BEARS Australia 2026

piranha-bro2 said:
Any race reports ... or timing sites I can visit?
piranha-bro2 said:
In Vanuatu for a cuppla weeks - I've taken on the chill factor and the brains in slo-mo. Mr Muir posted that the van was loaded and ready to head off last Wednesday
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left home Thursday morning, stopped overnight at Mitchell, Winton, Barkly Homestead and Pine Creek

Arrived at the track 08:35 Monday morning, total 3,410 klms
Weather is perfect 👌
 
This is our first time back to Hidden Valley for 3 years or maybe 4, not certain
Be interesting to see how the bikes go, last time we were here had 160 rear slicks and no Slipper Clutch

Now we have 180 rear slicks, both engines with rebuilt gearboxes and Slipper Clutches
Looking forward to the weeks practice and racing on the weekend, should lower our lap record here, all going well
 
redax5 said:
This is our first time back to Hidden Valley for 3 years or maybe 4, not certain
Be interesting to see how the bikes go, last time we were here had 160 rear slicks and no Slipper Clutch

Now we have 180 rear slicks, both engines with rebuilt gearboxes and Slipper Clutches
Looking forward to the weeks practice and racing on the weekend, should lower our lap record here, all going well
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Hi Red, all the best to you and your team!
Ciao, Gert
 
Tuesday morning, scrutineering done on all 3 bikes, passed easily
Ready for 4 days of practice

Between Matt's BMW and the Laverda's we have 8 brand new rear slicks and 6 new front slicks
Planning on doing a few laps
😃😀
 

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redax5 said:
Tuesday morning, scrutineering done on all 3 bikes, passed easily
Ready for 4 days of practice

Between Matt's BMW and the Laverda's we have 8 brand new rear slicks and 6 new front slicks
Planning on doing a few laps
😃😀
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Sounds like all is ready for a great week Red..
Have at it eh..(y)

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Been an interesting week so far
Passed scrutineering Tuesday morning okay, Matt took the BMW out for our 1st session, no issues
Mule next for her first run and on the 4th lap decided did not like being in 5th gear any more

Once cooled down dropped Exhaust and Belly Pan so we could access the Eccentric, made a slight adjustment but next time out no difference so when back in we dropped rear sprocket down to a 39 from 40 tooth

Took Veloce out but she was pumping too much in the rear so we swapped rear shocks from the Mule to Veloce as her preload adjuster is not playing the game

Wednesday, took Mule out first to try just 4 gears, she pulled a top speed of 222klms, not bad for 4th

Veloce with a 40 tooth sprocket and 5 gears only pulled 228klms on the straight
only did one more session on Veloce and one on the BMW but half way down the main straight the throttle tube on the BMW snapped off at the Fly by Wire assembly so now no throttle

Found one of the other BMW racers had a spare assembly but on installing it we could not program the ECU to learn the new Throttle assy even though was an exact same unit
Could not clear the existing error codes

Thursday, Brett arrived from Sydney on his 1200 Wednesday night being a 4,150 klm ride so both of us in the pits now

we had loaded the BMW in the race van and Matt and Brett were at the BMW Darwin dealer when they opened at 8am
After an hour or so, success, error codes cleared, reloaded the race map and back to the track

One session on Veloce in the morning and Matt decided we needed to change the rear spring rate so both shocks out, found a shockie spring compressor in the pits, changed both springs fronm 80 to 85 rate
Then reset the sag on Veloce and did the best we could with the Mules rear shock with a non working preload

Few more sessions, couple of tyre changes on Veloce and the BM, went home

Friday morning, Veloce qualified 2nd on the grid behind a KTM F3 bike, we being F4
Matt put the BMW in 4th in F1

First race, Veloce home 2nd outright behind the KTM, 1st in F4 class
Ran 1min, 15.5, only 0.2 seconds off of our lap record

Been a busy week, was expecting to just be bored all week but been working on all three all week
Two days left, 3 races eithe of the Laverda's and 3 on the BMW though may take the BMW out in the Superbike feature race

Going for a drink
 
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Racing - the fickle beast. As you say, a quiet week turns into a grinder. At least you've had results - top effort considering.

What size rear sprocket and what RPM to get El Mule to 228 in 4th?!
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Racing - the fickle beast. As you say, a quiet week turns into a grinder. At least you've had results - top effort considering.

What size rear sprocket and what RPM to get El Mule to 228 in 4th?!
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39 tooth, no idea of rpm, Tacho's are unnecessary weight and a distraction to the rider
We only run a lap timer which gives us lap times, top speed, G-force etc at the end of the race and flashes lap times across the finish line each lap

Our Tacho is two lights, yellow light starts to flash at 9,000 rpm, goes solid light at 9,250 rpm
Red light beside it starts to flash at 9,250 rpm, goes solid at 9,500 rpm
Rev limiter is currently set at 9,800 rpm.
All programmed in the Ignitech
 
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