Liberals will say anything to get their way . No honor . <| sep |> Not so much a plateau as a stress issue at work which led me to not diet to where I wanted to be , was about 10 lbs off my goal . But that wasn ' t the big issue , first race it rained and was cold . It got progressively colder and the actual races were called off for Sunday as it was snowing . I had a big , high speed crash in the last qualifying race of Saturday and the bike hit fresh plow ruts in the grass which made it tumble . So , a lot of damage to the bike and some to my confidence . This was after it dried out , and on new Dunlops which I had no experience with . That set the tone for my year as I crashed several times throughout the year rather than my typical once every two years . I had electrical problems in races where I was 2 nd place and looking for my passing opportunities twice . I had the quickshifter mess up and cut the revs randomly in some races and in one I did 4 morning practices , then in the actual race the circlip holding the shifter lever on disappeared for no apparent reason right out of the pits on the warmup lap . It took switching TWO Bazzaz quickshifters out to find one that worked properly . Had issues with the traction control triggering and killing my drive randomly as well . Just . UGH . So all in all , just a comedy of errors and ridiculous issues . On top of that , the bike was supposed to have 112 whp but when we put it on the CSBK dyno , it made 101 whp . The top guys all had over 120 whp which at a track like Canadian Tire Motorsports Park aka Mosport , the best of riders can ' t make up a 20 % power deficit in corners at that level . The 200 hp 2014 GSXR I was riding at CTMP also failed the morning before the races , but only partially , to make me even crazier . The fuel pump made 31 PSI instead of 44 PSI which it required to make full power , so it would accelerate hard to 10 K and then tail off slowly above that , with a motor meant to rev 14 K . cams , head porting , etc . Anyway , it ' s making me frustrated just typing about it . LOL