The track was extremely dry, hard packed, and slick.
It was really hard to tell the power of the bike.
So, we loaded up the truck and headed to the asphalt.
We checked the jetting and jetted it a bit richer then we had it.
Rode the bike around and to be honest it was a bit lack luster.
I mean, it's a KX500, we are all use to hitting the throttle and hanging on for dear life
But this power was a lot different.
The Torque hit much earlier but required some short shifting.
Plus a KX500 on the Asphalt running a brand new knobby does not offer the best traction.
We richened up the jetting a bit more and took it for a few more test spins.
It definitely liked the additional fuel.
The issue was we were up a bit higher in elevation the Glen Helen (Where Sean was racing the next day) and the temps were very chilly..
We did the best we could, loaded the bike up and went to dinner..
On the way back to Oscar's we discussed what we all thought about the bike.
Everyone was concerned that the bike may not be able to keep up with the more modern 4 strokes just because the way the power was coming on.
But it occurred to me that it was a engine configuration that we were not use to riding, the conditions for testing were less the ideal, and the jetting was still off a bit.
After laying out what I was thinking, my guess was that everyone more or less agreed and we would have to wait until the morning to see what we had.
After arriving late back at Oscar's place, we changed the jetting on the carb, stripped off all the old plastics that we used to test the bike with, cleaned it up, made adjustments, flipped the knobby around because we ate it up on the asphalt, installed the new graphics on the new plastics and mounted it all up. Installed the new pipe (We tested with a old pipe in case we had an accident) and I can't remember what all else we did because I went to bed at 1 am knowing that we needed to get up at 5 and I was beat.
Jason and I were operating on about 4-6 hours of sleep for 3 days and I wimped out.
Besides, Jason, Alex, and Oscar had everything well in hand and I knew it would be done.
5 am rolled around and I thought that someone was just getting up.
Nope, Oscar, Alex, and Jason stayed up all night to make sure everything was as good as they could make it...
It made me feel a bit guilty... Or old... But at least they hung tough and got it done.
