Not so happy days today. I guess the whole PEPS thing is moot now....

So, Mstevo, it turns out your prediction was correct, and that long shift rod combined with the ultra-flex of the ValterMoto rearsets meant that the bike badly cut out in the middle of turn 5 (it had missed there a couple of times on previous laps - nowhere else - so clearly the combo of things wasn't working right), spitting me off and sending the shiny new bike, new fairings, new race suit, new boots, and new gloves spinning and rolling into the gravel on the outside of T5 exit. I could've cried, honestly.

The bike (I don't think it's actually that bad):