WTF?

 

he's my friend but also delivers fed ex to my house, so anytime i order something he'll ask me about it with out me telling him i ordered it so i call him a stalker... plus anytime i leave my house to go anywhere he happens to see me so i have my suspicions

 

I think he loves you hahaha... anyways back to the track thing. Is it ok to remove the farings on a track day? I remember you taking them off for one track day. I might be barrowing a 2002 telefonica GSXR 600 for a track day for next reason.

 

yea, you can ride naked.......................err, i mean't the bike
dont want that zx12guy to stalk you too
























j/k

 

I can wear some dirty thongs for him........hahaha

 

All this talk of the track really makes me want to keep the 6

 

if you can affored it keep it.

 

you can take them off, but in hindesight i probably wouldn't do it again... a 600 won't be as bad, but a liter bike with out fairings is a hell of a thing to hang onto down the south straight in 6th... also i took them off so if i went down i wouldn't have to replace the bodywork, but its there to protect the frame, motor, and radiator from damage so if i went down it probably would have been more costly

 

Why wouldn't a 600 be as bad? Cause a liter bike can do a whole 15 more mph top speed than a 600? You find me a track that ANYONE at our level is hitting the rev limiter in 6th and I'll pay ya a whole dollar.


DON'T; as in DO NOT remove your fairings (imho). If you're that scared then I wouldn't waste the money on a track day in the first place.

 

you just answered your own question, good boy!

see 1000's are faster than 600's, so at the end of the straight your carrying more SPEED, with out fairings or a windscreen there is nothing to block the wind, i won't go any deeper into it as to not lose you, but if you want to find out more look up the terms aerodynamics, horsepower, velocity, and common sense

on the south straight of the full course i was flirting with the limiter in 6th depending on my drive off of oak tree, i could have easily bounced off the limiter, i just wouldn't have made the turn, if i was a better/braver rider or the bike had a little more power though i'm sure its possible... i was hitting and holding a indicated 186(as high as the speedo will go, but a bit off i know), guys on 600's i spoke to were hitting 150's, thats alot more than 15mph difference, and also when they do get close to that aerodynamic barrier they only have 90 some hp pushing them and probably weigh alot more than me, i'm skinny and have almost 170 hp working against me, in otherwords, hard to hold on to... damn sorry i didn't mean to get that deep and technical on you, my apologies if your sitting there scratching your head in confusion

and its not about being scared, its about not wanting to throw a $2,000 set of plastic into the tarmac, i would think going to a trackday thinking theres no chance of you going down is a far worse thing because your either over confident or going to be tip toeing around getting in the fast guys way