for all those that dont know, jess turns "22" today. at the risk of gettin the crap kicked out of me by john, jess looks more and more lovely everyday. happy bday to one of the OG wives. :thumbup:

On my Yamaha FZR

DCsportbikes.net picnic

i heard about this picnic when i was at coleman's this morning

$5 all you can eat with all the bikes you can see

i might be going with some fellow riders, just gauging interest from MM

Wheels: http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1388875

Trans: http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1388832

Front Sway Bar: http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1388871

Everything Else: http://hondamarketplace.com/zerothread?id=1383935

Going to be on for another half an hour, it's 9:40am right now!

For you tranceaddicts, sick show so far, some great club bangers and old school stuff he spun:

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Best two runs where a 9.520 @ 73.434 mph with a 2.292 60', and a 9.501 @ 73.896 mph with a 2.316 60'. It's a little bit slower then I wanted, but not to bad. The track is at around 2,000 feet, so at sea level I'm sure it would be a little bit faster. I was shifting around indicated redline (7500, which is more like 7300 or 7400). Those 1/8 miles times come out to a high 14 1/4 mile.

My mods are an SR20VE into a B13 Sentra with a wai, hotshot gen6 header, stock cat, courtesy midpipe with a magnaflow muffler, jwt ecu, and thermoblock spacers. I want to run an open exhaust next time I go, I think that would really open it up. The goal is to eventually hit 12's in the quarter all motor.

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As some of you know, a few weeks ago I did an interview with the Honda of America Road Racing Crew Chief/Manager Al Luddington at VIR during the AMA race weekend there. Hopefully the interview with pics will be on Vtec.net soon but I thought I'd give you guys a little taste.

Ok, so there are currently several teams running CBR1000ÔÇÖs around the world, Ten Kate, the BSB team, Renegade Honda, Klaffi Honda, and I believe there are some teams running in Japan. Do you guys interface with them at all or exchange notes with them?

We have a guy on the team, Daisuke Hashimoto who has spent some time in Europe working on GP stuff so he has some real good connections with those guys. Earlier in the year when we were struggling trying to find a good baseline he actually did a two week trip, went to a couple of races, interfaced with all the Honda teams. They were very generous with their data all the way down to valving specifications and everything like that. He took pictures, he cataloged everything, we knew where everyone was at around the world that was racing Hondas. So to answer your question, we do keep close track of what the other guys are running, how its working, and things like that.

If youÔÇÖve got a big information pool and you have access to it youÔÇÖd be silly not to use it you know? I mean, IÔÇÖve always had a philosophy that kinda goes against maybe what some guys do, but IÔÇÖve always said good ideas always steal ÔÇÿem. Why reinvent the wheel? SomebodyÔÇÖs got a good idea thereÔÇÖs no sense in breaking your back trying to do something on your own just because you want it to be your own idea, thatÔÇÖs silly. Steal a good idea, use it, move yourself forward, move on

So with the development effort with the CBR1000ÔÇÖs how do you guys tackle it? Do you say ÔÇÿOK weÔÇÖre gonna develop the engine in parallel with the chassisÔÇÖ or ÔÇÿweÔÇÖre gonna concentrate on the chassis for a couple of months until we get something sorted outÔÇÖ Do you kind of look at where the shortcomings are and take on a shortcoming at a time?

Exactly, you hit it right on the head, we get ÔÇÿem out on the racetrack and circulate the racetrack, look at your lap times. Ok, why canÔÇÖt we achieve better lap times? Initially it was the suspension package. Ok, more power isnÔÇÖt going to do us any good, we canÔÇÖt use what we have now, we need to concentrate on the chassis. Now weÔÇÖre at the point with the chassisÔÇÖs such that we need to get back to engine development. WeÔÇÖd like to run everything in parallel but, this being our first year weÔÇÖre not adequately staffed. We recognize that as something that we need to do next year to stack up the development side of things much more intensively

as the title says, when is everyone leaving and where is everyone meeting at???