We had an awesome VMax this past weekend. Seeing so many VMaxes in one place does not happen too often out here on the West Coast. Great Bikes, Great people and awesome races.

To top it off Motorcycle.com just published their event coverage article. Go check it out and leave some cool comments!

To read the article on Motorcycle.com see here: http://www.motorcycle.com/events/starvmaxcom-dragfest-2009-88881.html

Have had that account setup for a while and am starting to use if for live coverage. Especially with the new iPhone with built in camera and video, this is going to be good for on the road.

Check out next weeks coverage of the 2009 Star VMax Drag Fest In Sacramento. Live results, live photos & live video moments after they happen in real time.

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Today is a one of those days that is filled with emotions in many places. One of the biggest announcements was Harely Davidson's decision to end the live of Buell motorcycles. A very emotional Erik Buell reads off the final words about the company, its employees, its success over the years, its innovation and finally its end. www.buell.com

I myself haven owned and ridden an XB12S in 2004. Fun bike, not really my cup of tea, but a good quality motorcycle. Replaced it a few months later with an 2004 R1 and nowadays with a 2009 VMax.
We wish all employees of Buell Motrocycles the very best. These are hard economic times, that have resulted in yet another series of bad news for the overall motrocycle industry.

At the same time HD has announced that it will sell of MV Augusta, the italian motrocycle maker it recent purchased to broaden its product portfolio. HD is refocusing its business to its core line of american made motrocycles.

Ride safe!

Tonight was a wiring & soldering evening. Finally found the time to remove the PCIII USB that I still had on board together with most of its extra gear like Hub and extra electronics.

Now that I have been running the PCV for quite some time now, it was time to de-dupe the setup and cleanup the wiring. Trimmed away all excess wiring, re-routed the cables, and put pretty much all of them in black plastic mesh, with heat shrink tubing at all ends.

Wiring in the Map Selector switch and the Quick Shifter into the PCV and removed all extra connectors that I had installed for the PCIII. 

What a weekend. First Jesse James throws out a killer short video about the VMax. Bets rolling burnout I have seen to date on the new VMax. He sure is having fun. Bike and rider look like a great team. We all sure hope to see more of him in the near future.

If you have not seen the article with the video check it out here: Jesse James Rides the the Star VMax Video

The very next day Jay Leno's Custom VMax hits the auction block and fetched a sky high $120,000 in a wild auction battle at Barrett-Jackson's auction in Las Vegas.

Finally a really busy work week is coming to its end. Long work days and nights for the past 3 weeks have kept me up late most every night.

Luckily last weekend was a very productive dyno tuning weekend. As reported before we finally broke the 200 rwhps (SAE) barrier on two independent bikes. With 202.46 (SAE) rwhps being the current new record, both bikes came in within 0.5 hps of each other.

What is so phenomenal about it is, that the second bike did not get a custom tuning session, but got the map developed for the first one downloaded without changes. Within 3 runs, that bike too broke the 200 rwhps barrier, finally topping out at a touch of 202 (SAE) rwhps.