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11 hours ago, Jester_ said:
See you there next weekend?
If at all there is a chance I will try to make it, 👍
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1 hour ago, F4iguy said:
Looks like running the track in reverse (CCW).
Yes, I was lucky they Did that since I wanted to work on my left handers the most
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I just want to take a moment to thank @TimTheAzn and @Jester_ for pulling into track days after nearly 9 -10 yrs since last track day. Without tim making the day easy to sign up and join etc i would never have been able to join. Whats with these asian guys helping you to make your first track day easy - must be a culture thing. Hi ... How you doing.... let’s go for a track day ? ( @jbot ) Last year end on a cold fall day got to do one in PIRC. Wanted to do one more with you guys before i left But i couldnt. But i really enjoyed the day, less stressful and lot of fun all because you guys and big timmy and others where there. And i went ahead and did one more this summer here in NC and just wanted to share a brief write up. Even for this one, tim made it easy by arranging sign up all the way from ohio
short review of track day day I did before the blistering summer heat started. This first para for who ever dont want to read big wall of text:
I will never be a track junkie , will always enjoy street ride. I don’t have the competitive edge or aggressiveness or the desire for high velocity straights, but corners.... man corners I love them. And the big difference is i think i will slow way down in the streets and enjoy the destination and travel and leave the speed and adrenaline to the track where it was safer. Is track costly, repetitive and boring for a street touring fan, yes if you look at it that way. But if you look at it in a way where you pay speeding ticket money up front for a max speed licence and pushing your limit with as much protection as possible. Exorcism of your speed demon in a chapel meant for it. Big win
long version
The track : NCCar is all about smooth flat rounded ones. There are tricky ones like double apex decreasing ones and my favorite an almost 360 non stop circle. A very high horse power liter bike friendly track.
Covid difference: I can almost say this was perfect place to be for a covid time entertainment. every one is restricted to their own individual canopy spaced at least 10 feets apart and carrying your own food. The rider meeting was open space short and spread out. Few including me still wore a mask and plus the quintessential funny look due to that from few. Otherwise there is never a moment where you interact or have contact with others, except the bathrooms where you have to be careful.
The rider: The bike handled so beautifully that after couple warm up session I am literally passing everyone in novice without even trying. Esp on the outside of the long 360. (the only place where they allowed corner passing) Destroyed the pucks by the end of the day, again remember I am no track junkie and this technically first track day in a year and first time in this track in this bike. Still the bike gave me so much confidence and it’s so fluid. Body position is difficult compared to full sports bike but manageable. Race tuck and straight ways I will need suspension adjusted for me and a heavy oil mod for steering dampener. A set of adjustable rear set might help, I was able to improve my bad habit of toes sticking out a bit by the end of the day still not 100% confident in these rubber pegs and still dragging end of toe sliders.
The bike: Tires full grip from power cup2 front and Michelin GP rear. Pics of the tires at the end of the day attached. Ran a higher cold pressure of 31 33 and it still gripped well and didn’t get destroyed. No mechanical issue, heating never went above 4 bars. The small screen definitely helps me. Brakes never faded but I hardly used it except for the long straights. But thats mainly due to the track layout. Everywhere else it was almost throttle play to keep it smooth. QS works best in this high speed high rpm Environment. Flips through the corners Easy, transition in S turns is a breeze, late brake into corners inside other high power bike and still no panic and can make the corner without running wide. All in all, makes it enjoyable and not intimidating to do a track day.
Logistics: just a short word on this, bike is so light that this is the first bike I felt comfortable loading on to the back of truck. Very easy to just push it around and work with it. At the end of the day when your dead tired this was quite helpful.
Final verdict: this bike just went from 10/10 in my favorite list to 11/10. it made me love something I never thought I would like, ... track days. Now I am kind of hooked. Definitely this bike made it a very enjoyable experience. Will be making at least a handful of track days if schedule and budget allows.
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Last year I went to India. There was a village close by which mainly depended on farming for livelihood. Unfortunately suffering from drought and no rain for few years. They were drifting into hardship and asking for help. I drove by found a suitable location, pretty good road loop nearby. Chose a good weekend date and posted an OR epic ride right there and then. Told the villagers to be ready for divine intervention. And exactly on the date of ride it started raining.crops sprout famine abolished kids playing harvest booming and Everyone lived happily ever after.
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Maybe Justin’s old bike
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That’s pristine ... paristine and rare 👍
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57 minutes ago, Disclaimer said:
YOU swing both ways! 😘
Is the NUoSU thread still open somewhere?
Good to see all the faces pop up, Few more folks reply to this thread and we can declare OR is back in full swing. After all this whole fiasco was not in vein
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1 hour ago, 2talltim said:
And too be clear the original epic thread was not hidden for any of those reasons. The OP simply didn't want to be the ring leader of planning the event any longer for what ever reasons they had. Kinda simple as that I believe.
Is there a way for it to be merged below the new thread Muckles started? I know he loves to plan stuff like these. That way rest of the folks who replied in there get notified of new reply and such.
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I think what @Muckles was trying to say is people with really loose flexible inner and thick outer can break and squeeze into the OR circle and feel at home. I believe Muckles is one of them, most folks who skim through the threads won’t get the inside jokes and banter and overall feel of this forum. And hence hard to get new members. But... the big butt question is, just like anything in this world. Where do we draw the line... thin margin between over moderation and having relaxed easy fun, may be just have the intro thread visible to new members until they have 3 new post something like that, by then we can do our welcomes and stuff and then show them the brutal battle royal waiting for them.
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Not trying to stir the pot, and I did not get to read the full thread before it was closed so I don’t know what transpired in there that it deserve to be closed. So I’m not pro or against closing as I don’t have enough information. Just as a continuation of discussion, posting up my thoughts.
most forum esp OR is an eclectic group of folks coming together and sharing ideas / discussion / arguments etc
a thread and it’s further reply constitutes a conglomeration of ideas from various individuals. The whole thread takes a meaning of it own, has a value of its own. Thus the Value of whole thread with its replies takes a far more value than just the opening post, opening post is just what it is ...an opening , like some guy who walks into a hall full of people and saying “hey what’s up, how’s weather” The thread belongs to everyone who posted in there and even a bit to every member in forum who joined / logs in daily and reads these. They all have their own value in keeping this place rolling.
my humble opinion (which prolly doesn’t matter) is going forward in future let’s keep the threads open, if OP wishes to erase his post and thread mods can help him. Let the rest of the discussions which folks put effort to come up with ideas and took time to type it out stay here. If majority of thread is highly inflammable and pure toxic with no productive value what’s so ever, I agree closing and hiding makes sense. But for OR that’s a pretty high ceiling to touch. By now literally all of us know each other on personal basis and know exactly where the posts are coming from. From a funny angle or vicious Inner negative angle.
As for this thread the last I seen was all productive posts, esp a planing and involving thread with many folks who are usually silent coming forward to participate to bring together a ride. That should have stayed and the requested posts or dubious post could be edited out. Anyways I don’t know the specifics nor the technical difficulties in achieving that, genuinely trying to discuss pros and cons.
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You good panda, no worries. But Yes i can’t get any sleep thinking about this, someone explain
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4 hours ago, Jester_ said:
Would be cool to race at night, looks like fun. Here is a video from Saturday at nelson.
A Superbike expert
Dayum that was exciting 👍
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Thx for sharing B. Other than passing through, I missed out on exploring Kentucky all those years I was in Ohio. Missed out a lot from the pics.
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2 hours ago, 2talltim said:
Day away bump...bike is loaded and ready
You probably seen the radar in this area right, kinda mushy wet hit and miss rain every day. But up in the mountains it looks promising
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Don’t know if it’s true or not but my feeling was Honda was too proud and kept making motorcycles that it thought the world needed. They wanted to determine what was good for the rider. Made good stuff but never clicked and priced it to a premium point. The value of which you will only understand once you own it and ride it, never on paper Eg vfr1200 And thus it suffered
but recently I have a feeling Honda changed and started making bike what the people wanted, changed design language to fit current trend as well. Eg Cbr naked bike comparison from past generation to current. Also the whole bikes they started building based on current trend I assume. Prime eg new gold wing, put it right where it will eat away business from low weight Sport tourers as well as heavy weight long distance mile munchers. CRF 450 what the dual sport world was asking for long time. New Cbr 1000 with all the fancy gadgets and stuff, probably be the liter bike of the year. Albeit everything is still priced premium and people buy it as left over mostly
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Long ago I used to make these rides easy.... coz I never slept. Gas station fuel up for bike 5 hr energy drink for me. Even if fun Was not at all best good days of my life. Good thing I changed
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Skinny guy 3....2....1
you guys and your over rated twisty roads phshhhh 😑
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22 hours ago, TimTheAzn said:
Watch those feet! Dont wanna drag toe! That bike looks like a weapon.
Tim I think I talked to you about this, left side I have space to work on more to pull back, after every shift i kind of expect the next shift coming up and lazily keep the feet right there. But the right side trust me I already am on the ball of my feet, I am not exaggerating when I say this, I don’t if it’s my weird feet shape. From the ball of my feet to the tip of toe it’s 2.5 inches . Plus shoes are one size up I think. This weird feet helps me run like a gazelle when I play soccer 🤣 but the feet sticks out like a sore thumb when riding .
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Trailered it to gap for first time in life hehe and I would like to apologize to @MidgetTodd for making fun of him trailering and riding the gap all these years. This was a perfect family vacation with little bit of motorcycling added. I would wake up early and just few runs here and there the usual stuff, dragon skyway moonshiner etc, 4-5 hrs max and back in cabin and then family stuff by the time they are awake and ready to roll. So no exciting travel and routes for me. This worked well that family is happy to repeat this in future And never suspected I was having a ball, some speed limits were fudged ,laws bend, yellow lines dissected, RPM limits stretched, tires scrubbed edge to edge and heavy ear to ear grin intact. 🤙🏽🤙🏽 which is another plus 👍
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Extremely capable machine, balanced power weight handling. It’s hard to describe, jack of all trades. Good in tight stuff and fast stuff. But Not as flickable as super moto in very very tight stuff or not as fast as super sport in longest high rpm sweepers. kind of real good in both worlds but not the best. Can hussle twisty roads or take it to race track. First bike I bought new since on paper everything was perfect for what I wanted. Advanced electronics in a light weight package was my main search. Will be keeping this for a long time since I love it that much (plus depreciation will be killer) all other bikes I bought and sold used with minimal financial hit. It’s a KTM already established a relationship with local dealer by getting more than needed expensive first service done here also tire changes parts etc. More than likely will be needing there help sooner or later 🤣
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Did a quick trip to the smokies last week. Just wanted to do it when weather was nice and pretty much same time as our traditional June trip. Was riding solo everywhere and hence could stop for pics
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Let’s do it rick, meet at 172 and 9? 😝
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It’s just a pseudo persona he likes to project on here, in real life he is a professional likes to pre plan everything be prepared proactive pretty good guy who is pro earplug and partially nutty 🤣
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New to track day but still do street rides
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Thx UP, i could still see the rev counter light up. The video doesn’t pick it up. Sometimes I wish the speedo was not covered, just to review the speeds on Play back for learning points and comparisons etc. easiest way to get data without needing other apps and softwares etc