[Diy_efi] Silver State Race?

[Adam Wade]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven P. Donegan" <steve at donegan.org>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 2:54 PM
Subject: [Diy_efi] Silver State Race?


> Anyone going to go play in Nevada in September? I've done it 8 times -
> but haven't done it since 200 so will be a re-birth for me.

Wow, haven't been there in almost 1800 years, huh?  I'll bet things go a
lot 
more quickly with internal combustion engines being the standard now and 
all.  ;)

Seriously...  I'd love to go and capture some of the personalities that
will 
be there...  There must be more than a few "gonzo" folks who might have
once 
claimed to be on the Vincent Black Shadow team.  ;)  If there was any 
motorcycle content, I could reasonably get media credentials and soak up
the 
local color.  If I wasn't fairly sure that Automobile Magazine would
already 
have someone there, I could try and break into automotive journalism.  ;) 
More of a market than the motorcycle world, I hear tell...  And I long to
be 
allowed to write the sort of stuff Ezra Dyer puts out, and that Jamie
Kitman 
used to many moons ago.  I should amend that; I write that sort of stuff 
quite often, but so far there isn't a media outlet in North America that 
showcases that sort of writing for the motorcycle world.  Anyone want to 
start a new magazine with me?  :D  I can have a business proposal
researched 
and assembled by the end of the week...

Seriously, if you're going, I may make the trek out to enjoy the
experience, 
and to spend some time talking face-to-face about some of the long-term 
projects we've been discussing.  I doubt I can fund much more than gas
there 
and back out of my own pocket, but I should be able to finagle media 
credentials, and although my stamina ain't what it used to be, I can still 
spin a mean wrench (I'm a former AMA Superbike trackside race mechanic). 
Ping me off-list with details and so forth, and I'll see if I can't work 
something out.  It sounds like a blast, and I remember reading about it 
maybe 5, 6 years ago in Automobile.  Wish they'd let me run my motorcycle 
flat-out with the tall gearing, I've always wanted a straight, long, safe 
stretch of road to test top speed.  With the major motor mods, the bike
will 
pull right past redline in top gear (stock gearing) without much indication

that you've gone past "the end of the dial".  No bodywork, but with stock 
gearing, the actual "no compromise" redline hits at about 115-120 mph using

stock gearing (16T front, 41T rear).  With my taller gearing (17T front,
38T 
rear), the GPS says I've had it up to an honest 125, with plenty more pull 
to use, but I ran out of straight, smooth road and my paranoia about 
handcuffs and watching my bike get smashed up hanging from the strap of a 
tow truck as it travels to impound judiciously relaxed the twist of my
right 
wrist.  ;)  Would be a lot of fun to see what I can do for a top speed, as 
well as finding out if I can raise that even more with another gearing 
change.  ;)

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