Trackday vid from infineon. Had an interesting day at Infineon. After the second session, was told to GTFO of C group and forced bump to B group. My computer wouldn’t turn on even though the battery has been fully charged since last night, so only vid on the second C group session. On the 3rd lap of the next to last session, proceeded to lowside on T11… First crash on the track… Luckily, the damage is cosmetic and minor.
This is the avi dump of the quicktime movie… the quicktime movie has way better quality, but you’d have to upgrade your quicktime to quicktime pro, which sucks. The quality is better if you just watch it from veoh.
T11 is a slow, tight right hander going into the front straight. off track around T11 is pretty spacious so it’s kind of a runnoff, but you don’t want to be out of control in that area, since it’s all kwall. As far as the streets, i don’t push it on the streets anymore like i used to. I’m more sedate in the twisties and slower. Ironic.
This is so awesome. I hope to go to the track someday to see how it feels. You guys are so right about speeding on the track and not on the streets. The track is a controlled environment, the streets… you take your hand off the handle bar to scratch your butt and then something appears out of nowhere.
A bit off topic, but in the video, why does the sun has a black dot in the middle?
Not a clue. Might be it’s the brightest part of the sun and the camera can’t process it. As far as the track goes, it’s definately the place to learn first hand… not just about riding, but about how a motorcycle works and why it reacts the way it does.
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