bwhip on the SXV550, racing Twins GTU at Miller 5.09

bwhip races the Aprilia SXV550 on the West Track at Miller, in the Twins GTU class in the Masters of the Mountains series, May 2009. Ultimately this became a great battle for second place between me, Scott Ferguson on a Buell, Todd Seaver on a Suzuki SV650, and Noah Talley on a two-stroke. Just four turns from the checkered flag, well, you'll see....

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[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.

[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.

[exup1k]

nice riding

[justincreager]

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