NC30 Racing

[Spike16]

yeh nc23 wheels are a bitch to find, iv been looking for about a month and just got one (well hopefully, not finalised yet) best bet is to find someone breaking a bike and get the disks aswell, saves swapping them over when you swap to wets

[Psychosomatic88]

Yes noskill thats right, I believe them to be essentially the same thing, different patterns granted, but told the compound is chemically similar and told they are made in the same factory.

[NoSkill]

I'll almost definately be going 17" it seems so should I go for 10mm, it's a pure track bike so guessing that should be fine?

I'll keep an eye out for a decently priced nc23 wheel then, even if I get a stock one beforehand :)

With the 17" rear btw, what tyre size to go for, iirc stock os 160/<something>? so 160/<something> again? and what should the something be (brain fails me here :p)

[Psychosomatic88]

An RVF 17" wheel, is 4.5", so a 150/60/17 tyres is used. I have a 5"x17" wheel on my RVF so takes a 160/60/17

[NoSkill]

Cheers, Can't seem to find the rennsports in 150/60/17, but have found them for £129 for a pair of front and rears, which is a fair chunk cheaper than the super corsa's :D

[jake]

are you sure the rennsports are similar rubber to the supercorsa's? I know the racetecs are.. but if this is true, i would of thought alot of people would be using them as they are 100 quid a set cheaper.

[NoSkill]

I've found a few references that seem to agree with it, this is the Corsa Diablo III's btw, not the Super Corsa Diablo Pro's (which are the £230-240 a set ones rather than £190 ish for the 3's), so it's 'only' a ~£60 saving I think for similar tyres, the super corsa's do seem a tad better (due to the different tread pattern I guess) but they're also a chunk more expensive, so like the suspension/power/brakes tuning until I'm good enough to utilise that difference I'll take that saving, especially as it seems racing will be eating through tyres at a rate of knots from what i've heard :p

[jake]

ahh, i thought my season next year got a couple of hundred quid cheaper there for a second!
oh well, it was a nice feeling while it lasted :D

[NoSkill]

Do you race a 400? If so, does a single race weekend completely finish the rear tyre? I've heard that it does but that's from people racing things like SV's which have a touch more power but a whole heap more torque, so I would've thought the relatively tame vfr would be better on the tyres?

I've been budgetting for a new rear each race weekend anyway but was just curious :)

[jake]

yep, zxr
imo you can get by on 2 sets for your first season.
last year was my first year, i did most of it on scrubs.1 front and 2 rears. then treated myself to a brand new set when my time where coming down. I felt the difference and felt them lose that 10% about 4 races later.
but ive only just broke into the top 10's

better than buying them rennsports, i would ask one of the front runners(f400/steelies/minitwins/maybee gp250?) who change there tyres often, to buy there scrubs, 60 quid a set is about right