888 for Performance Bikes?
 

Did anybody see that PB are looking for a 888 to set a lap time around their test track?

I'm half tempted, but they did say a 'sorted' 888 and mine is completely standard apart from a bit of carbon, a flip up screen (which I hate by the way - replacement on it's way), some bora cans and GP billets.

I still need to sort the suspension (drop the forks 12mm) and sundry other bits before I would call it 'sorted'

they can have mine - so long as they fix it if they break it :D oh and don't rev it past 10,500...

What's the contact details?

Only just found my copy of PB again after an over enthusiastic spring clean. It's the June 2006 copy that I've had since the end of April (work out the vagaries of magazine publication dates from that if you will).

Starting on page 12 there is a feature article about the brand new PB Test Track which is and I quote:

Roughly 3442.42 metres of tarmac, concrete, tar, overbanding and hellish conditions. Fun it is not. So why the hell do we use it? Why not take every bike to the Costa Del Sun, or at least to the Costa Del Cadwell? Because the PBTT is a tool, a dependable measure that any bike can be held against. The surface changes mirror the quality of the public road system. The long straights our glorious A-roads and dual-carriageways. It's no good telling the manufacturers they've built the perfect bike because it beat it's opposition by 0.2sec around a hand-laid GP circuit. The PBTT is a test track, not a race track.

Although the first crop of test bikes around this test track were the 'usual suspects' of this years hot 600's, one of the things that I like about PB in it's current format is that it deals with real world bikes instead of just the 'latest, greatest' so they've also had an NC30 and a KR1S around there as well.

At the end of the article they put out an appeal for a sorted CBR954 and a Ducati 888. contact details are to email Dale at dale@emap.com

Not sure whether they want a standard Strada, like mine, an SP or a trick 955 or 996 powered specimen though.

Already been asked...if it was an S4R they were after they could have it...but that can be fixed if it goes down the road !!!

Nat

They can have mine.Again,they break it,they fix it.

I would be scared though!!

Scared - me too, not too sure of myself now, don't think I'll bother.
The thought of it being broken by someone else (never mind me) just doesn't bear thinking about :o

I've emailed PB and offered my SP2, but not heard anything yet, so I presume they don't want it !

Mind you, I did get my letter to Bike published, with a photo of the SP and it got Star Letter, so I should be getting some new tyres - result

!:bouncy:

We met Dale from PB at Assen, riding the DUK Mstrada.

Good guy, worth the personal contact, maybe to give them a go on a 888.

Mind you I've not got one!