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May 11th, 2014

5/11/2014

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I hardly touched the bike this weekend, with the exception of getting it out of the garage as a new freezer was delivered. I did however pick up a slightly second hand set of replacement black and white Xerox track fairings. Now this arn't full on track fairings, these are a set of cheaper after market fairings that I plan on using when the bike goes out on track. Giving them a very brief once over there are a few little niggles that I'll have to fix. The first is that one or two lugs are broken, mainly on the belly pan, which should be a pretty easy fix and I just have to work out the best way to do that. The second is the rear seat cowl. On a road bike, this gets locked in place with a simple release catch that is opened using the key. Now, when changing the tail units over, I don't want to have to remove the lock from the original tail piece every time I have a track day, so I need to come up with an alternative solution. I could leave it off completely, but that would defeat the point, so I was thinking maybe something simple like Velcro could work. I'd need to build in a tab that would allow me to life the back of the cowl upwards and the good news is that that would be really easy to do. 
Staying with the tail. I will still need indicators, so I was thinking I'd rig something up with the signals in the rear vents, unlike the integrated tail light I use at the moment. I still have the original light so I can use that and I just need to source some cheap LEDs to secure into each side of the tail.
One solution I've already sorted was I ordered a replacement Airblade screen from Conquest Carbon to mirror the one I already use.
In book news, despite already having several books that I need to read, I just recently started reading a book titled The Limit by Michael Cannell. This isn't about bike racing, or motorbikes at all in fact, but it documents the build up to and the whole of the 1961 F1 race that pitted Phil Hill against Count Wolfgang von Trips. The final line of the synopsis on the back cover says "This is Mad Men at 165mph"  Im not going to sit here and state that thats why I'm reading it, but it certainly didn't put me off.

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    My name is Matt Brown and I'm a UK journalist formerly based in London, but now calling the South of England home. I've been riding bikes since 2007, but got hooked straight away. Nothing gives me the feeling of freedom, even when stuck in a city. In 2010 I became a RoSPA gold rider, but when it comes down to it, I'm Just a normal man, riding his bikes as often as he can.

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