The Hard Miles. Testing and crashing the Rapid Honda Fireblade for BSB Superbike
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2024
- The team is ready for testing their new Fireblade Superbike, but it's not just the bike that's tested to the limit in the Spanish sunshine. It's hard work in the big class, and the team have to learn fast!
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matt@marvelhcl.co.uk
or contact Dave through the Obsession Engineering Website
obsessionengineering.co.uk/
For Rapid, check out
www.rapidtraining.co.uk/ - Авто та транспорт
Thank you so much for taking the time to do these. Really appreciate the behind the scenes stuff as it brings the whole endeavour to life. Makes me wish I could contribute to the effort but I'm a potless old codger. So, my involvement will have to remain vicarious. Go Franco!
If you're cheering us on, that's a great feeling for us 😁
Dave, the amount of pressure put upon you & you place on yourself is immense. Well done for wanting to become a guru. Personally, I think you are.
The whole team working dynamics is a testament to wanting to do better.
Franco is a natural talent. When everything switches on, he will always perform.
All the best for the 2024 season & thank you for your continued energy & efforts.
Always a smile on your dial🤙
Matt has got a fantastic team!
Thanks Steve, really appreciate your words
Another brilliant job Dave and team. Good luck for the new season
I love this in depth look behind the scenes. Please keep doing it.
Stunning machine…. Just beautiful. All the best for ‘24. 👍👍
Absolutely awesome! The shear devotion of the team and the bravery of the team in the pit lane and the intrepid rider mark you out as heroes. Such dedication must surely reward you this season 👌👍👏
Fantastic video Dave! Yours and the teams passion, enthusiasm, and dedication shine through brilliantly. Rooting for you all, wishing you all success in what promises to be a thrilling Dave vs Goliath season.
I love these videos ! Bsb is the best and this is excellent behind the scenes stuff ! Thank you
Awesome video, just love the behind the scenes technical stuff.
Impressive, you had so much to test and learn over those 3 days and your just scratching the surface 😳 It going to be a very interesting season. 😉
I'm pleased we got through so much, definitely got some ideas now!
Really enjoying following your journey with Franco and the team from superstock to superbike ,big learning curve but im sure you will get there
Mint video.
Good to see that the boys starting to adapt.
As a team you will get there.
Really enjoy these videos. Great insight and very entertaining. Great team 👏
i was spannering in the 90s r6 r1 first gen the tech now unbelievable r u doing tt this year dave and r u riding in it most informative show can feel the energy and remember off weekends not many perfet ones keep on keeping on fellas
I'm running a bike at TT, but not riding there, still doing some club stuff for fun though
Evening Dave…you are so dedicated to the cause, I get about 75% of the tech side, the rest is a mystery to me…fair do’s fella….😉👍🇮🇲👌
Super interesting content , 5k for a rear shock ! Wow . Always enjoy your vids keep up the great work 👍😎🙂
Thanks Dave and team 👍🏻😎
Thank you for the great insight. I hope all your hard wok pays dividends. Good luck at Donnington and for 2024 👍🏍️🏁
I bloody love these informative vlogs. Excellent work Dave and team!
Really interesting such a lot to think about but looks like the team is going in the right direction thank you for taking the time to share this with us it's stuff that you wouldn't normally 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Love these videos Dave, always come away having learnt something. Top job
5:24 really hits in the feels
Best wishes for a great race weekend
Keep it coming! Thank you 👍
Every time I see a cbr1000RRR my heart skips a beat… god they are beautiful ❤
Good luck team looking forward to the season.... Go Franco
Good solid Insightful vlog thanks Dave. You will get it sorted I am sure.
Great video, loved the behind the scenes testing reports, good luck for 2024 💪
Love your channel. Your content and personality really make it enjoyable. I club race an R6, R1 and Ducati V4 so your channel is not only entertaining but informative.
Ohhh, nice selection of toys 🙂
Another great video. Keep enjoying the journey 🏍️
testing shenigans...
i love it :D
good luck for 2024 :D tame the '' beast '' :D
Brilliant post Dave! . What a great team, everyone pulling together superb! Looking forward to seeing you at Donnington.
Great work team.
Fantastic insight hard work will pay off I’m sure 😊
What a fascinating vid. Thank you for such an interesting insight to superbike testing. 👏👏
Brilliant video.. I love the giant killer mentality.
Another brilliant and informative video. Role on Navarra and see you at the wknd.
See you soon 👍🏼
Great insight. Top tip... always pull the paper before you plop.
😁
Love this series. Thank you 👌
Interesting stuff Dave. Hope the donnington test goes more to plan.
Thank you Dave for another great episode. All that work will pay off when he podiums! It just takes a lot of time and people to get there. From what I’m seeing from Honda there are quite a few teams getting the same data with all the new riders. Fingers crossed and have a safe trip home. Cheers from California.
Fantastic thank you
Great video , very honest , I loved the ones you did before on the stocker , it’s really nice to get the proper behind the scenes stuff ❤
Love it best of luck to all
well done lads!
total respect
Brilliant video once again Dave. It must be an absolute nightmare with so many things you can change and each one presumably effecting something else. I'm glad you found a lot of stuff that doesn't work though. I imagine the smaller window you have to play with on settings the more chance you have of getting something that's going to work well. Hope it's dry for Donnington but seeing as it's barely stopped raining since November it seems unlikely!
My fingers are crossed, dry track time would be very useful
Great video I would love to be involved in this sport but at 63 that chance has gone but watching this video goes to show what amount of work is put in and how involved you have to get with tiny little changes and is so hard to comprehend to us mortals I wish the whole team best of luck and franco is happy with his season results I will be following and might pop to snetterton and hopefully meet you all bye for now
Class video 👍
Nice HJC mention Dave, keep it up. 😊
Nice HJC to mention 😁
Speak to Havier and ask to see his engine preheater……. We run one on the Moto3 and the 2 Aprilia bikes, both water, oil engine casings everything at 72deg .
Many many advantages to running preheater.
That is toasty warm, I'll have a word with him
Hey guys. Loving the videos. Just wondering where you get those little brackets for mounting the reservoirs?
Obsessionengineering.co.uk
Evening Dave and Team, a great video, when does the Honda Rapid Merchandice go on sale?
It should land with us soon!!
A floating rear disc?! Very trick 👌👍
Did Franco prefer the thumb rear brake or the scooter brake?
He likes the thumb, although he could lap as fast with the scooter
Great content of the tech and conversations showing the work of the team. I would say tho, I would struggle to work with your rider based on his need to blame you for the crash. He knew the bike was pattering in the front end yet didn't back off his pace. Crashing is part of the struggle of bike racing, but if the rider can't except his part in what happened its makes for a difficult working environment going forward IMO, which is worth about 2 cents of #uc# all.
All comments are welcome, luckily he was more trying to wind me up than blame me, he knows the score really 😁
Glad to hear it, and nothing wrong with a bit of banter@@obsession_engineering
Cool.
Nice video thanks for bringing us along. Hope all goes well for the season. Just reluctantly had to buy a 08 600RR, screams like a banshee but my RGV250P was still better imo(now 2x the price of the RR). Thinking hard about getting a Suter slipper clutch, so if you got any discount codes, wink wink. lol . If you ever get a chance to stick Franco on a Suter 500 would be great to see that video. Thanks
If there's a shot on a 500, he'll have to fight me for it 🤣
@@obsession_engineering LOL well said 👍
Why don't they have an element on the bottom of the sump that you plug in like a tyre warmer with a little led light on the dash thats tells you when its over 50.C without turning the bike on?
Good question. Probably adds weight, but would be more efficient
Hi Dave well I watched Franco today at a very windy Donnington park..
Considerating you are usig a Honda uk engine from Honda UK (louth) why is Franco so far behind the rest of the Honda entries..
He is struggling to get into the 1.30's
I'm a fan but you need to get this together before the start of the season.. :0
Donington review coming in the next few days!!
I.m watching alr3ady all the series, great work and learned some thi gs many times.
Question, i just got an RVP25 equipped bike, and can.t find the rotors code on em.
Can u pretty please share this code with me?
I presume is the t drives pista bassa?
Our rotors were made specifically for us, brembo are good at making small production batches if required. Dimensions depend on wheels, yoke spacing, disc diameter... So getting off the shelf might be difficult
what track was this?
It’s Andalucia
@@thomaslovett318 thanks
Hollywood ending = healthy diet
why does the technician / developer NOT test-drive a moped made for race-rider ?
a cummunication is enough for the set-up ? ...and are smaller pit-bikes like "Jan LangTuning" or "Davy-Todd" their also to set up ...if franko ask for a gokart-track object ....?
With testing restrictions and me not being anywhere near as fast as Franco, it'd be tough for me to set the bike up for him myself
@@obsession_engineering hour's , second's and part of a second could mean nothing - it is not a excuse ! different rider's bring more result , maybe ...also to reduce the cost (pre load with gas is cheap but replace a spring is more expensiv)
not involved people (viewers) it were hard to belive to set-up a vehicle perfectly ; example yzf-r i like the fork but with ~85kg plus helmet ,clothes etc. i disslike the rear swing arm to the rear shock absorber it stears "to heavy" like a chap with a harley d. 🤮
im very sorry dave, but i have to say im very dissapointed , im afraid to say im dissapointed in you !!! where have all the "double entendres " gone ???
Too busy to slip one in, sorry 😏