So, with a bit of luck we should be drag racing this weekend at Dakota Raceway in South-west England.

This should be quite good timing as this is as far as I’m planning to go with the current tuning setup (PCV + Autotune, 11.5k limit) so it should be a nice benchmark of how far we’ve come.

Assuming the bike (and rider) are still functional afterwards, I’ll hopefully be taking the bike apart and doing a bunch of updates, including switching to a tuneboss-based ECU setup which ought to make tweaking the ignition timing a lot simpler and also add a quickshifter.

I also feel like the timing chain has maybe stretched somewhat and is pushing the power band higher than I’d like, and we’ll hopefully be fitting an adjustable top gear (vernier cam pulley) to correct that.

With a bit of luck I should have some help from a friend at Sword & Fiddle Productions who should be filming the whole thing (thank you!), so with a bit of luck we should have some cool footage afterwards. Also thank you to my other sponsor NewJerseyIsALifestyle.com

I don’t really know of any other real-world testing (videos/timing) of R125s so I’m very interested to see how we do. For me this will serve as a reference point, and perhaps once the bike updates are done we can try again and see how we do in comparison.

I put the bike on the roller the other week and tbh it felt great so let’s see what it can do 🙂

It’s 1/8th mile racing rather than 1/4 mile, so we likely won’t be setting any top-speed records and will likely have to gear right down in order max out before the finish, but the plan is to start off on a 14t (normally I run 15t), till I’m used to the track and then gear down to 13t if needed. Hopefully that means times should improve towards the end of the day.

If you’re planning to attend the event, either racing or spectating, please do come and say hi 🙂

Below is a quick clip of how she was running…seemed to have power to the limiter so let’s see how we do!