cagepasser
Active Member
Hello ladies and gentlemen;
I thought I would post my impressions of the Daytona 675 after doing 5 track days with it here at Road America.
First things first. I am no pro or even very fast. I can manage a 2 minute 40 second lap time on the 4 mile coarse. But I am more comfortable at a 2:44 pace.
Before I took the bike to the track I made the following updates:
Zero Gravity double bubble windscreen
Galfer parallel, stainless brake lines
Vesrah RJL brake pads
BMC air filter
Jardine RT One half system
Fuel map/ignition map edits with Tune Boy software
I also RAISED the front of the bike to settle it during mid corner.
At 1001 miles I had the bike dynoed stock. It turned about 43 ft/lbs and 104 hp at the wheel. After the updates it made about 47 ft/lbs and 110 hp at the wheel. But the bike was running lean. My brother and I adjusted the fuel map ourselves to richen it up and then adjusted the fuel trim to compensate for the off/on throttle surging. I have not had it dynoed since. (I will eventually)
My first day out I was very disappointed in the power of the 675. It didn’t seam to keep up to some of the bikes on the track. (I was running in the “advanced†group.) Around noon I started walking around the pits and talking with a few of the riders. I found out that the bikes giving me trouble were liter bikes!
I used the 675s super strong brakes and light weight to my advantage to catch the large bore bikes in the turns and would only allow a moderate gap on the straights. Don’t let me miss lead you, the fast guys on the 1000s schooled me regularly through out the day.
My 675 will out motor an RC51. (I have video proof). This maybe trivial to most, but it is very important to me because two of my co-workers ride RC51s
Having people come up to me and ask “What have you all done to that bike?!?!†became routine. They couldn’t believe how strong the bike pulled out of the turns and maintained a decent gap down the extremely long straights. Top speed of the 675 is 150 mph at red line in 6th gear. That is an actual speed. Another advantage to the Tune Boy software. The bike has plenty of power to spin the rear wheel exiting a corner allowing the bike to drift. Crazy fun…
The 675 is very nimble, I have very thin chicken strips on my tires. Indicating that the bike corners so well that I don’t have to lean it as far as the R1 to do the same job. Oh yeah, I should mention that the previous two years I ran a 180hp, 2005 R1 and this year I managed to match my lap time on a much smaller bike that is 20mph slower on top!
The bike does use a bit of oil during a track day. I can’t really blame it though. Once the on the track the bike never falls below 8,000 rpm in second gear on the slow corners typical turns are 10,000 rpm in second.
Overall I can’t get enough of this bike. I am already thinking of having the head flowed, Triumph race cams and the stage 2 Arrow exhaust (huge down tubes, incredible!) installed.
I will continue to add photos to my picture trail account (cagepasser).
Let me know if you guys and gals enjoy reading these posts.
cagepasser
I thought I would post my impressions of the Daytona 675 after doing 5 track days with it here at Road America.
First things first. I am no pro or even very fast. I can manage a 2 minute 40 second lap time on the 4 mile coarse. But I am more comfortable at a 2:44 pace.
Before I took the bike to the track I made the following updates:
Zero Gravity double bubble windscreen
Galfer parallel, stainless brake lines
Vesrah RJL brake pads
BMC air filter
Jardine RT One half system
Fuel map/ignition map edits with Tune Boy software
I also RAISED the front of the bike to settle it during mid corner.
At 1001 miles I had the bike dynoed stock. It turned about 43 ft/lbs and 104 hp at the wheel. After the updates it made about 47 ft/lbs and 110 hp at the wheel. But the bike was running lean. My brother and I adjusted the fuel map ourselves to richen it up and then adjusted the fuel trim to compensate for the off/on throttle surging. I have not had it dynoed since. (I will eventually)
My first day out I was very disappointed in the power of the 675. It didn’t seam to keep up to some of the bikes on the track. (I was running in the “advanced†group.) Around noon I started walking around the pits and talking with a few of the riders. I found out that the bikes giving me trouble were liter bikes!
I used the 675s super strong brakes and light weight to my advantage to catch the large bore bikes in the turns and would only allow a moderate gap on the straights. Don’t let me miss lead you, the fast guys on the 1000s schooled me regularly through out the day.
My 675 will out motor an RC51. (I have video proof). This maybe trivial to most, but it is very important to me because two of my co-workers ride RC51s
Having people come up to me and ask “What have you all done to that bike?!?!†became routine. They couldn’t believe how strong the bike pulled out of the turns and maintained a decent gap down the extremely long straights. Top speed of the 675 is 150 mph at red line in 6th gear. That is an actual speed. Another advantage to the Tune Boy software. The bike has plenty of power to spin the rear wheel exiting a corner allowing the bike to drift. Crazy fun…
The 675 is very nimble, I have very thin chicken strips on my tires. Indicating that the bike corners so well that I don’t have to lean it as far as the R1 to do the same job. Oh yeah, I should mention that the previous two years I ran a 180hp, 2005 R1 and this year I managed to match my lap time on a much smaller bike that is 20mph slower on top!
The bike does use a bit of oil during a track day. I can’t really blame it though. Once the on the track the bike never falls below 8,000 rpm in second gear on the slow corners typical turns are 10,000 rpm in second.
Overall I can’t get enough of this bike. I am already thinking of having the head flowed, Triumph race cams and the stage 2 Arrow exhaust (huge down tubes, incredible!) installed.
I will continue to add photos to my picture trail account (cagepasser).
Let me know if you guys and gals enjoy reading these posts.
cagepasser
