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What a grand experience, @Mrs Visor! How cool that you did a track day and that you were on your own bike. It sounds like you had great fun! Looking forward to some more photographs when you see the pics from the track photographer.

I remember that "buzz" about which you spoke from back when I did a Keith Code Superbike School weekend in Las Vegas. We didn't ride our own bikes, though, and were on BMW S1000RR's. I also thought that it was one of the best things I'd done on a bike--and still do! It really is a growth experience, eh? Cool that you get to do a Part 2 in July!

Here's a link from a thread I posted on the forum back when I did track school. The weekend was a 60th birthday gift from my hubby.

https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/keith-code-california-superbike-school-experience.20902/

 

Thanks @Sandi T, that looks and sounds as if it was great, I can't claim that my track experience took place in Las Vegas though!!

 

It was not me @Sandi T but the bike had moved on to my eldest son about 6 months ago, he was very lucky that day although obviously he couldn't see that at the time.
He was upset about it as he really loved that bike and was looking after it well including recently putting Michelin Road 6's on it and we'd replaced the stator and regulator.

Once I'd removed the front sprocket and oil seal the outcome was inevitable.

We sold it complete a few nights ago, fully declaring the damage and stated to the buyer that we could show him it ran.
Very hard to accept that the engine was basically scrap when it instantly started on the button from cold and sounded like it did with the baffle less Arrow cans.

He stripped it the following day and sent pictures of the internals. Basically the whole gear set and shafts are trash but I fear the bearing housing will have scrapped the crankcases.

 

Looks like it was the gearbox that went bang first. If it seized it's lucky that the chain snapped or the back wheel would have locked up.

 

Now you say it, it makes sense. I can't see how a chain snapping could lunch a gearbox. The other way round, yes. It would also explain why there wasn't more peripheral damage as there was when it happend to me, as there would have been no drive through the chain from the engine if the gearbox had seized. the chain would have just flopped off.

I had a gearbox seizure on my very first ride on a brand new bike a few years ago. I won't say what bike it was because the factory and the dealer where very good about it. They replaced it with a brand new bike that was a 16 plate rather than the discounted end-of-year 15 I'd bought, so in theory I could have turned round and sold it for more than I paid for it. And they threw in a few hundred quid's worth of credits at the dealership if I didn't mention it on social media, so I won't.
It was a complete one-off which had never happened before or since and was down to human error at the factory. Someone had fitted an extra shim on one of the gear shafts (probably two were stuck together) so that the circlip which should have held everything in place couldn't locate in it's slot and eventually all the dogs just floated off the shaft and everything jammed up solid. I'd only ridden about fifteen miles and I reckon it was the assmebly grease that kept everything in place that far. It was lucky it did because I was in a 30 mph zone at the time and I got an instant rear wheel lock-up and left a black line on the road. Given that the bike in question could do 90 mph in sixth gear within permitted running in revs, the result could have been fatal.
The person responsible at the factory lost their job but I could have lost my life.

 

All possibilities chaps and ultimately it was a very lucky escape.

My son has gone and bought an ER6 today for his daily work commute as he was stopping at ours to make things easier ( for him). At least I'll get a better lie in than 04:30 now before I go to work