It’s not right, but it’s ok….
Amazing. I never thought I’d find a way to shoehorn a Whitney Houston song title into the headline of a CMM article. However, given the dramatic week that preceded this R1 being shipped to Jerez Circuit in Spain for a three-day track test, there is almost no better fit.
The bike had been completely out of sorts until a few hours before it was due to leave, running chronically rich in spite of much effort to trace the root cause. Eventually it booked a ticket to Spain when a last-minute ECU swap unlocked some of the missing power; although still not right, it was at least okay enough to take to the track for a try-out.
The thought of having three days on my favourite track had been spiking my anticipation levels into the red for months, but here and now that was being
