emaN
29th October 2006, 20:12
Still buzzing about yesterday’s trackday!
Huge thanks to KiwiRider peeps for putting on a wikkd day…and for making the sessions 20mins long!!
Onesevenkevin and I got down there @8 and parked up (yeh yeh, ha ha) next to r4q2 & slickD.
Signed in and got a pretty bracelet for the novice group; it was to be my 1st proper ride since my shoulder op, so I tho’t I’d take it easy for starters. After a couple sessions, turns out the shoulder was pretty sweet, so I upped into the M group...
Had three sessions in that group, at just over 19miles each, and every minute of it was a blast! Started remembering lines & corners from the KB trackday in May and settled into a comfy pace for me, my shoulder and the ol’ RF.
Had a bit of fun riding with slickD on his gixxer…but those bikes are friggin’ frustrating! You stick with ‘em, then the buggers burn off down the straight – only thing to do is take ‘em on the brakes…:done:
Had the rear slide in turn 3 while ‘powering’ (as much as an RF can power) thru it, and a little slide from the front in the last corner which unsettled me a bit too.
Really started to enjoy the ‘wiggling’ under braking into the 1st corner, the sweeper & at the end of the long straight… I'd love to see what Stroudy or Shirriffs could make it do…
BUT, I got some controlled ‘wiggles’ from the rear coming onto pit straight, and "this one time…" I even got the front a little light outta the same corner :scooter:
Best lap was a 2min04, so there’s plenty of scope for improvement in my corner speeds, entry and exit.
Thanks to Death, LooseB, r4q2, Leong and others for various tips too…always good to try new stuff instead of just going ‘round & ‘round & ‘round doing same ol’ same ol’…
Thanks again KR! Sooo looking forward to the motoTT trackday in Nov…!
Finally, a massive thanks to the dude on the "black '99 fuel injected Ohlins equipped gixxer750" which gave me the incentive to try a little harder...:second:
Huge thanks to KiwiRider peeps for putting on a wikkd day…and for making the sessions 20mins long!!
Onesevenkevin and I got down there @8 and parked up (yeh yeh, ha ha) next to r4q2 & slickD.
Signed in and got a pretty bracelet for the novice group; it was to be my 1st proper ride since my shoulder op, so I tho’t I’d take it easy for starters. After a couple sessions, turns out the shoulder was pretty sweet, so I upped into the M group...
Had three sessions in that group, at just over 19miles each, and every minute of it was a blast! Started remembering lines & corners from the KB trackday in May and settled into a comfy pace for me, my shoulder and the ol’ RF.
Had a bit of fun riding with slickD on his gixxer…but those bikes are friggin’ frustrating! You stick with ‘em, then the buggers burn off down the straight – only thing to do is take ‘em on the brakes…:done:
Had the rear slide in turn 3 while ‘powering’ (as much as an RF can power) thru it, and a little slide from the front in the last corner which unsettled me a bit too.
Really started to enjoy the ‘wiggling’ under braking into the 1st corner, the sweeper & at the end of the long straight… I'd love to see what Stroudy or Shirriffs could make it do…
BUT, I got some controlled ‘wiggles’ from the rear coming onto pit straight, and "this one time…" I even got the front a little light outta the same corner :scooter:
Best lap was a 2min04, so there’s plenty of scope for improvement in my corner speeds, entry and exit.
Thanks to Death, LooseB, r4q2, Leong and others for various tips too…always good to try new stuff instead of just going ‘round & ‘round & ‘round doing same ol’ same ol’…
Thanks again KR! Sooo looking forward to the motoTT trackday in Nov…!
Finally, a massive thanks to the dude on the "black '99 fuel injected Ohlins equipped gixxer750" which gave me the incentive to try a little harder...:second: