My bike handling skills are rubbish

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Dakkon said:

I am a member of TVAM

Cool, which local group? I go along to the WAGs meetings.

[Dick Seaman]

cbmotorsport said:

What pressures did you run in the end?

The recommended is 42 / 36.

I knocked them both down by 4 as a compromise guess, no science involved but felt really good.

[cbmotorsport]

Dick Seaman said:

cbmotorsport said:

What pressures did you run in the end?

The recommended is 42 / 36.

I knocked them both down by 4 as a compromise guess, no science involved but felt really good.

As you get faster try 30/30 cold. You might be surprised! :-)

Edited by cbmotorsport on Thursday 28th June 10:33

[black-k1]

Dick Seaman said:

Making progress.

Attended the MSV Novice Track Day at Brands Indy yesterday.



What a fantastic day. Perfect conditions, very well organised and it was just what I needed to experience what the bike can do and gain loads of confidence. The 100 mile ride home afterwards felt very comfortable, despite being knackered, just knowing what the bike is capable of, and how far within those limits I am on the road, makes a big difference.



Quite a variety of machinery and a wide range of abilities. Very friendly atmosphere though, loads of help and advice available from the MSV staff and the other riders.



There were three incidents, good reminders how easily it can all go wrong. A couple were fairly minor, riders fine (just injured pride), with superficial looking (but probably expensive) bike damage, but one was heavy, the chap smashed his bike up and his ankle too.



Thanks for all the advice on here. Harry H; you were right, I did chill out and my kit was fine. I did drink loads of water (was sweating buckets), had an instructor for one session, built up gradually, loved it! BN and black-k1; the 'look where you want to go' advice was invaluable, scariest moment came when I passed someone on the outside at Clearways, footpeg started scraping and that really shat me up, but kept focussing round the corner and it all came good.


Bitten by the bug, now to try another circuit.....

Glad to hear you had a good time.

[Dick Seaman]

cbmotorsport said:

Dick Seaman said:

cbmotorsport said:

What pressures did you run in the end?

The recommended is 42 / 36.

I knocked them both down by 4 as a compromise guess, no science involved but felt really good.

As you get faster try 30/30 cold. You might be surprised! :-)

Edited by cbmotorsport on Thursday 28th June 10:33

I knocked then down by 4 each before I left home in the morning. I meant to reduce them further at the track but just got caught up in everything and completely forgot about tyre pressures.

So you think it would make a big difference?

[warch]

Look where you want to go is a brilliant bit of advice, everything else just slots into place, you don't have to worry about how far over you're leaning the bike and you won't lose your nerve, stand the bike up and go wide. I'm starting to scrape my pegs again...

[Dick Seaman]

anonymous said:

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Makes sense, I'll give that a go next time.

[Dick Seaman]

warch said:

Look where you want to go is a brilliant bit of advice, everything else just slots into place, you don't have to worry about how far over you're leaning the bike and you won't lose your nerve, stand the bike up and go wide. I'm starting to scrape my pegs again...

Couldn't agree more, road or track, makes all the difference.

[Dick Seaman]

Here are a couple more pics from the trackside photographer.






Felt a bit self conscious with a Marquez helmet at my first trackday

(In my defence, I think he's a riding genius but I'm not a fanboy, the helmet was 30% off when I bought it 18 months ago and fitted way better than anything else in the shop.)

[Birky_41]

Dick Seaman said:

Here are a couple more pics from the trackside photographer.

Felt a bit self conscious with a Marquez helmet at my first trackday

(In my defence, I think he's a riding genius but I'm not a fanboy, the helmet was 30% off when I bought it 18 months ago and fitted way better than anything else in the shop.)

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Great pics btw

Get yourself over some other tracks now you've popped your cherry. Indy was my first track but then did a few others and realised how good track days and other tracks are. Indy is expensive but a good start point

Quick mention on pressures. Everyone has their own opinion. I tend to in summer run 34f and 33r for road. Track depends on tyre but hot after first session straight back on the warmers Im about 22-23 rear 32-34 front

[Dick Seaman]

anonymous said:

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Noted . Quite surprised how much track pressures differ from road.

[Dick Seaman]

I think they were in pretty good shape. The rear was brand new, had only been used for the 100 mile trip to Brands.
I took one pic after the fourth of six sessions, not much wear showing at all, I was going around at 1:05 - 1:07 pace, so probably not asking much from the tyres.