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% I'm itching to get down to the 1:17s with street / track tires and no warmers with at least 1 previous track day and a spring and summer commuting on them! Stock bike too! That's my goal! Then I'll lose 30 lbs and crack 1:16. Ambitious I know but as they say, it's 90% diet....so...maybe the...

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Flames dude airbrushed flames! Peeling skin is also a good look. Keep it classy.

Just checking with some Pirelli forums and they advise for a baseline on SC SP to run 31F-28R off the warmers. Heat soak tires in the warmers for 60min @ around 76C. This may vary with slicks of course, just as the matrix posted earlier for Dunlop. There were some crazy low cold PSI numbers...

Nah. Somewhere in the learning curve myself. But I will add that I was running 25PSI dead cold, in 27C with a soft-ish rear set up, and the rear really didn't start to tear until I was regularly under 1:20 and towards the late mid afternoon. It sounds strange to me, that a street / track Super...

This may be right....looks like pics of "cold tearing" on google. MCN article here: http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Products/productsresults/Tyres/2010/November/nov1510-why-are-tyres-yearing-after-10-maps/ Got me scratching my head now. This seems to be a bit of a dark art to getting this...

They will do it for any bike with adjustable suspension. Takes them about 15 to 20 mins. Call ahead to make sure they are not busy, but usually they can do it on a drop in basis. Just come in all the gear you want to be set up for, street or track, cause it can often be 30lbs + of gear!

So essentially the bike is squatting too long under acceleration? Dialling back the rebound dampening is your suggestion? Interesting, I'll give that try and see if it doesn't see saw on corner exits. If it's still solid and planted, then we may have a winner here! Paul, what are you 200lbs+? I...

It all sounds about right to me. I usually get the middle of the tire up to 65 to 67C and 29PSI hot up from 25PSI cold. Ideally I think I should have the rear up to 31 PSI hot and the rear a little stiffer to run sub 1:20. That being said I didn't get anywhere near the same tearing as you and...

Those take offs still available? Got pics? What spec / compound? I'm curious to give slicks a try and see how they compare to my regular supercorsa SP...where did you do the 20 laps (what track) and what were your times on them? I ask just cause I am wondering what kind of life and performance...

@Carbon Cat & 49 Over: I was at TMP 2 weekends ago with Paul, running similar lap times (he was in the 1:17s and I was in the 1:19s) and I really only noticed that kind of shredding / tearing when I dipped under 1:20s. My tires looks only slightly less so than Carbon's in the pic above. However...

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I'm a tad on the broke side for track days for the rest of the season so I'm thinking early next season. Bogie or Mosport, but I have never been to Mosport...it's just the only place we will really get a chance to stretch the Panis' legs.

When u thinkin' of a track day? Sounds very tempting!

To the rider on the green ZX10R that is leading me in my clip posted earlier. I met a brother from your crew Road Dawgs at LL today and had a nice chat. So Glen if you see this, hit me up and we can swap footage. All be it, I am only in your front cam for one measly little pass...but with any...

Oh i forgot to mention......quick shifter......easily shaves a second or more. If you can't afford that, MotoGP style shifting (reverse) shaves off 80% of what a quick shifter would do, and depending on your bike costs nothing. Also do a 1/5 rifleman's throttle insert with a zip tie and get...

I'm guessing it was a gang thing or a bike theft ring thing. I doubt they were after sketchy after market bits and bobs.

Let's race and see the difference the R has on the S!

Glad I survived!

You don't need slicks or DOTs to get under 1:20. Just a bigger rear sprocket to get better drive out of the corner in second, smooth lines (which can be tricky at a patchy track like Cayuga). I myself have just broken 1:20 and I think going forward it will be a combo of confidence riding on the...