Race slicks vs street tires

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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:51 pm

Grinner wrote:Hey fix...a quickshifter for the cool factor is like stretching the 1000 in my garage!! :SideSplittingLaughter:
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Probably, but you know you secretly want to stetch it.. admit it, its all good we won't judge.... too much!
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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by Grinner » Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:12 pm

Oh hellz yeah....all stretched n chromed out with a NOS bottle n a turbo...190mph...here i come!!!!
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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by DarcShadow » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:48 pm

fixxervi6 wrote:I have no idea if he can never been on the track with him, its an assumption that he can pass me on his 250, I'm not going to argue with it because if he does it'll just be twice the salt.
Oh yeah, not saying your so slow or anything, just MoS is damn fast on the 250. Even on the 1.7 he'd probably be about mid to upper pack in Level 2 and on the 1.3 easily top 5 to 10% of the pack.
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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by NickS » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:49 pm

My guilty pleasure is a set of slip ons that have a negligible performance boost, gotten for the looks. $1.1k....douche tax. You only live once, might as well enjoy the motorcycle bits.
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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by Rhino » Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:46 pm

DarcShadow wrote:
fixxervi6 wrote:I have no idea if he can never been on the track with him, its an assumption that he can pass me on his 250, I'm not going to argue with it because if he does it'll just be twice the salt.
Oh yeah, not saying your so slow or anything, just MoS is damn fast on the 250. Even on the 1.7 he'd probably be about mid to upper pack in Level 2 and on the 1.3 easily top 5 to 10% of the pack.
Yeah, exactly. And the worse conditions are, the better he does relative to the pack.

I saw the video sckego took when the two of them hit the track in their glowsticks on 250s. Sckego was passing people left and right, and Snail kept pulling away from sckego. He's just that damn fast.

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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by DarcShadow » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:19 am

Part of the reason I like the 1.3 so much. People just don't know how to ride it yet, so those that have figured it out, or at least figured it out more then the other guys, can fly past people left and right.
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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by Rhino » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:18 am

DarcShadow wrote:Part of the reason I like the 1.3 so much. People just don't know how to ride it yet, so those that have figured it out, or at least figured it out more then the other guys, can fly past people left and right.
Yeah, now that I'm *way* more comfortable with my riding than I was on trackday #3, I'm looking forward to hitting up the 1.3 again. That track is almost one constant set of turns. If you screw up, you're not really recovering for at least half a lap, maybe more. I remember that really the only places you have to recover are before the big right-hander and on the front "straight" (if you can call it that).

But yeah, when you get it figured out, it just flows so nice. I wish I'd had more than 2 or 3 really good laps on that track. Guess I'll have to go back for more.

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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by DemonDuck » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:33 am

Grinner wrote:Oh hellz yeah....all stretched n chromed out with a NOS bottle n a turbo...190mph...here i come!!!!
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You need all that to hit 190?

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Re: Race slicks vs street tires

Post by Grinner » Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:21 pm

Actually....it is more of a sarcastic joke against the SV. In all honesty, im sure just a sprocket change and a little practice and she could hit 200. But im just sayin!
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