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couldn't find an apex if it sat on his face.


and forgot to disconnect his headlight.


and needs to actually lean over.


(http://www.fandsenterprises.com/Galleries2009/cspeed611beg/images/cspeedjuly-02053.jpg)

but body position much better than before.


BIGGER pics to come shortly.

 ;D

Mawr pics, mawr better.   ;D

Lookin' good.  IIRC from that vid you posted a while back (superbike school), your body position was pretty good back then.  The line from your spine to your head is pretty much parallel with the centerline of the bike.  Not a lot of folks can say that and it's a great baseline to work from.  If you focus on really opening up your hips (even to the point of where it feels exaggerated) with the ball of your inner foot on the end of the inner peg, it'll help you get off the bike more while keeping your body parallel to the centerline.  And it'll help get your head down more toward the bars.  Vroom, vroom.   
[thumbsup]  [moto]

P.S.  You're a bold man.  I would never have the cahones to take a bike that pimped out to the track.  I'd be so skeered of binning it. 

(http://www.fandsenterprises.com/Galleries2009/cspeed611beg/images/cspeedjuly-02086.jpg)

alternative captions:

all your outside lines are belong to us.

pssssst...there's a Statler behind you.


oh shit....knee-cone interference.

Thanks, Spidey.

I have to figure out something for the right side, as my boot is melted pretty bad....too bad VIR is so right-sided.

I did finally just get my left knee puck scraped too this time.   Little advances at a time....(G took a big speed increase and went down).

It's so funny how you feel so exagerated and then you see pictures and it looks totally fine and normal.   I felt like a total monkey hanging off this past weekend but pics show other riders and I think they weren't off enough.

I can work on both  more corner speed and roll on faster.   I got the throttle cracked open soon but could open it harder earlier.   an instructer worked on this with me on Sunday....he took the lead and I followed through some turns....muuuuch harder throttle out of turns.   By the end of the day I was a gear higher at the end of the main straight and leaving the last corner onto the straight had to start the turn a gear higher as I bounced the rev limiter a couple times.   big speed jump.

Debated bumping up to intermediate group but passing is difficult for me so I got a weekend of practice doing it in beginner group.   lots of clear track there too.

time for track bike.

Looking good!

[thumbsup] [evil] ;D

(http://7mzdt.com/images/sow090108_sm.jpg)


(the pic is b/c of the thread title... [cheeky])

Show off.... :-*

Statler,

Your upper body is 6-7-8 inches inside, that's not too bad - and I know it feels like a whole lot more ;)
Elbows are exactly where they should be - not resisting.
Maybe you could lower your upper body more?

 

yup.

sweet!   better if it were on a monster of course.   ;)

right tool for the job...  ;D

nah..the job isn't lapping as fast as you can unless someone is paying you for it....the job is having fun and escaping work.


more monster is more better.

I disagree

Less monster is more better?

or

more monster is less better?







  ;D

...not on the track

i guess when you said "time for track bike" you meant time for a track monster?

just nice to see pics of monsters on the track on the monster forum.   ;D    practicality will eventually take over with something that would likely crash better, but I think it will allways be fun doing things on the streetbike there that I can't do on the street.     Hell, wrestling around a big tourer on the track would be a hoot.

Not sure I'd like trying to flick 500-800 pounds through some esses.   [laugh]

obligatory yellow wolf/goldwing/deal's gap video:

deals gap on a goldwing/gl1800 by yellow wolf dragons tail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nrMQ3QwyPo#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)

I did a trackday where a dude on a V-rod was passing guys on Gxrs and Cbrs

Once again, proof that it is usually more the rider than the bike. 

Chris, I am probably going to be selling my Daytona before too long. 

(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z53/b_upton/DSC_0033.jpg)

I'll give you twelve bucks off the asking price if you send me that shirt.   ;D

   It's still sitting wrapped on the corner of my desk.      on my list.   [cheeky]

edit:  found the HI address.   Need your last name by PM please.

(or an APO if you want it there).

Nice trail braking!! I think he had those brakes on a little deep in some of those corners though. Does a Goldwing have ABS?

the bike in the foreground here ridden by 1 buddy of mine and belonging to another buddy of mine is an ABSOLUTE BEAST!!!  a very rare and freakishly cool bike...a Superhawk 996 (dubbed the Super Chicken) heavily modified by Moriwaki Racing with lots of frame strengenthing welds and titanium hardware and Dymag carbon fiber wheels and all kinds of stuff done to it.

BTW...FWIW.... on a Monster track bike IMHO, I think less is more...my old 900 Monster with the CC rearsets and sorted out suspension gives me the allowances to be able to use more of the motor and get more and more out of the bike helping me learn more and work a lil harder....all depends on you though...

Like this?

(http://www.nakupovanje.net/images/600x/peg-perego-trikolesni-baterijski-motor-ducati-desmosedici--1196743.jpg)

Dudes, Monsters rock on the track. You've just got to set them up right.  [thumbsup] So yes, it can be the right tool for the job. My job is to win races and my Monster has taken me to several class championships. It may be going bigger next season to beat up on SVs...anyone got a 900 motor to get rid of? [evil]

Proper aircooled Ducati track weapon.  [evil]


(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/chiflado/Map058.jpg)

There was a millona in the garage when we were at VIR.    drooooool.   simply fantastic looking NCR.   I'd love one.

in the mean time, here's a bigger pic.
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd110/grumpylawyer/VIRducatijuly09002.jpg?t=1248223459)

he's leaning more than I do   ;D

I can tell by the fence in the backround that you are in 5 there....good body position!

the Milona I am betting was Courtney's....he picked it up recently and it is a SUUUHHWEEET machine!

I don't know if you remember my comments after I rode your RS, but the big one was that you don't have any room for your heal on the right side when you try to turn your foot out.

The pipes are in the way.

So. . . underbike exhaust or do what I said you should do back then.

Get a 675 ;D

If I wasn't broke...

No shit.

I wish I had never sold mine. . .

Statler...You're not the only attention whore on this forum. This is me at Portland last week.

(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n417/Bbrent_photos/brianportland2.png?t=1248478353)

niiiiice.

Seems like we are both alittle stiff in the turns.

yeah...have to think about relaxing, which isn't very relaxing.    more track time should help.

the most important thing you can do out there is relax

it's only 462 thank you very much!

and yes, it is tons of fun statler.

laura's husband rides his road star on the track. it tops out at around 100 and leaves white lines in turns, but it's freaking great seeing it out there.

Here are a couple pictures of me on my Monster at Thunder Hill

(http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv318/hackit2me/small1.jpg)

(http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv318/hackit2me/small2.jpg)

And one with the knee down (first time on the track need to work on moving my upper body more)
(http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv318/hackit2me/small.jpg)

Yea, well Hailwood's still my hero. ;D

LA

So...will you back in October?

Chris are you at all interested in going fast on a slow bike?   I'll be having a track bike/race bike 800SS ready for sale in a couple of weeks.  Can set it up in any configuration from entry level (3-spoke Brembos, non-adjustable oem Showa front fork, oem shock/spring, oem rearsets, etc) to AMA Proo Moto_ST (GT this year) spec (with 5-spoke Marchensinis, full floating EBC rotors, race prepped 1000SS fork, Ohlins shock/spring, CFM/Woodcraft clip-ons, rearsets, steering damper, full custom 2-1 race exhaust, etc).   Either version would have DucPond dry clutch conversion included.

Let me know if you're interested!

of course I am.  We'll talk.

get the upgrade... ;D

indeed.. lots of goodies in the funnerer version, but you absolutely do not want a track bike with non-adjustable forks.  or stock shock, 95% of the time.