Thanks for the comments Pete.
The bike now looks like this:
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Gadfium/Bike/009.jpg)
(sorry about the crappy phone picture quality).
I am waiting for a new screen and a bar weight, then I am good to go. I took the opportunity to fit an 06 rear shock linkage (the same as the 04 HRC link) and an shock of a CBR1000 RR6 (the 04 one is notoriously overdamped and over sprung).
Prior to the off, it was mint. I had lowered the gearing by going down 1 tooth on the front and up 1 on the back. It was touching the redline in 6th along the back straight at Donny..topping out at a genuine 155MPH (Speedohealer ftted, see). Lowering the gearing made a massive difference to the feel of the bike...it was wheelying at over 135MpH under the bridge on the back straight (where the bump is).
Mind you, the lowered gearing may have contributed to the off.....bit too much gas when leaned over and the back spun up and deposited my sorry ass on the tarmac.
The only thing I would say is that the novice section contains too much of a wide skill level. When I started at the front, I was lapping people after about 3-4 laps. Going into corners 30-40MPH faster than others can't really be safe. There were 2 other blokes that i could run with in that group, but the rest were way slower (I guess that is why the Novice group is there), including a guy on a really nice Castrol SP2, and the slowest Hayabusa in the world.
My two-cents worth....if you have never been on a track before, then do it. It was a cracking way to spend a day, and yes, although I smashed my P&J up, I would (and will) do it again. I will have some decent track tyres fitted (2CTs or Racetecs) though....it was amazing to see how quickyly the front tyre got snottered up right to the edge (I always have 6-10mm of virgin tyre on the front tyre when riding on the road). It was a right laugh dragging the right knee around others at Redgate...and a proper sphincter-clencher getting hard on the brakes for the chicane at Goddards
Anyhoo, another chance to picture-whore (any excuse, eh?)
![Image](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Gadfium/Bike/XSP_0524.jpg)