Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

if I take of the angle sensors should I watch for somthing else touching down on my last track day the bike pivited on one and my knee just a fraction but enough to lift the wheels and have me skite across the track

do you mean the hero blobs on the standard footpegs?

don't they fold up for just such an eventuality ???

yes the hero blobs on standard pegs it seems if you grind them hard enough it is enough to take a little wieght of the wheels I was only on the second lap of the second sesion on my second track day on the trx noticed it on the first lap doing it, misjudged my braking point while overtaking at the end of the straight of the brakes neutral throttle into hairpin lent it in, lent a tad more whoops,

cheesie wrote:yes the hero blobs on standard pegs it seems if you grind them hard enough it is enough to take a little wieght of the wheels I was only on the second lap of the second sesion on my second track day on the trx noticed it on the first lap doing it, misjudged my braking point while overtaking at the end of the straight of the brakes neutral throttle into hairpin lent it in, lent a tad more whoops,

standard pegs should fold up to stop that happening

you can take off the hero blobs (with mole groips) and if that doesn't give you enough ground clearance then you either need to jack the bike up or get rearsets.

TBH with rearsets and properly set up suspension you should struggle to ground anything else out but watch out for your belly pan (if you have one). Decent tyres and suspnsion (mated with a rider better than me - but I have seen it) will allow you to ground the exhaust and (and this I haven't seen but ...) the alternator cover

I have a strongish spring in the back 9.5nm 8.5 in the front,could poss take a 9nm in the front, on my last track day I planned to up the preload a little on the first sesion it was wet so left it as it was,I have set the static and loaded sag front and rear both are within ohlins numbers, I took the bellypan of long ago for the same reason, I lifted the rear suspension around 6-8mm the front 26 mm showing any higher at iether end the bike feels strange seems to pitch more and is not as stable I feel personaly in the corners not to many left handers in kirkistown so no worries about the alternater I did get a little carried away 8th to 3rd in 2 laps first time in the inters group, if the rear sets break do they normally break at the part were they screw in or does the whole lot bust hanger and all not worried about the damage cosmeticly think I will yake the bike of the road next year this is far more fun

They normall try and bend or just wear away, or worse case scenario they dig in and throw you off!, Work on sticking your knee out further and learning how far you can lean the bike. Thats what track days are for, learning.

Dave E