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Mick1976 said:
Why wait around for Boulder or SBU to build a properly built/setup bike when it has can be done if you have the resources, tools and skills.

We know you got it all covered rac sak.
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Learn how to read, Mick. I don't have it covered. My RECOMMENDATION was to have someone with more experience build him one. Like literally the opposite of what your feeble brain comprehended.
 
I recommend for people especially like yourself not having much if a brain to use the search engine on here. Every topic from diagnostics, builds and tech info was posted on here before you even threw a leg over a bike.


rac1ngsnak3 said:
Learn how to read, Mick. I don't have it covered. My RECOMMENDATION was to have someone with more experience build him one. Like literally the opposite of what your feeble brain comprehended.
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Mick1976 said:
I recommend for people especially like yourself not having much if a brain to use the search engine on here. Every topic from diagnostics, builds and tech info was posted on here before you even threw a leg over a bike.
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So we should lock all the threads then? The great and omniscient Prick has commanded thus!
 
Steven31371 said:
I honestly don’t mind sacrificing my body a bit, but there’s no away around at least having it in the back of your mind, that it wouldn’t be cool to lay down an $80k bike that you’ve put a lot of your time into lol
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that’s very easy to say until it happens. I watch people every track weekend get very seriously injured on bikes, mostly because they are trying to ride way past their skill level. It’s not pretty and sometimes it’s life changing. Watched many get air evac out, lots of broken ribs, ruptured organs, and neck/head injuries. One high side can be life changing. If it happens the bike will be the last thing you think about


Don’t take riding lightly, this game is way different than car racing. Get yourself an air vest, they are very effective and helping prevent injury, especially to the torso and neck areas.

As someone else mentioned, you can have the lightest and fastest bike out there, won’t mean .... if you don’t have superb riding skills. Again it’s nothing like the car game. I watch fast/light bikes get lapped all the time. Hell I get passed by 600s too, although not that often, most of them are race caliber riders.

With all that said, most crashes are typical low sides where you get some bruises and your ego gets the most damage.
 
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Steven31371 said:
To that end, I’m about to a buy a $7000 bike that’s been around the block, has all the track goodies on it, looks like .... but runs great, and is set up for a 230 pound rider already. That I’ll have no concerns whatsoever laying down.

I still like to have exquisite pieces of lightweight powerful engineering around to play with though.

I decided against the Suter, I may never be good enough rider to fully enjoy it with no electronic nannies, and I’ve been talking to Pierobon, they can do a ground up track bike build that has 200 hp on a 325 pound bike with a full electronics package that has anti-wheel adjustability etc. and readily accessible replacement parts.

That rotary bike just looks badass, but as you say, crash it once and it might take a year to rebuild it.

Some of these bikes I think of as like a Ferrari, it’s not a true race car, too expensive to not care if you wrecked it, but still a beautiful machine that hits you in the feels on how it looks and you can still drive it like you stole it and have a blast in it, despite it not really being a track car or one you don’t want to crash.
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Do they still make the Suter? I thought they were a limited number and sold out years ago
 
Steven31371 said:
Good advice….I just bought this bike for $7k….no blip shifter is an issue, but I can ride that bike past my limits, not give a .... if I lay it down or destroy it, use it to get a baseline of skill, then get the bigger badder stuff on the track.

I honestly don’t mind sacrificing my body a bit, but there’s no away around at least having it in the back of your mind, that it wouldn’t be cool to lay down an $80k bike that you’ve put a lot of your time into lolView attachment 39344
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Be careful... any litre bike can bite. That said great choice, dont worry about the QS- part of good skill training is 100% manual. Clutchless up and down shifting is standard once you get the hang of it.
 
To add to what Brad said, learn slowly and the speed will come. You will find yourself improving almost without trying if you attend to the basics.
 
If power to weight is a factor, this might be a contender.
 

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Bruce Wayne said:
Do they still make the Suter? I thought they were a limited number and sold out years ago
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Nope, they’ve only sold 18 of the 99.

And they keep raising the price.

I think most people get excited about it, but when it comes to shelling out the 150k for a bike with no electronic nannies and a power to weight ratio that’s a man killer, cooler heads prevail more often than not.
 


I have both those bikes now, spring rates are set up right for my weight on both, will be interesting to see the difference in how they feel.

Though the gixxer has been Track spec’d, abs a 2006.
 
I dont see why not. It's not a full blown Corse machine, just a mostly Corse machine. I *imagine* the laptop/software required to interface with the electronics is included since Wyman is no longer going to be running a Ducati and doesn't need it. It's a SBK, not a GP machine, parts are available and going down wouldn't end its riding abilities forever.
 

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