Love seeing the difference in the AIM man. Can't argue with those improvements. Chalk that silly crash up to a fluke. You're gonna be rolling 17's next season. I'm sure of it.
The AIM data is really useful in trying to pinpoint things that aren't obvious on the bike or in videos. I really can't even tell the difference on T6 silo from most videos but you can absolutely feel it on the bike when you're not having to throttle chop to make that little turn. I'm not sure it was a fluke, but it's certainly one I'm not planning on doing again in the future! Thanks again for all your help this year and especially your feedback from riding the bike. That helped a ton.
I absolutely love your video's :-) And my dream came through lol. I end up in your video ( the turtle 🐢 man hahaha). Can't wait for 2025. 17s coming right up.
I knew you'd enjoy the intro 🙂 So glad you bought that SV and persevered through the early year mechanical/electrical issues you had. I knew based on how quickly you were progressing and the work you put in on the track days leading up to the september round that we were going to end up battling, and it was great. 17's seems really far away, but it's good to have dreams, haha.
Awesome video man! Don't be so hard on yourself! You were riding great! I have an SV in my garage as well, that had freeze plugs pop from someone leaving outside. I got it running, but still needs everything else. I wanted to get it on track in 2024 but all my money went to tires 😆. Gonna try again in 2025!
Thanks man, I appreciate it. You've got a frozen SV too!? Hah, I sure wish there didn't seem to be such an epidemic of frozen SV engines abound. Good to hear you've got it running. Now you've got the offseason to get that bad boy ready to go in 2025. Sounds like you're well on your way.
Awesome video! Good to catch up with you on Sunday and hear that you were ok after the crash. And thanks for the wishes it was a blast at New Jersey. Hope to have more battles next year 💪
Thanks man. It was great to meet you, and you taught me quite a bit out there. Also pretty awesome to watch your battle with the 01 on Sunday when you were on the Yamaha. You guys always seem to get some interesting weather when you head out east to NJMP, so I'm glad to hear it was a blast!
Wish I had a time machine to go back to Blackhawk Farms during that era. I hear so many stories about how huge the grids and attendance used to be, I have to imagine it was incredible.
Great video man! I agree with Ryan, you'll be hitting 17's next year. That data and your critiques are spot on; you know what to do for some substantial gains IMHO. Keep up the good work :-)
Thanks man. Finding another second is going to be a really tall order, but that'll be a problem for 2025 me to solve. I need to gain some more confidence in the rear, and hopefully it will help me pick up little bits of speed everywhere. Awesome racing with you this year man. Congrats on your lightning quick results a few weeks ago!
Whats in store for the winter? How is the VF500F? I am slowly putting mine back together after tearing it down to frame and repainting it all. Trying to outrun the cold so all I have is mechanical over the winter. Having said that baring any other prior owners “special repair techniques” it should be done by November. I had to install a new main wiring harness due to chop chop rig rig repairs. I also went to a 42 rear sprocket so it has a bit more top end. I am anxious to see feel the new slotted rotors too. Loved my MT07. I should never have sold that bike.
@@AICD1999 well, that's a good question. Offseason will start in a few weeks because I made the executive decision that I'm gonna race Daytona. I've got a project SV Superbike I'd really like to see rideable. I have an SV engine I need to replace the transmission on, and I've never cracked open an engine before. And the project I've been neglecting most is the 1986 VFR700 I feel I've done most of the mechanical stuff on, but I'm at the part I absolutley suck at which is fixing destroyed bodywork. I just haven't found the motivation for that yet since it seems so daunting. My VF has been great so far this year. I haven't ridden much of anything on the street tho. The VF is about the only bike I even bother riding on the street since it's fun and just feels like home. Took it to a bike show and a few Harley nights at the museum, hah. Sounds like you're getting mighty close on your most recent VF project, that's awesome.
@@matttriestodothings fairings/plastics are a pain. Watch Windy Urtnowski videos on plastic repair. I use a hybrid approach between JB Weld sometimes and another technique. The other is used in miniature model flying airplane repair. I use fiberglass clothe and super glue. Apply to the back and let sit. You can fill the front crack with superglue as well. It will sand just like resin.
I've watched some of his videos. True-Moto-Resto (he's on the VFRWorld forums) does a ton of awesome work as well on gorgeous restorations. It's just the little things that take forever that I don't know how to do. Like, I ordered a $300 rear fairing from Airtech. It doesn't have any mounting posts, it's just the glass. I have to figure out how to make little mounting posts that correctly go into the mounts with the correct pressure to hold it. That will take me two months, tons of trial and error, a ton of wasted money, and likely very little payback. I'm to the point where I don't know if I'm even going to bother with the VFR700 since the fleet of SV650's I'm trying to maintain and eventually race is already too much. I'm just losing the time and patience. I think I need to cut the projects down. It's why I love where my VF500F is at. It's friggen perfect since I've spent so much time on it. Looks exactly like I want it to. Has everything it needs. More fun on the street than any other bike I own. And I ride about 500 street miles a year at this point.
@@matttriestodothings I use the abs plastics from the old fairings to make new eyelet style anchor points. and its also your reference of where to put them. Then I use the superglue and fiberglass sheet on the inside to secure. That works well. For the post style anchors I use JB weld and then a sheet of fiberglass and superglue surrounding it and out from it at least an inch or two to help secure it. I dont spend a lot of time making it look OEM as all of this is on the inside where nobody will see it. I may file or sand some so it isnt a total mess as well as some kind of spray over similar to the color around it. The cracks seen on the outside if the fairings I will fill with superglue and level by hand sanding just like Windy does. The key is securing all of this from the inside where nobody sees.
Im shocked, dude right a 16:30 I couldn't believe it. You were flying on that previous lap though, you got your 1:18! Honestly weird stuff happens when your racing, don't blame yourself, you got in the 1:18's and now I bet you can push your own wind and click off another one. And you can just tell people you didn't catch a false neutral you were just practicing backing in. 🤣
Yea I just was so focused on following and trying to make time/keep time with the two bikes in front of me, I didn't leave myself enough remaining brain points to deal with a variable in the equation. I've seen that type of thing on tons of track days, race days,etc., but always when I had some additional mental capacity to play with. It is what it is. Nobody hurt, couple hundred bucks in parts, a weekend of fixing some things, and some additional rash on already rashed fairings. If you see me backing it in, I can promise you it's not intentional, haha.
So what exactly makes that turn so difficult? You had awesome pace until that little chicane. What about it makes it hard to push? I haven't raced ever so I just don't know. Would just getting on lean angle help? Entry speed?
If you're talking about the long right hand turn 3 (carousel), that's me not being comfortable enough to give it enough gas for fear of slipping the rear. I was particularly bad on it in these videos, but what I should be doing is adding enough throttle to push me outward about a lane towards the end of it. It sounds counterintuitive, but being out a lane actually makes the little kink before the bus stop easier to hit at higher speed. My entry into the carousel was also too inside most of the laps in this video. If you're talking the little right hander after turn 6 (turn 6 silo I *think* it's called), it's a near full throttle knee-down right hander that just doesn't feel like you should be able to make it through it without letting off the throttle. I'd venture to guess it's the part of the track most people lose time on, and they may not even know it. I wasn't aware just how much I was compromising my lap in that section until I had somebody else's data (with similar bike) to compare against.
Hey man, did you ever figure out the sv650 shifting issue. I just got one (2008 Sv650s) and experiencing some shifting issues that kinda ease up as the bike gets warmer and warmer.
I wish I had an answer for you. I plan to determine what the actual cause is this winter. I swapped the engine with another one I bought--that was my "fix". I left the old engine intact incase I needed to swap it back into my bike if the new one had a problem. Even though the old one didn't shift right, I could at least ride it--just couldn't clutchless shift. I purchased another gen1 transmission set from mad8v.com and plan to crack the case open on the original engine this winter. Maybe it'll turn out to be something really dumb that I could have fixed externally, but I really don't think so. Sorry I don't have a better answer yet.
@@matttriestodothings okay well i definitely appreciate the response and when you do, please don’t hesitate to make a vid because there are alot of us who are interested
Will do. Given how much time I've wasted trying to figure out what in the world is wrong, I'm as hungry for an answer as you are. It's definitely an annoying problem to have.
Love seeing the difference in the AIM man. Can't argue with those improvements. Chalk that silly crash up to a fluke. You're gonna be rolling 17's next season. I'm sure of it.
The AIM data is really useful in trying to pinpoint things that aren't obvious on the bike or in videos. I really can't even tell the difference on T6 silo from most videos but you can absolutely feel it on the bike when you're not having to throttle chop to make that little turn. I'm not sure it was a fluke, but it's certainly one I'm not planning on doing again in the future! Thanks again for all your help this year and especially your feedback from riding the bike. That helped a ton.
I absolutely love your video's :-)
And my dream came through lol. I end up in your video ( the turtle 🐢 man hahaha).
Can't wait for 2025. 17s coming right up.
I knew you'd enjoy the intro 🙂 So glad you bought that SV and persevered through the early year mechanical/electrical issues you had. I knew based on how quickly you were progressing and the work you put in on the track days leading up to the september round that we were going to end up battling, and it was great.
17's seems really far away, but it's good to have dreams, haha.
Awesome video man! Don't be so hard on yourself! You were riding great!
I have an SV in my garage as well, that had freeze plugs pop from someone leaving outside. I got it running, but still needs everything else. I wanted to get it on track in 2024 but all my money went to tires 😆. Gonna try again in 2025!
Thanks man, I appreciate it.
You've got a frozen SV too!? Hah, I sure wish there didn't seem to be such an epidemic of frozen SV engines abound. Good to hear you've got it running. Now you've got the offseason to get that bad boy ready to go in 2025. Sounds like you're well on your way.
Awesome video! Good to catch up with you on Sunday and hear that you were ok after the crash. And thanks for the wishes it was a blast at New Jersey. Hope to have more battles next year 💪
Thanks man. It was great to meet you, and you taught me quite a bit out there. Also pretty awesome to watch your battle with the 01 on Sunday when you were on the Yamaha. You guys always seem to get some interesting weather when you head out east to NJMP, so I'm glad to hear it was a blast!
bringing back memories. ccs 97-2001. heh 6 and 6a were always fun.
Wish I had a time machine to go back to Blackhawk Farms during that era. I hear so many stories about how huge the grids and attendance used to be, I have to imagine it was incredible.
Great video man! I agree with Ryan, you'll be hitting 17's next year. That data and your critiques are spot on; you know what to do for some substantial gains IMHO. Keep up the good work :-)
Thanks man. Finding another second is going to be a really tall order, but that'll be a problem for 2025 me to solve. I need to gain some more confidence in the rear, and hopefully it will help me pick up little bits of speed everywhere.
Awesome racing with you this year man. Congrats on your lightning quick results a few weeks ago!
The “why I don’t have any money and why I say I can’t do anything” was so real😂
Hah, I know you know this as well as me now!
Whats in store for the winter? How is the VF500F? I am slowly putting mine back together after tearing it down to frame and repainting it all. Trying to outrun the cold so all I have is mechanical over the winter. Having said that baring any other prior owners “special repair techniques” it should be done by November. I had to install a new main wiring harness due to chop chop rig rig repairs. I also went to a 42 rear sprocket so it has a bit more top end. I am anxious to see feel the new slotted rotors too. Loved my MT07. I should never have sold that bike.
@@AICD1999 well, that's a good question. Offseason will start in a few weeks because I made the executive decision that I'm gonna race Daytona. I've got a project SV Superbike I'd really like to see rideable. I have an SV engine I need to replace the transmission on, and I've never cracked open an engine before. And the project I've been neglecting most is the 1986 VFR700 I feel I've done most of the mechanical stuff on, but I'm at the part I absolutley suck at which is fixing destroyed bodywork. I just haven't found the motivation for that yet since it seems so daunting.
My VF has been great so far this year. I haven't ridden much of anything on the street tho. The VF is about the only bike I even bother riding on the street since it's fun and just feels like home. Took it to a bike show and a few Harley nights at the museum, hah.
Sounds like you're getting mighty close on your most recent VF project, that's awesome.
@@matttriestodothings fairings/plastics are a pain. Watch Windy Urtnowski videos on plastic repair. I use a hybrid approach between JB Weld sometimes and another technique. The other is used in miniature model flying airplane repair. I use fiberglass clothe and super glue. Apply to the back and let sit. You can fill the front crack with superglue as well. It will sand just like resin.
I've watched some of his videos. True-Moto-Resto (he's on the VFRWorld forums) does a ton of awesome work as well on gorgeous restorations.
It's just the little things that take forever that I don't know how to do. Like, I ordered a $300 rear fairing from Airtech. It doesn't have any mounting posts, it's just the glass. I have to figure out how to make little mounting posts that correctly go into the mounts with the correct pressure to hold it. That will take me two months, tons of trial and error, a ton of wasted money, and likely very little payback. I'm to the point where I don't know if I'm even going to bother with the VFR700 since the fleet of SV650's I'm trying to maintain and eventually race is already too much. I'm just losing the time and patience. I think I need to cut the projects down.
It's why I love where my VF500F is at. It's friggen perfect since I've spent so much time on it. Looks exactly like I want it to. Has everything it needs. More fun on the street than any other bike I own. And I ride about 500 street miles a year at this point.
@@matttriestodothings I use the abs plastics from the old fairings to make new eyelet style anchor points. and its also your reference of where to put them. Then I use the superglue and fiberglass sheet on the inside to secure. That works well. For the post style anchors I use JB weld and then a sheet of fiberglass and superglue surrounding it and out from it at least an inch or two to help secure it. I dont spend a lot of time making it look OEM as all of this is on the inside where nobody will see it. I may file or sand some so it isnt a total mess as well as some kind of spray over similar to the color around it. The cracks seen on the outside if the fairings I will fill with superglue and level by hand sanding just like Windy does. The key is securing all of this from the inside where nobody sees.
Im shocked, dude right a 16:30 I couldn't believe it. You were flying on that previous lap though, you got your 1:18! Honestly weird stuff happens when your racing, don't blame yourself, you got in the 1:18's and now I bet you can push your own wind and click off another one.
And you can just tell people you didn't catch a false neutral you were just practicing backing in. 🤣
Yea I just was so focused on following and trying to make time/keep time with the two bikes in front of me, I didn't leave myself enough remaining brain points to deal with a variable in the equation. I've seen that type of thing on tons of track days, race days,etc., but always when I had some additional mental capacity to play with. It is what it is. Nobody hurt, couple hundred bucks in parts, a weekend of fixing some things, and some additional rash on already rashed fairings.
If you see me backing it in, I can promise you it's not intentional, haha.
So what exactly makes that turn so difficult? You had awesome pace until that little chicane. What about it makes it hard to push? I haven't raced ever so I just don't know. Would just getting on lean angle help? Entry speed?
If you're talking about the long right hand turn 3 (carousel), that's me not being comfortable enough to give it enough gas for fear of slipping the rear. I was particularly bad on it in these videos, but what I should be doing is adding enough throttle to push me outward about a lane towards the end of it. It sounds counterintuitive, but being out a lane actually makes the little kink before the bus stop easier to hit at higher speed. My entry into the carousel was also too inside most of the laps in this video.
If you're talking the little right hander after turn 6 (turn 6 silo I *think* it's called), it's a near full throttle knee-down right hander that just doesn't feel like you should be able to make it through it without letting off the throttle. I'd venture to guess it's the part of the track most people lose time on, and they may not even know it. I wasn't aware just how much I was compromising my lap in that section until I had somebody else's data (with similar bike) to compare against.
Hey man, did you ever figure out the sv650 shifting issue. I just got one (2008 Sv650s) and experiencing some shifting issues that kinda ease up as the bike gets warmer and warmer.
I wish I had an answer for you. I plan to determine what the actual cause is this winter. I swapped the engine with another one I bought--that was my "fix".
I left the old engine intact incase I needed to swap it back into my bike if the new one had a problem. Even though the old one didn't shift right, I could at least ride it--just couldn't clutchless shift.
I purchased another gen1 transmission set from mad8v.com and plan to crack the case open on the original engine this winter. Maybe it'll turn out to be something really dumb that I could have fixed externally, but I really don't think so. Sorry I don't have a better answer yet.
@@matttriestodothings okay well i definitely appreciate the response and when you do, please don’t hesitate to make a vid because there are alot of us who are interested
Will do. Given how much time I've wasted trying to figure out what in the world is wrong, I'm as hungry for an answer as you are. It's definitely an annoying problem to have.