PROJECT PIKES PEAK 2019: PART 2
PROJECT
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The twists and turns of The Ridge
are a lot like the first three miles of
the Pikes Peak Mountain, and with
a decent setup there, we packed up
and drove south to Buttonwillow for
another day on Monday.
Buttonwillow has some gnarly
switchback slow corners like turn
three, fast sweepers like the Riverside
corner, and almost everything in be-
tween. However, unlike Pikes Peak, it
is quite flat, but if you nail down a de-
cent setup there, you're in pretty good
shape for the mountain in Colorado.
This test proved to be the most im-
portant of the three we've done so far,
as it was the first time Jeremy Toye
would get on the bike to give me his
feedback of a bike he helped build.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a
whiz at setting up a bike—I can get it
close, but someone of Jere-
my's level can get the bike that
much better. Within five laps,
we'd started ripping into the
fork setting, playing with differ-
ent preloads and compression
settings to try and get the bike
handling better at the top of
the stroke—like in quick direc-
tion changes when the fork is
It may look similar to the COTA
test, but it's all changed inside.
Rennie is absolutely thrilled to have JT
in his corner for this year's race.
