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Texas Mile => Texas Mile General Chat => Topic started by: fredvance on May 27, 2011, 02:32:40 PM
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They are running, as we speak, at their new home in Beeeville. Very strong headwinds, today and all weekend.
Karl(Entropy) ran a 211+ on his second pass
Dean S went 221 on his ZX10
Mike Hooks bike caught on fire, he got it stopped ok. He is ok, the bike is not.
I will be going down tomorrow, with parts and to watch.
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Thanks the updates. :cheers:
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Fred, I'll see you down there tommorow. I'm sure I will have the smallest displacement and slowest motorcycle there. Do you happen to have any Mikuni jets? Chris
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Jets, whats that? :roll: I just had my injectors cleaned. Oh yeah my streetbike has jets. See ya tomorrow
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Awesome thread!!! There will be a twin turbo BMW Mcoupe from ICS performance outta Conneticut! Keep your eye out for him, and let me know if you get to see him run!!
This is an event I would love to participate in!!!
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DANG: i just tapped in a long chatty update and lost it all, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
basically winds 14 to 25+ all day from 1st pass
My green NA Busa got 211.5 on second pass, 1st pass i learned not to depend on the turn signal cancel button for shifts.
Dean Sabatinelli's turbo Zx10 ran 226 in STRONG head winds
Mike Hooks had a fire when big end of a rod came thru cases under the TB's apparently severed a fuel line.
His favorite nomex thong saved the jewels.
Greg Hirst rolled to a stop at the end of shut down covered in oil, crimp on hose clamps suck.
It's back together thanks to Bob Sellers dremel cut off wheel and a couple worm drive clamps.
Motor sounds fine.
Track overall is not as good as Goliad, but will do fine. The extra 1000' of paved shut down is handy
Great event :cheers:
Today wind is forecast to gust to 50mph, quartering headwind
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I heard tonight that Hooley took the #974 Stude to 202.6.
Charlie
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I just got back. Ugly winds all day. Confirm the 202 for Hooley. Tom Gates now has the track record at 244 I think. Everybodys speeds way down due to the headwind. Dean made multiple 226 runs and one 227, good job by Dean and Tom, and Hooley.
As Karl said the new track is not as smooth as the old one but the extra shutdown is welcome. I will be taking my bike down in October. Already have the bosses permission, also known as my wife. :roll: :cheers:
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It was even windier today. Had 20 to 25 mile quartering headwind all day. As for me, Murphy wins this one, couldn't even do half speed on any run and when I finally engage my brain and figure out that the front brake is dragging, I lose the ignition and can't get it started to make a pass.
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The wind was killer this weekend. But we ended up making 38 runs Friday and Saturday.
The people of Beeville bent over backwards for us. We got to the event on Saturday morning to find we had picked up something in our left rear tire. We had to take it into town to Tio Tire where the guy, and I failed to get his name, took the tire right in and fixed it. Then I pulled a boneheaded stunt. I got one of the lug nuts crossed threaded. D'oh! The Snap On people, Buddy and Miz Bud, let me BORROW a 12mm tap. My friend was missing some taps out of her set so she ended up buying the set from them. She also had a cracked 10mm SO socket that they replaced, and she ended up buying a replacement 10mm socket that had gotten lost. So even though we got a late start on Saturday, we still made 12 more runs before the clutch went kaput and we had to shut down... Alas.
But we had fun, and the dinner put on by Beeville was fantastic IMHO. We ares looking forward to October now...
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We are already making plans to go back in Oct. Dito what Car 77 said about the Beeville comunity.
We pitted real close to the 77Car and it didn't miss a beat all day. Way to go girls show em how it's done.
Hooley
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211 .... sounds like a new record for TFA ... congratulations Karl ... Dean 221 - well done '''
Joe
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We are already making plans to go back in Oct. Dito what Car 77 said about the Beeville comunity.
We pitted real close to the 77Car and it didn't miss a beat all day. Way to go girls show em how it's done.
Hooley
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It was really nice meeting y'all at the event. We are anxious to tear into the clutch to find out exactly what happened. Would love to make the October event, as I have enough vacation left, but need to see if I can get that particular weekend off. The closer to the end of the year, the harder it is to find openings... But we'll be there if we can.
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Hooley, It was nice meeting you and your crew this weekend. Loved the noise that Stude mad blasting down the Mile.
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Chris,
That was you pitted next us with your bike? We sure had a good time and that is what it is all about for us.
Hooley
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Are there any more results? What about pictures? :cheers:
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Everything was great, except the wicked headwind. Good to meet you Hooley, congrats on the fast transition to asphalt :cheers:
The ZX10 ran like a bracket bike, 6 passes between 225 and 228.
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Two turbo pushrod baggers!
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At the line, 18mph wind at 8:30am.
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Chris,
That was you pitted next us with your bike? We sure had a good time and that is what it is all about for us.
Hooley
Yes, that was me, had a frustrating weekend but learned quite a bit in spite of the problems.
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Everything was great, except the wicked headwind. Good to meet you Hooley, congrats on the fast transition to asphalt :cheers:
The ZX10 ran like a bracket bike, 6 passes between 225 and 228.
Tommys bike Is the closest thing to a true street bike other than Yancys Bud bike and Charlies old bike Scott bought, looks great Tom, congrats on the new Texas mile track record!
Noonan
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Tommy worked for it this weekend, all kinds of gremlins. 244 in the wind was awesome.
One of my favorite pics;
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c388/tricktom1/IMG00051-20100409-1642.jpg)
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Yep great picture, that was from 2 years ago I think.. :cheers:
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Everything was great, except the wicked headwind. Good to meet you Hooley, congrats on the fast transition to asphalt :cheers:
The ZX10 ran like a bracket bike, 6 passes between 225 and 228.
SABAT, It was a pleasure for me and our crew, too.
Hooley
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Autoweek coverage (via MSN) with in-car video from the 235mph Ford GT-40.
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post=7a0ea5c0-e14e-4240-a687-c6ba11432d53 (http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post=7a0ea5c0-e14e-4240-a687-c6ba11432d53)
Mike
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Thanks guys :cheers:
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Hooley, Congrats on the 200 club on asphalt !! I knew you could do it...
How did you like the traction ?
Standing starts miles are a bit differant ?
Bring that awesome Stude to Maxton in Sept or Oct...
You wanna race on something bigger... get up to Maine and run the 1.5 miles there in July, I will save a pit space for you...
Talk to you soon,
Charles
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Aw geez!!! They left us off the final results page! :? We are nowhere to be found.
Top speed: 131.0.MPH Number of runs: 38
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They fixed the results page, and we are now included... :cheers:
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http://www.texasmile.net/eventrecap.php