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Jacking up the back reduces steering rake, quickening steering, but slight sacrifice on high speed stability. But now the seats so steep i keep sliding off it! Gonna try and pack the front of the seat out somehow, by either lifting the mount or lowering the rear, see what looks easier.

One thing that I'm struggling with is riding position and taking my weight off the bars. I believe it's a combination of me being short and my 00 R12 being long, but also, that I slide forward in the seat. I've made it worse by lacking up the rear end, so the seat is at a steeper angle, but I can't sit back in it at all. to hold myself back involves a lot more weight on the bars than there is allready, and as soon as i hit a bump i bounce forward again. I've fitted stomp grips to try and grip them with the knees but they dont seem to help Coult it be because my adjustable rearsets are too far back, or is there something else im missing? ta

Cheers chris, really looking forward to it... Spent some time at the weekend prepping my R1, taking off the mirrors and pillion pegs etc.. hope the weather holds out like it is today!

Hi all... My first post here, should have really got on erlier as my Level 1 is booked for Friday... Really looking forward to it, have read the books and feel a better rider for it, it's only cashflow thats stopped me getting on the course sooner. Looking to get cornering confidence out of it, have only a couple of trackdays under my belt and was obviously not the quickest in the novice group, not aiming for the fast group, but the top 15 or so of the novice group would be fine with me. Would ideally like to take it all the way as a CSS instructor, but I've a long way to go. Am an ex CBT and DAS instructor, have my IAM for car and bike, and Rospa Gold, and have been riding longer than I've had a licence. Err... havent got anything else to say.... see yous all friday!