Ryan Ostergard runs an NA 1635 Busa, awesome Carpenter kit.
(this is the bike on which Bob Sellers set MPS/F-1650 record = 225.137 at World Of Speed in Sept 2012 (previous record was 221.108)
At the recent March Texas Mile, Team Ostergard experienced a bad gremlin all weekend
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from another forum:
(Ryan's) Bike was on the limiter associated with the clutch switch, NOT the limiter set while flashing.
After the Oct 2012 Texas Mile, Team Ostergard/TFA did some wiring changes to fine tune the set up and it looks like we didn't get all the bugs ironed out.
Seems that if you have an issue with the clutch switch, it goes into a mode which has a 10,800+/- limiter.
(thanks to Johnny Cheese!!!)
That means:
1. Ryan never saw the shift light (we depend on it to get every last rpm out of the motor)
2. We didn't get the use of rpm range 10.8-11.5 where motor makes it's mojo power.
3. Ryan was on the 10.8 limiter for 4 sec before the traps!!!!!!!!!!
We chased that gremlin all weekend, never fixed it.
Ryan rode the balls off the bike to get the great speed he got.
Last pass he made on Sun afternoon:
207.0 at the half
228.9 at the mile.
Imagine Team Ostergard pits all pissed off/bummed after running ONLY 228.9mph
Bottom line is that we achieved the objectives we had for the meet:
1. beat entropy's NA Texas Mile track record = 224.6
2. beat Zack Millholland's official world record for NA bike = 227.3 at Wilmington July 2012
Congrats to Ryan for focused aggressive, consistant, successful riding = world record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!