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Riding Skills Series: Overtaking Made Easy

Learn about overtaking the proper way.With the ever-narrowing gap between modern production sportbikes and actual racing machines, it's only natural that noncompetitive, open track days are gaining widespread popularity. Not so long ago, the thrill of experiencing the unbridled freedom of an open racetrack came only after earning that right by becoming a racer. This entailed the completion of a novice race school and then slapping a set of competition numbers on your bike to do battle with your inexperienced yet adrenaline-charged peers. The time-honored novice racer rite of passage is made up of varying percentages of excitement and sheer terror that is best experienced in your early years before realizing your own mortality.


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