Ducati Sporting Club UK > Sport > Trackdays & Race Schools > Silverstone gp march anyone??

[nogaromill998]

You are such a narrow minded ****er Bushell. Wait and see is all I say. And when YOU can ride a bike of any description around a track maybe you'll have the right to criticise.

[Dementor]

Can you 2 **** off and start your own thread and stop wrecking this one please

[skidlids]

I hear from PeteB that they found the fault with Phil the Drills 999 which was traced to a chaffed wire where the loom comes into the battery box area, bet Phils happier that it happened at Silverstone and not the Nurburgring.

My 998R is back to normal now that it is dried out so pin pointing the actual fault isn't going to be easy so will go for the prevention is better than the cure aproach.

Sunday was such a contrast to Saturday waking up to brite sunshine so I thought how can I bitch about the Silverstone weather without making the most of Sundays dry conditions.

Normally that would mean taking the bike for a bl00dy good spin, but I refrained and instead stripped the DD bike, removed the old 2002 5-speed engine (Yes I know it only had one speed in my hands and that was Slow speed ) and replace it with the later engine I bought off Dave Ainscough, by tea time I had it all back together including the addition of a Alloy arm and a new chain and if it wasn't for a lack of Silkolene Comp4 I would have had it running.

Just picked up 4 litres of Comp4 from MPS Express on the way home, they gave me my 10% DSC discount reducing the price to £26.99 so after some dinner I'll be putting it in the bike and get her running.

Then I can carry on with the rest of the list of things to do, no Panic !! still have 10 days to Race Day

[Dementor]

Originally Posted by skidlids

I hear from PeteB that they found the fault with Phil the Drills 999 which was traced to a chaffed wire where the loom comes into the battery box area, bet Phils happier that it happened at Silverstone and not the Nurburgring.

Yep, Peteb was round Phil's at the crack of dawn on Sunday with his soldering iron what this club is all about Phil then had to get a new starter soleniod on Monday as the old one was a bit tired and grown a furry beard

Haven't heard if that sorted it though!?

As you say totally different weather Sunday and the 272 beckoned so it would have been rude not to, especially having spent 2 hours cleaning half of Silverstone off the bike

Unfortunately Phil won't be going to Germany with us this year Kev, something about his Brother's wedding that weekend........poor excuse

[PHIL-THE-DRILL]

Just finished puting the bike back together, a big thanks to PeteB for pointing me in the right direction - starts fine now.

[skidlids]

Nice one Phil, hope you gave it a good clean around that battery box area while it was apart.

Just come in from the garage, the Desmo Due bike is now a runner with its new engine, looks like I will be running it without a power commander at Brands, so have decided to run a standard airbox lid so as not to weaken it off to much.

Thought I would see what the Diagnostic unit could see