Ledenon

Well, finally got around to writing up our trip down to Ledenon last weekend. Globally not bad, the RG got well and truly run-in although did manage to loosen up one rotary disk at the end of Sunday, but we managed 12 sessions in total with 8 sessions on the 350 (between Pierre-Luc, Pablo and myself) and 4 on the RG. About 50 litres of fuel, and a couple of litres of oil!

The 350 worked a dream all weekend, Pierre-Luc took her out first thing Satruday morning and bedded in the brakes (new disks and wheels) plus to wear-in the tyres. Pablo had his first go on the track soon after, and really did well, finishing the weekend with a great position on the bike as witnessed by his knee down at the entry to the tripl left at the end of the straight.

Although I think he has some work to hit the apex on that bend he certainly had great style!

I followed PL for a couple of laps with the onboard camera, and edited it down to the following small video :

Even the weather stayed good, the rain was supposed to hit on Sunday around lunch time so we packed up at around 12:00, and then hit the holiday traffic to get home around 16:00.

The aftermath of the RG500 was pretty dismal, and I am formally dumping my screwed up rotary disk hubs, to on only use the rivetted ones from now on!

The bike has been duly stripped down to the cranks again for a wash out, and fortunately the bearings seem OK. Don't know if I am going to sell it after this, as I am getting really pissed off with it! Still the next track outing is for the RG500 club at Ales, in October so we will see.

Still looks nice though!

On a different subject, I tightened the head race bearings on the FZR and she now handles acceptabley well, no longer shakes her head, and we will see about a new rear shock in the winter to bring her back to good handling bike, I really enjoyed batting around on her this weekend, and even Libby enjoyed a brief blast!