gpz750/810 first race report

larrycavan wrote:

Notice what every one of those old Kawasaki race bikes has in common?

Black cases and round slide carbs.

larrycavan wrote:

Notice what every one of those old Kawasaki race bikes has in common?

They all have BS34's :woohoo:

I really hope I get a job when I graduate, then my bike can be started for the first time with CR29s like God(Larry) intended.

trianglelaguna wrote:

and none of em have usd forks either...

And none were stock or ridden by wannabe racers...

true, 90% of the field (and not just open classers) run CR's, for some historic reasons they are way more common than Mikunui smoothbores.

The only scoots i see on track with CV's are people racing in the bracket class (lap time regularity) often on pretty stock bikes

That said, on the track you only care about what happens above 5000-6000K, and CR's are easy to tune and sort out for that kind of use.

Not so sure i'd want to run them on the street with start-stop traffic though.....

If you are after all out power then CR's rule, living with them day in day out, just maybe, never tried.

turboguzzi wrote:

true, 90% of the field (and not just open classers) run CR's, for some historic reasons they are way more common than Mikunui smoothbores.

The only scoots i see on track with CV's are people racing in the bracket class (lap time regularity) often on pretty stock bikes

That said, on the track you only care about what happens above 5000-6000K, and CR's are easy to tune and sort out for that kind of use.

Not so sure i'd want to run them on the street with start-stop traffic though.....

If you are after all out power then CR's rule, living with them day in day out, just maybe, never tried.

They generally come jetted fat for the street. Once they're leaned out, they work great there too.

larrycavan wrote: trianglelaguna wrote:

and none of em have usd forks either...

And none were stock or ridden by wannabe racers...

hows that contraption handle in the snow

Thanks for the up date. be careful grounding out. i've done that a few times and have even ended up running off the track to recover.:woohoo:
raising the bike is a good option.

mark1122 wrote: Thanks for the up date. be careful grounding out. i've done that a few times and have even ended up running off the track to recover.:woohoo:
raising the bike is a good option.

sure, have to sort out,


luckily next race track is mostly left turns and i am grounding on the right