Thanks for that C4, It's good to know that I'm not just some basket case on a bike flinging himself headlong at his imminent doom. There was one guy there that was down three times this weekend (poor little SV650). I'm really not in any hurry to test my leathers or frame sliders.

I think I'm gonna buy a baggie full of the feelers that screw into the bottom of my footpegs and continue to crank the bike over until I'm no longer terrified of them scraping. If I feel like I need more after that, then I'll invest in the rearsets to allow me to get the bike that much closer to the ground (that sounds really nuts if you're not a bike person by the way). My concern with rearsets now is that it seems that, based on my quick google search, they don't typically have hinged footpegs. I'd hate to replace an item that will give some with something that may dig into the pavement.

Out of curiosity, when you're hitting 150+, what tires are you using? To get to 150 before turn three you must be coming hard out of one and not even lifting (sorry, I'm used to competing in cars) for turn two, right? Have you altered your gearing for track use? In the school we talked quite a bit about reducing from factory specs your gearing in order to allow for the top gears to be used primarily. The idea being that because the upper gears are typically closer to each other in ratio, you can keep the bike in the sweet spot of it's rev range over a greater portion of the track.

Thanks again for your post.