What a fantastic day! Considering it was the begining of October, and knowing the typical weather we get in the UK, we couldn't have asked for better conditions. Just warm enough to enjoy a decent ride to DynoSpeed Developments in Chigwell, and cool enough to get some decent horsepower readings. DynoSpeed Developments is a firm favourite of the GSX-R7/11 "crowd" - former owner of the business Bradley o'Connor built the first one. Have a look at the history HERE. After a later-than-expected start, Paul organised us into a queue to start getting bikes run on the dyno in as quick a manner as possible. Dopey John had decided to join us for the day, and as he's not actually a site member (more of a face that most people seem to know) we decided to get his "NewSkool" SUZUKI GSX-R750y run on the dyno first, followed by my GSX-R1000k2. That got new stuff out of the way, so that we can spend the rest of the day concentrating on the proper bikes. Everyone took a guess of what sort of horsepower they reckoned their bikes were putting out - it never ceases to amaze me how the figures that people guess are considerably lower than their claims down the pub after a few pints. Even Wingnut graced us with his presence late in the day, and after a little coersion, was persuaded to put his Yamaha R1 on the Dyno (after rolling out every single excuse under the sun, "I'm low on oil", "it's got a leak", "I'm selling it and don't want to risk it blowing up", "I've got no money", "it's a yamaha", etc. etc. After all that Paul managed to persuade him, and up it went as one of the last runs of the day. GSXRDel, wasn't going to leave until his GSXR600 Srad had broken the 100bhp barrier - he went home happy after fitting a new exhaust-can sold to him by Banoffee - which unleashed a whopping 1.25 more horsepower ;-) Anyway, enough writing, here's the results: You will need to download the FREE WinPEP reader from DynoJet Click Here to visit the DynoJet website to obtain it. Click the name to begin downloading a ZIP file of their dyno runs Our runs were done using DIN correction factors.
About halfway through, we took a short break for Matt of AirStream to demonstrate a
new "protection film" for bikes, it was very interesting, and quite astounding just
how strong this stuff really was, even more impressive was Matt breaking into a
massive sweat just trying to stretch the stuff to prove how indestructable this stuff
really is. If anyone is interested, you can give Matt a call on 020 8500 4685 - mention
this site and I'm sure he'll treat you well.
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