On The Box
4th on Saturday, 3rd on Sunday, the view from the box is always good. Â Full report on Monday.
Roadracing World Wild Card KTM 390 Cup
All ready at Miller with the Roadracing World Project SV on display. I pick up the KTM 390 at 3 PM and start work setting it up for Roadracing World Wild Card KTM 390 Cup rider Francesc Perez.
Crew Chief Gig
The phone rings: “Hey man, can you Crew Chief for a Roadracing World Wild Card KTM Cup rider next weekend at Moto America Miller?” These magazine deals have a way of comming together like this. A little schedule adjustment and I’ll be working with Francesc Perez. Stay tuned.
Get Paid
35 years of racing and it’s still nice to get paid for doing it. My first race check was also from WERA and yes I did think about framing it rather than cashing it.
As a sponsor of the Lucas Oil WERA West, Best of the West Lightweight Twins Superbike Challenge I felt it was my duty to enter the race and as the Roadracing World Project SV 650 lives in my shop, well it just seemed the right thing to do.
The race was held at Willow, the weather was good, the friends were better and story material just fell into my lap. Part 3 of the SV Project is at the printer now, Part 4 is in the can, this race will be in Part 5. It will be worth the wait.
Race Sponsors: Twin Works Factory, GP Motorcycles, LE Suspension
Pi Milage
My ’97 RV is based on a Ford E-350 with a V-10 engine. Â I missed my chance to get a photo of the mileage showing Pi.
Different Densities
It’s a good thing that water and solvent don’t mix. I have a really cool distilling solvent tank. It separates oil from the solvent with heat, leaving clean solvent. This solvent cost a lot but lasts a long time and there’s no expensive weekly service fee.
I let some water based solvent get into my system and it turned into a thick gooey mess. I was worried that I had ruined 20 gallons of $37 per gallon special solvent.
But solvent is less dense than water so it floats on top of water. I manhandled the system onto my motorcycle lift so I could raise it high enough to make siphoning easy. Then I tilted it so one corner would be the low point. Let it settle. Then siphoned the gooey mess out from under the solvent.
While I’m at it I’ll clean everything and mop the floor. All’s well that ends well. Thank you to Howard at CT-Industries for the advice and sympathy.  Howard has the $37 solvent, the other place wants $75.
With science and hard work you can fix any problem.
Sitting in the Tall Grass
For Nicky,
It was late afternoon while I drove to this track. The sun was low enough to cast large shadows on the stark jagged mountains changing them to Cathedrals of upheaval, erosion and time. Now the stars are winking at us just as they have and always will. How cool is it that anyone can be a World Champion and be a truly good person. We hold you in our thoughts by following our dreams as you follow yours. We share a dream and tomorrow I will ride again to celebrate our common bond.
Spring Bugs
When racing in the Spring you have to clean a lot of bugs off your race bikes and gear. Customer bikes too. The Iceman Ninja collects another #1 plate to go with the bugs.
I Practice What I Preach
I won the WERA West Lightweight SS race on Sunday. I always tell my LE and Coaching clients to work on their consistency. Here are my laps time from this race: 1.43.44, .43.42, 43.31, 43.27, 43.32. A max spread of .17 seconds with the biggest one lap difference of .11 second and a smallest difference just two hundreds of a second. With my Coaching help you can do this too. Starting at $50 per day.