What I've Been up to for the last year, dirty honda fun

[fimpBIKES]

Hi Folks,
realised i was banging on about people not being bike-focussed enough, but i havent posted up a bike pic in a LOOOOOONG time

So here is the lil beauty i bought last year





just kidding
Trying to relive my misspent youth fanging around on the cbr250r i went and bought myself a zippy little cbr400rr






chucked some fresh tyres on it and have
been making a serial pest out of myself in medium/slow group at EC


she's a bit low though, tend to shower people in sparks most of the track


tyres all the way to edge front and back (never had a tyre all the way off the front before)


currently grinding knee+toes+footpeg+BRAKE LEVER through half the corners, in need of higher pegs asap

[Snake_Doctor]

On ya Fimp thats the Stuff

[El_Hefty]

haha love it good work fimp, how often you getting out? wish i had the time

now obviously dont need the corrozieras (sp?) send em my way would ya

[hooligan]

I Love the little 400's, used to have a vfr 4 and did the same thing through turn 1, peg, side stand and exhaust.
Now, hows the TL?

[RevHead]

no spider webs.lol i like it onya fimpy

[wackyrider]

Now that looks like fun

[DaveG]

Mate that looks like great fun - I've got sessions booked up from March to June every month- let me know if you are going out again. Be good to see you there

[Deano]

i would love to have a fang on one of them. was a massive diffference gong from the 92 gix7/11 to a 04 gix 600 so something even lighter again would be awesome i recon.

and you can hold it flat just about everywhere i bet

[ozzy1100]

but when do I get to see the britten ??????

[DCRacing]

Love it, i am fighting the urge to get another race bike......... got to many now but they are awesome fun, just able to flick it around and on rails, not masses of power but it can still make a big bike look slow in the right hands........

[fimpBIKES]

it goes pretty good
i get stuck overtaking the same 600's all the time some sessions which gets frustrating

but definitely good fun
its full power pretty much everywhere all the time
last trackday in november i was about to pull in due to overtemp when the session ended
but that was a 40deg day so not as bad as the TL used to be with its little radiator, had to back off at oran park once due to heat

its super-flickable and low. too low really. if i cared about it i would put a newer 600 shock on and firm up the forks
but for now i am happy to reset the peg height (they droop down at about 10deg, due to crashes i expect)
should help most of my scraping issues and let me get it over a few more degrees

[davo]

I Love the little 400's, used to have a vfr 4 and did the same thing through turn 1, peg, side stand and exhaust.I also had a Yamaha Virago 250 which i rode to work at the Cross,where i sucked off Asian men for a living.
Now, hows the back door after I punished you last night?

Fixed it for you Chris

[hooligan]

Fixed it for you Chris

I actually did have a virago 250, Davo.
And i didn't work at the cross, i went there because i missed you. i thought the short asian men would remind me of you, handsome.

[Deano]

dont be scared to go up a group

you are better off being in the slower half of a fast group not the other way around.

and the faster the group you go in the better the other folk are to ride with and less crashes usually

[Weaselman]

I might have some cash coming my way soon and a track bike is a def temptation

[MONO]

Tyres look like Dunlop alphas

[fimpBIKES]

thats right mono
dont take it personally, due to the stupid 18inch rear tyre i had VERY limited choices i could get
i think it came down to a dunlop slick (its a long drive EC to not be allowed on if there are a few drops of rain...) or some alpha10's

[fimpBIKES]

its a good point Deano but right now without extra acceleration i would just be frustrated i think.
couple more days in med/slow on the little 400 to keep pushing my entry speeds for now

[ALBI]

Ya never told me about the bike when I popped over for coffee a few weeks ago!!

[Large]

I always thought I recognised you Conrad.

You're like the chunky slighty tardy Casey Stoner!

Is that sparks coming from your bike in the second on track pic?