| Author | Message | ||
     Rocketronnl |
Next wednesday we have our start of the season in the netherlands. It's not the highest level of racing in the netherlands but we're gonna have a lot of fun. 4 1125R's are racing in this competition,I use this tread to let you guys know how we are doing with our boilers. we also have Twin-Motorcycles racing with a 1125R,but they race at the highest level. My bike is stock except the shockabsorber,59 sponsors from the Dutch Buellforum are on my 1125R.    | ||
| Rocketronnl |
Jean-Claude Luijcx with the Twin-Motorcycles torque-hamer on board.  (Message edited by rocketron.nl on April 12, 2009) (Message edited by rocketron.nl on April 13, 2009) | ||
| Rocketronnl |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/290 431/451230.html?1239457332 The Twin-Motorcycles 1125R story. | ||
| Rocketronnl |
"westcoast" Bas Leek  (Message edited by rocketronnl on April 14, 2009) | ||
| Duggram |
Ronnie, good luck and please keep us posted. Sounds like you are going to have fun. "Have fun" is what everyone always says to me. Doesn't get any better than that. Good for you. | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Go Buell Racing!!! | ||
| Smoke |
BEST LUCK TO YOU ALL!!! GO BUELL RACING!! tim | ||
| Gearhead |
Best of luck, guys! Keep us posted!! | ||
| Skully |
Good luck guys! Keith DarkHorseMoto, LLC | ||
| Rocketronnl |
It was a nice day with good weather. Bas van Leek was the fastest 1125 on the track followed by Jean-Claude luijcx,gilbert Bakx and me. I had good starts first heat 3rd with a 6th finish,second heat number 2 in the first corner and place 7 at the finish. 6th place overall. in the first heat almost a highsider and the rest of the day I was a bit scared to get on the power at righthandcorners(the track has 9 RHcorners and 5 LHcorners),from that time my laptimes were not that good anymore. Gilbert Bakx raced in my class and had a 5th finish in the first heat and a 4th finish in the second heat,5th place overall. It was his first time on the 1125R this year and had a lot of fun beating me. Today the TM 1125R is going for his first practice of the season. pictures coming soon. | ||
| Rocketronnl |
This is me followed by Gilbert bakx (sorry for the small picture)  The West coast 1125R from Bas van Leek  | ||
| Rocketronnl |
Gilbert Bakx  JC Luijcx  Bas Leek  and me  | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Congrats!!! Cool pics too! | ||
| Buell2001b |
wow nice, i love the scoops on the 1125r race bike. those are custom or are they the new scoops for next year buell 1125r | ||
| Rocketronnl |
Next race is the Ducati clubrace 1,2 and 3 may at Assen. The Buell's are riding in the Thunderbike class and the Twin-Motorcycles 1125R is doing the sound of thunder(big boy's class) keep you posted  (Message edited by rocketronnl on April 19, 2009) | ||
| Bud |
3 off the 4 1125 riders  from left to right Gilbert, Ronnie and JC was great to see, good Job guys i have updated our artikel on our website after the testing and first race gearing for assen is about sorted, Ed van Weel ( our rider ) needs a little more seat time to really get a feal for the bike, but already he is fast ( 8e place in the first race ) still the GSX-r 1000 and R1's are hard to beat at topspeed, but the bike is still in wisper mode and with only 160 miles on the engine and running a little fat gr, b (Message edited by bud on April 19, 2009) | ||
| Duggram |
Bud, nice race report. Thank you. I like your lessons learned. With your track noise restrictions now I understand why you made such a quiet pipe! | ||
| Bud |
Hi Douglas, the noise restrictions are so tough, some 4IL bikes brand new out off the box need extra dampening because off inlet noise and engine noise, and need to put dampening material in there fairings for the engine noise, the government granted only so much sound days ( like for the WSB an MotoGP ) if the circuit/ racing event makes to much noise on a silent day, very big fine's and even a options to shut down the track completely so the sound level is measured all the time, and for the riders/ bikes only one warning and second time over the limit you can go home | ||
| Rocketronnl |
last saturday we had a Buell trackday at the zandvoort circuit,good weather Craig Jones in da house for some cool stunts. Ed van Weel on the Twin-Motorcycles 1125R  JC  me  no comment  Twin-Motorcycles Bud  | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Rock on Dutch Buellers!! | ||
| Smoke |
ggod job fellows, keep it up!! tim | ||
| Rocketronnl |
A week to go for the biggest amateurrace in europa. After that weekend we have(with 3 1125R riders)on tuesday a 4 hours endurance so it's gonna be a lot of seattime  | ||
| Bud |
i'n nerveus.. and i only have to look  | ||
| Coolice |
Good luck in the endurance race guys! | ||
| Duggram |
You know what they always say? Just try to have fun. Good luck! | ||
| Rocketronnl |
Great weekend at Assen,friday a trackday,saturday 2 qualifications and the race on sunday. Bas Leek finished 8th,I finished 15th and JC Luijcx did not start on sunday. lots of dutch Buellforummembers arrived on raceday to support us.    | ||
| Rocketronnl |
The Twin-Motorcycles 1125R did also a good job. Bud,tell your story....... | ||
| Rocketronnl |
And last tuesday we had a 4 hour endurance at zandvoort. cold day wit a lot of wind,finished 7th from 38 teams.      | ||
| M2nc |
Looks like you guys are having a lot of fun. The bikes are beautiful. Go Buell Racing!! | ||
| Bud |
Well, The DCR was fun, saw Ronnie set a new PB on Assen , way to go Ronnie, you still look like Boet van Dulmen , but he went fast with that as well Bas Leek was making his last PB to a steady lap time.. yeah Bas Jean-Claude finally getting used to the 1125 , still being used to his Ducati, and for the first time he had the feeling he could toss and turn with the bike, the lap time’s where not great but there was so much traffic in the last training session. Julius Ilmberger came over from Germany with his very nice prepared 1125R , and we already know he was fast We shared the Pit box again with the other “Make a Whish “ riders, although most off theme ride a Ducati , there nice folk Surprise for Ed, he received custom made new race leathers, after a few laps in the new leathers he did changed back to his old stuff, the knees where a little to wide, so the knee slider moved to much when toughing down, a little remake by the tailor will fix this. Training started out very good, we made some small changes to the bike , fitted a Double Bubble screen , adjustable clip-on , longer gearshift peg, leaned out he FI , changed oil ect. Only very little debris in the old oil, and most off theme are from the gearbox , very good Training on Friday went well, still trying a lot off thing, because the bike still need a lot off force to turn over form left to right, So made the rear shock longer shorter again, made the front lower and higher again, we fixed the wobbly rear end while braking, just a little more pretension on the rear spring is what it needed. 1.52’s where pushed out on a regular base, Training/ qualification on Saturday, Changed the brake pads, and made a lot off seat time, Stomp grip was mounted, who That’s nice, Ed came in after the first session.. 1.51 yes.. Still 4 seconds to slow to compete with the factory 1098R race Ducati, we qualified 14e place on the grid . But where making progress, Assen is not a Buell Track, but we can do better. Sunday / Race day Rae one. Wet dry, what is it going to be, Ronnie still had a dry race, but the radar image was showing rain at the high point off our race, so we set the bike for full wet with the soft compound. With the start it was still a little to dry for the soft rain tyre.. fingers crossed.. After 5 laps Ed was already in the top 10, and the rain came, Ed is a good rain rider And every lap he picked up more speed, 8 place, 6e , Ed sr. and me where nodding to each other, with a unmistaken grin on our faces, a gap to the front runners, going in to the last Lap as 5e, it was a good battle for 4e place , Ed did over take him at the Haar corner, but on the long Strubben the Ducati carried more speed , just before the Last corner on Assen The GT corner, Ed braked very late and hold better line before the GT, Buell power was all it needed accelerating out the corner, the Ducati rider tried to follow but was way to fast on the throttle and lost grip and crashed, ( luckily he was ok ) So we became 4e , with the 3e fastest race time .. WHoWHo I was happy a dog with to 2.. well you know what Congratulation to Julius Ilmberger who Became 2e with his 1125 . way to go Julius So Two 1125 on the first 4 places in the sound off thunder race Second race, The waiting game was on again.. wet, dry what is it going to be.. We left the bike in Wet setup.. The call was made in the last 5 minutes..it’s going to be a dry race.. So stress… changed the Wheels , adjusted the suspension and where just in time for the warm up lap Race went well, but could not do any magic.. training time for 14e place and we finished 13e place right where be belong at the moment.., I felt a little down with this result, but he fair is fair, we still need to have a lot off seat time, perfecting the bike.. Julius became 7e , good Job.. All in all a nice weekend, Tanks to the Ducracing team, special thanks to Michiel for the fried eggs in the morning The Buellforum gang.. Ronnie, Bas and JC for the support and company And of course Ed, Ed sr. and Daan It was my pleasure Gr, bud |
