Get The Drive
Buttonwillow Sunset. The RS660 has a lot more power and less aerodynamic drag. But if you brake too late to get by me and run wide, the old guy on the naked as SV 650 will go right by you on the front straight.
Buttonwillow Cotton Corners
41st Season
Buttonwillow.
Six races.
Six holeshots.
79 laps, 211.72 miles
1st.
3rd.
4th.
5th.
13th.
2017 SV650
13 gallons of pump gas.
LE OEM damper rod forks and Penske shock.
M4 Pipe.
Factory Pro V-stacks, Flash, Shift kit.
OEM wheels & brakes w/EBC pads.
Ryno Fender & LE radiator ducts.
LE kit wire harness.
LE steering damper kit.
Bridgestone Slicks. 4 days on the front, 2 days on the rear so far.
59 year old rider who is moving slow today.
2023 Racing Starts Now
The temporary shop is finished and the space is working well. My pit bike is a XR75. Two TTR125’s for riding on the kart track this Friday. The SV650 has four races each on Saturday & Sunday. I’ll be in RV spot 7B.
How To Set Up Your Workshop
Advice and ideas on how to set up your motorcycle work space:
Temporary Shop
I’ve moved to Temecula. The new large shop is about a year away. This is my temporary shop. Shelfs and boxes are in. Next for the big stuff.
The Gift Basket on my tool box is from Rich Oliver’s Mystery School. LE is a legacy sponsor of the Mystery School.
Tomorrow we Ride!
Meanstreak
In 2014 Mike sent me the shock from his KTM 950 for the LE treatment. Rebuild, re-valve and re-spring. Sometime later he retired and decided he had too many motorcycles so he sold the 950. As it turns out, you can’t have too many motorcycles so he replaced the 950 with a Kawasaki Meanstreak. That’s a cruiser. Cruiser’s lack ground clearance but Mike had time on his hands so he made the bike taller and hacksawed the foot pegs. This resulted in more lean angle but now he’s dragging the frame rails. One day Mike and the guy who bought his 950 were out for a ride. Clearly a trade was in order and so a deal was struck. Now the 950 guy has a wicked Meanstreak and Mike has his 950 back. Fairytales do come true.
New Address
LE has moved to Temecula CA.
The new shipping address is:
Lindemann Engineering
33175 Temecula Parkway STE A-413
Temecula, CA 92592
This is the shipping address, not the shop.
Look Mom, Elbows!
Team Challenge
Each rider does one lap in the opposite direction from the last so each has to do a U-turn. There is time to be saved in the transfers. I hop off while the bike is still moving. Sometimes the bike tries to go faster then the riders.
