Thread: Your personal goals

Originally Posted by DJChyk

Truth be told, I prefer to undress him

What you do at night is yours.... but at the track make him behave or I will toss the thong on and blind you

Safety for everyone is a big goal!

Honestly, I'd like to better my 1:35.8 this season and I hope to do so with the body position lessons from Bwhip (I tried to put them in practice at NJ Motorsports Park last season).

One of my favorite things about our track days is that everyone is cool about lending bikes so I hope to get to ride some newer hardware, including Silver's 1000RR. He may have forgotten it, but he agreed to let me ride the bike .

And, as always, it's good to hang out with everyone and shoot the sh!t in a relaxed atmosphere!

Originally Posted by Richard636

Well I actually put some thought into this.

First and foremost I want to meet all you nice ppl, in person.

I think to make the next step in my track riding I'll need to work on 2 major things, learn proper body position and work on my braking. I'm not setting specific goals in regards to these two areas, but I'll be looking for lots of fedback and advice from everyone. As well, if someone would be kind enough to follow me around with a camera for a few laps so I can see just how bad/good i'm doing.

If I get my cam sorted I would be happy to (with Abtech permission to go out in that group of course) On braking I recommend you work on a nice progressive pull and release since in my opinion if you can do that smoothly your braking is good to go for what your future goals are (for instance if you go full brake to no brake while trailbraking things can get ugly fast)

New goal after looking at WERA pics... get WAY off the seat with my shoulder down and actually have NH/TAZ get evidence that it happened once

Originally Posted by SheepOfBlue

New goal after looking at WERA pics... get WAY off the seat with my shoulder down and actually have NH/TAZ get evidence that it happened once

The ground is down there somewhere.. you just have to feel for it. Reeaching..., ah, I felt contact!

Originally Posted by 08silvercbr

The ground is down there somewhere.. you just have to feel for it. Reeaching..., ah, I felt contact!

Don't confuse body position with dragging a knee. When I touch I pick it up some for clearance

Originally Posted by SheepOfBlue

Don't confuse body position with dragging a knee. When I touch I pick it up some for clearance

Ah, and here I thought you were just looking for a good place to graze.

Originally Posted by 08silvercbr

Ah, and here I thought you were just looking for a good place to graze.

Nope looking at the pictures at WERA I am getting similar lean angle to the guys I was running with I figure shifting the wool down and in will give me a huge edge

Goal for next year.. Brembo brakes and not to get out breaked in T1 by the B8! (but technically I did pass you on the straight after I got passed first ) OH, on for next year.. 165

Originally Posted by 08silvercbr

Goal for next year.. Brembo brakes and not to get out breaked in T1 by the B8! (but technically I did pass you on the straight after I got passed first ) OH, on for next year.. 165

165?

try 230... lbs that is.

Mission f'ing accomplished!!!
Got back home with as many bikes as I left with and in as many pieces.

I HAD A BLAST IN THE PROCESS.

Actually looked great out the One. On day one you were tentative. I think some clean time and the suspension tune made a world of difference because you had picked up a ton of pace by day #3

Originally Posted by SheepOfBlue

Actually looked great out the One. On day one you were tentative. I think some clean time and the suspension tune made a world of difference because you had picked up a ton of pace by day #3

The suspension did make an invaluable difference.
Additionally, it was not until day three that I realized that the digital manometer I had was malfunctioning. It was reading 31 PSI. When I used two other ones, they both came back with 12 PSI. So I had been running with the wrong pressure for two days. That and the suspension being set much better, made a humongous difference.
Thanks to Brian W for the the suspension clinic and advice.
Thanks to Dave S for putting it together.
Thanks to Brian F for letting me borrow his tools.

Originally Posted by Shenders1

12 psi on the Aprilia??

Yeah, on the Aprilia and the CBR. I thought I was running them at 31 PSI but they were much lower. I triple checked against two different manometers. One I borrowed from JetBdude and a second one I had from a bicycle pump.