Hello there, trusty forum. I thought I was gone. I was driving my work vehicle to my first stop for the day. Then I noticed to my right a race track I hadn't realized was even there, full of sport bikes racing. It looked amazing. I started to wonder about making a commitment to ride track, and leave the street behind. I've never been to track, but my 05 R1 went through two catastrophic crashes with me before being retired. First one was a deer, that sucked. Second one was a patch of gravel on the side of a mountain vaporized the bike. I was living in this weird realm of riding-not-riding. I couldn't let it go, but couldn't go through this again. I guess it clicked that day I saw the track. Next weekend, on total accident looking at my local track's calendar, I found out Moto America was doing pre-season testing near me, so I went, soaked it all in, had a lot of conversations about what I was thinking.
So, visiting facebook marketplace I found something special. An 06 Anniversary LE. A group A track rider bought it from a collector who had two of them. This was the collector's riding bike, the other one was just for keeps. He went to track for the year until finally he biffed it at relatively low speed. Smashed some fairings, the headlight, fairingstay, half a rearset. The frame, swingarm, forks, engine, wheels... everything important is absolutely immaculate. Everything important looks brand spanking new. Looks like it's frame slider did it's job.
Its got tons of goodies, lots of carbon engine covers, PC5, recent tune, quick shifter, tons of titanium bolts and titanium slipons, Ohlins damper, Gilles axle adjusters, amazing full floating rotors, forget the model but they were expensive. New Pirelli slicks, etc. Aside from the Marchesini wheels and Ohlins front/rear, of course. I am currently waiting on some new fairings, my trusty apex GP clip-ons, Gilles rearsets, odds and ends, just to get it on the road before I spend some time repairing a few carbon pieces.
I paid $5K, the monetary value is toast, but the value and purpose of it's parts is another story. I have a question? Before I get bogged down talking all about my new baby lol.
I have never even owned Ohlins gear before. I kept posturing to buy front/rear for my 05. Almost did from a user here, but chickened out. Nevertheless, I am about 170 pounds. So from the factory, the bikes tend to be sprung for me, right? I like to go to default settings, and adjust from there, usually stiffen it just a smidge from default. What even are my defaults? How do I know?
I found a service manual for https://www.veloxracing.com/downloads/manuals/YZF-R1 2006 Supplement.pdf
It claims its for the 04-06 R1S. Will this be suitable information for the suspension on my bike? The suspension in the manual clearly is Ohlins. Will these be my settings? Reason I ask, the guy I bought it from seemed to believe one fork top adjusted rebound, the other compression. I have heard such things before, but the service manual I linked to seems to indicate that the forks are to be adjusted evenly. Compression is on the bottom, like normal. So did I misunderstand something, or did he?
I can't express how thankful I am for finding this bike. It's my bike, my platform, but so much better. It has everything I could have hoped for being added to my 05. I'm going to be putting non-anniversary schemed fairings on to hide my bikes power level a bit, lol. Wish me luck!
So, visiting facebook marketplace I found something special. An 06 Anniversary LE. A group A track rider bought it from a collector who had two of them. This was the collector's riding bike, the other one was just for keeps. He went to track for the year until finally he biffed it at relatively low speed. Smashed some fairings, the headlight, fairingstay, half a rearset. The frame, swingarm, forks, engine, wheels... everything important is absolutely immaculate. Everything important looks brand spanking new. Looks like it's frame slider did it's job.
Its got tons of goodies, lots of carbon engine covers, PC5, recent tune, quick shifter, tons of titanium bolts and titanium slipons, Ohlins damper, Gilles axle adjusters, amazing full floating rotors, forget the model but they were expensive. New Pirelli slicks, etc. Aside from the Marchesini wheels and Ohlins front/rear, of course. I am currently waiting on some new fairings, my trusty apex GP clip-ons, Gilles rearsets, odds and ends, just to get it on the road before I spend some time repairing a few carbon pieces.
I paid $5K, the monetary value is toast, but the value and purpose of it's parts is another story. I have a question? Before I get bogged down talking all about my new baby lol.
I have never even owned Ohlins gear before. I kept posturing to buy front/rear for my 05. Almost did from a user here, but chickened out. Nevertheless, I am about 170 pounds. So from the factory, the bikes tend to be sprung for me, right? I like to go to default settings, and adjust from there, usually stiffen it just a smidge from default. What even are my defaults? How do I know?
I found a service manual for https://www.veloxracing.com/downloads/manuals/YZF-R1 2006 Supplement.pdf
It claims its for the 04-06 R1S. Will this be suitable information for the suspension on my bike? The suspension in the manual clearly is Ohlins. Will these be my settings? Reason I ask, the guy I bought it from seemed to believe one fork top adjusted rebound, the other compression. I have heard such things before, but the service manual I linked to seems to indicate that the forks are to be adjusted evenly. Compression is on the bottom, like normal. So did I misunderstand something, or did he?
I can't express how thankful I am for finding this bike. It's my bike, my platform, but so much better. It has everything I could have hoped for being added to my 05. I'm going to be putting non-anniversary schemed fairings on to hide my bikes power level a bit, lol. Wish me luck!
