Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:56 pm
Let me start with the prep a few days before the race. I posted a bad luck thread to show some of what happened.
Bent rear axle, worn clutch plates, overheating, and bent steering stem. Well, remapped and fixed my fuel issue. Replaced a few metal plates and reshimmed the rekluse. Removed my LSR axle and put on a stocker. Well, now I was 43 inches in the rear and 46 inches in the front. I took it for a test ride and I could slide the rear end around ok and seems ok with it.
Now, on to the race. I get there in the morning and unload. Remove a little more fuel from the bottom end and do a couple practice starts. Very little bog now so I was happy with the dead engine starts. Go up to start practice and we head out. This trail was freaking horrible!! bad narrow with little 1" and 2" stumps all over the place. The first mile is horrible weaving in and out of little 2" sapplings that loved grabbing the front tires. Then we hit a little more open area then back into the tight trails. Then large ruts in offcamber areas. This was a very bad thing for us skinny boyz and I was on 2 wheels fast. 30 minutes of practice and we hadn't finished the lap. We all get waved back to go to the start. Robert and I complained to each other and said this is not going to be fun at all. Very few areas where you can actually get any kind of speed. And we had no idea of the rest of the track.
Well, we line up and the flag drops. I hit the start button and it fires right up. Slam the throttle and BURP! Stalled. I throw out an explative and hit the start button again, BURP! stalled again! At this point everyone was off the line. It cranks but hesitates so I throw it in nuetral. Start it up and rev, drop it in 2nd and get going. By the time I left the line everyone had already made the turn and was in the woods. Not good!!! Robert had made it in ~4 in front of me so I had to settle into a fast pace to play catch up. I catch up to the 1st guy pretty fast and he pulls over for me pretty quick.
Bent rear axle, worn clutch plates, overheating, and bent steering stem. Well, remapped and fixed my fuel issue. Replaced a few metal plates and reshimmed the rekluse. Removed my LSR axle and put on a stocker. Well, now I was 43 inches in the rear and 46 inches in the front. I took it for a test ride and I could slide the rear end around ok and seems ok with it.
Now, on to the race. I get there in the morning and unload. Remove a little more fuel from the bottom end and do a couple practice starts. Very little bog now so I was happy with the dead engine starts. Go up to start practice and we head out. This trail was freaking horrible!! bad narrow with little 1" and 2" stumps all over the place. The first mile is horrible weaving in and out of little 2" sapplings that loved grabbing the front tires. Then we hit a little more open area then back into the tight trails. Then large ruts in offcamber areas. This was a very bad thing for us skinny boyz and I was on 2 wheels fast. 30 minutes of practice and we hadn't finished the lap. We all get waved back to go to the start. Robert and I complained to each other and said this is not going to be fun at all. Very few areas where you can actually get any kind of speed. And we had no idea of the rest of the track.
Well, we line up and the flag drops. I hit the start button and it fires right up. Slam the throttle and BURP! Stalled. I throw out an explative and hit the start button again, BURP! stalled again! At this point everyone was off the line. It cranks but hesitates so I throw it in nuetral. Start it up and rev, drop it in 2nd and get going. By the time I left the line everyone had already made the turn and was in the woods. Not good!!! Robert had made it in ~4 in front of me so I had to settle into a fast pace to play catch up. I catch up to the 1st guy pretty fast and he pulls over for me pretty quick.