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Originally Posted by Topaz
^^ Interesting post. Not very promising for those who don't have decades of riding ahead of us, but interesting anyways.
I guess it depends too on how much risk one's willing to take on each corner. How often do you lay your bike down, @ DannoXYZ?
I have fun practicing on the parking lot as well, even if not to useful on the track. |
I’ve crashed twice in my 3-yrs of track riding. Once my 1st year from being too impatient in T2 @ Thunderhill and whacking throttle to 100% in middle of corner. Second time was 2nd year at Buttonwillow when guy on liter-bike blasted by me on straight, pulled over in front me and slammed on his brakes. It was at least 100m before my braking marker and I was still at 100% throttle. Luckily he was so close to me that I just rear-ended him and flew onto his bike and landed on him. Basically sat on him and his bike as we crashed.
I don’t think you have to crash to make progress. That’s why track is so much safer than doing things on streets. You can go 85-95% and make 0.1% improvements incrementally. I’m not saying he should go 110% faster and just toss his bike into corners. But maybe back off tiny bit on speed and trying to go faster. Work on a little more tip-in speed and a tiny bit more lean-angle each lap. Higher speeds and faster lap-times will happen as side effect of this practice. More on this later.