i'd like to introduce myself on this forum (i've been lurking for a couple of weeks now, great source of info!)
My name is Jan, 34yrs old, coming form Ghent, Belgium, and i've recently bought a 1995 skorpion tour to strip down and convert into a trackday bike. I've been away from the track for over 3yrs (big crash of a mate of mine, and i didn't feel like it anymore), but i'm completely back in the game now. I've done many trackdays before with TL1000's, Cagiva raptor 1000, etc...but i wanted to go back to the essence: less power, less scary, more corner speed, better lines, all in the name of having as much fun as possible. Forget CBR1000RRRRR's with 180hp, i wanted a light, friendly, flickable supermono.
So i bought this skorpion tour, gave it a big service, slapped on some clipons and a honda RS250 racefairing (provisionally), and went to track.
I dreamed what a trackday on a supermono would be like, and it has come true completely: it is simply brilliant fun to race a 'supermono'...the bike is stock, so making around 45hp i guess, 155km/h GPS top speed on the straight, and slow as anything



Ground clearance is still a bit of an issue, even with 125mm dogbones: the exhaust still touches in compressed righthanders...solution is to come.
I have gelled already fully with this little bike, after only a couple of sessions. It feels great, it is fun.




For now, it is mostly stock apart from a IRC components radial master cylinder and a true brembo caliper, but i will convert some things in wintertime. Focus lies on losing as much weight as possible. (wheels, exhaust, subframe) Hoping to get down to a true 150kg raceready, and topspeed more in the region of 180km/h, to make overtaking a bit less frustrating.
I'm not doing much power-wise...i will run without filter and with race-exhaust, so i will have to adjust the jetting, but that's about it. Who knows, maybe a 102mm bigbore in the future.

i will post up the modifications,
cheers,
Jan