My adventure continued into today. After a nice decamping w Peper last night, I left DC for Summit Point @ 0527h this morning. Stopped at Sheetz for gatorade and gas-up. Got there, took off the mirrors. Taped up the lights and gauges and made it nicely through Technical Inspection. Nice to see some people I met last October at the track. (One of the TInspectors, Jeremy, had his yellow lab with him as he TI’d bikes)
Got invited to pit in with some very experienced guys with coolers & sunshades. Guy I pitted in with has been riding/racing/renching BMWs for 35 years and won Senior Superbike Trophy during racing with WERA yesterday.
Spent much time with them and the Mortons BMW crew. One R1200RT rider, same colour as yours, Joe, was former FA officer and
CAS3 instructor. Great roar of bikes all over the paddock–Ducatis, BMWs, couple of Aprilias, many pure-track bikes. Not-street-legal, no lights and with lap time transponders and keyless starts.
Drank four to five bottles of gatorade, much water and munchies all day. With nerves and early morning heat the first session was one of the most demanding of the day. Just dripping for 20 minutes after.
Bike was great on the track. Great driving power when cracking open the throttle coming out of turns 1 and 2. Tried different suspension settings and settled on max preload @ front & rear. At the track they have you drop your tire pressure to 30# front/rear. Smoked off remaining chicken-strips and all the right-hand-side mud from our mud- catting @ Chincoteague.
Throttle up between 6-7-just-south-o-8 thousand revs. Some hard downshifts chirping rear wheel into turns sucked some oil into the chamber so i ended day just above bottom o oil-glass sightline.
All the new BMW bikes were there on display. F800S got limited riding. Goes 140mph. Experienced race instructor Stuart B said it’s easier to go fast on than the R1100S.
Re-assembled all, then trucked off to Turf Motel for dinner with some fellow riders. One was a real character from Yardley PA vic NJ.
Got home to creeping-in-slowly soreness.
life … fully-descended
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