I had a TD Friday, worked with the at track suspensions guys to dial my '14 14R BBW in. I'm 5'9" and 200 lbs

This is the series of settings from new to the first TD at the high speed Auto Club Speedway AMA course.

Bike ran well and turned in much quicker/better than the '06 ZX-14 did. I dropped the front 0.5 and ended up running 33 F and 27 R cold.

Not sure how this will be on the street but on two of the track sections where there are tight turns entered from ~120 down to 60 mph they worked great. Major changes from stock and I don't see a need to change the springs at all.

* Last updated by: cruderudy on 4/25/2015 @ 5:49 PM *

Worked with the suspension guys means who are they or who is he? And how much to setup the bike? And was sag part of the suspension setup? 33f and 27r... Remember, cold and cloudy like Friday was without tire warmers so that was the cold set, right? Tire warmers are set hot, right?

So if I'd run this kind of spreadsheet, I'd buy a temp gun, temp the air, track, and tires before; and have someone shoot the tire before you come under the overhead and back to the pit. Be consistent with the gun to sun/shade/overcast/distance with the gun hits/pit wall/etc.

Why? I'm going to give an example. Same [seasoned] guy, goes out and does not warm up the tires for a few laps. He sees some of his [TD] buddies up ahead, takes off, and down he goes. Next time I see him he is with new leathers he bought off of craig's or ebay. First time out on the leathers, guess WOT?

'I used the same summer tire numbers for my cold days and down I went, I should have figured it out the first time.' Just warm the tires up on a hot or cold day and know your numbers hot and cold you go messing on the track with said compounds. So the common sense is to lower the air pressure on cold days so the tire heats up more. Say 31f 27r looks fine; on cold days; no tire warmers.

Signed,

NOLTT

No tire warmers yet Hub.

The suspension guy was SST, who has the gig for Fastrackrides at ACS. Did the proper wheel off the ground sag set up. Rear was pretty close, front was way off, this surprised me a bit. Charged $50, probably spent an Hr total during the day working on the bike and talking about handling/suspension/tire wear with me. Nice guy, don't remember his name.

I was by myself this trip so I didnt shoot the temp until I was back in the garage. Air was 58 at 0800 and ~ 65 when I left at 3. Tires were R ~ 122 F and F ~112 F when I got my helmet off and checked asap in the garage. I ran on TC 2 on the 1st session and 1 for the next 2 and off the last 3. Glad I did, this bike has so much torque I really needed to learn the throttle control in a crawl walk run strategy.

WOT with TC off coming off the last turn in 3rd at 100 onto the 3500 ft front straight was a truly amazing life experience for me. I am humbled ...

Only wish I had a NOLTT to listen to Friday.

Cheers

* Last updated by: cruderudy on 4/25/2015 @ 10:35 PM *

You should contract Jonathan Rea's team to help tune your bike. I mean if you're really serious about track days.

not that serious, only do 2-4 a year for fun.