Well I kicked off the new riding season at Harris Hill Road with Elite Track Days. I hadn't been on the track since the day after Thanksgiving and it showed, I was rusty. In addition to being rusty I had to learn the new bike.
Today was a very chilly day, started about 48 degrees and finally got up to 65 or so. I took my time on the first three sessions and relearned the map of the track. After lunch things came together and finally I felt comfortable and began to hammer.
The Buell ran GREAT! What an amazing bike. The handling is great, it pitches in very quickly with little effort and requires just a little counter steer to keep from dropping in more. The brakes are great, excellent feel no fade. The power, the power...wow. Third gear wheelies...underwear not included. Much of the morning was re-calibration of my wrist. The FZ6 isn't punchy and the Buell very punchy with about 80 ft lb of torque from 2,500 to 10,000 - flat as a pancake. So when you pin the throttle at 7,500 in third, the wheel comes up.
I ended up going into some corners a gear higher help control this, it also prevents needing to shift half way through a corner.
All in all it was a very fun day and I feel like I'm getting back in the grove.
Here's a video of my last session of the day. Not too happy with the quality. This is an AVI but I had to use iMovie to edit it and I don't know the software well.
The other riders on the track look far away but they are closer, the lens is very fish eyed.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EFo00rc7w[/ame]
Edit: 08/04/09
Okay here's round two on the video edit. For this I used Quick Time Pro, better, but somehow the audio is not synced to the video! I could pull my hair out. I've got about 5 hours into this, editing, converting, loading onto Screwed Up Tube.
So at least the video is of better quality. Rest assured I'd figure out the right combination of editing software and hosting.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsaPbqiIMbo[/ame]
Today was a very chilly day, started about 48 degrees and finally got up to 65 or so. I took my time on the first three sessions and relearned the map of the track. After lunch things came together and finally I felt comfortable and began to hammer.
The Buell ran GREAT! What an amazing bike. The handling is great, it pitches in very quickly with little effort and requires just a little counter steer to keep from dropping in more. The brakes are great, excellent feel no fade. The power, the power...wow. Third gear wheelies...underwear not included. Much of the morning was re-calibration of my wrist. The FZ6 isn't punchy and the Buell very punchy with about 80 ft lb of torque from 2,500 to 10,000 - flat as a pancake. So when you pin the throttle at 7,500 in third, the wheel comes up.
I ended up going into some corners a gear higher help control this, it also prevents needing to shift half way through a corner. All in all it was a very fun day and I feel like I'm getting back in the grove.
Here's a video of my last session of the day. Not too happy with the quality. This is an AVI but I had to use iMovie to edit it and I don't know the software well.
The other riders on the track look far away but they are closer, the lens is very fish eyed.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EFo00rc7w[/ame]
Edit: 08/04/09
Okay here's round two on the video edit. For this I used Quick Time Pro, better, but somehow the audio is not synced to the video! I could pull my hair out. I've got about 5 hours into this, editing, converting, loading onto Screwed Up Tube.
So at least the video is of better quality. Rest assured I'd figure out the right combination of editing software and hosting.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsaPbqiIMbo[/ame]
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