Bol d'Or Classic 2010

Twinstar Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 259 Location: France

This week-end was the 2010 Bol d'Or Classic at Magny-Cours track (in France)

One of the race bike :

In board :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKu-PGJKyM&feature=player_embedded

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:11 am

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!. Now that woke me up this morn. As I tuned in at 6:00 AM.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:35 am

Nice!!

Any pics of the one in the background?

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:38 am

That sure was a lot fun to watch. With the missed shifts early on i was half expecting to hear some crunching metal but it didn't skip a beat.
In the last 30 sec. or so on the pass down the straight it seemed to start a bit of a headshake...no biggie to the rider.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:31 am

Not when your watching it from the kitchen table Popcorn

Twinstar Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 259 Location: France

Naked

Twinstar Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 259 Location: France

Nico Bakker

CB1100R

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:24 pm

13 to 14,000 (and way more on those missed shifts) RPM on a regular basis.

I didn't think the heavy internals of these engines would spin up that high and/or fast, certainly not without turning itself into a grenade.

Do you know anything about the motor build-up?

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:27 pm

maybe the tach is not a perfect match?

Toddk

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:26 pm

Awesome video and bikes! And I agree, I didn't know they could handle RPM like this. Cool

Twinstar Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 259 Location: France

The tach was not working past 8000 rpm (according to the owner of the bike)

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:32 pm

Thanks for posting the video.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:35 pm

Great video, thanks.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:50 pm

benbrz wrote:

The tach was not working past 8000 rpm (according to the owner of the bike)

aahh

great video thanks