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Best lesson I ever had was road racing a YSR 50cc bike on a big track TWS. You could not make up for sucking in the turns with no power. You had to keep it pinned to mid turn because there was no HP to exit with. Corner speed is everything.
My first and most important piece I'll mention , is fitness. ( along with diet )
Fitness for the body , mechanic's for the bike. The body controls the bike , so if you don't have fitness in check ( or at least some what in check ) The best built bike on the planet , will not help.
From that point on.........you will want your bike setup different if you are NOT in shape , compared to if you ARE in shape. Does that make any sense to a lot of you? Because that is just the tip of the iceberg.
The good thing is , you can work on a lot of those things at the same time.
Settle down. Breathe. You already know how to ride the damn thing, it’s just a machine, that does whatever you tell it to do. Whether it be go slow, fast, brake now, or later, it doesn’t matter...., you are in control.....
Settle down, breathe, and ride. The more you do those three things, in that order, you will find your true inner racer...... enjoy, be competitive, and have fun most importantly. Be safe ?
Lastly in a rutted corner there is a time to sit and apply throttle. At this time you should be able to draw a line from your head through the seat and be in-line with the bike. Lots of "body english" in a heavily rutted corner isn't good. You'll pop out of the rut or fall into the corner.
Have fun.
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Come into a corner wide and carve into the corner early and avoid the ruts, can also be applied to arching sweepers or 90 degree corners into straightaways rather than corners - watching CP377 religiously.
Pit Row
2. If there's a gap jump you're rolling, don't coast into it, roll it as fast as possible. Approach the takeoff with enough speed to launch you into the next county, at the last possible moment lock up both brakes and skid up the jump face, if you do it right you won't get more than 7 or 8 inches of air, while you're in the air pin the throttle so when you land the spinning rear tire will rocket you forward. As you jump out of the gap try to fly far enough to get to the normal landing spot, if there's a photographer set up you might get lucky and get a picture where it looks like you actually cleared the whole gap.
Got that from Ryno and it made me 2 seconds a lap faster
Up until about 4-5 years ago, I had huge problems with depression and suicidal thoughts. Never any attempts, but I started noticing that it became a daily thought, and from a thought to a consideration, and from a consideration to trying to find a way to plan it out to where my family/friends wouldn't be as distraught.
I had maybe two friends that I could not really talk about it with, but I had one who had to deal with similar instances before. He said, "You just started riding again, right? If you're so ok with death, go push yourself on a bike. Take the risk of dying happy than dying sad and miserable. Die doing what you love, not what you hate. I don't want to lose anymore friends to suicide, be different and enjoy what's left of your life."
So with that, I started doing jumps I wouldn't normally try, hitting corners a bit faster. It actually made riding a lot funner because I felt like I was trying as much, I could comfortably do things before that would cause me to tense up.
Not sure how but life as a whole got way smoother and easier after that.
Less dark advice that made me faster? Bend legs, don't tense up your body, arms up, look ahead, go.
Breath, breath, breath, breath, breath, breath...
Slow down, practice proper technique over and over and over until it becomes muscle memory...the speed will come naturally after that.
Also after slowing down enough to turn, get completely off the back brake. Also in left hand corners shift up on the back brake. This keeps you off it and helps weight the outside peg.
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