Today, I rode the Fischer MRX at Willow Springs in a MotoYard track day. I used it as my Lead/Follow bike with an EDventure Racing client. I rode 3 times for 7 laps each with a best lap of 1.42.82, the weather was hot and windy. Standard Willow weather. I need to drop 10 seconds for a good race time. Tires will help, I had a 2 year old take off slick on the front and a wasted take off DOT on the rear. They are what I had sitting around the shop… Tomorrow I’ll mount good tires.

Problems include: The bike is sprung for the owner who weights a lot more then me, I ran a full tank. Mid range jetting was rich, fixed tonight. Tach needle was jumping around because of a poor ground, fixed tonight. I had the forks all the way down in the claps for more trail but the bike needed more weight on the front so I set the fork height to stock.

Cool stuff: People like to look at this bike. It does not have a steering damper but does not wobble. All the changes I made did what I expected them to do. No new scratches. The first scratch happened at my shop. I got all the small stuff like shift lever height and throttle play adjusted just so.

Today I also re-valved a shock and re-build another. As well as doing a few small jobs on the Ninja 250 I’m racing on Sunday.

It was a good day.

The Fischer MRX is ready for testing at Willow Springs on Friday and racing this weekend.  LE fork and shock springs and valving.  EDventure Racing everything else.

The Fischer is now set up for GP shift. In this photo you can also see the Penske resivor that is on the stock Ohlins shock, the light rear wheel, the M-4 Slip-On and in the background the other Fischer MRX.

Someone posted a comment asking “for a couple grand more couldn’t u have bought the “race version”?

The answer is: There is no race version of the Fischer MRX. We did get the optional light wheels but not the Ohlins forks because we knew that Lindemann Engineering could make the stock forks and Ohlins shock work as well a anything.

Here’s a cool photo of the bike to check out.

At the bottom is all the sutff I cut out of the stock wire harness to make the Kit Harness you see above. This photo does not include stuff like the lights and the battery has been replaced with a dry cell that weights nothing.

Testing the Kit Harness to make sure the bike runs with it. Now for a little trimming to make it fit just so and some tape to warp it up.

Shelfs in front and on the left side. Tire rack on the right.

Even when it’s not too hot outside, a day of welding in a trailer can be warm.