Smitty wrote:.......taking one onto a racetrack is a waste of time money and rubber.....
every time you say taking a ZX12R onto a racetrack is a waste of time, Santa kills a baby kitten !
Smitty wrote:....I did a trackday at PI with the 12...it wore out both sets of tyres.....left lonnnng black marks out of corners and used nearly 3 tankfuls.......it was a pig going into T1 its weight (braking from around $2.50)......just makes it unpleasant....a 12R is not a bike for a racetrack........
Mmmmm Phillip Island on a 12 !! I did 2 days there back in 2009, barely wore out the l/h side of a Pirelli Supercorsa (almost nil wear on the front Pilot race) - left the odd darkie in my underwear, used about 30? litres of juice - and saw God once or twice chasing Stevo and MickLC into T1 .....that bike *loved* Phillip Island. If ever a track was designed for a big roadie (even a Busa track bike would go well down there

) - it was Phillip Island. Managed 54's there by the end of the second day, which isn't fast, but its OK. With slicks fitted, I reckon it could do 48's easily. 43's or less with Wattie in the saddle !
Eastern Creek - even better. Smitty, the MFP12 can run 47's all day at the Creek on slicks - the current Dunlop slicks have now done 2 days at the Creek and another day at Marulan - and are barely worn. Even Santa can get his knee down at the Creek !
But I have to agree with Pan about one thing here - those guys out there who have never actually ridden one of these bikes on a track - a 12 or a Busa - are really not coming from an 'informed' position. Its just guesswork. I know for a fact that a 12 can easily be ridden at a track - at speed - as long as it is set up properly. I would like to see this Busa at a track just to see how it goes myself.....
besides that - 12's rule the Wastelands, which is all that really matters anyway !
