bwhip on the SXV550, racing Twins GTU at Miller 5.09

[mightlife]

Watched this as part of a thread found on MotorcycleAddicts.

Pity about the end.

I don't mean to be nasty, but I didn't see a battle for second place, there were about 10 riders from the start and unless many overtakes were edited out, it didn't look like you moved up more than 3 or 4 places.

I'm not a hater - actually thinking of getting an SXV 5.5

Hope it has been sorted now ;)

[bkwhip]

@mightlife

There were two classes that raced in that particular event. If you watch again at the start, you'll notice a big gap between the bike in front of me, and the other class (Amateur GTU) out ahead of us. Ours was indeed a battle for second place in the Twins GTU class.

[exup1k]

nice riding

[justincreager]

Ha ha ha, that's funny, at 3:01 the look behind, "Damn that dude is still hanging on?!"

[mika3mika]

what happened? looked like you hit a small bump and it unsettled the rear

[bkwhip]

It appears to me (and felt like), when I accelerated coming out of the turn, it unloaded the front suspension, while the tire was still under quite a bit of stress from the inside line I was taking. This reduced grip and caused the front to tuck.