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We have a winner...

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Malc Sampson winning again...

''It's been a while, Superstock win on the VFR and a lap record too :) 3 more races on it tomorrow.''



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Well done Popkat... :clap: :clap: :clap:
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:clap: Well done Popcat - Bottle your leather juices and enjoy smell of success.
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Well done mate
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Wicky wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:52 pm :clap: Well done Popcat - Bottle your leather juices and enjoy smell of success.
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Well done old fella. Just goes to show there’s many a good tune left in an old fiddle!!!! :wave:
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Nice one Malc top job


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Well done Malc. :thumbup:
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Well done Malc 8) :clap:

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Great job Malc. We'll done. :clap: :clap:
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:clap: :clap: :beer:

nice one Malc
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cheers :D
I got 3 wins over the weekend and 1 second, unfortunately the lap record was short lived, it got beat by less than a tenth of a second :( I improved my lap time time but couldn't quite take it back, the rear tyre was passed it's best, had some great racing though and it's really nice to get some wins again.
It's been some time, I last won in 2014, stopped racing then and in 2017 built the VFR, took it out twice late in the season to test it then thought I'd go for a season in 2018, first meeting highsided and broke my hand which took a long time to heal so that season was done for. This year has been about bike set up (should have had it sorted last year), small adjustments here and there and finally this weekend the bike felt good. hoping I can continue going well for the rest of the season now, it's not easy and there's some very fast riders.

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I still take my old XJ out too in the 600 proddy class, it's out classed by the fastest FZ's but such a fun bike to ride, I got 6th place in all races which is better than I thought I could do on it.




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Brilliant stuff Malc, very well done & keep it going ... :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


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Simply superb job !
Winning on a lesser bike has to be the cherry on the cake :D
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Rock On Popkat
What was the final key to getting the set up right. You were struggling quite a bit with the rear shock travel at castle Combe


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Pete.L wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:54 am Rock On Popkat Image
What was the final key to getting the set up right. You were struggling quite a bit with the rear shock travel at castle Combe


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A bit of carb work but mainly work on the rear shock, just set up stuff really, been making adjustments but not getting far, had a bit of a rethink and seemed to get it right this time. Things is it's easy not to make the changes in case you get it wrong, but time came to try something out and glad I did.
Just hope the set up works at other tracks too.
As for wet set up, its still a fair way off, pray for dry races :lol:



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