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[Trip]

just velcro your lap timer to your tank or underneath your tail. You don't really want to see it while your riding anyway.

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Trip

just velcro your lap timer to your tank or underneath your tail. You don't really want to see it while your riding anyway.

Actually it is imperative that I see it while I am riding, that's the whole reason I got it; for on-the-fly timing so I know where I'm at, as well as for timing for track days (that allow it) and race practice sessions.

I think I will tape/velcro it to the top triple tree or to the bottom half of my tach for now... until I machine that little mounting block.

For racing I will have a separate transponder that you ziptie to your fork tube, the LRRS gives them to you when you check in for the weekend and you give them back at the end. That's how the official timing is done.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

Actually it is imperative that I see it while I am riding, that's the whole reason I got it; for on-the-fly timing so I know where I'm at, as well as for timing for track days (that allow it) and race practice sessions.

That will be just a distraction. That lap timer divides everything up by session and lap, so it's pretty easy to keep track once you are off the bike.

[Trip]

It immediately restarts as soon as you cross the transponder and is not real useful on the track unless you are constantly looking down and memorizing the time by where you are at on the track, which will just remove your concentration from the task at hand.

[ceo012384]

The beacon is on pit wall at the start/finish line... I'll be looking down there an tucked anyways, and want to see my times. Plus look at them afterwards.

If I look down and see I'm running 2 seconds off my normal pace or something, that's good to know, so you can say to yourself "hey fuckin man up you're being a little bitch"

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

The beacon is on pit wall at the start/finish line... I'll be looking down there an tucked anyways, and want to see my times. Plus look at them afterwards.

If I look down and see I'm running 2 seconds off my normal pace or something, that's good to know, so you can say to yourself "hey fuckin man up you're being a little bitch"

sounds like a recipe to get hurt...

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

sounds like a recipe to get hurt...

If I can't glance down on the main straightaway for a half second without crashing, I should probably give up motorcycling altogether...

[Mr Lefty]

no... about pushing harder because your lap times are a bit off...

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

no... about pushing harder because your lap times are a bit off...

I'm not out there for a sunday cruise

I'm more thinking down the road it will be more helpful... like in race practice or in a race... at this point it's just to know for the sake of knowing. And yeah I can just look at it in the pits after as well.

[r!der]

That's cool.
Just don't get too caught up with lap times, sometimes that takes the fun out of a track day. I've had instances where I'll go out and "work it" in order to see if I can drop my times, just to come back and see 3 to 4 seconds +.

For me, I have to forget about laptimes and just ride. I love it when I'm out there just riding at what feels like 90% or so and I come back to see I dropped like 3-4 seconds...when things just flow and fall into place. Kinda like being in "the zone" I guess. I love those days.

Sometimes the best way to drop your times, is to NOT concentrate on dropping your lap times. Instead, concentrate on your lines, markers, braking, getting on the gas earlier, being smoother in general, etc...