the bb trackday thread.

[Biker's Nemesis]

mckeann said:

i thought you were a bit forward asking for an injection of talent

[mckeann]

that was the quickest i was all day

[Biker's Nemesis]

mckeann said:

that was the quickest i was all day

I saw the twinkle in your eye big lad.

[moanthebairns]

Should I be booking up in inters or fast with a consistent 2 minute lap time at oulton and best of a 1:58?

Going for a double header and I'm tempted to book inters then fast the second day.

Would this be a stupid idea or would I learn more in a fast group.

[SAS Tom]

Just go in fast. It'll make the track a lot clearer for you so you'll be able to improve more rather than make your way through traffic.

I was doing 1:58's in fast and certainly wasn't the slowest.

[mckeann]

I personally dont think 2.00 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

[Biker's Nemesis]

mckeann said:

I personally dont think 1.58 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

There were loads of slow riders that shouldn't have been in fast on Wednesday, they gas it down the straights then are really slow into the corner then pick it up and gas it like fk again usually on the wrong line.

You never know which way some of them are going to go. It doesn't really bother me that much as everyone does their best and it isn't a race.

It would bother me if I was chasing lap times.

[jackh707]

2 hour dive to Anglesey and I've got the sts.

Place your bets now, will I make it.

[hebegb]

Biker's Nemesis said:

mckeann said:

I personally dont think 1.58 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

There were loads of slow riders that shouldn't have been in fast on Wednesday, they gas it down the straights then are really slow into the corner then pick it up and gas it like fk again usually on the wrong line.

You never know which way some of them are going to go. It doesn't really bother me that much as everyone does their best and it isn't a race.

It would bother me if I was chasing lap times.

If Wednesday was anything like Tuesday, then it will have been shocking - worst I've experienced in recent years, some quite dangerously slow with completely unpredictable lines of entry and exit and even a couple of "life-saver" glances.... That should not be happening , nor tolerated for the good of all - no apparent monitoring nor policing taking place despite the shakey ( in the worst briefing in years ) references to it - not a great effort....

[theshrew]

jackh707 said:

2 hour dive to Anglesey and I've got the sts.

Place your bets now, will I make it.

Good luck with that

[moanthebairns]

mckeann said:

I personally dont think 2.00 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

My thoughts exactly...I always view fast group as on the cusp of amateur racing.

But I don't want to hit loads of traffic...

[moanthebairns]

jackh707 said:

2 hour dive to Anglesey and I've got the sts.

Place your bets now, will I make it.

track day essential, dia-hrea (I don't know how to spell it) tablets.

[Fleegle]

moanthebairns said:

mckeann said:

I personally dont think 2.00 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

My thoughts exactly...I always view fast group as on the cusp of amateur racing.

But I don't want to hit loads of traffic...

Then make sure you are at the front of the queue when the Inters start forming waiting for the session

[gwm]

This is the video of mckeann on my trackbike at Oulton Park.

At the start you can hear mckeann reminding himself it was road shift. He also failed to mention that he went through the run off at Hislops chicance (about 11:25 in the video); presume cooked brakes by that point

Then he comes in and just dumps it against the garage wall! Poor wee bike


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfqB6vo61Xk&fe...

[mckeann]

SHED.

Brakes were going off by then and I was relying on engine braking, so when I didn't et the gear I wanted I just ran through the chicane. Could have made the corner but couldn't be bothered by then

If you stiffen up the rear suspension, sort the brakes, and widen your bars a bit, it wouldn't be that bad a bike tbh. I reckon sub 50 is possibly with a bit more time to get used to it as I never get near the limit.

[StuB]

moanthebairns said:

jackh707 said:

2 hour dive to Anglesey and I've got the sts.

Place your bets now, will I make it.

track day essential, dia-hrea (I don't know how to spell it) tablets.

Imodium!

[StuB]

moanthebairns said:

mckeann said:

I personally dont think 2.00 is quick enough for fast group, but you wouldn't be the slowest.

My thoughts exactly...I always view fast group as on the cusp of amateur racing.

But I don't want to hit loads of traffic...

Some people with a race licence wouldn't keep up in inters. It's no qualification of anything, just provides an entitlement to race be on a bike at ACU meetings/test days.

[George29]

StuB said:

Some people with a race licence wouldn't keep up in inters. It's no qualification of anything, just provides an entitlement to race be on a bike at ACU meetings/test days.

I have a race license and I could barely keep up in inters on Wednesday. Was ridiculously slow.

Although it was the first time I rode a bike for 3 months after my accident. Wasn't expecting to be as slow as I was, never been like that before despite plenty of other crashes.

[moanthebairns]

Booked oulton, 7th and 8th of july, inters. MSVT

[Tim85]

StuB said:

Imodium!

This is the only advice I've seen from you that's bad ha. I had a bit of the squits once , took two Imodium and I didn't go to the toilet for 5 days. I felt so Ill just from being so blocked up.