BRM Pacific Club Round 4 @ Taupo

[Mental Trousers]

I'd been looking at the weather reports and it looked like the Friday & Saturday track days at Taupo were going to be wet. That and the fact I'd been horribly ill so I hadn't even been near my bike for nearly 2 months and had lost any sort of fitness I ever had meant that riding 3 days in a row would probably be a bad thing. For those reasons I took a day of annual leave and headed to Taupo on the Wednesday for the open test day as it was going to be a beautiful, sunny day. It also meant I'd get a couple of days to recover.

Wednesday turned out to be a perfect day to ride motorbikes. The only blemish on the day was a very large slide followed by a tank slapper coming out of turn 7 in the first session. I think it was a combination of low track temperature, worn tyres and pressures a couple of pounds too high that caused it. The slide did, however, remind me of why I was there that day; not to do fast laps but to change the way I sit on the bike. The CBRs are built so they ride nose down arse up with a lot of weight forward. This, combined with my natural tendency to ride a long way forward means I've been overloading the front wheel and not able to maintain decent corner speed. To sort this out I have to sit much further back on the seat when braking and turning into the corner

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[rustys]

Great Race report, Mental Trousers, keep up the good work now i have meet you.