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  4. Streets Of Willow - Mar 29, 30 2008

    in School Questions/General Discussion

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    I had an awesome time this weekend. You all rock and I learned a TON. It's going to improve my trackday/racing tremendously.

     

    Cobie, you gave me some very helpful advice - once I had the chance to process it. You said I make mid-turn corrections, the root of which can be traced to my not being relaxed on the bike/bars. I had to figure out why I'm not relaxed on the bars sometimes - what is causing that? I feel relaxed, I have loose fingers, elbows etc. I'm having a great time and my skills seem to be improving so what's up? Am I not really enjoying myself and I'm all tense on the bike? What a bummer! I was very surprised to go back and remember instances of where I was tight or 'muscling' the bike through turns. I went over the turn in points, I'm hitting them. The two-step - I'm getting consistent with that...the knee-to-knee is starting to feel right and then I realized what I do wrong. In my quick turns...after I make sure I have the correct throttle control, keep a wide view, find my turn point, look into the turn for the apex/exit and then steer the bike. I sometimes 'forget' to counter-steer into the turn! I do a calf raise to lock the outside knee into the tank, go knee-to-knee,move my butt and stick my knee out, trying to stay loose on the bars into the turn. What? Loose on the bars into the turn?! I forget to apply opposing pressure on the bars at the turn points and the bike won't be pointing right in the turn so THEN I have to make a correction and at that point - doing a quick flick will send me into the yellow and black curbs or into the dirt! I do that frequently. The problem is my inconsistent counter-steering at the turn points. Wow.

     

    Like I said - you all rock - it's like racer psychoanalysis. This is happening - why - look really deep - there's a reason these things are happening. Once it's identified it can be corrected. Awesome! Now I'm really excited.

     

    Peace!

     

    Faye

  5. Streets Of Willow - Mar 29, 30 2008

    in School Questions/General Discussion

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    Likely to be somewhere in the 70's in March, but can go either way. We have had more nice days there than any other track.

     

    Cobie

     

     

    Looks like it's trending high 60's for this weekend.

     

    I've been reading and re-reading TOTW I and II. It had been a really long time since I read TOTW I (early 90's) and I was surprised at how helpful it's been and how much more I could relate to it - now that I have more experience. As for TOWT II - that's been awesome to read AND re-read. I can't wait to try the some of the techniques. Pivot steering with the outside leg? Wow - I'd been resting all my weight on the inside peg, kind of perched on the side of the bike rather than hanging off!

     

    Destructive advice vs real technology, when to get on the gas, charging and dis-charging, gaining 500 rpm when leaned over and how that affects redline and the rev-limiter in turns...I realized that I've been riding around with a lot of folklore (chatter) in my head. It's been great to get an authoritative (and funny) guide to what's really going on with the rider (me) and the bike and what SHOULD be going on. It blew a lot of the folklore out and replaced it with the calm voice of Keith explaining matter of factly why my SR's happen, how that adversely affects the bike and what I need to do to minimize or eliminate those barriers.

     

    It's going to be a great weekend!

     

    Faye

  8. Survey Question

    in Cornering and Techniques

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    Here's the question: when you corner aggresively, what single technique do you pay the most attention to? Steering (quickly)? Throttle control? Viusual skills? Body Position? What ranks top for you?

     

    Cobie

     

     

    Hi Cobie! Currently, what takes up the most of my attention is my point of timing for the steering change so that I can exit the turn consistently in roughly the same spot. That means that prior to the major steering change - I have already spent some attention on reference points and sub-products; throttle control, changes in body position, braking etc. If I haven't done those consistently and made the right decisions up to then - my point of timing for the steering change takes up a lot of my attention because I changed the inputs on the bike and may have to make a new decision about my point of timing for the steering change. That means I've moved from the thinking it through phase to the trial and error phase which changes the product - where I exit the turn, which can affect the rest of that lap. Faye Coker

  11. Streets Of Willow - Mar 29, 30 2008

    in School Questions/General Discussion

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    I even showed up a day earlier to see if I could get a better "feel" for the layout. To be honest, none of it mattered once I was on the track...I mean NONE!

     

    As for the weather, I don't know about March but in April of 2004 it was scorching hot in the mid 90's and we cut short the second days practice sessions to avoid heat related problems.

     

    Good Luck.

     

    Kevin Kane

     

    Thanks for the feedback. Twist of the Wrist I says the same thing - you can study all you want beforehand, walk the track etc. and none of it matters until you actually ride it and make your own observations...

     

    The 90 degrees weather comment is good info! I can leave my long underwear in Michigan!

     

    Thanks!

     

    Faye Coker

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