Track day pics!

[Cutty72]

WOOT! They are finally posted. Gotta go through and figure out which ones I want to purchase now.

For those of you with more experience, please feel free to critique me.
I'll try to lable them with session # and corner number, if i know it.

Here is a track map, so you get an idea of where i'm riding.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Forum%20stuff/layout.jpg

SESSION 2

They didn't take pics of us 1st session. Guess we were all too slow :idk:

Turn 2
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0141p310am.jpg

Turn 2
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0166p410am.jpg

Turn 3 I think.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0189p610am.jpg
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Session 3

Turn 6
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0405p31045.jpg

Turn 6
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0425p51045.jpg

Entering Turn 4
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0456p71045.jpg

Turn 4
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0474p81045.jpg

[Cutty72]

Session 5. ZOOM down the front straight. 1 mile of pure drag race.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0725p31245.jpg



Session 6
Getting a little more comfortable on the track.
This is turn 8, my favorite one. :D
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_0932p62pm.jpg

Session 8
Turn 9
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_1062p14pm.jpg
sequence shot!
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_1078p24pm.jpg
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_1079p24pm.jpg

And lastly, my instructor. Chillin out as he's zooming around!
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/TA08_BIR0616_1119instructor.jpg

[PhiSig1071]

Looks good, the only things I would say would be to drop your inside shoulder more and get off the bike more. If you keep your inside shoulder too high it forces you to twist your lower body when hanging off, which will result in bad form and it limits the effectiveness of hanging off.

A mental trick that really helped me a lot is to imagine yourself running around a cone, as you approach the cone and start to turn you naturally drop your inside shoulder. If you do that on the bike it will make a difference. Try it the next time you ride, even street, you'll feel a big difference. There's also the idiom "try to kiss your mirror" which works too.

Go on YouTube and search "MCN How to drag knee". I'd do it here but youtube is blocked.

Good Job! Keep it up! :dthumb:

[No Worries]

In the Total Control book, Lee Parks says: "your outside arm is relaxed and not fighting for control with your inside arm, and you're looking through the turn to the exit point while keeping your head perpendicular to the road. Your inside foot is tucked up and out of the way. Your inside arm is doing all the steering. And your centerline is to the inside of the bike's centerline."

Looks like you nailed all of them.

[Dnyce]

seems like you could be tucked alot more on the long straight......

[Carolina]

i don't know shit about form but I know that buell looks sexy as hell out there good pics mane

[jalaan1]

i don't know shit about form but I know that buell looks sexy as hell out there good pics mane

:idk: same here, lol

pics look good tho.:dthumb:

[Cutty72]

Thanks guys.
I know i need to tuck more on the straight, but I didn't have the balls to go all out, never even used 6th, so it really wasn't slowing me down.
I did get all the way behind the windscreen a few laps. It's cool like a complete void of wind. :dthumb:

I learned early to get my feet up and out of the way... i drug toe slider before knee slider :lol:

[DLIT]

Sup with the t-shirt?

[Cutty72]

Sup with the t-shirt?

Everyone in the school had to wear tshirts. Different colors for different instructors. Made it easier to tell who was with who.
The instructors had matching color tape on the back of their helmets and bikes.

[DLIT]

Everyone in the school had to wear tshirts. Different colors for different instructors. Made it easier to tell who was with who.
The instructors had matching color tape on the back of their helmets and bikes.

Oh. We got mesh vests out here.

[Cutty72]

Oh. We got mesh vests out here.

you probably average 20 degrees warmer too. want all the ventelation you can get!

These t's we get to keep for doing the school.

[R1up0n1]

:dthumb:

[OneSickPsycho]

Looks good, the only things I would say would be to drop your inside shoulder more and get off the bike more. If you keep your inside shoulder too high it forces you to twist your lower body when hanging off, which will result in bad form and it limits the effectiveness of hanging off.

A mental trick that really helped me a lot is to imagine yourself running around a cone, as you approach the cone and start to turn you naturally drop your inside shoulder. If you do that on the bike it will make a difference. Try it the next time you ride, even street, you'll feel a big difference. There's also the idiom "try to kiss your mirror" which works too.

Go on YouTube and search "MCN How to drag knee". I'd do it here but youtube is blocked.

Good Job! Keep it up! :dthumb:

Word.

Your upper body looks stiff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCg3BMGe52M

[Trip]

looking good, standard upper body on the centerline thing that everyone tends to have. That's the hardest to learn not to do.

[ceo012384]

Looking pretty good out there man.

Just be careful about getting a little crossed up, it promotes handlebar pressure midturn... just drop the shoulder and do the armpit on the gas tank thing.

And consciously think about keeping your hands loose on the bars after turn-in. That's still the thing that takes the largest amount of my "10 dollars of attention"

[Cutty72]

Looking pretty good out there man.

Just be careful about getting a little crossed up, it promotes handlebar pressure midturn... just drop the shoulder and do the armpit on the gas tank thing.

And consciously think about keeping your hands loose on the bars after turn-in. That's still the thing that takes the largest amount of my "10 dollars of attention"

I'd say the pressure on the bars is my biggest problem. There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms... then after the bike quit shaking and settled down, I said self, that was fucking stupid... quit it. :lol:

[PhiSig1071]

I'd say the pressure on the bars is my biggest problem. There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms... then after the bike quit shaking and settled down, I said self, that was fucking stupid... quit it. :lol:

Yep, the closest I have ever come to a real bad get-off at the track was when I was really tired and was pulling myself back onto the bike with my arms, bad news.

[ceo012384]

There were a couple times I noticed I actually pulled myself back up onto the bike using my arms...
Yep, the closest I have ever come to a real bad get-off at the track was when I was really tired and was pulling myself back onto the bike with my arms, bad news.
I have done the same thing... up the hill between T7 and T8 at NH, at full throttle... got some nasty headshake... luckily I stayed on the gas and it worked itself out.

That's one of those times where you pit in and chill the fuck out for a couple minutes.

[Cutty72]

Got a couple more from a friends wife
These are all in turn 10

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/Ryan_021.jpg

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/Ryan_051.jpg

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/Cutty72/Track%20Day/Ryan_071.jpg