While I’m sure you’re all desperate to read about how well I got on at my very first race meeting – or, perhaps more accurately, how badly I got on – there are a few things I need to talk about first, given that in last month’s piece I’d pointed out that the bike wasn’t yet ready to race…
Shocking revelation
I’d mentioned the new YSS rear shock absorber previously, but what I didn’t have room to say was why I chose that very shock. Many folk in the Bandit 600 class use a shock from a different model of bike, such as a Honda CBR600RR as an example, and this would have been a reasonably cheap and easy way to go, as befits the approach that I wanted to take
