Absolute Cycle Performance and Lombardi Road Racing School-NYC

The Lombardi School in 2007 will offer its services at the events organized by a new local club, Absolute Cycle, part of Absolute Cycle Performance LLC, long time supporter of trackday riders and racers. Last fall, Roy Cadoo, CEO of Absolute, and Marc O’Connor saw the opportunity and the need for a boutique style road racing club where weekday events, professional coaching offered by long time racers, ex racers and expert riders, along with a very reasonable number of people attending the events, should guarantee a flawless, safe and exciting day for everybody.

In such a contest after the positive feedback by everyone who attended our Basic Level in 2006, the Lombardi Road Racing School has decided to add another course, the Intermediate Level. The new class will be run by me, Alessandro Matteucci, with a format of 2 max 3 students per instructor. With this course the Rob Lombardi School’s goal is to take an intermediate rider and provide him/her with all the techniques necessary to build a solid foundation to become a smooth, consistent, elegant and yes, fast advanced rider. By focusing on such a small number of students we will be able to personalize the teaching & riding experience with different drills according to the needs of each and every students. Also, we are planning to use videos to pin point areas of improvement and accomplishments to our students.
As I have recently explained in the Absolute Forum:
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Question:
Originally posted by tsd345

OK, I'll start......

So Alex, I plan on attending your advanced school this year, however I haven't attended the basic. Are you going to recommend that I attend the basic?
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Answer:

TSD345,
It really depends on your acquired technical skills. The course is for an intermediate rider: someone who comfortably rides at that level. The Basic school is specifically for someone new at the race track even though it can correct bad habits for some experienced street rider. In the Second Level I go back to certain concepts already introduced in the first course and from there I explain, practice and review in details, with each and every student, different techniques that should have a terrific impact on his/her riding skills. Now the question is: can you find a line and can you keep it through the turn? Do you accelerate enough at the exit of a turn to the point that you are really using brake-markers to deal with the next one? Ideally a rider should start with the Basic school, ride a few club events to mature and absorb what has already learned and once he/she can ride at the intermediate level take my class. At that point he/she will be able to enjoy a boost in his/her learning curve due to the fact that I tailor my teaching to his or her expertise, leveraging on the skills while working on the inabilities.
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Absolute Cycle “boutique style” road racing club, along with the Lombardi School and Absolute Cycle Perfomance store, offering the lowest prices in the market, are definetely going to be one the most interesting new addition in the Tri-State&Pensylvania road racing club arena in 2007.
Absolute Cycle is in Linden, NJ, conveniently located right off the NJ Turnpike and the Goethel Bridge, ph. # 1-877-382-9800

See you at the Motorcycle Show in the Javits Center, NYC

Where to dynotune your Power Commander in Brooklyn

Healthy food habits and daily phisical activity can help us in gaining a couple of HP and maybe lower our bad cholesterol but they can not do too much in improving throttle response. How many times we have seen a similar bike gaining immediately a few feet at the exit of a turn for not apparent reason if not a crispier throttle? With big engines, even at the race track, we have the tendency to use the mid range RPM more than we want and with mixed results. In effect the whole execution of a turn can be affected by how the power is delivered once we start feeding again the throttle. In similar situations the solution can be found in purchasing a Power Commander and optimizing the air/fuel ratio in order to obtain a linear erogation of power that could correspond to the maximum possible horsepower for any given combination of air/fuel at any level of RPM.
For such a critical engine set up, the Pure Motorbike Passion crew in Brooklyn relies on Mike Lavista, manager of Brooklyn Bike Works. The shop has a dyno-dedicated room where the magic happens: just close your eyes, listen to the engine revving and shifting and smile because with a few clicks of mouse Mike, aka The Power Commander Whiz, will unveil the full potential of your beloved bike.

As Artur Clarke once was quoted: “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced”.

In the pics and the video Mike working on Naim Behdzet‘s 2005 GSX-R 600.

A little help for your Christmas wish list…

By Almos Gyorffy for Pure Motorbike Passion
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We can spend a nice amount of money to gain some horsepower or loose some weight.
I want to share my personal experience with some nice gadgets and aftermarket high performance parts. I must admit that I love gadgets and also that I am a do-it-yourself kind of guy. I am constantly working on my own bike even if I have nothing to add or repair on it: sometimes I would just take it apart to check if everything is OK. I know …it’s insane, but I love it.
Last spring I bought a brand new 2006 Suzuki GSX-R 750 K6 , my dream bike since I saw it the first time in 1990 in a motorcycle magazine back in Hungary. I have always wanted to get a brand new bike, still in the crate, something “virgin” that nobody has ever touched besides the Suzuki factory mechanics. This year my dream finally became true!
While still waiting for it I had already planned some modifications, improvements on this otherwise awesome machine. First, I wanted to add a nice exhaust system, though the factory system is one of the best looking exhausts I’ve ever seen. This became a problem later on, since no aftermarket companies have made a nice looking one for this bike. After extensive research I have finally found a small company called TaylorMade Racing with a beatiful exhaust slip-on that saves about 12 Lbs!! The OEM system is 16 Lbs because of the strict emission and noise regulations. The TaylorMade is about 4 Lbs: you can easily figur out that it’s made of titanium. Originally I wanted to put the Yoshimura R-55 but unfortunately Yoshimura has had problems at their R&D department and they don’t have still an exhaust system for the GSX-R 750 K6 available for sale after almost 12 months.
Through out the year I have been adding parts to my baby a little bit at the time. I installed a beautiful piece of engineering, called Gilles Chain adjuster. It makes the chain adjustment easier, also a wheel change will need less effort since there are no chain adjuster blocks to fall off. Since I was already looking at the Gilles parts in my parts book, I added a titanium axle nut, it looks cool and expensive.
I put a nice looking and most importantly great performing billet front brake master cylinder from Brembo. This piece improved so much the braking performance of my bike that I had to use totally different brake markings on the track. It feels like you hit the wall when you squeeze it!! Now even WERA banned on its events because they give too much advantage to those who use them!! I also added a set of beautifully manufactured Spiegler stainless steel braided brake lines. These brake lines comes in a color you choose, so you can match them to your bike color !! I think it’s a nice feature and also their quality is excellent. OK, at this point it was time to make my bike faster so I added a Dynojet Power Commander III USB to reach the perfection in the fuel injection system, critical goal every time engine parts of a bike are substituted. Even on a stock bike you will feel a clear improvement in the acceleration and the throttle response with the appropriate mapping since stock bikes are tuned for low emissions and not for 100% performance.
After installing the PCIIIUSB, I realized that I had to take my bike to a shop to tune it with a dynamometer. As usual, I decided to do it by myself with the help of a Dynojet Wide Band Commander, that I nick-named “pocket-dyno”. This unit can record 10 minutes of air-fuel ratio (AFR), throttle position (TP) & RPM data. After downloading the data to a laptop computer you can see the AFR compared to the TP and RPM and the PCIIIUSB can be modified to achieve the perfect AFR for the best performance. It might sounds like rocket-science, and it is!!! Don’t try this at home, let the professionals do it at a certified Power Commander dealers like 666 Cycles.
My next step was to install a set of Factory Pro velocity stacks. They give a nice, noticeable punch in the mid RPM range, smooth out the entire power band & improve the acceleration. In the same time I replaced the OEM air filter with a BMC Race air filter.
Also I let my friend Diana at Js Typography, give a custom look for the bike. She added a few blue accent stripes to help the plastic of the bike to stand out: she did an excellent job.
Since I like to travel with my bike, discover new places or just go for a weekend ride to the nearby Bear Mountain State Park, I bought a Garmin GPS receiver. It’s a great help if you just go without real destinations or you don’t want to loose time in searching for directions on a map: you want just yo hop on your bike and ride wherever you find nice twisties, without worrying to get lost. With the optional XM Traffic subscription you can avoid traffic jams or bad weather.
I also recoment another nice little gadget to whoever intends to go for gearing changes, but it’s good even on a completely stock bike: it’s called Speedohealer.
As we know, even with stock gearing the factory speedometer error can be as high as 10%, so even a modest sprocket gearing change can have the speedometer off by 15%. This little black box can calibrate the speed to almost 100% accuracy!! I have used my GPS to get my real speed and calculate the necessary adjustment on the Speedohealer.








Now, I am confident that I have contributed somehow to make your Christmas wish list a little bit longer and the need for that second mortage even more urgent ….

Almos