First trackday on the motorcycle (Z2 Novice school @ Sonoma)
Posted Apr 6, 2015, 2:02 PM UTC
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Congrats on your first track day and welcome to the addiction of a lifetime. Here are some things you should check out.
I put this list of videos together here that teach some very important fundamentals of riding a motorcycle. If you watch all of them, and then watch all of them again, you will learn a lot. I also recommend picking 1 or 2 of the videos (the 2 step, and the no brakes are good ones to practice) right before you go out on the track and try and practice them you will get better.
I also recommend you check out these books and read them cover to cover.
Learn what's there, keep practicing and you'll be able to do this before long (I'm rider 909 on the right)
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Thanks a lot for all this info! Yes, I'm hooked, to make matters worse, I was already hooked with cars for years and years, and this past week I decided to try it out on the bike and it was awesome. It helped that I had been on this track a couple of times before (driving a miata) and I already knew it so I was able to focus a bit more about riding and body position, and my body is destroyed, can't wait to go back.
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forget about body position for... I'd say like 3 or 4 full track days, just stay upright, work on throttle control, reference points, brake markers, turn in point. Start to build speed from a smoothness in your controls and keep your weight off your hands by squeezing the tank with your knees under braking. Do all of this, then work on body position.
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Try not to get addicted xD, but if you do come race AFM!
heh... not get addicted? is that even possible?
No it's not, give in to your hate... Uh I mean uhhh.. Addiction.
No. It really isn't