Nice project! You're not related to Burt Munro are you
unfortunately not, but would like to be
update race at Rijeka sept. 2010:
we had bad luck, but in the end everything went fine.
a friend of mine rode my egli and our guzzi. cause of oil at the track he crashed the sohc-egli during first practice. but i managed to repair the bike and we finished 9th in the short track race. the bike performed more than well, power output ok, handling could not have been better. our GPS lap timer showed a max of 224km/h, best laptime 1.47.50sec.
damage to the bike: fairing, painting of the seat, footrest, gear pedal, left handlebar. now the bike is as new again
our guzzi performed not as good. we had some handling problems in fast turns, 4th gear under accelerating, track uneven. reducing throttle, acceleration helped and the bike went fine. but under full acceleration the wobble began.
we didn´t have such problems in Spa, Oschersleben nor Imola. But Slovakiaring it started that bad behaviour and it was worst in Rijeka.
nevertheless we started the 2hours race. we had been 4th, 20min before end of the race one rider crashed again. again damage was minor and the bike has been repaired on the track.
next tuesday we are planing to do our last test riding (panonniaring) this year. we will do some test runs with öhlins rear shocks to sort out our handling issues. curious if this will help, otherwise there will be some work in the winter season.
i have found 3 nice youtube vids (the third one is link only) from the event in rijeka:
http://www.youtube.com/user/oldtimersignalesome impressions from the race weekend.
mec