Rider training day on a racetrack.

**FROSTY:Me** · 4th January 2006, 18:04

Another KBer suggested this as an idea.
We have some very experienced and quick racers and riders here.
we also have some folks either rusty being born again bikers or new to biking.
He has suggested a fast riding training day.
The deal would be for example 10 or 15 riders who feel they need to improve their road skills would pool their money to pay to hire a ractrack.
They would then each get an experienced rider to buddy up with them.
The experienced rider would NOT pay for tracktime as they would be acting as an instructor.
Id suggest having 5-8 students on the track at a time-with 10-15 minute sessions meaning 10-16 bikes
My gut feeling though is that manfeild is the only north island track offering sufficient variety of corners -ie once rights have been sorted we can reverse direction and do lefts.
The idea has real merit I feel
The cost per student would probably be about $100 each given NO emergency services/marshalls etc.

**cowpoos** · 4th January 2006, 18:33

good I dear frosty....it would probally hav to be a weekday at manfield [one of their test days] as its usually got something happening at the weekends..

**Dafe** · 4th January 2006, 18:37

For those of you near the Manfield Track. Both Shaun Harris & Brian Bernard are available to hire for track training as a group.

**trumpy** · 4th January 2006, 18:56

Basic idea was to speed up the learning process for returnees and newbees by providing one to one coaching and in return the "coachers" would get free track time.
It was my experience motor racing that sometimes huge gains could be made in quite a short space of time by having one person dedicated to analysing your style and performance. Time and money is precious to us all and since we have a huge pool of talent on this site, it might be a way to maximise the gains for time and money spent on trying to improve our skills and, I for one, have no problem at all being coached by someone much younger the me. You take your lessons from where you need to.
The idea was not for race training (this is already available) but to improve our bike handling skills to make road riding and track days safer and more satisfying.

**justsomeguy** · 5th January 2006, 12:05

Weren't all the things mentioned here to be covered in SpeedMedics rider training day sometime in Feb-March??? The one with the TradeMe auctions.......

**Sensei** · 5th January 2006, 12:23

Could be a good Idea to have a " Show & Tell on how to setup your suspenion for those that have little to no Cue as to what it does & how it effect their bike as well ! All well a good taking people to a track to improve their Skills but abit Dangerous if their bikes are not set up to cope with the speeds that you get up to while racing round the Track . Just something I don't see getting done on any of these Track days that I have noticed .

**Mental Trousers** · 5th January 2006, 12:24

Some one organise this and tell me where to put some money thanks.

**Str8 Jacket** · 5th January 2006, 12:26

Yeah id definately be keen, one of my main aims this year is to get out on a Track day and this would be awesome experience....

**loosebruce** · 5th January 2006, 14:25

Originally Posted by Dafe

Both Shaun Harris & Brian Bernard are available

Pfft so is Whitetrash and Me but then i could be full of shit again. But also they are available at a cost, where as i'd do it for love and trash a box of Stenies (maybe two boxes)

I'd be a goer Tony, sounds like a good idea mate. Even Taupo would be aight and do that in reverse, interesting, mind you the new cricut if that was just to be hired looks the bizzo as well.

**White trash** · 6th January 2006, 06:34

Originally Posted by loosebruce

Pfft so is Whitetrash and Me but then i could be full of shit again. But also they are available at a cost, where as i'd do it for love and trash a box of Stenies (maybe two boxes)

Shit, I'd do it for free. Not enough people crashing on here, they need to learn how to do it properly.

**Dafe** · 6th January 2006, 06:37

Originally Posted by White trash

Shit, I'd do it for free. Not enough people crashing on here, they need to learn how to do it properly.

So you wouldn't be doing it to trash the shit out of everybodies bikes? We know you Jimmy!
Maybe you should run a wheelie day........ You might just have to make it a week with the number of loonies keen to participate.

**Momentum** · 6th January 2006, 09:09

I would be keen as for some track training.

if you sort one out let me know

**FROSTY:Me** · 6th January 2006, 09:24

Guys Im not suggesting RACE training here -The idea is to use the track as just another road but with no cars etc
Its just logisticly impossible to do on a normal track day
Id suggest as a format perhaps
A few laps to get an idea of what direction the track goes in for the students.
A walk around the track for the students stopping at each corner- a couple of instructors with them to talk em through the corners -at that point id suggest most of the instructors be on the track circulating at med pace to show lines,braking points etc
Then 1 on 1 instruction -with possibly an instructor watching each corner to see anything the other guys miss