Nobody answered the call for a group ride
so im going fishing :cheer:
I thought you were out there last weekend
If the fishing trip turns to crap then i'll come out & snap some pics :thumbup:
What an awesome day! Gotta work on my corner entry speed, but kept up with most of the peeps in my group in the corners, and corner exit, then would get left behind coming into the next corner. All good though it didn't phase me at all, just loved carvin it up in my own little world. Such a buzz when I and 2-3 others all tip in around the same time, everyone holds their lines and powers out of a corner. The corous of all our engines pushing hard down the back straight after turn 2 is the best, reaching 225-230 you can tell who's more experienced by when they start braking!
Some dude in the fast group was riding a $100k+ desmo, what a sleek machine (farkin loud - sounded like a cessna passing over head down the back straight from the pits). Was great watching him and the other litre bikes duelling around the track. I woulda thought the desmo would blow all of them away, but there were 3-4 other race bikes they were all neck and neck down the straight.
Mathew Odonnell, who previously worked for honda as a suspension specialist was there to offer his services which I took full advantage of ($88). We worked on a few different settings through the middle sessions which was interesting. Found some good settings and after lunch the bike felt soo much better, no running wide going into or out of corners and I was able to concentrate on my riding technique more w/o worrying about what the bike was doing. The R1's suspension is great for average, even spirited road riding, but not really designed to handle track abuse lol The front end was bottoming out, which we minimised, but it's still a bit close to the end of it's range - stiffer springs and gold valves are the next step here, damn expensive though!
Green group (medium) seemed to have someone running off just about every session, and a couple of stacks as well as one fella who went to hospital, just for a checkup though - he highsided coming out of turn 6, getting on the gas a bit early, rear wheel clipped the ripple strip and he went flying!
All up 8 - 20 minute sessions and man what a blast!! My legs were hurting for a couple of days afterwards even with the extreme yoga stretches I was employing. It was the good kind of hurting though, the one that comes with being very satisfied.
Can't wait to go back :thumbup:
