Dennis, the Kawasaki 250cc Samurai and 350cc Avenger twins were rotary valve motors just like some of the later Bridgestones. That might be the work of those Bridgestone engineers.
My youngest boy, Werner, is at the Marine recruiter's with Rose. He was the little blond boy that set a 175cc MPS-P record a few years ago. Childhood is over. Part of me wishes it would not end so soon. The other part says it must. It is an emotional time and more so for me than for him. He is ready to go.
The picture shows me heading out to staging for the run-watcha-brung course. That is the only place where I could try out the streamlining to be used in AUS. It is a short track. One mile of runup, one mile timed, and a mile to slow down and turn out. Focus and aggression are the keys. It is essential to get up to speed quick. My strategy was pretty basic - easy in first gear, a bit more throttle in second, more throttle in third, redline the engine in fourth, and shift quick into fifth.
The times on my slips are 128.81, 130.82, and 131.18 through the mile. This is exactly as fast as I was last year. My speeds between the end of the kilo and the end of the mile are better indicators of how fast I went this year. I asked BUB if they had the data to figure those out. That is the info I will use to calculate the aero drag coefficient and other things.
I had big expectations for more speed. The gods of speed rubbed my little puppy nose in my dung. Some serious calculating is in order. I need to figure out what I did wrong. Then, it will be fixed.