We ran the
Black turbo nitrous BSA in the MPS/PBF-750 class for the first time at
Wilmington where the standing record was 122 mph. First run out of the
trailer on Saturday managed a really smooth and perfect 159mph run with a
pretty strong head/quartering wind (13-20mph). Not quite our 650
record speed at 162.5 but I was really happy considering the wind we
were fighting.
Up
next I ran the orange hornet in the M/PG-650 class that had a standing
record of 115 mph. This bike we are on our "millionth" engine
configuration so it was untested besides some dyno work and it was
making some real good power, more then we ever have, internal gear
ratios where changed with a modified trans along with final gearing.
First run in the same head/quartering wind as the black BSA the bike
started off real strong, even carried a power wheelie with our tall ass
gearing in second gear and passed the half mile at 114 mph, when I
shifted into high gear it was really hauling until to jumped out of gear
and went back into third on its own, I fought with the shifter to keep
it in gear but by then we lost all of our momentum that couldn't be
regained and the bike passed the one mile trap at 107mph.
On
our second and final runs for the day the wind really picked up and
started coming straight down the track at around 20 mph, with that wind
the chances of us picking up speed from our previous 159 run with the
black bike was going to be next to impossible so we used the run to do a
real world test on some new surface fire plugs. On our run just after
the half mile mark the bike developed a severe misfire so I backed off
the nitrous and coasted through the traps around 137 mph. Lesson
learned, surface fire spark plugs will need some more testing before we
can try again.
With
the wind still coming straight down the track I jumped onto the orange
bike and really gave it hell, hit all shift points and when I reached
top gear I held the shifter down with my foot while making myself as
small as possible on the bike but we just didnt have the horsepower to
break through the 20+ mph head wind and passed the traps at 112 mph.
Unfortunately
the rainy and windy weather on Sunday did not allow us to run again so
we never got to run the hornet or the black bike again. We will be
praying to the weather gods for good conditions on our 1.5
mile assault at Loring, Maine in July.