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Full race report coming tomorrow. I love this thing!
Mine measure 18/22. Is there a design change my bike didn't get? Thanks, Mark.
i never want a pro sx or national all electric. its like watching tv with no sound
any issues with someone not hearing you coming? woods or mx.
Stumbled upon the following video of Bret Peterson doing the hillclimb on the Alta. I'm not sure what I saw, but it looks like he not only cleared the hill on the race course, but kept on going all the way up the mountain and laid tracks where there were no trails. Damn these bikes are bizarre.
It had been a couple months since I had done a mx race, and man, is it so much more intense than just pounding out laps on a practice track. I was a bundle of nervous energy, wound tight, on a new bike wondering how it would perform.
Gentlemen (and ladies), the Alta is legit! I loved it in a race setting, and for me it worked better than the YZ450F. This track is fast, has a lot of hills, and it got rough! I did 5 of my 6 motos, skipping my last +40 moto, as I was beat, and it was the last one of the day. I did 2 motos on the YZ450F and practice and 3 motos on the Alta Redshift.
The Alta corners like it is on rails. As I mentioned before, it is smoother and I make less mistakes in the corners, and you feel totally hooked up. I can choose lines easier on it too. The YZ450F, not known for its turning prowess, kinda goes where it wants to go. The Alta lets me choose, and then I feel like I get through the corner pretty fast ... for a slightly overweight 51 year old who sits down too much. :-)
The Alta is just as fast, if not faster, on the starts compared to the YZ450F. On the YZ450F, I start in 2nd, and then shift to 3rd as soon as possible, and I usually get a good start. On the Alta, I put the map setting on 4, and then I just twist the throttle and it will go from 0 mph to what seems like 80 mph going into the first corner. A couple corners in I use the down-arrow switch on the left hand side to switch to map setting 3, my preferred map setting to navigate the track. In my first moto on the Alta, I didn't switch to map setting 3 right away, and the power caught me off guard, and I almost looped it over a jump!
In my mind, here are what the map settings are equivalent to:
Map 1: Honda XR200
Map 2: 250 4-stroke
Map 3: 450 4-stroke
Map 4: KX500 beast mode
Suspension-wise, the Alta worked great. It soaked up the braking and acceleration bumps well, and I did all of the bigger jumps I would do on any other bike.
I almost had the holeshot in my 2nd +50 moto, but I had to back off because of another rider, and ended up in 2nd after a couple corners. I went 4-4 for 4th overall, out of 15 riders.
2017 Alta Redshift MX: $15,000
Gate fee: $10
Class fees: $65
Winning a 4th place plaque in +50 on the Alta in my first MX race on it? Priceless.
At a practice track last week, I was slightly faster on the Alta, by about a second to second and a half per lap. Specific lap times for this are in an earlier post in this thread.
If a couple Alta's were racing each other you could really yell at the other rider!! A whole new level of mind games.
Confirming that it's 18mm / 22mm. The stock setting is 22mm, so you can add trail by flipping the stem.
Pit Row
After filtering through that, it is a great write-up of first hand experience. I hope they continue to evolve, and soon tracks are everywhere.
Fueling up between motos
I signed up for the ultra-competitive 46-55 year old B class, and I went 2-3 for 3rd overall. My efforts were good enough for a plaque in the GP race, and my uphill drag racing efforts on my 1986 Honda CR500 earned me a medallion and a t-shirt. I definitely had the two coolest bikes at the event!
The fruits of my GP and hill climbing labor
And check out the card my son gave me for Father's Day this morning.
True love
I still love the Alta! 167.3 miles on it so far, and it still runs runs perfectly. It pulls as hard or harder on the uphills as anything else, and is as smooth as butter in the corners. It was also pretty cool to be able to hear spectators say "What is that?!" and "That is cool!" as I came through the scoring area, because of the lack of noise.
I also had a guy on the line before the start of the second moto ask me if I was the guy posting about the Alta on Vital, which was interesting! He liked the thread, so I said I would write about this race. Here you go, fellow GP competitor!
And today I did a 30 minute moto on the track behind my house, just because I can!
I am left with the thought why didn't you run the Alta in the hillclimb, I understand they kick ass in them?
Then comes the thought, hmm, not enough juice in the battery, and to run multiple classes and get lots of track time requires 2 bikes for you since it appears you can outlast an Alta battery? Either way you took the Cool Trophy too!
Johnny Depp wrote:
Another great ride report Ben, and no we are not tired of them!
I am left with the thought why didn't you run the Alta in the hillclimb, I understand they kick ass in them?
Then comes the thought, hmm, not enough juice in the battery, and to run multiple classes and get lots of track time requires 2 bikes for you since it appears you can outlast an Alta battery? Either way you took the Cool Trophy too!
"I saw a video of a guy hillclimbing an Alta where he said it was kind of tricky since there is no clutch to help modulate the power."
After that he said it takes a little bit of getting used to but I am absolutely blown away by this thing, and then proceeded to go well past the finish of the climb up the hill making new tracks all the way to the top!
Thanks for taking the time to report.
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