms or superglue on the seat, velcro wont hold that baby back ;-)
and gear it for 11500 in whatever gear at fastest point of a track. Which unless its spa I reckon will be 5th gear tops.
the 42 in the back gets me in 6 th at spa, mugello and that crazy parabolica at hockenheim.. but the added oommph may get me back to 41 we'll see... especially with the extra long straight at Barcelona as a first..
AIM data logging kit got finished today and properly set up and calibrated... it's here that one can really see the level of expertise these things require... it's kit not really intended by the manufacturer to go on the bike.. so the attention to detail to get this all done properly it takes set the few apart from many... FB chat is one fine medium to see things as they develop and let me tell you i had the most wonderful time seeing the advancement and pics coming in.
Hi Bro ... its a lot more complicated than it looks.. as the bike does not intend to carry this stuff... small things to appreciate : the bolt holding the reas shock was strengthened as the original one will bend if you put the suspension sensor bracket on.. ! If it was conveiniant to put het logger on the back , it does ad weight to the rear. A good thing as putting it on the front will overweigh an already overloaded front. Remember that the major development last year on the factory bikes is to put less weight on that front. that's why the put the Magnetti system now in front of the bars. glid, yes and no... i think you would be correct if you'd say : "it s not JUST abbout mechanics anymore". But from what i see, the level a mechanics now has to achieve to do this kind of stuff has never been so high. And on top of that, the same goes for ubnderstanding the electronics of it which are mega complicated. the more il eran and see what needs to be done , the more convinced i am of the rarity of knowledge of peope like Steve or John Hackett. I know some very good people at 80 to 150 km from where i live. But im now very sure that those 450 km one way to Winchester were the wisest i ever did. . Setup coming next !
All mechanical systems need controls of some sort. Be they mechanical actuators or electronic feedback systems. To assist the organic central controller. The level is determined by the complexity of the system. If you look after the tenths, the seconds will look after themselves. Electronics or mechatronics as they are, are just another form of mechanics. It will all boil down fundamentally to calculus with transistors. Calculus is fun.
Yeah I did notice all the stuff going on the back and it made me wonder where it will go on my SL as the rear sub frame is tiny and likely not have the space.....
