Track day pics!

[DLIT]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

Everyone in the school had to wear tshirts. Different colors for different instructors. Made it easier to tell who was with who.
The instructors had matching color tape on the back of their helmets and bikes.

Oh. We got mesh vests out here.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by DLIT

Oh. We got mesh vests out here.

you probably average 20 degrees warmer too. want all the ventelation you can get!

These t's we get to keep for doing the school.

[R1up0n1]

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by PhiSig1071

Looks good, the only things I would say would be to drop your inside shoulder more and get off the bike more. If you keep your inside shoulder too high it forces you to twist your lower body when hanging off, which will result in bad form and it limits the effectiveness of hanging off.

A mental trick that really helped me a lot is to imagine yourself running around a cone, as you approach the cone and start to turn you naturally drop your inside shoulder. If you do that on the bike it will make a difference. Try it the next time you ride, even street, you'll feel a big difference. There's also the idiom "try to kiss your mirror" which works too.

Go on YouTube and search "MCN How to drag knee". I'd do it here but youtube is blocked.

Good Job! Keep it up!

Word.

Your upper body looks stiff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCg3BMGe52M

[Trip]

looking good, standard upper body on the centerline thing that everyone tends to have. That's the hardest to learn not to do.

[ceo012384]

Looking pretty good out there man.

Just be careful about getting a little crossed up, it promotes handlebar pressure midturn... just drop the shoulder and do the armpit on the gas tank thing.

And consciously think about keeping your hands loose on the bars after turn-in. That's still the thing that takes the largest amount of my "10 dollars of attention"

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

Looking pretty good out there man.

Just be careful about getting a little crossed up, it promotes handlebar pressure midturn... just drop the shoulder and do the armpit on the gas tank thing.

And consciously think about keeping your hands loose on the bars after turn-in. That's still the thing that takes the largest amount of my "10 dollars of attention"

I'd say the pressure on the bars is my biggest problem. There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms... then after the bike quit shaking and settled down, I said self, that was fucking stupid... quit it.

[PhiSig1071]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

I'd say the pressure on the bars is my biggest problem. There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms... then after the bike quit shaking and settled down, I said self, that was fucking stupid... quit it.

Yep, the closest I have ever come to a real bad get-off at the track was when I was really tired and was pulling myself back onto the bike with my arms, bad news.

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms...

Originally Posted by PhiSig1071

Yep, the closest I have ever come to a real bad get-off at the track was when I was really tired and was pulling myself back onto the bike with my arms, bad news.

I have done the same thing... up the hill between T7 and T8 at NH, at full throttle... got some nasty headshake... luckily I stayed on the gas and it worked itself out.

That's one of those times where you pit in and chill the fuck out for a couple minutes.

[Cutty72]

Got a couple more from a friends wife
These are all in turn 10