{"id":43,"date":"2016-04-14T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:54:54","slug":"racing-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Racing &#8212; part deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m getting the racing thing the hard way. Took to Arroyo Seco down near Deming for the second attempt, and it didn&#8217;t go quite as well. I don&#8217;t know the track nearly as well as I&#8217;d like (or, really, at all) and the Saturday track day was seriously plagued by wind. I got about 20m on track.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday, race day &#8212; not as good! First race went OK, though I felt slow as molasses. Second race, second lap &#8212; racing incident, as a 250 thought there was a space on my inside and there wasn&#8217;t. His front tyre hit my thigh, and that was a predictable result<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/11463\/category\/432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/_data\/i\/galleries\/motorcycling\/trackdays\/20160313-ASMARaceDay\/2016-03-13_21.23.09-me.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bike got off worse than I did. Clutch master, rearset both trashed, lever bent, frame slider screwed up and some bodywork damage. The latter? Meh. The lever? Usable. The others needed some work &#8212; thankfully, used parts abound for the RC51.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/picture.php?\/11460\/category\/432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/pictures\/_data\/i\/galleries\/motorcycling\/trackdays\/20160313-ASMARaceDay\/2016-03-13_17.01.36-me.jpg\" width=\"792\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a fixfest, but the test and tune went well. Leathers getting fixed up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; I guess I&#8217;m getting the racing thing the hard way. Took to Arroyo Seco down near Deming for the second attempt, and it didn&#8217;t go quite as well. I don&#8217;t know the track nearly as well as I&#8217;d like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}