Had a blast at the track. Took me a long time to get it but I can say I didn't go down, had enough at the end of the day, and had my best run on my last run.

Lessons learned: 1. How important it is to connect the dots. As soon as I saw my marker look for the next one. No need to look at a marker once you saw it. 2. Get a good tire guage. I set my pressures to 32F, 34R. Used a cheap pressure gauge. First session went on the grass and kept sliding the rear all over the place. Buddy came over and checked my pressures with a real good gauge and found them at 42F, 44R. Almost wiped my bike out 3 times because of being cheap on a pressure gauge. 3. Suspension set up transforms a bike. Evan Yarnall saw I was having problems going wide and started turning screws. Major benifit . He was nice enough to come over and offered to fine tune it but I didn't have the expertise to tell him anything other than it was a lot better so chose to leave it alone. 4. Don't look at the train wreck. Turn 1 is really fast. 2 guys went off and instead of looking right for my next marker I looked left at the guys going off and almost ended up joining them.

Nemisis,

FUSA was fun right? I'm going next Friday. You're addicted now arent you?

Sounds good bro!!!!!!!!!!


So you feeling more comfortable with lean angles? You getting it over farther than at your frst trackday?


What did he do to your suspension? Do you remember if he was playing with pre-load, compression, or rebound?

Nemisis,

FUSA was fun right? I'm going next Friday. You're addicted now arent you?

I am still slow but I was still hitting 120's on one straight and 150's on the second. The force from accelerating and braking was incredible. You feel your helmet pressing against your face on acceleration and you feel the strain on your shoulders and arms from the hard braking.

Sounds good bro!!!!!!!!!!


So you feeling more comfortable with lean angles? You getting it over farther than at your frst trackday?


What did he do to your suspension? Do you remember if he was playing with pre-load, compression, or rebound?

Went lower but still a lot to go. As far as the suspension setting for my 165lb no gear weight are:

Front C. was at two (stock) increased 1.
R. was at two (stock) increased 1.25

Rear.C. 16 left at stock
R. 1.5 stock increased to 2

When I was letting off the bike would go wide. These suspension setting stopped that considerably. On the back staight the rear would still bump me off the seat a little. There are 2 bumps, one right after the other right in the correct line.

Thinking of doing NYSB next week. You going turbo.

You can keep from getting bumped off the seat by putting more of your weight on our legs and less on your butt. Your legs will transmit your weight through the foot pegs and help to spread the weight through out the chassis. If you rest all of your weight on the seat, you are at the full mercy of the rear spring and the leverage of the see-saw effect the seat and subframe have.

Give it a try at your next trackday. I know you have the strength so it should be no problem for you.

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Thinking of doing NYSB next week. You going turbo.

I was going to do next Thursday with NYSBC next week but something came up. I'm taking the class on Friday with Team Promotion. They are going to do the whole Pocono track of 3.3 miles. FUSA is 2.5.


I'll be doing NYSBC's FUSA date in Sept if money permits and maybe Pocono East on 9/30 if I don't go to Mid Ohio.

that cheap pressure guage thing is a hard one to learn. learned the hard way myself.

By-Tor had some great advice about riding the bike bike instead of riding on the bike. you will lower your center of gravity by putting more weight on your pegs which only helps. just a little weird at first but once you got it you'll have WAY more control. especially if either of your tires start to break loose, more options of recovery with a lower center.

Kick ass fun,eh? Thanks for sharing.