fossilfuel
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Pull up a chair fossil, lets sink a few!
Bullet
I'm having the first of a few right now. Cheers Mate!
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Wow! You don't even tell your old buddy Fossil that your talking about beer. I could handle a Stella, Becks, Hoegaarden, or my favorite of all time Wasatch Polygamy Porter - "why have just one"
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You can answer your own question. You need to have a plan or some way to approach obstacles to your riding. Ride what ever gets you there.
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Chocadile,
You owe Bullet a beer as well, maybe he can show me how to properly drink a Guinness?
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I set my pegs so that everytime I shift, my foot is anchored by the heel so it is easy for me to pivot up and down on the peg. It is the same when I use the rear brake. When I am not shifting or braking, I rest the balls of my feet on the pegs so that the pegs are weighted at all times and I can easily shift weight from one side to the other.
Lets say I am making a right hand turn. My foot is pointing in toward the turn, my heel is pointing in towards the rear tire and my knee and foot are aligned. I do this so I have my body positioned for the turn and the weight of my body going directly down and weighting the inside peg. I am positioned in such a way that I actually have very little or no weight on the seat in the corner or on corner exit. The inside foot should be the base for the leg and upper body to rest on. You can't have good body position in a turn if your inside foot isn't positioned correctly. Other people on this forum might have a better way but this works for me and I'm going pretty quick using this method.
This is the way I do it and do not represent anyone or any instituion that teaches anything about anything, even Road Race World.
Do not practice this at home (wait, you could practice this at home if you have good stands) but I didn't tell you to do it.
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Ok, I forgive you. The leather and high heel boots sounds nice! I will see what I can do. I will need a picture and measurments of the current set up. Bolt size, distance between center to center and any clearance issues you might have moving the bracket forward. Such as, would we need clearance to miss something like the frame to have the bracket facing forward, what does this do to your shift lever linkage, and how many holes you would need for adjustment etc, etc. Think it through and let me know if you want to do this....and I'll think of some way you can pay me back?
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Why not get an adapter bracket made to mount the Gilles to? Isn't that a great idea?
That's a great idea. Can you make me one?
I need it by next Saturday...If I didn't know you, I would say you could be suggestively sarcastic. But since I do know you, I would say you most definitely are. And I was just trying to be helpful....
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Hubbard, next mod to my bike will be a piece of tape reading "move body to turn!!"
Since you're going to be putting something in front of you to help with body position, are there some reference points on the bike you can use to help you get the correct position with your upper body? Maybe align a part of your body with a part of the bike?
One comment about how I ride on the street and how it's different on the track. My BP on the street is geared toward giving me a good view of traffic, so it's necessarily more upright. Choco, you do this in the vid, where your head is leaning away from the turn (this also keeps the horizon level). This is a good technique for the street, keeping your head higher to see more and avoid all the cars trying to hit you.
On the track you don't need to do this. So how would you change your head position?
Enjoy Level 3, since it will focus on getting your body to work with the bike.
Try putting your head on either side of the wind shield at a point where you head is not much higher than the top of the wind shield. You will help weight the front and get off the center line.
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Why not get an adapter bracket made to mount the Gilles to? Isn't that a great idea?
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Just give me a Senior Superbike class 50 and older and I will kick some Ass!
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Two things this weekend for me:
I was trying to beat my personal best lap time. we all try to do that don't we? Well, something to consider is what changes when we increase speed? At my old personal best lap time my turning point at turn 1 was here. If I have increased my lap time by over a second, do you think that turn point changes? Hell Yeah it does! You might want to plan this out a little better than I did as it can become quite tedious. Not that I did something crazy but that I unexpectedly did a better time so my old turn point was putting me in the corner a little late.
I was trying out a new bike that has Brembo radial piston calipers and Brembo master cylinder. My old bike has standard stock calipers but I do have a Brembo master cylinder. I normally go into my favorite hair pin off camber turn with two finger braking on the old bike. I took the new bike out for a spin with a buddy telling me "those brakes are good so don't let off the gas until brake marker 4 and don't tuch the brakes until brake marker 2." Lifting the rear wheel in the air for about 20 yards can be very distracting as you enter a turn.
What lessons did I learn..besides keep a fresh pair of undies handy? Anticipate changes that might occur as you change goals and equipment. Plan ahead! Little things me a lot when you go faster.
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Thanks Kevin. I appreciate that but I believe I would have to trim another 8 seconds to run with those guys. I'll see if I can trim a little more fat.
Fossil;
I take some pride in keeping my posts as accurate as possible so I decided to attach the May AMA Superbike results from Barber and was disappointed to see that the AMA web site didn't have the Supersport "Qualifying" times but it did have the race results; you my friend were faster then the field on your hot lap. Take a look...
http://www.amaproracing.com/rr/events/resu...pe=F&rnum=1
Kevin
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin please stop.....as much as I want to believe I am in that company, I am sure that was a wet track. You really made my day though!
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I need to mention that this lap time would not have been possible for me without professional instruction. Thanks CSS for all your help.
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Thanks Kevin. I appreciate that but I believe I would have to trim another 8 seconds to run with those guys. I'll see if I can trim a little more fat.
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Ok, set out yesterday to beat my personal best lap time 0f 1:40.22. I went out first session with the lap timer off and worked on my body position and checked to see what the bike felt like. I was first at the starting line for the second session so I had a clear track and ran a 1:38.85. Man that felt great! I now have to decide what my next goal is.
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What's Up Jaybird? I agree with you about the technique. I don't see anything wrong with it either and if I were to explain my technique, it would be much similar. The postion I saw in the video is what I thought was off. Chocadile's body position looks like a "bow". He is getting his butt off before the turn but keeping his head over the center of the bike.
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Good Idea Hub!
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Welcome.....join in the fray!
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I don't know what kind of camera you had but it was good quality! Like Hubbard said, you are crossed up but that is easy to fix. I suggest looking more toward the turn..aiming your head toward the entry, apex and exit and turn you head as though you are telling the bike " I want to go this way!" The other thing I noticed is you could carry a lot more speed through the corners.
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I like your analogy about snowboarding. I also took up snowboarding and have caught the down hill edge. They call this a "garage sale"! I get up thinking I am blind and there's snow inside my goggles. But what is interesting about this analogy is that it parallels so many things in life that we all need to have "feel" for.
When I was learning how to snowboard, I could have had a million instructors telling me what I should do and how to do it but they can't do it for you. I know I fell a hundred times in 4 days but finally it registered and I got the "feel". My brain and body got ther act in sinc and away I went.
To me this sport is no different. You can have great coaches to give you the tools but you have to discover the "feel". I can't tell you how great it would be to have a simulator to understand what the AMA, WSB, or MotoGP guys "feel". There is no way around it, you have to do it yourself.
P.S. Hey Keith, how about a riding simulator as your next training aid!
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Steve,
I haven't looked at your profile so I don't know your age. I started riding sport bikes at 50. I am now 54 and I am doing track days and WERA races. I once tried tossing around in my brain the risk and reward of riding. The rewards are many. I have attained every goal I set for myself in riding. I am setting new goals now and I am in the best shape of my life. So, for me, the reward has greatly out weighed the risk.
If you want to keep from crashing there are three drills you can work on....Throttle control, throttle control and throttle control.. .
I wrote sometime back about going to my first two Keith Code schools and being so overwhelmed by the experience that coach's lips were moving but I couldn't hear what he was saying. It was like ok, ok, when do we get back on the track? When I had a chance to sit back and synthesize the experience and really put together the lessons in my mind, I understood. I got it! I took the track I rode the most and visualized what I would do in the approach, apex, and exit of every corner and every straight. I would visualize where I shift, how I pull in the brake lever, my reference points, and seat position. Now, the lessons I learned are second nature. I don't fear what might happen. I work on what I want to happen and use the skills I learned to get me there.
This is a great sport with so many great people. I hope you decide this is something you want to continue.
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I think Hotffot makes a good point and you can't go wrong with her advice. I have noticed riders that try to improve in the group they feel comfortable in and begin to get stuck. Most of these riders forget some of the most basic tenants of CSS and fall into a pattern that I call "follow the leader". It is not unnatural to be behind a rider and memic their response to an entry, exit, or line. The lessons you learn in CSS are to use the visual cues to find your own place on the track, your own reference points, your own braking points. You should never focus on the rider in front of you but the area around the rider in front of you.
Run your pace not someone elses.
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So, Mr. FossilFuel, how did your TOTW II studying go? Did you schedule a tryout? When and where?
I just got back from a 2400 mile round trip to pick up my dream machine. I am trying to find someone who will ride up to VIR with me on Aug 31. This date looks to be the best opportunity. I had to make sure this was going to work out so once I get back to work tomorrow I can confirm a vacation day for the tryout and call Cobie to see if he is good with that.
The book is looking at me as we speak. I was going to read it on the ride to New York but since I was driving, decided to just look at the pictures!
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It would be an interesting height differential between you two.
CF
I think I need a cold shower!
I need it by next Saturday...
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Hey Bullet! Did you invite Crocodile Dundee to the table?