RE: Track day on RS, remove centre stand? - 3

Zitat von andygriff im Beitrag #30

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #26

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Here's a short video of a lap of Cadwell Park. The harsh buzz at higher revs is due to the lower fairing plate resonating. The camera is a simple traffic monitoring camera.

https://youtu.be/iS6EuUUh9zI

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Where's eveyone else ? Rented the track on your own ?

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #31

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It was towards the end of the 7th session so nearing 3 1/2 hours on track. We were well advised to come in early if we were getting tired and losing focus. Thankfully I was enjoying myself and felt focussed right to the end but many weren't.

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I know this is slightly off topic but it is racing and track related.

Here in Spain there are quite a lot of pitbike tracks dotted around and if you want to learn to get your knee down and have that race feel with the benefit of doing it at much slower speeds and not worrying about wrecking your RS , pitbikes are the way forward.

A mate and I bought one and have done about 12 half days here in Malaga, parts are cheap, track is cheap, everything is cheap really, and when you come off(which you will) you can literally just pick it up and ride on.

Def worth a thought if you want to get into it or love track days but don´t like the thought of mashing your bike.

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[quote=spainy|p41059]I know this is slightly off topic but it is racing and track related.

Here in Spain there are quite a lot of pitbike tracks dotted around and if you want to learn to get your knee down and have that race feel with the benefit of doing it at much slower speeds and not worrying about wrecking your RS , pitbikes are the way forward.

A mate and I bought one and have done about 12 half days here in Malaga, parts are cheap, track is cheap, everything is cheap really, and when you come off(which you will) you can literally just pick it up and ride on.

Def worth a thought if you want to get into it or love track days but don´t like the thought of mashing your bike.

Pic for reference lol

just an appendage to the last message if pitbikes aren´t your thing.
We are now looking into buying an Aprilia 125 RS two stroke for that racing style feel and posture and less maintenance, cannot wait to try it!

I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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Don’t bother, mate. I went one helmet/ dynamic and it’s fine as long as you hang off a lot.

Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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I don’t need to remember Ray thank you. Making assumptions leads to the usual outcome. I wasn’t on the front brake and I was on a positive throttle. I think that if I got that wrong on an IAM Skills day I’d get my arse kicked. I was simply at a high lean angle and would have benefitted with more upper body moved to the inside. Sitting off on a road skills day isn’t encouraged. I have the HP footrests at the highest position and the suspension preload set to maximum. The footrest feelers are no longer their full length.

I think that 67 is probably too old to develop an obsession with track riding

Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #41

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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I experienced same thing with the MaMo, though in my case, I was climbing a mountain road and it lifted the front wheel slightly, causing the handle bars to get a slow, gentle [unnerving!] tank slapper going before I slid on the cylinder a bit and, luckily then off, with the tires hooked up again just as I was sliding towards the center line. In this first case, I was leaned over pretty good and steady on the throttle, but it could have been a road camber fluctuation. Amazingly, traction control never noticed a significant enough difference in wheel speed to log it in the connected app. Traction was set in auto, I was not moving body position. (main scrape in photo)

On another case, where I really didn't think I was leaned over that far, I accidentally rolled off the throttle and the same thing happened, with more dramatic lift and lightness of bars. Luckily this time only for a split second and was definitely caused by throttle change, magnified by road irregularity (partially why I rolled off the throttle). smaller scrape in photo on bottom ~left

I'm doing a CLASS school at VIR (track in Virginia) in September. Not planning to remove my center stand, but will likely set preload to max and work on my body movement technique(s) - among other things, I hope! (first track day class for me)

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Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #41

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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I experienced same thing with the MaMo, though in my case, I was climbing a mountain road and it lifted the front wheel slightly, causing the handle bars to get a slow, gentle [unnerving!] tank slapper going before I slid on the cylinder a bit and, luckily then off, with the tires hooked up again just as I was sliding towards the center line. In this first case, I was leaned over pretty good and steady on the throttle, but it could have been a road camber fluctuation. Amazingly, traction control never noticed a significant enough difference in wheel speed to log it in the connected app. Traction was set in auto, I was not moving body position. (main scrape in photo)

On another case, where I really didn't think I was leaned over that far, I accidentally rolled off the throttle and the same thing happened, with more dramatic lift and lightness of bars. Luckily this time only for a split second and was definitely caused by throttle change, magnified by road irregularity (partially why I rolled off the throttle). smaller scrape in photo on bottom ~left

I'm doing a CLASS school at VIR (track in Virginia) in September. Not planning to remove my center stand, but will likely set preload to max and work on my body movement technique(s) - among other things, I hope! (first track day class for me)

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #40

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I think that 67 is probably too old to develop an obsession with track riding

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Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #41

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #35

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I had another day on track today at Croft Circuit. A lovely track.

Centre stands aren't the limit, neither footrests. The MachineArtMoto head protector lifted the rear wheel a short hop though....

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I experienced same thing with the MaMo, though in my case, I was climbing a mountain road and it lifted the front wheel slightly, causing the handle bars to get a slow, gentle [unnerving!] tank slapper going before I slid on the cylinder a bit and, luckily then off, with the tires hooked up again just as I was sliding towards the center line. In this first case, I was leaned over pretty good and steady on the throttle, but it could have been a road camber fluctuation. Amazingly, traction control never noticed a significant enough difference in wheel speed to log it in the connected app. Traction was set in auto, I was not moving body position. (main scrape in photo)

On another case, where I really didn't think I was leaned over that far, I accidentally rolled off the throttle and the same thing happened, with more dramatic lift and lightness of bars. Luckily this time only for a split second and was definitely caused by throttle change, magnified by road irregularity (partially why I rolled off the throttle). smaller scrape in photo on bottom ~left

I'm doing a CLASS school at VIR (track in Virginia) in September. Not planning to remove my center stand, but will likely set preload to max and work on my body movement technique(s) - among other things, I hope! (first track day class for me)

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