stuman
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As long as I know or can figure out why I crashed I find it much easier to come back afterward. Seems like for your first crash, you know what you did wrong and can learn from that mistake. You chopped the throttle and that cause your crash, don't do that again
Second crash sounds like it was out of your control. Not much you could have done about that.
Crashing is a part of riding, it happens, it might even happen again. If you can accept that then you can start to get some confidence back. If you are riding around worried about crashing again it will be hard to come back up to speed. Know that if you ride well, you decrease your chances of crashing again.
It does take time. Like Kevin said every crash is a set back and it takes some time to work your way back up to speed after a big one. I broke my back riding motocross about 6 months ago and I've just now started to feel better about my riding. Take your time and ease back into it, keep working at it and you will come up to speed again. You haven't lost any skill.
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You can fall off anything. Build anything with two wheels and someone will find a way to crash it.
Yes you can crash the lean bike, but I'm not sure anyone has accomplished that goal. If you ride it you will be instructed to ride it like a normal motorcycle and not rely on the arms as they will not prevent the bike from falling over. They are there to help stabilize the motorcycle while you get your body position sorted out.
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I really like Sears Point as well.
Need for Speed Pro Street has Sears in the game as well. The layout is pretty close to the real thing and you can used the chicane.
I find playing a video game of a track really helps me learn the layout. I did great at Philip Island after playing it on MotoGP
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Do the instructors push each other? Could you get another instructor behind you to see what your changes have done for your riding?
yeah we check out each other's riding once in a while.
But I have worked with Cobie and he is hopeless
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Difficult question to answer, how do you "know" that is you cracked on the gas and rolled on you would run wide?
Maybe you just think you would
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For the most part I use trial and error.
The real question is how do you know when you have a good turn point ?
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WERA forum and WSMC forums both have used race bikes for sale all the time.
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Peter is a great kid and I'm glad to see he did well in Vegas, he seemed to struggle a little at Fontana...
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I'd stick with the stock gearing if it is a street bike. No sense in spinning the heck out of the motor while riding down the freeway.
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Yes correct gearing for the track can equate to lower lap times for sure. Gearing it typically the first step to setting a bike up for a given track and is of primary importance.
Kev - I mean changing the counter and rear sprockets only. I know some change the gears in the tranny, but that is not all that common in club level racing.
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Well, being a racer and Director of Marketing for an aerospace company I guess I can give you some input here.
If you want to be a profesional racer, like factory rider, do it for a living kind of thing, then I don't think you need to learn marketing, you need to learn how to win races.
At the highest level the riders don't market their brand, they have managers and team managers to do that. Teams obtain sponsors for the most part (although riders do have personal some sponsors).
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Well there are a number of different reasons to change your gearing when riding on the track.
Sometimes you might use a very low gearing if you want to avoid having to use first gear. Some tracks with very tight corners require you to use first gear and the shift from first to second gear coming off these corners is always very harsh. In this case you might gear your bike so that you can use second gear for these slow corners and avoid the harsh shift. I do this on my ZX10 for The Streets of Willow.
Sometimes you might gear your bike so that you are close to red line in 6th at the end of the fastest section of track so that you can use all the available hp.
Sometimes you might gear your bike for an important corner. You might want to have the bike right in the meat of the power band coming off a particular corner.
Going a gear lower is not always the same. Shifting down a gear might put you in an RPM range that is very close to red line, where a bike that is geared correctly might be right in the meat of the power band a gear higher.
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How do you know that you just nailed it! You know what I mean, just after completing a turn you get that feeling like, hey that was pretty good!
What tells you that you got the turn right?
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Yes Steve, you can stay with the same coach if you like. Just be sure to request them at the very beginning of the day.
I think it is up to you. If you really get along with the coach you have worked with then there is nothing wrong with working with them again.
However, it might be nice to have someone different. Some coaches see things a little differently then others and they might give you a different perspective on something that might help you out.
Either way, I'm sure you will improve...
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I need a yes/no option on the poll so I didn't vote
I wear them on a roadrace track when racing or track days, I have some custom ones that work great.
When instructing at the school I don't wear them as I need to be able to talk to a student if I pull them off the track.
I have ear buds that hook up to my MP3 player when I do longer street rides. They are like ear plugs though...
I don't use them when I ride Supermoto or MX, not sure why I don't
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I assume you are referring to Lee Parks' school.
I'm saying that riding around in a circle would not be a good way to teach throttle control.
We have our students ride around in a circle for the the lean bike, but we work on body position, not throttle control. Throttle is constant during these drills.
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Jay, your example does not relate well to a corner on a race track. Corners have a beginning and and end, circles do not. I think it is a futile exercise to try to apply a technique that was intended for a corner (throttle control) to a circle.
In short corner your roll on the gas (throttle control) can be fairly aggressive.
In a longer corner your roll on must be more gradual, or you will run wide of your intended line.
Speed + Lean = radius
If you lean does not change and your speed increases the radius will increase.
If you are at the limit of traction and you push on the bars to add lean (to maintain a given radius) you will loose the front.
If you are at the limit of traction and you give the bike more throttle, you will loose the rear.
If you continue to add throttle while going around in a circle you will eventually reach a limit.
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Thanks Stuman for the info! I checked the track, and it looks nice!..cant`wait to be there. I think my English level is OK por the purpoise of the school; i lived in england for a year, studing. Mi weakness in in the writen part! So, as soon as i can, i will start arrainging the trip and i will pay the deposit. Also, i forgot to ask about the gear. I have a Shoei helmet, Alpinestars one piece suit and boots. That will be ok for the school?
Your writting is better then mine
Your gear should be OK, you can rent gear from the school too, if you don't want to carry your stuff with you.
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There are no "nice" hotels in Rosamond
The Devenshire is the best and it is borderline at best -
Let's say you were to lean a bike over and put it into a 40 foot diameter circle turn. In a perfect world and no additional steering changes or pressure on the bars, you roll on the throttle just enough to keep the suspension loaded. Would these things happen:
1. Bike increase this 40 foot diameter circle
2. Decrease in ground clearance
3. Increase in lean angle as speed increased
4. Eventually break tire traction
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1) Yes the radius would increase as speed does as long and you don't put an input into the bars.
2) Ground clearance might decrease a little as the speed increases and the suspension loads up. Not 100% sure on this one.
3) As long as you do not put an input into the bars the lean angle should not change.
4) Yup.
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If you're going to come a day or two early you can fly into any of the LA airports. LAX will probably be the cheapest, Burbank the closest to the track. As for touring around there is lots to see in the LA area or you can go south to orange county if you want to check out the beach cities(Huntington, Newport, Laguna), you could fly into Santa Anna if that is your plan. There is not much to see out near the track, it is kinda in the middle of the desert.
Once your done touring you can find a hotel in Lancaster or Palmdale that is pretty close to the track. There is a new Holiday in Express that looks nice. Also the Spring Hill Suites is new as well. There are a lot of really crappy hotels in that area too if you want a cheap room, but be warned they are real crappy.
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1.- Do you admit foreing students (i understand english and have riding experience)
Hey Francisco, Yes as long as you speak and understad english pretty well this should not be a problem.
2.- Do yo recommend acomodation in Vegas, because i will travell with mi wife so i want to stay near the Strip, for her not to be too bored!!!!Well there are lots of great places to stay in Vegas, it all depends on how much you want to spend. The Bellagio is real nice and so is The Venetian and Mandaly Bay. These are all on "The Strip" so there is tons of stuff for your wife to do while you are at the school. For something more afordable on "The Strip", Circus Circus has very cheap rooms, but it is not as nice. The hotels down town are closer to the track where you will be riding, but there is still plenty of stuff for your wife to do. Vega.com has a lot of infor about all the hotels and they sometimes have some pretty good deals too.
3.- Track layout? The School is on the Oval? 4.- Still have the 2007 Kawas? Thanks!We use the infield road course for the school and I assume that we will have the new '09 ZX6R to ride this year. We typically get new bikes when Kawisaki releases a new model. You can see the track layout here http://www.lvms.com/seating_chart.html , we use the couse on the inside of the speedway where it sayes "Rv parking".
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That looks like it would be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorry ,if I come off like a wise guy sometimes. But Cobie seems to have understood my point.
Sometimes when riders have issues they think that buying some part might be the solution. You hear riders say things like "my bike doesn't turn in quick enough, I think I need new triple clamps". Buying shiny new parts for your bike is great, but it typically won't solve a problem that stems from your riding.
The original poster describes a fear of leaning the bike over. All I'm saying is that buying a new set of tires probably won't fix the problem. Maybe if he can determine why he has this fear, where it originates from, and what he might be able to change to resolve the issue, he can make some real progress.
In other words, he might want to "think about his riding" and try to figure some if this stuff out.
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I just want to clarify a couple things before I attempt to answer your question.
1) In the photo you attached would be we riding into the photo, making a left hand corner? We would be riding away from the camera into a left corner followed by a right off in the distance?
2) Are you aking how we should approach this corner on the street or how we would aproch it if it was on a race track?
3) Have you ever been to the Superbike School or read any of Keith's books?