Connecting thoughts
A work colleague who has just got his motorbike license asked me the other day how to get into track riding, and even though there are plenty of other ‘tips for track days’ information out there I thought I’d go right back to the beginning for, well, the absolute beginner. Why should I do it … Read more
It was a few months back that I wrote a post about Billy-Ray, the barn find 1992 FZR600 that I converted to a track bike and took out to the smaller of our three South Australian road courses – Mallala. I’ve owed my fellow FZR boffin Fury Moto a post for a while on some of the mods I’ve made which have improved the FZR from stock, and finally I’ve got it done.
Well, the saga of the 1989/90 FZR600 is over. Like, I’m seriously done with it. Countless hours, far more dollars than I’ll ever see again, many tears of frustration spilled on the shed floor, but it’s done. The rebuild the second time around was far less stressful. A big part of this was getting the … Read more
I finally bought a GoPro after many years of avoiding it. I figured that if I’m going to try and get better on the track then it was time to have a look at myself from the outside, and what better bike to do it on than Billy Ray, aka the Victorian Parts Bike, named after Billy Ray Cyrus who was also a big deal back in ’92.