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february 2020

23feb9:00 am5:00 pmShiny Side Up, Christchurch

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28feb6:00 pm9:00 pmShiny Side Up, Gisborne

Amazing! He’s a great coach, straight forward and honest. Even though my time with him was short, not one second of the whole hour was wasted. He gauges where you are skill wise and adjusts as needed. Got my list to work on. The videos are great!!! He is truly dedicated to helping riders in this industry.

Miyouko Wu

Thanks for showing me the process of how to learn; having a ‘map’ of how to approach it. I understand it is a process and a dynamic one over time and changing conditions but now feel I have a better understanding of what/how and why each setting should be approached. I like starting with one thing and changing it 25% and then another +25%, making notes and arriving at too much one way or the other and then working back and forth in smaller increments to find the right setting. As my understanding grows and the fear of unknown goes away with experience I am now confident I will soon have a setup that both works and gets the bike geometry with me on it to work in balance. Today’s ride after two days worth of stop/settings change/start/stop was fantastic, best the bike has ever felt.

Scott Peterson

Dave set up my bike the improvement is unbelievable, I’d recommend anyone who rides get it set up by dave.

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Samantha Cameron, Christchurch, New Zealand

Samantha Cameron My partner and I spent at least 3 hours in the tent today learning how to tune our bikes. Amazing, learned sooo much. Now to complete our homework then move on to sharing this knowledge with others

Remote tuning with Shahid Iqbal, Dubai UAE

Dave,

Overall it was a good day and brought me back to rhythm after not been on a bike for more than a year and on Zx6r (year and half).

Starting settings

Front

Sag: 22 (Preload: 13 - From Clockwise Towards Anti-Clockwise)

Compression: 4

Rebound: 3

Rear

Sag: 38 (Preload: 16 fully compressed)

Compression: 2.5

Rebound: 2

Tyre Pressure

Front Pirelli SC1: 30 (first half) & 31(second Half of the day)

Rear Pirelli SC2: 26 (first Half) & 27 (Second Half of the day)

Temp: 20C (12pm kept on decreasing), asphalt was colder.

The Day

The First 3 Sessions were slow (slowly building pace). I was re-learning the bike, its behavior, track and trying to get back into rythym. I started pushing in Session-4 & 5 and in 6th was too tired got only 2 laps.

I wasn't able to follow up your advised trial adjustment for each session as the first half of the day was filled with anxeity and concentration level occupied to 110% (not in a good way) to re-learn things and energy level completely depleted after each session. I was sweating excessively even in the Pits and de-hydrated even though I was drinking lots of water with hydration tabs and was water-sick by 6th session.

Session 4 & 5 were amazing though, I pushed, they were my fastest on this track and I played with suspension for the 1st time.

I did play with Front-Compression and got idea of how it works.

Feedback

Front-end: Under braking the bike was good and stable, wasn't diving hard/fast. Throughout the day I tried

Compression: 4 (Session 1-3)

Compression: 3 (Session 4)

Compression: 2 (Session -5) I liked this the most, the dive was better and slower than others and the bike felt more stable during braking.

11mm Travel was left with this , I think I still could brake 12-16% Harder.

(Compression 4,3,2 is meant going Harder towards Clockwise)

Rear-end: The bike felt good and stable Under acceleration, was holding its line. I never felt that the bike is going to run wide.

Fish Tailing was gone, only happened predictable during downshift but that even corrected promptly, way before tipping in (That Fish-Tail I always enjoy). Settings weren't touched as I was testing Front Compression in Session 4 & 5.

It seems to me that dirt of Rear Shock Increased and less travel was used by the Shock. Good amount of travel is left in the rear.

Handling-(Biggest Change): Bike turning-in and it keeps on turning. At my warm-up lap on the 2nd corner I was about to hit the inside kerb.

The bike handles effortlesly, easier to turn and where ever I point it goes. Actually once I tip-in the bike, it just goes towards apex itself, like very very easily and somehow I was hitting apex (closer to kerb) in every corner and even on Hairpins (which I never did before).

I had to re-calibrate myself for this new attribute of the bike and At times I had to lift the bike slighlty up so it doesn't go over the inside kerb or my knee doesnt hit it (GP track, Kerbs are bumpy) . Also Change of direction in the chicane is smooth and effortless.

Previously the bike required effort to hit the apex and change of direction were forced, I had to pull it by force.

Session 4 & 5 I was pushing the bike, was driving harder out of corners (comparing to my previous Trackdays) and was hard on gas between the turns (small straights). (These two, I never did before, was first time for me to be hard on gas).

The tyre wear seemed aggressive to me, my Tyres havn't been this shredded. Maybe one of the reason being harder on the gas (before I was never hard on with gas and never full gas). The asphalt surface is pretty abrasive though. Overall Bike behaves great. Next Trackday is on the 29th of this Month and will try additional settings that you metioned.

I have attached Tyre Pictures kindly review it and let me know if something needs to be changed. You prefer smooth wear but this seems notupto your liking. If writing email is Time Consuming we can also do a quick whatsapp call.

Thanks Dave for the online videos and the consultation we did, I discovered new side of my bike which was hidden previosuly. Really appreciate it.

Kind Regards

Shahid

Carlos Fuentes, Florida USA

Hi Dave,

The day started a bit cold and wet for Florida. By lunch time the track conditions were perfect. I was riding good and the bike felt awesome. Only on the last session of the day the bike started moving and I knew then that my rear was done.

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