Lightness = good

 Well, since I blew up the engine on the 1000SS on the 3,000 foot long
main straight of Summit Point last Monday, I thought what the hell,
I'll just put the BST carbon fiber wheels on the 750SS street bike
this evening.

Dang.   Light is good.

Gonna have some splainin' to do if I get pulled over though - those
Pirelli Diablo slicks are decidedly non-D.O.T. approved.

Then I moved the old family room stereo receiver and cd player to my
office and hooked it up to the old family room rear speakers, and
Cross Canadian Ragweed sounds....   real good.

 tomorrow@erols.com wrote:

Can you be more specific?  "blew up" covers a fair amount of ground.
Hopefully it is rebuildable.

 
Well, nothing came through the cases and there was no smoke or oil.
Shut off at the end of the main straight, downshifted from sixth to
third as per usual, eased out the clutch, and it sounded like I had
thrown all the silverware into a running garbage disposal.   Rear tire
locked and skidded, so I pulled in the clutch and took the escape
road.   When I pulled up to a stop, the engine was not running, the
transmission was locked up, and the bike won't shift gears.   Probably
something in the tramsmission or primary drive, rather than the bottom
end of the engine itself.[1]

It's a 4,600 km engine, stock except for a Power Commander III, open
airbox, and full race exhaust.  Of course, all 4,600 kms on the engine
are race or trackday kilometers, and the previous owner was known to
be hard on his equipment.

It made 87 rwhp when it was dynotuned in September 2009, and only had
about 150~200 kms added to it since then.

Talked to my old engine builder about building it up, and he has no
time until August.   Typical "mild" 1000SS built motors (Ducati
Performance race chip, high compression pistons and cams, 5-angle
valve job, along with various "standard" lightening and strengthening
mods) make about 100-105hp reliably for 2-3 full race seasons.  I'm
just looking at track days, playing with the boys on real motorcycles
with waterpumps and lots of valves.

Oh, and my builder "strongly recommends" a slipper clutch.   Not that
that would have helped in the above scenario, of course.

I think 105hp and 335 pounds would be a nice combination for a track
bike.

Meanwhile, I think I'll take the 750SS back up to Summit and play with
it.   Haven't had it on the track since September of 2009, either.

[1] This was my thought at the time, and was also the most likely
scenario according to my engine builder when I spoke to him about the
incident.

 On May 17, 6:54 pm, "tomor...@erols.com"
 Rear tire

Seems like pulling in the clutch wouldn't have
helped if it was a locked up transmission.

 

Oh, you *bastard*.


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