Largely wet and cold in Taupo, but hardly surprising. We managed a 6 minute practice at which point we lost the gear lever
and for that period kept the running in revs down to 5500 on the newly ground mains.
For the racing we kept it to the low 6's, the new box allowed us to keep the revs between 5 & 6 and bender was humming.
The fairing did suffer some cracking at welds so some remedial work needed.
we also had a progressive smoking problem which I thought was rings, but turned out to be the LH float needle being held open by the tickler spring working its way into the tickler orifice so the carb was flooding the lh side. So most of the pics had the bike smoking
more than I'd have liked.
We had some good racing with an R100, an XS650 with a 750 kit and an 850 Coventry climax (all later 70's machinery). in the first race we got narrowly beaten by a Norton atlas as we were struggling with the tuning the bikes balance due to the fairings, but in race 2 the atlas blew itself to bits on the start line red flagging the race. Flywheel disintegrated. During practice the only other bike in my class (a pre-unit triumph) had lifted its barrel but luckily not fully hand grenaded. So my a10 was the sole survivor of the pre 63 class over the weekend!
We removed my passengers fairing to allow him to move better and will refit it further forward as he has long legs and isn't prepared to have them surgically shortened
But bikes in largely one piece and am knackered from 2 days racing but all good fun.
