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Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:30 pm
by deviant
...going round and round in circles on a ZXR :smt003

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Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:34 pm
by rene
i've got a £100 credit for a tackday really need to get it book why this weather is so good!

What group do you run in? take it you had a good time!

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:38 pm
by deviant
rene wrote:i've got a £100 credit for a tackday really need to get it book why this weather is so good!

What group do you run in? take it you had a good time!
first time out on track. novices at anglesey with no limits. arranged through the performance bikes mag forum - we basically took over the novice group.

and did I enjoy it? hell yeah!

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:53 pm
by rene
i love riding on track find it much more rewarding than road riding! no monkeys getting in the way all the time! Would be even more fun if somone would do them with me lol

Looks like you're quite fast for the noice group? i got moved up to inters on my first day what was even better having poeple who i had to push to keep up with

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:03 pm
by deviant
nah, that photo flatters me - there's a lot of long corners at anglesey that give you loads of chance to wind it up and lean it right over. I was probably somewhere in the middle of the group speed wise, although I got faster all day. I'm rubbish at picking braking points - always way too early - and going from braking to tipping it in.

Still it's a good excuse to do some more trackdays to practice eh?

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:32 pm
by RedexRobB
Looking good mate, what seat unit is that?

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:03 pm
by deviant
CBR6RR, I think 04-05.

It's an ok-ish fit, and cheaper than a ZXR one. I have plans for it though.

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:18 pm
by jake
nice pix, looks like the banked hairpin?
I find it quite hard there with breaking points, there isint many things on the side of the track you can use as markers there yet, hopefully they will put some stuff in as they progress with the track.

that banked hairpin, i always find i break to much, then put it on its side to find out that i could be going 30mph faster! its a fast corner of a great track.

havent been there this year, but racing there on the b/holiday monday in 2 weeks, lookin forward to it.

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:23 pm
by deviant
I'm fairly sure that pic was taken at Peel at the top of the hill.

Absolutely agree about the complete lack of braking markers and about tipping into the hairpin waaay to slow.

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:47 pm
by jake
ahh, now that is probs my fav corner of the track, great view of the sea coming down the hill towards the corkscrew

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:20 am
by deviant
there's a view of the sea? I was too busy trying to figure out where to brake for the corkscrew!

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:32 pm
by Caz
nice pic!

Re: Fridays are best spent...

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:47 am
by Gemini
nah mate, fridays are best spent.........











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oh yeah!!!! :smt004

btw, thats not me is the pic, my hair is much longer! :smt005

gem