R1 track bike

I bought a cross a plane r1 for track days a few weeks ago from pcr performance and it’s an incredible piece of kit but then I got offered this and well Paul caught me at a weak moment.
https://imgur.com/a/xGbrMei

Oh....is it coming to cadwell next week?

426hemi wrote: Yes it’ll be at cadwell, I’m getting a load of scrubs from omg racing if you’re interested in any ?

I run a 180/60 on the gixer as its a 750 but cheers for asking. Probably got one more day out of the rear and it's likely next week will be the last until almeria in Feb and I'll put a fresh set on. Weather is looking kind for Friday mate. 

so you keeping the cross plane r1 as well as this one

The black one is for sale if anyone is interested, it’s a stunning piece of kit and way better than me, the old adage of all the gear and no idea with it and then I bought the other one 😁, I’ve got cadwell on the new one on the 29th with training so hopefully it’ll be dry.

All I can say is.....WOW!!! Another beautiful bike Hemi! The other R1 is a beauty also!...whoever buys it will be incredible happy, I'm sure!! 

Great news! Did you book the training through the track day organisation?

Really good to finally meet up mate and a brilliant day all round. No reds and sunshine ☀ just lost a couple of sessions at the start of the day. 

Haha yeah not great! I wobbled round for the sighting laps then it was a mass exodus .  That's one serious R1 mate

426hemi wrote: Cheers dude, it’s a serious piece of kit, I did think about getting a 600 originally that I could learn on and not worry about to much but that soon went out the window.

Track riding is fun and everyone is different so it depends on what you want to get out of it. A modern 1000cc+ superbike is going to be exciting and scary but with the electronics looking after you most can go out and enjoy themselves in relative safety. I have been riding on track now for 15 years but only the last 4-5 seriously and I learnt to ride a very old 600 to its absolute limit ( embarrassing many a v4 until the straight ) until I felt like I was going to crash big time trying to squeeze an extra second a lap out of it before moving upto the 750. On most UK circuits a well ridden 600 or even less will be quicker than a average rider on a big bike and you learn to carry crazy corner speed which you then transfer to bigger bikes and then you are really moving! I'm not knocking anyone for riding whatever they like on track as I said it's fun but to gradually build your skill a smaller capacity machine will hone your skills and teach track craft in a better way in my opinion. 

Exhaust and mapping, it’s still got the oe headers.

Haha too good to miss! It's stunning. Like I said mate everyone has a different reason for going out on track and I would never say a modern mental machine isn't the right machine just that track craft is easier to learn on a smaller capacity bike. Hope we can meet up again next season. 

426hemi wrote: Exhaust and mapping, it’s still got the oe headers.