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It was great meeting you, Ralph! Your bike rocks! I definitely want to try that out some day, it looks like a blast. The weather was fantastic. I thought it was going to be a roaster out there, but it wasn't too bad at all. I wish I had taken pictures of your bike, but I wasn't even thinking camera when I was checking it out.

I was happy with my bike making the 240 mile round trip (the most I've ridden in a day so far) without so much as a hiccup.

Rob, was that your GT750 parked next to Ralphs pit? That thing is AWESOME.


Steve

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It was a fun day. I flew down from San Carlos (just south of San Francisco) and hitched a ride over to the races. Hitched a ride back to the airport and was home just after dark. I took some pictures of the bikes there. If anyone is interested it is the last 15 pictures in this album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/krwalsh/Motorcycles

The only picture I got of Ralph's bike was the one of his coming down the front straight.

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What a great weekend at Willow Springs, super great weather in the 80’s, the wild flowers a bloomin’, and great racing.

Friday practice saw me attempting to get the T20 running and on the track but to no avail, couldn’t get spark to the right cylinder. Troubleshooting started at the coils and checking every connection back to the Newtronic module saw no change in voltage to fire the coil. I checked the optical triggers and they were switching, so I figured it must be the module. I should have pulled the module first, because when I did the rattling sound of the components inside meant that things were no longer “solid state!â€

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Yes that was my GT750L

Seems everyone who saw it liked it.

Love riding it

I'm now inspired to build my own race bike.

Great job Ralph the whole weekend was a blast

AHRMA rocks

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Ralph said:

"the wild flowers a bloomin"

As I flew into the Antelope Valley from Tehachapi, there were sections that were Construction Cone Orange. Like someone had colored the desert with an orange Crayola Crayon. Literally square miles of it. It was the flowers. I wish I'd taken a picture, but I was so busy trying to figure out what it was, I didn't have time to grab the camera.

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Like someone had colored the desert with an orange Crayola Crayon. Literally square miles of it. It was the flowers.

We drove home on CA138 west to the grape vine, the surrounding countryside was unreal with all the poppies. When we left Willow springs the hills off to the distant were glowing orange, there were lot's of folks taking photos.

I figured it was in honor of Shoemaker Vintage Racing's official team color!!!

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Ralph, your cylinders should go out next week so you can get the new motor together. What address do you want them to go to?

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Zooke have you checked your PM as you have not replied to my email .johnny

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Buddy sent this to me, seems like a heck of a deal for a seemingly sorted T500 vintage racer.

http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=172987

So here's the opportunity for less that $2K to be on the grid at Mid-O this year. Any takers?

As a point of reference in case anyone wants to know, I spent 4X this amount to build mine.

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Ralph, your cylinders should go out next week so you can get the new motor together. What address do you want them to go to?

Eric, check you PM.

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I tried to bring the snow with me, but once I got to Calif. it all melted off the bike!! Oh the lengths I go to, but I had to go to the races!!

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So pics of my T20 racer. I got it completed for Willow Springs but couldn't get it running, I fried the ignition module somehow and had spark to only one cylinder.

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Nice job on the T20...I really like the look of it. It looks all business and clean. You are putting together a nice little collection of racers.

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Looking in thru “newâ€

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Ralph...WELDING, MACHINING, CUTTING, SANDING are the only ways to fix that!