Lol thanks man. I had to get the knew out I was dragging toe slide and peg in some corners. Figured the knee being out a little further was safer :-)

The blue was cheap so I bought it. Half price cheap. And I'm cheap. Lol

 

track riding is great isnt it? try getting you shoulders down and off the bike some more and you toe problem will probably go away.

 

yeah man i loved it. i tried to convince the fiance to not get married next year and instead to let me get a track bike, she said to just go ahead and move out. looks like i might be getting a track bike sooner than i thought, lol.

getting the shoulders off will come with time. towards the end of the day i was getting down on every corner and was starting to get the hang of leaning my shoulders off aswell. i also found i was getting more comfortable and only letting half my *** get off the seat and tucking my knee in towards the bike more, which is likely why i was touching toe and peg. ill do the poor mans rear set mod and then work some more on body positioning at the next day. and man its addictive no doubt there

a shot of me mid day.


i was happy to have been able to get a knee down on my third lap of the first session. its something else thats for sure, i love it

 

some more shots, most of these were from later in the day, last couple sessions and what not.

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Nice pics and it sounds like you had a ball at your first event. Now that the excitement is out of the way, start thinking less about dragging your knee and more about form. I'll bet you still have a grin from ear to ear, huh?

Oh, and I hope you find another place to live. LOL

 

haha yeah man i was showing off the pucks to friends that came over yesterday. pretty sure im gonna frame them and hang them on my wall. not even kidding

form will come next, i wanted to get comfortable with my knee touching the ground first and now that i can slap the right knee down on command ill work on proper form. so thatll be on the next track day.

i told my fiance i want to put off our wedding for another year so i can buy a track bike, she told me to move out, so i guess im getting a track bike, lol.

i find im one of those guys who picks up on things pretty quick. i got on this bike never having been on a real bike before and got the jist of things very fast, within the first 2 months i was hanging off the seat pretty far, its been just over a year since i bought it and about 7500 km of riding and ive got a knee down, been ready to put it down for the last couple months just havent been able to on the street for fear of crashing. and on the third lap of the first session, after 2 warm up laps i finally touched my right knee. went from getting passed by everyone to doing alot of passing and chasing guys through the corners by the end of the day. i think im getting the hand of it. hopefully i get the form right and get better at left hand turns and ill be all set. this sure as hell wont be a cheap hobby, like i needed another one, lol.

on a sad note we had 2 crashes that day, one was a fella named mike, 09 daytona 675, track only bike, he came down the front straight into turn one too hot and crashed. we arent sure why, im thinking its because he put the 1/4 twist throttle on the bike and wasnt used to it, maybe grabbed too much throttle in the corner and low sided. regardless they had to recover his bike from the bottom of a hill 50 feet off the track, maybe even further than that. bike is finished, slider snapped a chunk of frame off, tank is dented bad, all the fairings are broken, rear set is broken. its pretty much turned into a paper weight. mike was out for a little while, they had to cut off his dainese 1 piece aswell to get him on the stretcher. came back mid day a little out of it but luckily he wasnt too hurt.

and my buddy i went with crashed around 1 pm on his 2010 daytona 675. just wasnt a triumph kind of day. he was chasing me for a lap, we had a bike get between us, and he had a low side on a corner that both of us had carried much more speed through that day. he ripped his spyke 1 piece on the arm and the bike made out good. fork slider took some damage, broke the right clip on, right rear set broke, ripped the race tail off, but that was really about it. the sliders did their job, the frame came out with no damage, hes a little sore, but all in all it was a good crash where not too much broke, and i have pictures and video of the crash to share











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-HHVsPtmc

 

What company were you riding with, and were you in a beginner or novice level group? Did they do much instruction with you?

 

novice group, and racer 5 hosted it. instructors were great, they rode around and gave us pointers. the one guy had me follow him early on to get my lines sorted out and gave me some body position pointers aswell. and they were available through out the day so if you needed some help theyd take you on the track and show you how to ride it and all that good stuff. my buddy with the white 675 was novice but should have been intermediate, but because of the small groups they only had novice and advanced groups running, and the other 675 that crashed was advanced group