My best lap at Aragon

Just got back from 5 days on Motorland Aragon. The track cannot be described in words, you have to ride it. Imaging entering turn 16 at the end of the back straight at 240 km/h with full lean. Just crazy.

Like most of my friends, I had to capture the track on video so I got the Gopro Hero 3 Silver edition and was lucky to capture my best lap around the track

Motorland Aragon

Off to 5 days of hopefully great riding at Motorland Aragon is Spain. The MotoGP guys just raced there, so for sure there are some interesting lap times to compare you to.

In preparation for this trip I had to change the gearing since this track has one of the longest straight and having fairly big elevation changes I had to make sure the chain was god enough, so I replaced with a new one, Some friends who were  there last year broke some chains. Fast fluid track and going uphill puts a lot of strain on the chain.

Greven Racing Adventures organized transport of the bike and Hotel. The pictures are from last weekend when we loaded our bikes in the huge trailer. I feel like a pro racer having other take care of the bike, and me flying to the track. Unusual feeling

First practice session 2013 and triple clamp test

My friend Mikkel called and insisted that I joined him for an evening practice session at Sviestad race track near Linköping. The local club, LMS, has really well organized and friendly practice sessions for riders with a valid license.

Great weather, sunny, 22 degrees and not much wind. The only issue was that Mikkel had his season opener at Brno, so his speed was there. Just for me to ignore my normal lack of speed after a long winter and just follow his tail around the track. Worked great, produced best lap times at Sviestad since my active race days in BoTT racing some years back.

The new IMA triple clamps from NF Racing with 30 mm off set (std 36 mm) worked fantastic, corner exists was trouble free, no need for the classic Ducati need for pick up to minimize the running wide out of corners issues so common for us Ducati riders. I was surprised how much easier it was to flip-flop the bike thru the esses after start/finish line. The triple clamps are not low cost, but a very good investment if you can afford it.

Thanks Mikkel for a great afternoon and awsome season opener!

 

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