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Dario
Doing this as a separate thread because past experience suggests yours may get 'bumped' in due course by a PH Monitor.
Of course wish you luck, but nonetheless, sad to see; you've come across to me as a real genuine, very helpful & highly enthusiastic character and I was (I'm sure others likewise were) very much looking forward to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural in '09.
Without wishing to put the mockers on your plans, truth be told, hope you voluntarily change your mind! Either way, all the best for the New Year!
Very Best Regards
Doing this as a separate thread because past experience suggests yours may get 'bumped' in due course by a PH Monitor.
Of course wish you luck, but nonetheless, sad to see; you've come across to me as a real genuine, very helpful & highly enthusiastic character and I was (I'm sure others likewise were) very much looking forward to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural in '09.
Without wishing to put the mockers on your plans, truth be told, hope you voluntarily change your mind! Either way, all the best for the New Year!
Very Best Regards
splitpin said:
Dario
Doing this as a separate thread because past experience suggests yours may get 'bumped' in due course by a PH Monitor.
Of course wish you luck, but nonetheless, sad to see; you've come across to me as a real genuine, very helpful & highly enthusiastic character and I was (I'm sure others likewise were) very much looking forward to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural in '09.
Without wishing to put the mockers on your plans, truth be told, hope you voluntarily change your mind! Either way, all the best for the New Year!
Very Best Regards
thanks Trevor for the kind words.Doing this as a separate thread because past experience suggests yours may get 'bumped' in due course by a PH Monitor.
Of course wish you luck, but nonetheless, sad to see; you've come across to me as a real genuine, very helpful & highly enthusiastic character and I was (I'm sure others likewise were) very much looking forward to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural in '09.
Without wishing to put the mockers on your plans, truth be told, hope you voluntarily change your mind! Either way, all the best for the New Year!
Very Best Regards
i have had great fun in the radical and i think have become some sort of expert in their repair. over the last 2 years the cost has been considerable, but it will be to the new owners advantage.
it has certainly taught me how to drive a raw visceral car, but i am never going to get the best out of it because i have had one major accident on a bike and i promised my wife that i will keep comming home unbroken.
if the new owner needs a hand / advice as i will alway happy to lend it and support where i can.
i hopeing to get a R35 GT-R, but i know that it wont need the 100% concentration that the Radial took to get a good fast series of laps.
i've also to undergo an operation on my left shoulder in the next few months and recon that i will not be able to drive this car for the best part of the summer months.
Regards
Dario
Hi Dario
First off, hope you & yours (and indeed, all who visit this Forum) have had a great Christmas: Best Wishes for 09!
Appreciate what you are saying (certainly you have an inarguable duty to both your family and yourself not to bust yourself up), but here are some ‘from another perspective’ thoughts >
Willbee & I have just done our first ‘Trackday Season’ > Aside from the straightforward maintenance side, it’s been very ‘economical’; no replacement or repairs at all, with just one worthwhile enhancement; Magnecor HT Leads. Hope it stays that way this year!
Carbon, Kevlar, Kenlowe etc bits aside, our Hayabusa SR4 is near enough standard factory and I definitely intend to keep it that way: Unlike Willbee, I have got into this at the very least 10 years too late (and I am shall we just say definitely mature!) and 200BHP-ish in about sub 500KG-ish is (and probably will always be) more than I need/can do justice to. With the stark fact in mind that a Macca Works Driver once took me round Donington in an E220CDi a good ten seconds quicker than I could achieve in an SL55AMG, the reality is that I will probably always be inferior to what the car could do/achieve in the more talented hands of others; that doesn’t fuss me at all; it’s still massive fun under-achieving and has given me access to a performance envelope that I would otherwise never have known at all. What I think I am saying (not particularly to you, probably more towards those thinking about going the Radical Route) is to keep it sensible, simply enjoy it for what it is and don’t be disappointed or surprised if the car is ultimately more capable than you as the pilot; because I reckon that is usually the case. Many (such as Sean Edwards I recollect) way more knowledgeable than me reckon a standard Radical is easily more than enough/sufficient for any Trackday anywhere and I guess that is why Radical have just introduced a 150BHP SR4 to their 09 Line Up. It will still be blisteringly quick.
I like to think that (even if you sell your SR3 and when your shoulder is fixed - best of luck of course with that) time will ultimately show that 09 was simply a temporary interlude when you were ‘between Radicals'. So I hope that ‘irrespective’ of what happens when, you will continue as a ROC Founder Member and therefore to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural: I for one (and I’m sure that will be the case with your many other mates here on the Radical Forum) look forward to having you riding ‘shotgun’ there providing that left shoulder’s up to it. Should be OK as you need the right hand to hang on in an SR4!
Best Regards
Trev
First off, hope you & yours (and indeed, all who visit this Forum) have had a great Christmas: Best Wishes for 09!
Appreciate what you are saying (certainly you have an inarguable duty to both your family and yourself not to bust yourself up), but here are some ‘from another perspective’ thoughts >
Willbee & I have just done our first ‘Trackday Season’ > Aside from the straightforward maintenance side, it’s been very ‘economical’; no replacement or repairs at all, with just one worthwhile enhancement; Magnecor HT Leads. Hope it stays that way this year!
Carbon, Kevlar, Kenlowe etc bits aside, our Hayabusa SR4 is near enough standard factory and I definitely intend to keep it that way: Unlike Willbee, I have got into this at the very least 10 years too late (and I am shall we just say definitely mature!) and 200BHP-ish in about sub 500KG-ish is (and probably will always be) more than I need/can do justice to. With the stark fact in mind that a Macca Works Driver once took me round Donington in an E220CDi a good ten seconds quicker than I could achieve in an SL55AMG, the reality is that I will probably always be inferior to what the car could do/achieve in the more talented hands of others; that doesn’t fuss me at all; it’s still massive fun under-achieving and has given me access to a performance envelope that I would otherwise never have known at all. What I think I am saying (not particularly to you, probably more towards those thinking about going the Radical Route) is to keep it sensible, simply enjoy it for what it is and don’t be disappointed or surprised if the car is ultimately more capable than you as the pilot; because I reckon that is usually the case. Many (such as Sean Edwards I recollect) way more knowledgeable than me reckon a standard Radical is easily more than enough/sufficient for any Trackday anywhere and I guess that is why Radical have just introduced a 150BHP SR4 to their 09 Line Up. It will still be blisteringly quick.
I like to think that (even if you sell your SR3 and when your shoulder is fixed - best of luck of course with that) time will ultimately show that 09 was simply a temporary interlude when you were ‘between Radicals'. So I hope that ‘irrespective’ of what happens when, you will continue as a ROC Founder Member and therefore to meeting up with you at the ROC Inaugural: I for one (and I’m sure that will be the case with your many other mates here on the Radical Forum) look forward to having you riding ‘shotgun’ there providing that left shoulder’s up to it. Should be OK as you need the right hand to hang on in an SR4!
Best Regards
Trev
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