Worst track rider i've ever seen

I just watched again and laughed a little! Somehow it draws me in and is very entertaining. At this point in time, I am inclined to even try that style out down at Jennings??? It could be some kind of “Drunken Monkey” Style which is just fast enough to pass others in “I” Group and keeps the crowds behind you BECAUSE they are way too scared to pass you – they all “hot pit” to get away from you. By default you will always WIN the trackday?!?!?!?!?





See: "Do you want to approach the monkey or even walk by him?" OR "Are you afraid something may go terribly wrong and the monkey is only faking?"

 

A first-generation Ducati Multistrada. Maybe he thinks it's a dirt bike?

 

Just so you know, not all of us tard riders have our legs out and our center of gravity on the wrong side. :jester:

 

Yep and the part that sucks was not his riding. It was the control riding that went by and did not pull him in. A few minutes and you could help that guy get so much safer. Sure he would revert at times but if he did not listen bounce him. And certainly he had no business in a Intermediate type group.

Oh and for those that think I am getting a bit high on the horse I came from dirt bikes and was likely worse. After years of pavement I slightly improved but recently tucked the front at a school on dirt because..... I got off the inside and pulled down rather than pushed under ound:

 

Rossi foot drags at track days always make me laugh. I see them happen in N and I groups all of the time.

 

I can not count how many times I have tried to help someone who you knew was going to crash. I would say less that 10% actually listen and want to learn. The rest continue doing it their way, crash, get hurt, don't have the money or run out of money fixing the bike, then don't return.

 

You are correct, the sad part is the CR rode right by him.

 

My friend that lives in texas bought a track bike crashed it first track day on it. sold that.

than transformed his Daytona street bike into a track bike after 3 trackdays on it

first weekend as a track bike second day crashed again,
sold bike
bought a enduro


sucks he is a good rider just no real coaching program or class room.

When your novice program lets you out with no coach till your session to be couched comes up is just stupid way to get riders hurt.

I am glad STT is here. are trackdays may not be the cheapest but they are the best.

 

Coach-teacher
Couch-thing you sit on while watching TV.

 

Frankly, in coaching terms, he's called an "opportunity to excel"

 

i saw a guy like that at ACC north :lmao:

I love how he throws his arm up at the ppl that go by.. i'd strafe him on purpose after that LOL

 

You mean, you'd use the 'metric version' of the 6-foot rule on him? :lmao:

 

:thumb: :first:

 

I just keep laughing! thanks for the post it will bring me many hours of entertainment...and the comments that have followed....Priceless!!:lmao:

 

I tried it with a friend on the street. He crashed within a week of owning his sportbike after riding a harley, tried to help him on the street, wasn't working, finally convinced him to do a trackday but I think he scared himself away from sportbikes by highsiding...can't win 'em all

If I'm doing some stupid crap like that on track I would hope anyone that saw me would come smack me on the helmet at pit in and ask me what the hell I was doing, ask me if I was ok, something. Not necessarily a coach but anyone, coaches don't see everything but that one should have seen enough to give him a tail tap into hot pit

 

I believe he was lifting his leg in the turns to prevent his boots from being ruined. Bikes like that have low footpegs and you can ruin a boot in no time flat by keeping your foot on the pegs with a lot of lean in the turns. I ride a Super Tenere aggressive on the street from time to time and I have to do something similar (not that extreme) or I kill my boots.

The swooping he was doing is unacceptable as is the constant looking over the shoulder. It's happening in front of you not behind you.

Other than that the old Duc had good acceleration off the turns:wheel:

 

I actually need help with this "metric" version of passing. I have heard it said many times. just so I understand, 6 meters, which to me is what I might think of vs 6 feet, is actually 19.6 FEET. so way farther than 6 feet. what is the meaning behind metric passing. I cannot think of any form of metric other than 6 meters, and that is way farther than 6 feet. So I never get the "joke" Please someone help me to "be in the loop"

 

You're WAY overthinking it, bro!

It's just a funny way of saying... 'you must not have measured it right!' :fear:

 

Yep, my metric would peg that about 3.5 feet for a clean pass, that should result in the arm raising yet again! :wheel:

 

My bad never been much of a wordsmith or would that be word smith?