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Shannonville CSBK Races May 28 2016

I don't think I have ever seen so many bikes crashed in one race before. That was intense. I counted 8 bikes down when Todd had a big one, I was a second behind him and saw him down, but no flag so I kept in the gas. Then red flag.... race over at 9 laps.

The 1000 I was running was a victim of a quickshifter malfunction, not only did the QS stop working if I got revs over around 13,500 but then after we went out to complete the race (yes, another @#$^ show early on), the engine actually cut out randomly for a full lap, then cleaned up... trying to make up time for the last lap (as I lost six positions), I braked from full throttle at around the 100 mark and then found out the hard way that I had gathered up more steam than I thought, to make the corner I'd have to drop the rear wheel and take a big chance at likely 180kph on someone else's bike, so I took the runoff and lost all hope of catching back up.

Bazzaz has a pretty crap product there, I know of at least five of their strain gauges that failed this weekend (the one on my bike yanked 3/4 inches of threads out on a shift). I've never had or used Bazzaz stuff before, and I can say that I won't be out looking for their product for any new bike given this experience. Agree/disagree... it cost me a lot of headache this weekend.

There was a lot of carnage, both human and mechanical this weekend. Hate to see that when you know so many of the racers personally.
 
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It wasn't a good weekend for my friend. Otherwise, it was great to see a huge turn out, I didn't expect half those people to be there.
 
I "crashed" twice in my race and ran out of fuel. Back end slid 3-4ft in the hairpin on the entrance of the 11th or 12th lap. Then I tucked the front off the back straight on the last lap (tires were howling and I was JUST able to save it and continue) trying to stay ahead of Trevor Daily after my bike hiccuped 3-4 times and we almost ended up in a pile together.

That race was AWESOME! 22 laps was not easy.
 
You did really well! Wish i could have watched more of it.

The hairpin asphalt was chewed up. I almost tucked the front there and then almost highsided in back to back laps.
Turn 3 with that second black square patch was getting torn up too.

Ah well, make due with what the conditions throw at you.
 
CrashChris said:
You did really well! Wish i could have watched more of it.

The hairpin asphalt was chewed up. I almost tucked the front there and then almost highsided in back to back laps.
Turn 3 with that second black square patch was getting torn up too.

Ah well, make due with what the conditions throw at you.
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Thanks! I'm pretty sure the two stone chips in my new helmet and the one in my visor is from one of those places. I wasn't happy finding those.
 
CrashChris said:
You did really well! Wish i could have watched more of it.

The hairpin asphalt was chewed up. I almost tucked the front there and then almost highsided in back to back laps.
Turn 3 with that second black square patch was getting torn up too.

Ah well, make due with what the conditions throw at you.
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Which Chris are you, #680 or 270?
 
dricked said:
Thanks! I'm pretty sure the two stone chips in my new helmet and the one in my visor is from one of those places. I wasn't happy finding those.
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Makes two of us. As many stone chips in my visor in one weekend as I have had riding 100K street.
 
Jayv said:
You were flying, shame about the red flag in sbk that cost you another win.
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Ya but that's racing. I went out on a soft gambling that I could get 7 or 8 hard laps in and I did. Then it was starting to go just after the restart and I couldn't get enough drive to keep up. Oh well. Maybe next time.
Thanks for the support!



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Shaman said:
Makes two of us. As many stone chips in my visor in one weekend as I have had riding 100K street.
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The visor I can replace but the high viz red is where my stone chips are. Could be worse, I could have finished my crashes and ended up needing a whole new helmet.

CrashChris said:
Ya but that's racing. I went out on a soft gambling that I could get 7 or 8 hard laps in and I did. Then it was starting to go just after the restart and I couldn't get enough drive to keep up. Oh well. Maybe next time.
Thanks for the support!



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I took that gamble in qualifying and it didn't pay off. I never thought I would see traffic in Pro SBK at a CSBK event.

I was beginning to wonder if you were getting any signals to show you had a big gap before the red flag. You were doing really well.
 
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