The fall and rise of a works SFC engine
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Jo
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You're very welcome! Guess the Nürburgring event is significant particularly for you, given that you managed to get two very unique bikes ready to demonstrate in the last couple of weeks!
The Legends event at the 'Ring turned out to be a roaring success, with all having loads of fun, on and off the track.
The Bimota SFC drew a lot of attention and rewarded all by behaving itself very nicely indeed. Not the slightest oil leak or mis-fire. Just needs a bit of encouragement to fire up, wouldn't be a real diva if not.
Having last ridden the GP circuit almost 30 years ago, the restructered course with the Mercedes Arena turned out to be quite the challenge. This offers dozens of lines... none of them correct!
Finding a flow through there is quite demanding, must be serious work in a F1.
Unfortunately, the bike is quite uncomfortable for me to ride, seems I've turned to the worse since the last outing at Paul Ricard 2018. The largely damping-less rear shocks weren't exactly inspiring either. I've now found a specialist that may be able to return them to working condition and perhaps the bike will get some proper racing rubber for the next outing, whenever that may be...
The handsome guy is my friend Kalle.
piet
The Bimota SFC drew a lot of attention and rewarded all by behaving itself very nicely indeed. Not the slightest oil leak or mis-fire. Just needs a bit of encouragement to fire up, wouldn't be a real diva if not.
Having last ridden the GP circuit almost 30 years ago, the restructered course with the Mercedes Arena turned out to be quite the challenge. This offers dozens of lines... none of them correct!
Finding a flow through there is quite demanding, must be serious work in a F1.Unfortunately, the bike is quite uncomfortable for me to ride, seems I've turned to the worse since the last outing at Paul Ricard 2018. The largely damping-less rear shocks weren't exactly inspiring either. I've now found a specialist that may be able to return them to working condition and perhaps the bike will get some proper racing rubber for the next outing, whenever that may be...
The handsome guy is my friend Kalle.
piet
It was great to meet you both at the ring.The Legends event at the 'Ring turned out to be a roaring success, with all having loads of fun, on and off the track.
The Bimota SFC drew a lot of attention and rewarded all by behaving itself very nicely indeed. Not the slightest oil leak or mis-fire. Just needs a bit of encouragement to fire up, wouldn't be a real diva if not.
Having last ridden the GP circuit almost 30 years ago, the restructered course with the Mercedes Arena turned out to be quite the challenge. This offers dozens of lines... none of them correct!
Unfortunately, the bike is quite uncomfortable for me to ride, seems I've turned to the worse since the last outing at Paul Ricard 2018. The largely damping-less rear shocks weren't exactly inspiring either. I've now found a specialist that may be able to return them to working condition and perhaps the bike will get some proper racing rubber for the next outing, whenever that may be...
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The handsome guy is my friend Kalle.
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