RIDE REVIEW I ROLAND SANDS DESIGN INDIAN CHIEF BUILD
P104
Late that night, at some random bar
we were sitting in, Jasper appeared
like some machined primary cover
angel, having flown from LAX with the
goods straight from Guy's garage.
I was not privy to the fitment of
said cover, arriving at the track with
about 20 minutes before warm-up af-
ter many issues trying to get an uber.
The difference in how the Chief
rode was immense. Not only did it now
go around left-handers, but the overall
effort required to ride was greatly
reduced now that I could ride each
side like the other. A 1:45.399 was the
reward, 1.744 up on Ungvarsky.
There was only one race on the
cards for each class, so I had to
make it count.
My start was rubbish and I nearly
got out-dragged into turn one by
Ungvarsky, although I let off the
brakes just enough to close him out.
From there it was head down, ass up
as I tried to get a bit of a gap by the
end of lap one. By lap two, I looked
behind and the Chief was charging
clear. I had about four seconds in
hand, so from there it was just a mat-
ter of bringing it home.
In the end, the RSD Chief and I
took the win by 15.7 seconds over
Ungvarsky, who admittedly would
have been more of a threat if he, too,
got a special primary cover flown in
from L.A. overnight.
The RSD Chief was a wonderful
bike to ride. For such a big thing, it
handled well, although we did have
persistent issues trying to get the
chassis to finish the corner and not
run wide, especially on long radius
corners. That was my main gripe but
it's also something the team will look at
when we race it again in the future (if
the BRL runs another race meeting).
Thanks very much to Cameron
Brewer for all the donkey work he
put in over the weekend. The man's
a trooper.
CN
Rennie at work.
Our Aussie import
had a great time in
the most American
racing he's ever done,
walking away with a
comfortable win.
