dammyneckhurts
New Member
You need to have a plan of exactly what are you going to do differently at what part of the track. In order to do something different you have to know exactly what you are doing now. You need specific reference points to give you this information, then before you go out for a session have a plan for how you are going to change things in relation to your reference points...braking, turn in etc...
We all like chasing a fast buddy....it's a blast...but unless you have your own "mental process" for each turn its hard to be consistanly fast when your buddy is gone, and as you get faster and faster it becomes more and more difficult to decrease lap times.
Another issue is many people have way too much bike, it has so much power they are too scared to keep the throttle pinned all the way down the straight up to the brake marker and then use the brakes to their max potential.....they let off...coast a bit....brake a bit...coast some more...brake a bit more and then finally enter the corner. Bottom line is that its just way too fast for their comfort zone.
For some the bike is killing the learning ability, if some of these people were on low power bikes it would be way easier for them to grasp the concept of full throttle up the the brake marker, max brakes ..trail braking into the corner with a higher entry speed etc.
Some previous posters make good points in this too much bike idea by advising people to go down the straights at partial throttle. It eliminates the holy shit factor. As Kieth Code says you only have so much brain space......if you are spending it all thinking "dam this is fast" you have nothing left to make a plan on how to improve your riding.
My 2 cents worth....
We all like chasing a fast buddy....it's a blast...but unless you have your own "mental process" for each turn its hard to be consistanly fast when your buddy is gone, and as you get faster and faster it becomes more and more difficult to decrease lap times.
Another issue is many people have way too much bike, it has so much power they are too scared to keep the throttle pinned all the way down the straight up to the brake marker and then use the brakes to their max potential.....they let off...coast a bit....brake a bit...coast some more...brake a bit more and then finally enter the corner. Bottom line is that its just way too fast for their comfort zone.
For some the bike is killing the learning ability, if some of these people were on low power bikes it would be way easier for them to grasp the concept of full throttle up the the brake marker, max brakes ..trail braking into the corner with a higher entry speed etc.
Some previous posters make good points in this too much bike idea by advising people to go down the straights at partial throttle. It eliminates the holy shit factor. As Kieth Code says you only have so much brain space......if you are spending it all thinking "dam this is fast" you have nothing left to make a plan on how to improve your riding.
My 2 cents worth....
