My First Trackday

[AMBy]

Nice pics Amby!!


Try turning the handles a little more to get that knee down. :

You never turn the handles on a motorcycle....biggest misconception about riding. You actually push the bars...whichever way you push is the way the bike leans which in turn gets it lower....

You are not the first person that has said that to me and I always chuckle a bit....It is one of those things that is hard to understand unless you are actually on a motorcycle.

I am getting there though....my first day i had a problem with leaning too much....and almost dragging pegs and other hard parts...you do that and you get yourself in trouble.

 

[Blitty]

Lol. I have no idea. I just copied what I saw your buddy post on fb. That would be cool if you figure out how to do it that though....especially with the sparklers!

 

[senco78]

cool, my brother used ride tracks in North GA.
but he got married and sold his bike.
they used to also ride "Deals Gap" in North Carolina
318 turns in 11 miles with cliffs off the side of the road

 

[AMBy]

Lol. I have no idea. I just copied what I saw your buddy post on fb. That would be cool if you figure out how to do it that though....especially with the sparklers!

haha yeah my buddy doesn't know what he is talking about... oh well.

Yeah the sparkers are cool but unfortunately they don't allow them at any trackday events. Too much of a distraction to the other riders is their reasoning..at least I think so.

 

[AMBy]

cool, my brother used ride tracks in North GA.
but he got married and sold his bike.
they used to also ride "Deals Gap" in North Carolina
318 turns in 11 miles with cliffs off the side of the road

I am guessing one of the tracks he went to a lot in GA is Road America. I hear that place is one of the best in the country. I would love to make it down at some point but it is so far away.

I have a lot of friends that head to Deals Gap at least once or twice a year. I think it looks awesome and would love to go sometime but I don't know. Mountain on one side and cliff on the other...seems like too much of a risk involved for my liking. Makes more sense to stick to tracks..

 

[Saulty]

Amby is called Road Atlanta. It's 15 min from my house.

http://roadatlanta.com/

 

[AMBy]

Amby is called Road Atlanta. It's 15 min from my house.

http://roadatlanta.com/

Thats what I meant...road American is up in Wisconsin

 

[AMBy]

Did another Trackday this past weekend....cool thing is that pictures were taken at one of the same turns as previous so you can see the progress I am making......I am getting more confident and definitely much faster.

 

[roguejuror]

How much you pay for using the track?

 

[AMBy]

How much you pay for using the track?

A single track day can cost anywhere from 100-220 for the entire day. You get about 7 20 minute sessions.....Sometimes more depending on how many people are wrecking on a given day and they have to clean up the track....

 

[kato]

cool amby, be safe yet reckless

 

[roguejuror]

200 bucks not bad at all

safe yet reckless

i like that

 

[Bread]

Awesome man. Keep us posted :

 

[Archie]

now this guy could bike!

 

[MrX]

Oh, man, that looks fun.

 

[Matty]

Nice pics Ambay! If I ever do try riding one day (and I want to), track days would be all I'd do. Seems much safer than riding around lunatic car drivers.

 

[kato]

does amby still do this?

 

[Matty]

Blitty said he does.

Going to sign up for a racing class next year. http://www.fastridingschool.com/index3.html