lwarner

Thanks Adam, I have a question about tires for a coming track day that I'm going to post in a different section. Any answers will be much appreciated. Are you a coach with the school, a student?

I just found this forum but I've known about CSS for quite a while and I got some pointers from Cobie when I first got my (Honda) 600rr in '04. Lately I've been doing a lot of track days and I've been thinking about trying my hand at racing one of the WSMC events. I also race mountain bikes.

I race mountain bikes in addition to riding my motorcycle and the idea you are referring to is one that I call the "no pain no gain" philosophy. It is total cr@p. I think it is an idea that is perpetuated by people who have crashed but don't know why. In order to "rationalize" it they just say "Oh, well everybody crashes, that's just part of the sport". The truth is that if you feel comfortable riding at a "7" then just ride at a 7... one day you will be riding and you will say to yourself, "this is way too easy, it's boring now. I am going to ride at an 8" Eventually you will be riding at a "27" and you will realize how far you've come without ever riding at a level that made you uncomfortable. If you try to go straight to level 27 you will be in over your head but if you just do level 7, and you do it ten times, or a thousand, pretty soon level 10 looks pretty confrontable, so you do that a few times until it's too easy and you just continue on like this until one day you are wondering how you ever got so fast without ever trying.