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Quick rundown of my ninja 400 experience so far.
Picked the bike up brand new the day the motoamerica rules were announced. Disassembled it down to the frame to fly it into Florida to race at Daytona. After getting the forks/shock/wheels/body/etc off, we had those parts sent with a buddy to drive down to florida as he didn't have room to take the whole bike. We planned to fly the frame and engine however we realized (after he left) we would be overweight in the plane to get it down there. So we threw it in the back of a truck and drove the engine/frame to Florida.
Reassembled the bike once we were down and got ride of a few unnecessary parts like the kickstand/passanger seat/fan/etc and everything else that was easy to remove weight.
Kyle at m4 was able to expedite an exhaust to us that came in just before the race. I never even got a chance to ride the bike with the stock exhaust on. After a few street miles to feel out the bike we threw it in the trailer and headed to Daytona.
First practice out the bike had maybe 10 miles on it, what a way to break it in lol
Won the CCS GT500, Superbike 500 and Supersport 500.
Following week I headed over to Barber Motorsports park for the motoamerica tire test. Threw on k-tech front and rear suspension. Still need to get that dialed in. First day I was 3rd (second excluding the dunlop test rider Taylor Knapp) and on the second day I wound up with a 6th with room to improve. I unfortunately had to sit out the last session as my dad/mechanic flew out early. Didn't want to have a crash and not be able to get the trailer home in a worst case scenario.
Just ordered rearsets/case savers/ and a fuel cap thanks to MOTO-D (bonamici parts). Looking forward to developing this platform and see what we can do with it.
Picked the bike up brand new the day the motoamerica rules were announced. Disassembled it down to the frame to fly it into Florida to race at Daytona. After getting the forks/shock/wheels/body/etc off, we had those parts sent with a buddy to drive down to florida as he didn't have room to take the whole bike. We planned to fly the frame and engine however we realized (after he left) we would be overweight in the plane to get it down there. So we threw it in the back of a truck and drove the engine/frame to Florida.
Reassembled the bike once we were down and got ride of a few unnecessary parts like the kickstand/passanger seat/fan/etc and everything else that was easy to remove weight.
Kyle at m4 was able to expedite an exhaust to us that came in just before the race. I never even got a chance to ride the bike with the stock exhaust on. After a few street miles to feel out the bike we threw it in the trailer and headed to Daytona.
First practice out the bike had maybe 10 miles on it, what a way to break it in lol
Won the CCS GT500, Superbike 500 and Supersport 500.
Following week I headed over to Barber Motorsports park for the motoamerica tire test. Threw on k-tech front and rear suspension. Still need to get that dialed in. First day I was 3rd (second excluding the dunlop test rider Taylor Knapp) and on the second day I wound up with a 6th with room to improve. I unfortunately had to sit out the last session as my dad/mechanic flew out early. Didn't want to have a crash and not be able to get the trailer home in a worst case scenario.
Just ordered rearsets/case savers/ and a fuel cap thanks to MOTO-D (bonamici parts). Looking forward to developing this platform and see what we can do with it.