Raced again last weekend at Taupo again, had dropped the gearing further so able to use top gear, comfortably the quickest 650 racing, although partially due to the tight track as we're unfaired and the bike is light.
Racing at hampton downs labour weekend (late oct), then due to replace the rods. Intending to do a short rod conversion and fit A65 rods and modify one of the barrels to suit.
May even be time to fit the 358 cam, but then that may make it harder to glean the difference of the rod revision, so may not
do that yet.
Both my crewman and one of the other 650's crew ran helmet cams, so looking forward to seeing the footage, In one case we theoretically have footage of us having a very close racing incident with another rig and taking evasive action involving some 2 wheeling. If its any good will follow up with a link to utube.
Had three close calls, got rammed by a beemer R90 (their crew was the meat in the sandwich) (our lap times were the same but they were quicker on the straights), put my crewman into a traffic cone laying on the track (heard it and saw it bouncing gracefully over him
) then had to take evasive on a corner where a rig had some issues ahead of us then ran wide as we were going round him. A great weekend.
