I tried to make a video so that track days seem less scary to those who have never been to one before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdX9NWDpR6w
Every time I add music they kick my video- not sure how to get permission for the music. My CBR does need a new pipe though for some naturally better music . Being my first time there and my second overall track day on a bike I had an awesome time. Everybody was very friendly and Frank was an awesome instructor
Search youtube for "royalty free" music. It may not be anything popular, but at least it's something. Personally, we use TeknoAxe.
I would not use that as a Intro vid..... Way too fast on the first lap ... Also passing.... If they think thats the Intro they will be in for a surprise.... Just some constructive critisismn.... Instead of a vid mid way though the day to open up why not some non riding info.... Pits Riders Meeting Novice Class Just some ideas....
When trying to get friends and newbies to the track I always liked the way Huey from Marietta Motorsports says it in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2BETRCk95s&feature=player_detailpage#t=103 and this from his Facebook page "Why I hate the word "Trackday" . Why I hate the word “trackday”: it conjures up the wrong things and makes the people who could benefit the most from going to one not go. In simplest terms: What is a track-day: A place to ride your motorcycle in a safe, controlled, monitored, environment with safety personnel on stand by . What a track day is NOT: a race and / or a place to explore the absolute limits of your riding. But what does that really mean and why am I even writing this? Because of the following conversation that happens a lot here at the shop: Me: “You should come to our track day!” Guy / gal with nice street bike: “I can’t go to the track! I’m not a racer!” or “I’ll crash!” or “I don’t have a track bike. “Or “I don’t have race plastic.” Me: “Ughhh…. Aren’t you about to head up to the mountains right now?!” What if I phrased it like this: Me: “Hey wanna go ride with me this weekend? I know this awesome road about an hour from here. It’s super twisty! You can follow me around and we’ll ride well within our limits. Get this too: It’s one-way so there’s never any oncoming traffic; they actually clean and maintain this section of road (never oil on it or dust); for some weird reason they’ve moved back all the mail boxes, telephone poles, guard rails and trees back. Also this road doubles back on itself fairly quickly so you’ll get used to hitting the same curves over and over again and will find a favorite one fast! PLUS I’ve never seen a cop on it AND for some weird reason there’s the people that stand about every 200 yards with radios waiting to call an ambulance that hangs out at the beginning of the road just in case something happens!” Tell me you wouldn’t want to go ride that road with me all day long! And at the end of that day you’ll know your limits and the limits of that bike inside and out! You’ll be prepared for nearly anything! THATS WHAT A TRACK DAY IS! Here’s a few of my personal thoughts on trackdays for street riders: You should ride the bike at the that you ride everyday. You should learn the limitations of that bike and what you can and can’t do on that bike. When you come around the corner to a school bus full of nuns doing a u-turn you’re not going to be in the Ferrari you rented for the track. You’re going to be in the 1972 Buick LeMans you drive back and forth to work! Maybe you should learn how it works in all types of situations. And if you find out that ol Buick can’t do what you need it to do then it’s time to upgrade it or swap it out. If you’re going to start racing then certainly get you a track bike. But if not then you need to be out there on your cruiser, your touring bike, your dual-sport! Remember it’s just a safe, nice road! Track days should only be ridden at 80%. No harder. That will leave 20% in reserve for holy-crapedness, oops, “well that was too deep”, “was that brake marker 4 or 5?”, front end slideys, etc. However after a day of riding that hard your new 80% will be where your old 120% was. But yet you’ll still only be riding at 80%! I’ll give you a second to do that math. What I’m saying is if you chill out and don’t try and ride as hard as you can you’ll learn more and you’ll progress quicker and end up at a level past the hardest you could have ever ridden. Plus you’ll have a lot more fun. Don’t get suckered into a race. You’ll get passed. It will take a little bit of self control to not think “why just who do they think they are?” It’s not a race. When someone in front of you is holding you up in the turns then motors away on the straight-aways then parks it in the entry to the next turn: its not a race. In situations like this just take a quick cool down pass through hot-pit, lift your visor, take a breath then head back out! Shit happens: Even after me saying all this someone will ride over their head, someone will get taken out, someone will get suckered into a race, someone will… the possibilities are limitless. But wouldn’t you rather it happen at a track with corner workers and an ambulance than in the mountains with guardrails? Quick side note: theres an "unwritten" rule at the track: everyone takes care of their own stuff. That way there's no arguing blame. But the biggest thing I like about track days is a word we used to use in the military all the time: camaraderie defined as a spirit of familiarity and trust existing between friends. Few things in the world are cooler than zinging into a turn with half a dozen of your friends and then hanging out in the pits afterwards exchanging tips about body positioning, lines and helping work on one another’s bikes. So next time we have a track day, I'd like to see you out there! Watch that video one of our friends made and tell me that doesn't look like fun, Huey" https://www.facebook.com/notes/marietta-motorsports/why-i-hate-the-word-trackday/10150842121616599
Awesome video. I put my "produced" videos on Vimeo since they don't do music copyright checks. But on Youtube, I found that if I mix exhaust noise 50% with music, it's enough to disguise the music. Or just get a Triumph triple. That's better music than any inline 4 around. Lol.
V-Twin and full rev!!!! :rawk: Capt.... I'll donate Panigale exhaust notes for you to overlay!!! :cheers: