{"id":51,"date":"2017-01-11T00:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:55:23","slug":"goin-racin-2016-season-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Goin’ Racin’ — 2016 Season summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I guess I should get a team name. I’ve failed at that, because I’m just not sufficiently creative<\/p>\n

However, I did manage to race a little in 2016. Unfortunately, nowhere near as much as I wanted, and my times didn’t get close to where I meant to. I had more bike issues than I was happy with, however, and mechanicals cost me a few days of racing. Between both radiators dying, shock rebuild, and the water pump seal letting go the bike spent a lot of time up at Speedin’ Motorsports<\/a>\u00a0. (Big thank you to Brian and the crew up there for all their support)<\/p>\n

Added to this the RC51s penchant for overheating made itself clear when I tried to do back to back races and meant I didn’t get a shot\u00a0at least one Superstreet podium. (For values of ‘superstreet’ and ‘podium’). All that said, I’ll be racing a different bike this year. I get to do the first year race bike thing all over again! (In fact, with Steve Brown acquiring the VTR250R, the garage is once again Honda-free. Sad panda!)<\/p>\n

Best result was a third; somewhat tempered by the fact that there were only three runners in that race.<\/p>\n

First, the good — all my gear worked well. I’m happy with it, even though it’s been selected as a hodge-podge and at different times and for different reasons. Some of it may be coming to the end of it’s life and need replacing soon, but so far, so good!!<\/p>\n

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I thought I’d run a list of what I was using.<\/p>\n