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Had one of the newer racers at my local track put a strut, wheelie bars, slick and then lowered his gsxr1000. I think he dropped the forks in the triple trees, no strap. I was racing him in the third round. Just after the finish line he got into some bumps in the shutdown and it went into a nasty headshake. He was right next to me at this point and I'm looking over at him like oh *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$*@%^$. In the blink of an eye it went right over on it's side. I didn't see where he went all I could see was his bike sliding down the track right next to me. Sparks flying everywhere. I got off the brakes quick and made sure I stayed in front of that bike. That thing slid a long way. Once the sparks stopped he got right up and started running after his bike. Not even five minutes later he picked that thing up and rode it back up the return road. Luckiest guy I ever saw. I wish I had a helmet cam on at the time. Would have mades some awesome footage. Anyway I had a runner up finish on the gs $50. Thats my gs related portion of my post.
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I am always amazed at how few problems the bikes have at the track.
Where did this one happen? Were they going to do something to try and fix the track, if it really was the track? -
I bet he had it so low that when he touched the brakes the exhaust hit putting him into a tank slapper.Comment
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last spring they built the shutdown up 28 feet. It used to go down hill. Last year it was great. This year it started getting some rolling bumps in it just in the one lane. I assume from the settling. once you cross the finish line the trick is to move out of the groove toward the center. It's smooth there. I'm thinking it had something to do with the way he had the bike set up. I know the old kz's and gs's were known for their head shake if you loaded up the front end too much. It seems like the new liter bikes are awful twitchy as well. Then to modify the geometry without raking the front end just doesn't seem like a good idea. I'm not sure if they plan on doing anything about the shutdown.Comment
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I had something simillar happen manny years ago. Had my car at the strip, the car I was running next to broke an axel 8O and he flipped the car up and over the gard rail on my side . I just stood on the brakes to stay out of his wayComment
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