| -----Original Message----- From: EldoMike [mailto:mo-@650dialup.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:08 AM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: Re: Ken Pitts...info on upcoming race in Alabama
Seems strange that the Barber website shows nothing about the AHRMA event...from reading the AHRMA website looks like motel rooms will be non existant.
EldoMike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Pitts" <MGcoo-@aol.com> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:51 AM Subject: Re: Ken Pitts...info on upcoming race in Alabama
| In a message dated 9/10/03 9:10:58 AM, ianad-@linkamerica.net writes:
| Getting close to race time in Alabama. How are you preparations coming |
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along?
| | I am still planning on heading over but I will only be able to get away |
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on
| | Sat. Can you send me any info as to where you will be staying |
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so I might
| The bike is moving along, although at a slower pace than I had |
hoped. I'm at
| the point where everything we do involves fabricating custom |
pieces. Last
| night we welded plates onto the frame for the rear sets. Today |
I'm working on
| tying the linkage to the rear sets. Next, its off to the muffler shop to |
bend
| some tubing & make the 2 into 1 Tonti frame race exhaust fit onto the |
Loopframe.
| The frame mounted fairing is on & looks really cool. The Mikuni |
carbs are
| fitted & I finally found some velocity stacks for them so that birds & |
small
| rodents won't get sucked into the valve train. Still quite a bit of time |
consuming
| work to be done, but I'll make it. This race will be pretty much a shake |
down
| run for all the changes & give me an idea about what I need to address |
over
| the winter.
I'll be camping at the track, arriving Thursday night 9/25. |
Practice all day
| Friday 9/26, practice Saturday & Sunday morning with racing starting |
around weekend at
| Talladega GP track. Camping at the track again & pretty much the same |
schedule,
| practice all day Friday, practice Saturday & Sunday morning with racing beginning around noon both days.
Ken Asheville, NC |
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