The latter. I was aware that I was tucking the front in most of the corners ant that it was and Icelandic taint hair from crashing. I'm a skilled enough rider to manage the situation, figure out what's happening and remedy it. I'm not skilled enough to do it on purpose.
+1 ACC S. was slippy in the morning. Cold, cloudy, windy, rain the night before. 1st session out, I 'just knew' someone let all the air out of my tires. Nope. Even re-torqued my axle nuts,lol. If you wanna have fun sliding your tires this winter, try this. Wait til your favorite pond freezes over and gets about a half inch of snow. Use a shovel or your feet to carve out a mini road course and start racing your buddies on mountain bikes. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have going 5mph :shock:
That was kinda my point.. that's what it sounds like sometimes with the back and forth on some subjective "how to " riding arguments punctinatoin and spelling suk any way...tha'ts why i studied engineering
"Slide left and slide right and slide low and slide high. Oh, the slides you can slide if only you try!" — Dr. Seuss
Oh this one's better... "If things start sliding, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start sliding too." — Dr. Seuss
Except for the first left hander on the first lap of the day on Autobahn South last Sunday, the street tires on my 1125R stuck just fine. I was only riding in Intermediate though. :wink:
He's one of them pushing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coj2wfPouuk&feature=related :shock: BTW the crash scene series, the side stand is on the ground and the front tire is in the air in pic 23.
One tire, two tire, black tire, blue tire. This one will keep you stuck to the ground, This one will eventually put you ON the ground.
Hey Jig- been practicing riding grip limited some more. Got a flat track setup and been riding this summer at a local short track. The sliding thing does really happen. Its real. The trick is getting around the track quickest and making forward progress around the track. Not trying to get in a pissing contest about sliding or whatever, but open up some people to other ways to train for the big track. I'd recommend it for everybody to learn. There is a reason a lot of pros train on their mx bikes or TT bikes. Biaggi rides his supermoto at Adams a bunch of times during the season and the Herrins built a beautiful supermoto track for the boys to train on. People can even try it on the cheap. Put a rear trials tire on your pit bike and give it a whirl. $30 bucks for a rear tire and $15 for a practice day will go a long way. The tire will last most the season. For us old guys with the old dirt bike that they don't use anymore get on flattrack dot com and get some wheels and drop the suspension. Wheels and suspension will cost only a couple sportbike days. Everything I experience or learn on dirt applies to the sportbike. Almost nothing you learn on the sport bike carries to anything else. First off, you lean off the wrong side of the bike in the corners. ha. What I didn't express the first time was that you are right about running to the edge of grip on the big ole sport bikes. You are either hauling ass and have a low national number or have some issues. There are few with the experience to ride it that way on purpose and they most likely aren't at track days. It certainly won't be happening to anybody that is just out riding for recreation on the track. I'm just a 30 something triple digit amatuer mx and supermoto guy that has raced some of the national guys a couple times and can manage to just stay on the lead lap at the end of the motos. Not a master or expert as you mentioned. Even back of the pack amatuers at the local races are backing it in. I'm just saying the fun factor can be a lot higher on a smaller, more manageable bike. I've only been on a 600 a couple days now and it is sick how fast they are. The only thing I've worked up to slipping on that thing is the clutch. I still can't believe you can pay money, just show up, and run a new 1000 at the track with no previous experience. The organizers do an amazing job of saving people from themselves. I like to think I have just enough background to respect what is going on out there but also hope to pick it up quicker than the typical recreational rider. There won't be anything sliding on my 600 except my butt on the seat for quite some time I think.
Hope Kendrick got some pics of Jake coming off turn 5 this last weekend. Think I saw a few darkies! Tdub