Trinc, Yes (I will double check tonight) I run the SC2 Front and the SC1 rear!

Thunderbolt is AWESOME... and even more so because it is under an hour from my house!

I did lightning a couple of times last year and while it is cool with the banked corner, I like thunderbolt better because it is tighter/more technical. Alos, with the hawk you can do the whole track in 3rd and lay off at the end of the straight, or shift to 4th if you get a good drive...

I am doing Lightning on Friday with Team Pro Motion and I will be doing it again with Absolute Cycle on July 6th (monday after the long weekend...) If you have not checked out absolute cycle, they have great deals on trackdays. July 6th is $150 right now, but if it sells out, they will refund $25 to everyone! Plus they have free schools (intro & intermediate)

I don't really have much to compare NJ motorsports park to. The only other track I've been to is summit point (main). The NJ tracks are much smoother and facilities are much better then summit point. Only gripe is that they should have a hill somewhere to help unload bikes... Summit had a 3' berm that you could back your truck up to and make loading/unloading a one man job.

Let me know what dates you are planning on doing, I had 2 "spring" trackdays, 2 "summer" trackdays... I guess I need 2 "fall" trackdays too!!!

htwin,
i'd like to hear why you ran an SC1 rear at a trackday.

tim

I will be at Thunderbolt on Sept 21,22 with Tony's Track Days. $150 is cheap money for a track day. Most of the days at NHMS are around $200 to $250.

Trinc, I bought my tire from Pascal Picotte race team and this is what they are using. I guess you are running with the softer coumpound in front and the harder one back on your bike? I just double checked and this is the SC1 at the rear...
I guess it will wear faster with the SC1 but I think it is desintegrating at an alarming rate right now.

What do I should try for the next track day.

THANKS!

htwin,
sorry for the confusion... since it's an SC1 that may just be the best your going to get it on a stock shock. do check the rebound though.

the SC1 once it starts to go off it will get greasy , don't push them too far. they don't like too many heat cycles. they are OK for trackdays but if you run them on the street a bunch i wouldn't take them back out to the track ( this will depend on the speeds you run )

i do like the SC2 rear, SC1 front combo. i'm dragging hard parts and they still stick
like glue & since the 'hawk isn't loaded with HP you get into the gas pretty early.

as a side note: running at race pace is a lot different than trackday pace. if you are running B or C group you could even try a SC3 rear / SC2 front ... you'll get a few more miles out of them. unless your buying take offs and only want 1 or 2 trackdays out of them then the SC1 is fine.

tim

Trinc, when you are saying check your rebound. Do I need to go softer?

i went softer ( faster return ), i push on the rear of the seat and see how fast the rear comes back up. the valving and adjustment screw act against the spring to slow the return so push down a bunch of times to get the feel of it, then make and adjustment AFTER you note where your setting is currently is.

my problem was after the shock compressed by hitting a dip / bump it didn't return fast enough causing the tire to spin just a bit until the shock fully rebounded. riding the bike i didn't feel any of this.

tim

Thanks for the info. If you went to soft would the back end also feel swirly because you would unload the suspension to fast? I think this is what I was originally feeling but probably went to hard because my tire shows some signs of tearing.

it's hard to describe... too soft to me acts like a rocking chair, but while leaned over it does feel like the rear tire is stepping out... the rocking motion then feels like a pulse.
i had only 1 really bad sweeping corner that was bumpy enough that i had to stay off the gas until i sorted it out.