I'm putting 10£ on YT binning the R6 and turning the blade into his racebike ..... or selling the r6 at the end of this year and still tracking his blade you'll love the racing guys!!!
hahahahhaha don't worry mate, If you just go out there every race and just try your best and have a laugh, you'll be happy. What worked for me was having a goal between every qualifying and race. Say I start 15th, then I would always try and finish higher than I qualified. I would look at the qualifying times and see the difference between me and another few that were within 0.5 second and tell my self I will beat them, 9 out of 10 times I would... you always ride faster in a race, specially knowing that every one you overtake is for a place!!!!
I've always had the problem of pushing till the point that I crash, that does make me sound wreckless but it's not like that. You do need some self control tho, which is what I seem to lack even tho I know it's what I need!
I've been down the road quite a few times in the 5 years that I have ridden, gotta be at least 7 or 8 times now(you loose count after 4 times ) Last year 2 times, on the same track, day after the other . I have never crashed on a TD though, always been in a race, wanting to go faster, trying to catch someone or just pushing that little extra. It's a great feeling being in 4th catching the 3rd racer by a second a lap and then only being about 2 seconds behind an highsiding it just because you opened up the throttle a little to early, the whole crash seems like one big slow mo
Every single crash I have had has been opening the throttle too early, once at oulton in the wet, once again at oulton chasing jason. Throttle got stuck open at cadwell too which hurt a lot. Gone to a standard throttle this time instead of 1/8th turn might help. i hope
the R6 throttle is also quite short, not sure if it's a 1/8th throttle( just checked 1/6th, shortest oem throttle on bikes ), but not far off. I've got the robbymoto QAT 1/8, wouldn't want anything else. A 600 is a little more forgiving than a 750, so you might have more luck!
Yeah the 750 was a bit old and knackered tho so I reckon there won't be much between them apart from torque. The one that came on it was single cable and was sticking quite a bit, put a standard twin cable one on so fingers crossed. I just always forget to stand the bike up before I wind it on!! You got any videos of you on track? Could always use some pointers
check out my youtube channel, only a few, and most are a bit old and first time on the tracks, like aragon, cadwell spa francorchamps. Got 2 cameras from a sponsor to use this year, so will be using them a lot this year, starting next week in spain ;-) here is one of my favorites, aragon Aragon 2011 2 snelle ronden - YouTube
we were there with a german TD company and the times were put up every day and the groups were rearranged, I was 17th fastest from 120 people including some of the ten kate junior team ( michael van de mark now world supersport ) also dutch campions ( I'd say the top 6 or 7 were semi professionals ) fastest time was 1.59. We only rode 2 from the 3 days, so I missed one day, I reckon I cold have gotten in the 2.05's, but I'll never know. Off to monteblanco with FE next week and they are giving us transponders, so I can measure myself against the UK guys, I don't think anyone has ever been there before, so a good place to start
first time on a bike was in 2008 when I got my license, tried a trackday with some instruction at the end of 2009, during the winter I turned my 1999 R6 into a trackbike, then moved up to a blade at the start of 2010 and started doing sprint races. at the end of 2010 I tried an endurance race and was hooked on that
corner exit speed is probably the biggest place to pick up time coming out of a corner say at 80mph instead of 75mph means you can carry 5mph of speed onto a straight or up until the next corner, 5mph over say 200yrs adds up, or even over 1/2m.... sometimes you have to be willing to lose time at the entery to have maximum gains on the exit ( sorry if wording isn't right, can't think of the right word to use.... aarrrrgggg ) Set your gearing up for 2 corners where you can make the biggest time gain on longer straights or short bursts. I use a laptimer with gps and logging to sort this out ( best laptimer is the starlane imo ) we would spend hours in the evening at race meetings to see which rider was the fastest where on a track
I'd say its corner entry looking at my own laps corner exit speed follows automatically. First tried an endurance race last year and it's definitely more fun than sprint races.. More overtaking and team spirit.
