The other side of my garage

[hayduke]

Possibly a retirement project in another 10 years.....

I saw that line and chuckled... you've done so much *before* retirement, I can't imaging what you'll do when you have some free time...

A life well lived!

Keep it up!!

[busa1300]

 
I guess the first challenge is living to retirement...planning too far ahead possibly 

[busa1300]

Recommended break in is complete.
Time to step things up.
Ti pipe and race map tune...

Dyno testing shows an average of 12-14 extra HP at the rear tire with this combo....on top of the 217 at the crank

[busa1300]

As I briefly mentioned last year, that I had gone to Bonneville as a bucket list item I had to do. Initially the plan was to take my RGV VJ21-SP, but time and Covid changed that, and I eventually took my Hayabusa instead in 2021. Bonneville was also where I wanted to spread my dads ashes, as it is the birthplace of speed, and my dad lived to go fast.
I finally put together a very short clip of that together.

Bonneville was rained out in 2022, but I am hoping I can have the $$$ and logistics figured out to be there to go faster in 2023



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[busa1300]

Swapped out the velocity stacks on my RSV4 a while back, and reprogrammed it again.
Not that I needed the few extra HP....but I thought I did





Removed some unneeded euro5 emission crap.








Then wired in a tether kill going into my kickstand wiring to get through tech at top speed events.

[busa1300]

I put a number on it...





Was able to pull a 160.26 out of it on the 1/2 mile run.
Pretty average, but I'm over 60 and haven't run on a dragstrip in well over 25 years.
Not happy, but satisfied.

Bike was more optimistic

[busa1300]

Rained out again for another year 

[m in sc]

Bummer. man that aprilia is frickin amazing.   

[busa1300]

Bummer. man that aprilia is frickin amazing. 

I was using the Indy Airstrip Attack as a test run with the bike, as well as testing me, on hanging onto something with close to 210HP at the tire. I saw where Bonneville got rain when the SCTA was setting up and running... the track looked awful with a rough pot holed surface. I kinda figured that the AMA might call it when it was their turn several week later to run. The extra rain made it official. 
I think I'm starting to get old though as the RSV4 pulls so damn intense that I question my ability to keep it held down and straight at full throttle in 6th... on the salt...
Even though the bike has wings on the front, it was still feeling pretty light at the airport.
But I'm addicted to how it sounds and pulls, which is why my strokers have been collecting dust.

[busa1300]

Finally got one of my runs on my YouTube channel. Not the best one, because my camera was dead by the time I was able to figure out how to get the bike off the line.