Great idea for a thread and the responses already!
I remember first concerns were about passing tech
. So rode down to watch a track day or might have even been a CMRA or CCS race at MSRH to get some in person opinions. Was worried about the amount of tread in my street tires
.
Going to watch was helpful and something I would recommend as helps to see how day goes and things you may need to bring. I was also riding the bike to first several track days so needed to have that figured out and had my wife drive in car with some chairs and cooler.
On track first ohs’hit moment was hitting toe on a curb knocked my foot off the peg and took whole leg backwards. Was not fun but quick lesson on how to hold your feet!
Other first impression was hands going numb rayher quickly which meant holding on too tight to the bars. We were doing 30 min sessions back then and that gave lots of time to slowly build up pace which was nice but meant also needing to learn to use legs and not arms for holding on which was counter intuitive at first as well.
The other thing that group did I thought was helpful was a session without using any brakes. Just using engine to slow with down shifts.
This increased the level of corner entry speed quickly as were not doing more things other than focusing on the corner.
Next that was also helpful was a session where we would come down pitlane each lap and brake with a target ahead of us (actually was the instructor standing in the middle of road !
).
The idea was we had to stop at without front of bike bobbing back up as close we could to but not hitting him. This was good at working on the way to brake progressively harder at first and then trail it off to a point of not upsetting the bike and hit a target. We would move are staring point closer each time which also taught braking markers and also brake releasing makers. Whether we knew it at that time or not we were getting that ground work.
After couple sessions spent in this way things unlocked rather quickly afterwards.
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