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Steven31371

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So here’s a counter balance to Ricks vids lol….i.e. a slow old guy just starting out haha

my buddy Jeff who rides at the top of group 3 followed me and GoPro’d me so I can see stuff I need to work on.

I’m old slow and still need to shed some pounds for this stuff, but some of you considering using these bikes for what they are meant for…do it man!

If I can you can lol

 
You are a brave man posting your video for critique by the peanut gallery!

Nice job! Respect for you for putting your toy in its natural habitat and learning to relate to it. Laptime will come with seat time, just keep on enjoying it and asking questions.

That track must be a road course interwoven into a nascar oval? It reminds me of Loudon and God those transitions in and out of oval were tricky as heck!
 
Nice video, I was there Sunday too. Ran Level 3 until 4th session and then packed it up with the heat. I was over in garages 88-90 facing East.
 
TomFoolery said:
You are a brave man posting your video for critique by the peanut gallery!

Nice job! Respect for you for putting your toy in its natural habitat and learning to relate to it. Laptime will come with seat time, just keep on enjoying it and asking questions.

That track must be a road course interwoven into a nascar oval? It reminds me of Loudon and God those transitions in and out of oval were tricky as heck!
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Yes, it's a Nascar Roval course. AMA raced here for years. WERA now races here. It's ok as far as Roval's go. No lattes though!!!
 
Yeah, those transitions in and out of the oval look confusing. Maybe its more obvious in person due to the camera's perspective.

It looks like on a lot of those you'd have your knee down if you had more body position. From one elbow dragger to another. :p
 
Yeah it's a little better in person. No fast sweeping turns though. A lot of slow stuff in the infield and then on the front straightaway. The cars that run here
run a different configuration that is faster. They use Turns 1 and 2 and half the back straightaway. Bikes would be too quick. They have that chicane in there to slow you down
 
TomFoolery said:
You are a brave man posting your video for critique by the peanut gallery!

Nice job! Respect for you for putting your toy in its natural habitat and learning to relate to it. Laptime will come with seat time, just keep on enjoying it and asking questions.

That track must be a road course interwoven into a nascar oval? It reminds me of Loudon and God those transitions in and out of oval were tricky as heck!
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Yeah, Autoclub Speedway…has a NASCAR event every year.
 
Great video Steven

The important thing is to enjoy yourself, improve on your skills and make friends.

If you don’t have it, get a laptimer, it helps you see how much you improved at the end of the day, and setting some goals, for net time out.
 
brave to post that, well done for speeding it up... ;-)

It never ceases to amaze me how crap the circuits appear in the good old usa...

With poor condition broken up tarmac, and weird shapes of circuit made up its almost like an after thought.

Get yourself on a busman holiday to the UK, even our worse tracks are in better condition with better defined kerbs.
 
Nice Steven, that's what it's all about man. Peeling the layers and going deeper. Find your stuff.
I find a lot of fast-as-balls-old-guys at the track where I am. Not a couple, a lot.
 
Vbreeze said:
Nice Steven, that's what it's all about man. Peeling the layers and going deeper. Find your stuff.
I find a lot of fast-as-balls-old-guys at the track where I am. Not a couple, a lot.
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Yeah I’ll get there, just gotta keep reminding myself that was only my 3rd track day, and 2nd at that track. My brain is still calibrating.

I have a very competitive nature so it’s hard to dial that down while trying to learn lol

But we’ll get there.
 
andyb said:
brave to post that, well done for speeding it up... ;-)

It never ceases to amaze me how crap the circuits appear in the good old usa...

With poor condition broken up tarmac, and weird shapes of circuit made up its almost like an after thought.

Get yourself on a busman holiday to the UK, even our worse tracks are in better condition with better defined kerbs.
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Then we'd have to deal with your .... weather. Southern California is about 200 times better weather than dreary England.
 
Steven31371 said:
Yeah I’ll get there, just gotta keep reminding myself that was only my 3rd track day, and 2nd at that track. My brain is still calibrating.

I have a very competitive nature so it’s hard to dial that down while trying to learn lol

But we’ll get there.
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The main problem with bikes is that they bite if you overdo it, but other than that the process is the same as any gear sport, break it down into bite size components. Work on one area at a time and one day without trying your knee with be on the deck around your favourite sweeper, you'll feel like Rossi then its all on!
 
TomFoolery said:
Then we'd have to deal with your .... weather. Southern California is about 200 times better weather than dreary England.
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I'd take dreary over scorcio, for riding on track, and general living, every day of the week! Personal choice, obvs. One man's meat, is another man's poison, and all that.

Spain's an hour by plane, if I fancy a few days on a sandy beach drinking sangria :D
 

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