Off season Covid shenanigans

[mossrider]

Now I'm at BIR for a Zars track day Tuesday and Wednesday. Split time deal with Attack Yamaha and Westby Racing in the house.

Attack has a new R7 in the truck with some of their parts on it. I'm trying my best to behave and maybe get a run on it after Jake Gagne and Josh Herrin are done hoonin around on it. Of course they have their respective race bikes here as well. 

Gonna be some fun.

Oh and then we're here for a club race Fri thru Sunday. I should find a job.

Nah.

[mossrider]

The morning view out one side of the rig,

The other,

And company for breakfast,

Little ones are just pigs. Eat everything and fast, I guess we are at a race track.

[mossrider]

Here's a beautiful lady ready to git wit it. She belongs to Thor. 

Thor was warned these pics could be replaced with identical ones with his purse on the bars if he failed to perform. Just sayin. 

There are several MotoAmerica Twins Cup FZ07R's here too.

 

Edit: He earned these pics. Haulin the mail.

[mossrider]

Jake Gagne on the R7.

#spypics

Yamaha Corporate had a photographer in my corner too. Somehow his pics are better than these

[mossrider]

Got the suspension back and put on the bike. Went through the bearings and bushings in the linkage. 

And I've got the bodywork back from my neighbor, the 'Painter'. Looks good. Same white paint I shot Shawn's V2 with. After a fair amount of fussing around I got it fitting well enough mount it up.

Then mix and match some leftover graphics from other bikes.

54,000rpm of pen grinder off the Matco truck makes short work of fiberglass bodywork, fingers, plastic, knuckles, metal, etc.

But this, this is not how you fix anything but a hockey stick! 

There was a wad of friction (hockey) tape in/under the throttle assembly presumably to 'fix' something before it got ratty and gummed up everything making for a death machine.

Seriously folks, if you don't know WTH you're doing then get help. There is NO place on a motor bike for hockey tape! Now I have to order a throttle tube, adds another week or two to the build.

Got the chain and sprockets on too. ERV7, new ERV3 upgrade. I'm skeptical, it looks cheaper in both materials and workmanship than the original. Same high price tho.

Been a fun last few days in the shop.

[Evill_Ed]

Looking good Moss.

 

Ed

[seven]

12 hours ago, mossrider said:

Got the chain and sprockets on too. ERV7, new ERV3 upgrade. I'm skeptical, it looks cheaper in both materials and workmanship than the original. Same high price tho.

The ERV7 is lighter than the ERV3 I think...perhaps that is part of the issue in that they would have had to use less material so it looks less substantial? Maybe they found that the ERV3 was under-spec'd on paper so the ERV7 meets the same specs but they could do it with less materials.

[bornagainbiker]

On 6/24/2021 at 9:56 PM, mossrider said:

There was a wad of friction (hockey) tape in/under the throttle assembly presumably to 'fix' something before it got ratty and gummed up everything making for a death machine.

Jeez, talk about asking for trouble. 

[TenRacing]

Growing old = not optional

Growing up = optional.  

not gonna do it.  neener neener neener.  

thanks for crewing MOSSRIDER!  

We'll leave the gascap and tire sticker discussion for another day.  hahaha  

love ya bro!

[TenRacing]

On 6/12/2021 at 9:24 AM, mossrider said:

Chasing Nirvana,

(photo by Brian J. Nelson )

Approaching "all there is".

 

could have been better in Qualifying if the rider could put a couple fast segments together... geez... 

 

[tootjr33]

On 6/24/2021 at 8:56 PM, mossrider said:

Got the suspension back and put on the bike. Went through the bearings and bushings in the linkage. 

And I've got the bodywork back from my neighbor, the 'Painter'. Looks good. Same white paint I shot Shawn's V2 with. After a fair amount of fussing around I got it fitting well enough mount it up.

Then mix and match some leftover graphics from other bikes.

54,000rpm of pen grinder off the Matco truck makes short work of fiberglass bodywork, fingers, plastic, knuckles, metal, etc.

But this, this is not how you fix anything but a hockey stick! 

There was a wad of friction (hockey) tape in/under the throttle assembly presumably to 'fix' something before it got ratty and gummed up everything making for a death machine.

Seriously folks, if you don't know WTH you're doing then get help. There is NO place on a motor bike for hockey tape! Now I have to order a throttle tube, adds another week or two to the build.

Got the chain and sprockets on too. ERV7, new ERV3 upgrade. I'm skeptical, it looks cheaper in both materials and workmanship than the original. Same high price tho.

Been a fun last few days in the shop.

Hey mossrider , what about that J B weld on engine case...........

[mossrider]

11 hours ago, tootjr33 said:

Hey mossrider , what about that J B weld on engine case...........

What about it? This bike has been getting it's ass kicked around race tracks for 22 years. It's current shape is an amalgam of all those who shared it's history. Much of it's appeal is it's many mysteries and scars which give it character and create it's story. The previous owner is but a tile in this bikes mosaic as he ran it the way he found it for a year before I got holt of it. I hope to return it to it's once majestic place as arguably the best middleweight sport bike of all time. 

That engine cover is no longer available from Yamaha (damnit). It looks to be a solid repair but if it gives me trouble I'll pull that cover and weld it up instead of the old trackside J.B. weld repair. 

This bike and I are going to have another crack at going fast before we end up in the bone pile. 

And btw I'm calling it dun. 

[tootjr33]

Lookn Good