bigsheep_imp
Been there
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Like many of you, I had an image in my mind of the elite riders from magazines and photos navigating a corner with their knee literally dragging across the pavement. This has been something I wanted to experience for as long as I can remember. I know the bar has risen and now elite riders are dragging elbows and helmets and achieving 65 degrees of lean etc... So today on my fifth track experience, third on my CBR600 I had my butt half off the seat, leaned into the turn and for the first time felt and heard pavement.
We normally run three groups beginner intermediate and expert however because of numbers today we broke up into two. So I had expert/intermediate riders in my group on 1000cc motorcycles and the only person who managed to pass me was this guy with an Aprilia suit on an R1. However I did managed to pass him on the crooked bits but once we hit the straight there is no replacement for displacement. I currently tip the scales at 270 and there was a guy with my exact bike who was easily 80 lbs less and I lapped him twice in a session! I tried to help him out a bit telling him the revsi shift and gears in the corners because I could hear him shifting around 8000, good for the CB, not for the CBR. The weather was amazing and a great day was had by nearly all. There was a gentleman on a supermoto who got in over his head on a turn which happened to be at turn one after the longest straight so the highest speed, he left in the ambulance with non life threatening injuries.
As far as the knee goes it turns out it was a trivial hollow goal, it wasn’t the sensory nirvana I had day dreamed it to be, now that I’ve done it, if it ever happens again as a result of good riding so be it, but not something I’m intentionally trying to make happen again.
We normally run three groups beginner intermediate and expert however because of numbers today we broke up into two. So I had expert/intermediate riders in my group on 1000cc motorcycles and the only person who managed to pass me was this guy with an Aprilia suit on an R1. However I did managed to pass him on the crooked bits but once we hit the straight there is no replacement for displacement. I currently tip the scales at 270 and there was a guy with my exact bike who was easily 80 lbs less and I lapped him twice in a session! I tried to help him out a bit telling him the revsi shift and gears in the corners because I could hear him shifting around 8000, good for the CB, not for the CBR. The weather was amazing and a great day was had by nearly all. There was a gentleman on a supermoto who got in over his head on a turn which happened to be at turn one after the longest straight so the highest speed, he left in the ambulance with non life threatening injuries.
As far as the knee goes it turns out it was a trivial hollow goal, it wasn’t the sensory nirvana I had day dreamed it to be, now that I’ve done it, if it ever happens again as a result of good riding so be it, but not something I’m intentionally trying to make happen again.
