wsholar

Just put Q2's on my Scura over the weekend, and I'm really loving the improvement over the old Qualifiers. I think the stiffer sides provide support that makes the bike much more stable in curves, at low or high speed. Took the Scura up to an indicated 140 mph (top of the speedo) for just a second or two this morning just before dawn, and it was perfectly stable. It also had some left at 140, although I can't imagine it had much left. Never tried to push it that fast before-- never trusted it to hold steady, given no frame-mounted streamlining. Pretty amazing bike, especially with the Q2's.

Thanks for the well wishes. Great to be back in the loop.

Just re-introducing myself after taking some time off after a pretty nasty accident in 2007. I'm fully back in the saddle now, and I'm focusing primarily on track riding, limiting street riding to occasional runs into my favorite canyons and getting my bike to the shop, etc. So, far, I've done the Horse Thief Mile at Willow Springs and Buttonwillow (counterclockwise) over the last couple of months. Looking forward to doing Laguna Seca and a few others over the course of the summer and fall. The Scura is generally running well, but I need to have my rear shock serviced. Because of the CA emissions laws possibly changing, I'm going to leave the intake/exhaust/emissions bone stock. Bike runs fine as they built it. Cheers all.

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thanks for the anonymity, guys. it was i who fell on jon's nice v11 lemans-- ugh. can't really discuss the case here, but fyi, i fractured my left wrist and pretty much snapped off the head of my right shoulder. that's about it, plus a few other nagging aches and pains. i go in for shoulder reconstruction (or replacement if necessary) thursday morning, so send healing vibes toward century city, LA, CA when you can. thanks for all the concern/kindness expressed here. catch y'all later. cheers!

If you know of any axles & bits floating around anywhere, please email me at: wsholarchampmail.com Need these ASAP. Thanks in advance

On this board, there's only been one US Scura clutch/flywheel failure, and it was not a catastrophic failure (serial number S288). Maybe best to look for a US Scura with a serial number as close to S600 as you can find? Re: other bikes, word on the street is that the valving/springing of the Ohlins of the LeMans Corsa, Coppa Italia, and Cafe Sport models was closer to the mark than on the Scura. If you would rather go with one of those, note that the LeMans has clip-on bars, whereas the Coppa Italia and Cafe Sport have riser bars-- so depending on what type of riding position you need, you might want to consider that. Of course, you can always mod the bars to suit your needs.

Well, Todd's bar-mounted camera was right behind his windscreen, so I think placement is what made it work okay in the first video. In the remaining three videos with the lipstick camera, the mic was placed under the seat, but died after only a couple of minutes for one reason or other-- possibly the amplitude of the motor and pipes at speed overloaded the input limits of the mic. Just don't know for sure.

I tried to talk Todd into Edgar Varese and Milton Babbitt, but he was having none of it.

The audio was lost on the helmet-mounted "lipstick" camera-- that's why videos 2 and 3 have music instead of motor sounds. The bar-mounted camera in video 1 had some vibration problems-- that prompted the switch to the lipstick camera for the rest of the ride.

Yeah, in the first video, the five of us encountered that pack of kids at the last light at the foot of the Crest. Dispatching them was pretty easy, although I think the guy on the 1000S (Bob) might have been stuck with them for a few miles. When you start up the Crest, it's good to make use of the first couple of passing lanes before the first ranger station. After that, getting around folks gets a bit dicier.

Yeah, on his Jackal, Todd can pass pretty much anybody he wants on any curve that's slower than a buck thirty (mph). Only thing limiting Todd on curves is the hp/vmax of the bike he's riding. I haven't ever ridden with him when he's on a fast bike, but I hear (from his fellow track day instructors) that he's right up there with a lot of current superbike racers. That was Rich R. on the other Jackal, me on the Scura, and Rich's friend, Cain on the MV Agusta 750 F4. We weren't racing or anything, just playing cat and mouse for the camera. Whenever Todd starts a pass, we give it up willingly. To do otherwise would be just silly.

There are now 3 videos, with a 4th to come late tonight or early tomorrow. Go here, read the disclaimer, and click the link to the videos. Shot from the camera on Todd Eagan's Mad Max Jackal (pacing, not racing): http://www.socal-guzzi.com/PHPBB/viewtopic.php?t=632 Stay tuned...more to come.

Right on, Keith.