TimTheAzn

Film will help your riding. Having others view and critique the videos help. I do this and it has helped immensely. You always think your hitting the "X" board, or coming off the brake at the right time, etc but the camera doesn't lie hahaha. Ideally you'll have it so you can see your right hand on/reach/go for/roll off of the brake lever. That way you know when you go to the brake and come off of it. Idk what I regretted more, getting a lap timer and proving how slow I am, or filming my riding, to see how slow I am. I can see just enough of my right hand to know when I go to and come off of the brake. Can see my tach to know what gear I'm in. (I know PIRC well enough now to know where my RPM's should be if I'm in the correct gear)

You gotta take the bikes with the endurance tanks!

No one is going to look out for you but yourself in these situations. I'm glad you are doing what you need to do to make yourself happy!

Those laps were measured in hours

I don't see much neutral throttle on that off-camber left after china beach... trailing in and then back on the gas. May sound like that on the video hes at neutral throttle but I know Dan is trailing into there, off brake when he gets direction then GASSSSS Ideally, there should be no neutral throttle anywhere. (All of us do it to a degree at our level.) This is perfect study material Dan posted for literbike riders.

"There are varying levels of how much you need to slow and varying "degrees" of direction which would get you out of the corner efficiently". Excluding things like kinks where you may not have to brake at all (like the one at Mid O). I'll use an example like yours when you said, " I'm not going to square off my corners if I'm just going to be slowing even more for another turn right after the initial one." Coming into China Beach at Mid Ohio. Yea, the line is to kinda blow the corner so you carry more speed on entry. You can drop more time with that fast entry and kinda blowing that apex than you can drop trying to go into that next off camber left hander fast. T5 is a slow corner, you must respect the slowest part of any corner and you must respect that slow corners are, well, slow corners. BUT, you still needed to slow and get direction in t4 to setup t5's entry. If you set direction up early enough, you get on the gas between 4-5 and trail into 5 yadda yadda. You can only get on the gas there if you have direction, if you don't your still trying to find direction. All else the same, who is going around the track faster, the guy that doesn't get direction out of 4 and cant get on the gas for the additional 1-2 seconds between 4 and 5 or a guy that gets direction out of 4 early and is able to get on the gas between 4-5? You need proper direction out of any given corner. Really, you need to do this on any bike, but liters especially as they have more power you need to put down and getting pointed means you can begin to stand the bike up and driveeeeee. My point: To go fast you need throttle, wide open throttle. You need to do this as long as possible around any given track. To get to wide open you must start to open the throttle. Common sense is, the faster you get to wide open, the longer time you'll be at wide open. To start to open the throttle you must be pointed the right way (aka direction). Or you'll have to back off the throttle to get better direction and this will murder your drive. You can't have proper direction early without a proper entry. In the liter bikes case, the best way to do this is to get it "stopped" and "pointed".

Any corner requires a change in direction. An efficient change of direction requires you to get your bikes slowed so it can be pointed correctly for exit so you can be on the gas as fast as you can (so you can WOT as long as you possibly can round any give track.) To get any bike especially a liter bike to get direction is to properly slow it so you have the ability to point it faster than anyone else. Meaning you can begin your drive sooner. Once you have direction you can begin to stand the bike up and apply more throttle. There are varying levels of how much you need to slow and varying "degrees" of direction which would get you out of the corner efficiently, so yes that part depends on the corner. All corners require getting a bike at the correct speed to get the correct direction. However minute the inputs may be.

Gotta keep that front wheel on the ground but lets be real, people better than you and I will still out-drive us on one wheel. If you get slowed and pointed correctly for a liter-bike exit, you should be able to still get a good drive if your front is floating or not. I don't need to tell you that's where the money is made riding a liter, getting slowed, pointed, back to WOT asap. What is this thing called corner speed? PIRC's surface is sublime on or off line. When the hell is that daytona rebuild going to be finished?

Big guys can get drives on smaller guys at our level every time if you got your bike pointed for exit properly. Happens to me with guys on 1k's all the fuck'n time. Alternatively there are times (not really anymore since the bump) where I got drives on bigger bikes (600/1000) on my sv and they didn't think about coming around me until after the first kink at PIRC, where they had just enough roll speed to get in front of me and then park it through the second kink into the carousel. But that was in intermediate, no one plays that game in advanced.

I think most of the memories of riding with Tony is that exact memory.

I don't think either of your kids are quite at the age where they start realizing their parents were right..... about everything. When that day comes, they will be eating humble pie until they work up the courage to pick up the phone or come see you in person to tell you "you were right...... about everything." I had that moment, I think most kids raised right do.

Or someone is getting a better drive on someone else

I have an A*'s back protector. I like the idea of a chest protector but I plan on going to an air vest or an airbag suit in the future. Neither will replace a back protector but could replace the need for chest/neck/protection from a system like you mentioned. However, the air vest didn't save @blue03636's collar bone at Mid Ohio in 2016. Probably one of the more broken bones in our sport and I don't see CE armor really saving that break. I'm not an engineer but in my mind air (vest or suit) has a better chance of saving a collar bone than CE armor. But that's coming from the logic of CE armor is harder than "air". So take that for what you will. None of the options are going to get your internal temps down . The vest will save you the potential issue of fitting inside your suit as it goes on the outside.

I know @jhughes will have a very clean daytona for sale with all the goodies come spring.

My knee's have been cracking and popping for about a year now. Sometimes with mild pain. To the point where I don't really weight train my legs anymore, I don't want my knees to blow out. I do a lot more cardio now, than I used to. Its just rowing, elliptical, and bikes along with some higher rep stuff. I used to try and bulk during the winter.

Well done, Jim. "And Jacob Hawkins is here...........he is not......"

Hows that legislative aid tho....

Interesting play getting a handy in the hearing room, this could discredit your testimony, or make it that much stronger in the person's eyes. Example of risky tactic:

What did you eat?

What a dumb name holy shit. At least Kanye and Kim Kardashian used a word that's actually in the dictionary.

99% of me is thinking this is a troll. But for the sake of the exercise, PM me if you are actually serious about wanting to do a track day next year, if you think youre up to it.

Hey John, Welcome to OR! Lot's of us here ride on-track only and even more go between the street and track. This is a good time of the season to browse around, just about every track day organization is offering some kind of deal. We posted up about some of them here: Let me know if you have any interest in joining N2 for some track days. I'll be able to get you taken care of.

I'll text you.

"I may be your coach next year" is not an indication of me holding the current status of control rider it was more of a joke than anything.