2013 1199R track bike project

roadracerx said:

+1 for wilkson, this is the simplest and actually most effective way to do it. Chasing pressures throughout the day as ambient temps change seems logical but NOT the way to do it.

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roadracerx said:

Thamer, I would check that air gauge you have first. Send me an email and we can dial it in more.

-B

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kope999R said:

Pro Shift mounted the footless gear-shift blopper system. Yes : the gear lever is gone ! and shifting is now done by thumb and finger.. definetly not oldschool and rest assured I got many frown and "˜what the hell did you do now? - looks 
But as all other moves, this decision wasn't made overnight and quit some thought went into it.
First of all : what can I lose? Ok perhaps you can add some stuff you'll never get rid of in the box with the other stuff you'll never get rid off..
But was there a problem to solve : surely yes. Having decided to do the 6h of SPA next year I m facing a steep learning curve. When a 2:38 will give you 8th place in qualifying, going from 2:52 to 2:45 will be the absolute minimum.
Now at 55 at not having the automode that decades of riding brings, I will have to focus on what is needed. In my case : bodypositioning, braking many yards later and getting on the gas many yards sooner.. once I will master this, then I will have to get used to the higher accelerations and speeds getting to braking points further away.. with the best regularity possible..
and above all else : all while keeping it safe.
So for me the only way to achieve this is to de-clutter my mind. Get rid af all the things that will distract me from optimally moving around on the bike to give me a good riding position and keep my concentration up.
Now the truth is I'm a lousy shifter. Is it because I'm to tall, not nimble enough, I don't know. But I do know that I shoft between gears at least twice per session. And that getting my foot in the right place to shift takes a lot of time and effort as I seem to be so clumsy about it. This has as a consequence that I hardly ever can fully finish my movement on the bike as there is no time left. And this gets harder as the session moves on and fatigue sets in.
So: the system doesn't have to be very good to improve on the shifting I'm capable off.
And when I heard that Chaz Davies sort of stated it took time for hil to get used to the clutch downshifting on the Pani as he had had the down blipper before, I pulled the trigger.
Electronically, the system is plugged into the ecu to blip to a programmable % of revs and then cuts the ignition and feeds it back in after a millisecond programmable time. It even has dry and wet modes. It is used extensively in rally and formula cars so it has run it s course of testing and reliability.
We then drove the bike back to Moto Rapido in Winchester for a final check-up and calibration of the AIM pods and the official handover.
It was good to see the enthusiasm the bike was received and the smiles of the people who had worked so hard to make this bike as good as it is now. It could feel it was a pet project and much more then another "˜rich guys latest gizmo throw on the bling race bits' - build. An awfull lot of extra time went into it. The 3D mapping took over 10h starting from the level that is already so high to begin with. That is mapping 10 hours of fine tuning an already hyper-devellloped map of a trsted combo.. that my friends is dedication way beyond the call of duty.
The forks got done in the mean-time bringing back the 10k springs at the front on a 220mm airchamber and 4mm of preload. At the rear a 100 spring measured at 101,2 was put up and the bike was dropped 3mm.
Gone should be the pogo feeling of the bike as it was.. so I now expect to be much more steady under braking , to run much tighter and get on the gas sooner. Gass that will pull harder coming out of the turns and without the wellknown bang as of 7,5K"¦
Back to Belgium, the very last things were finished : changing the titanium caliper bolts to drilled ones , fitting the radiator fairing to force the air through the radiator and remaking the bellypan to open it up to let the hot air out that otherwise stays behind the lower part.
Luc took it for a quick spin to check it up and called me right afterwards. From his excitement i know that the bike just delivered all it promised. Pulling smoothly like a 1198R as off 5,5K all the way up to 11K just for the blipper to do a lightinggly quick gear change and float the front through 4 gears.. and then remain stable and precise under braking and downshifting.
Luc has a same spec Pani with the SSTK PRO pipe and he noticed a huge difference. And being a sceptic just 5 minutes before, he was gleamingly enthusiastic ..
So now, it's all up to me. I'm literally counting the days to roll her out at Barcelona second week of March.. Just 3 weeks from now. To feel her pull and pull and upshift smoothly under lean .. 
And then test the braking and flickability at Valencia. Having all the data , I should have learned a lot after that week"¦
You'll read all about it when i get there..stay tuned !

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kope999R said:

Pro Shift mounted the footless gear-shift blopper system. Yes : the gear lever is gone ! and shifting is now done by thumb and finger.. definetly not oldschool and rest assured I got many frown and "˜what the hell did you do now? - looks 
But as all other moves, this decision wasn't made overnight and quit some thought went into it.
First of all : what can I lose? Ok perhaps you can add some stuff you'll never get rid of in the box with the other stuff you'll never get rid off..
But was there a problem to solve : surely yes. Having decided to do the 6h of SPA next year I m facing a steep learning curve. When a 2:38 will give you 8th place in qualifying, going from 2:52 to 2:45 will be the absolute minimum.
Now at 55 at not having the automode that decades of riding brings, I will have to focus on what is needed. In my case : bodypositioning, braking many yards later and getting on the gas many yards sooner.. once I will master this, then I will have to get used to the higher accelerations and speeds getting to braking points further away.. with the best regularity possible..
and above all else : all while keeping it safe.
So for me the only way to achieve this is to de-clutter my mind. Get rid af all the things that will distract me from optimally moving around on the bike to give me a good riding position and keep my concentration up.
Now the truth is I'm a lousy shifter. Is it because I'm to tall, not nimble enough, I don't know. But I do know that I shoft between gears at least twice per session. And that getting my foot in the right place to shift takes a lot of time and effort as I seem to be so clumsy about it. This has as a consequence that I hardly ever can fully finish my movement on the bike as there is no time left. And this gets harder as the session moves on and fatigue sets in.
So: the system doesn't have to be very good to improve on the shifting I'm capable off.
And when I heard that Chaz Davies sort of stated it took time for hil to get used to the clutch downshifting on the Pani as he had had the down blipper before, I pulled the trigger.
Electronically, the system is plugged into the ecu to blip to a programmable % of revs and then cuts the ignition and feeds it back in after a millisecond programmable time. It even has dry and wet modes. It is used extensively in rally and formula cars so it has run it s course of testing and reliability.
We then drove the bike back to Moto Rapido in Winchester for a final check-up and calibration of the AIM pods and the official handover.
It was good to see the enthusiasm the bike was received and the smiles of the people who had worked so hard to make this bike as good as it is now. It could feel it was a pet project and much more then another "˜rich guys latest gizmo throw on the bling race bits' - build. An awfull lot of extra time went into it. The 3D mapping took over 10h starting from the level that is already so high to begin with. That is mapping 10 hours of fine tuning an already hyper-devellloped map of a trsted combo.. that my friends is dedication way beyond the call of duty.
The forks got done in the mean-time bringing back the 10k springs at the front on a 220mm airchamber and 4mm of preload. At the rear a 100 spring measured at 101,2 was put up and the bike was dropped 3mm.
Gone should be the pogo feeling of the bike as it was.. so I now expect to be much more steady under braking , to run much tighter and get on the gas sooner. Gass that will pull harder coming out of the turns and without the wellknown bang as of 7,5K"¦
Back to Belgium, the very last things were finished : changing the titanium caliper bolts to drilled ones , fitting the radiator fairing to force the air through the radiator and remaking the bellypan to open it up to let the hot air out that otherwise stays behind the lower part.
Luc took it for a quick spin to check it up and called me right afterwards. From his excitement i know that the bike just delivered all it promised. Pulling smoothly like a 1198R as off 5,5K all the way up to 11K just for the blipper to do a lightinggly quick gear change and float the front through 4 gears.. and then remain stable and precise under braking and downshifting.
Luc has a same spec Pani with the SSTK PRO pipe and he noticed a huge difference. And being a sceptic just 5 minutes before, he was gleamingly enthusiastic ..
So now, it's all up to me. I'm literally counting the days to roll her out at Barcelona second week of March.. Just 3 weeks from now. To feel her pull and pull and upshift smoothly under lean .. 
And then test the braking and flickability at Valencia. Having all the data , I should have learned a lot after that week"¦
You'll read all about it when i get there..stay tuned !

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kope999R said:

now that is very good to hear!

as it was a bit of a not so cheap jump into the void...

so i'd be very much interested to hear about your experiences with it...

and i think i'm not alone..

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