Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Aluminum Frame Conversion (AFC)
UK Hillclimb
azracer19:
awesome Video....food job, In the states I have never seen race like that on asphalt very cool, what final gearing did you use, how long was the race do you know elevation changes from start to finish?
570mitch:
The course climbs 350 feet in 1/2 a mile. As you can see we race against the clock, so you can loose out by 0.01 of a second, and you only have yourself to blame when you make a mistake.
Gearing I was using there was 15/38 but still had to start in 2nd, 1st gear was too much, as you had to change into 2nd on that right curve after the start and we banned tyre warmers years ago. You can usually do a burn out to warm the rear tyre, but this track does not allow burn outs, so that's all done on cold tyres.
The tracks are all different over here, but all on tarmac, it's proper name is "Speed Hill Climb"
KXcam22:
That cool. I did a similar race on a gravel mountain road. Course was 7 miles long, 4000' vertical. The only vehicle that beat me was an alcohol powered dune buggy. I could have used 2 more gears - never thought about gearing when I showed up at the race. Good video. Cam.
PS heal up fast. I have broken both sides of mine
570mitch:
Cheers Cam
6 weeks since the fall now, just started to drive again.
Private tarmac roads 7 miles long are rare in the UK, even 1 mile is hard to find, but they are trying to change to law on the mainland so we can close the roads and race on them.
My dream would be to pop over to the US and do Pikes Peak.
Kawasakifreak:
Still looking for a decent KX Mitch - so far they're all miles away or want silly money.
Kicking myself for dithering on that one in Cornwall I mentioned to you at Wiscombe.
Appreciate you bearing me in mind if you come across one ?
Cheers.
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