Hi Guys,
Spent a
great weekend doing a level 1 and 2 advanced rider training and on the last session of the day I hooked up my iPhone for some footage. Not the greatest setup and a shame I wasn't able to get the speedo in the shot without losing the view, but if you were wanting to hear the Two Bros at howl turn your speakers up a bit.
The track itself is a private track, VERY short, tight and technical and as you will see it is mostly 2nd gear with 3rd only an option up the straight. I did short shift a couple of times up to 4th so I could practice hard braking and downshifting at the end of the straight, but 3rd was really it. Naturally the video gives no justice to the sense of speed I felt, nor just how hard I was pulling the mighty GTR up - I have to tell you, with tuition and instruction I was taking this bike to places I had NEVER taken it before. Oh and chicken strips, no sign of them, rode the rubber to its absolute limit.
If you like to give your 'sickle a bit of curry and you haven't had tuition before I highly recomend it. Spent the two days learning lots of theory about the mechanics, geometry and gyroscoptics behind what makes a bike do what it does, heaps about body positioning, using your core, bike positioning, counter steering (and how/why it works), trail braking, clipping points, judging distance and speed, and oh just so much stuff I will be lucky to process half of it.
p.s. both videos were rides that didn't use the clutch at all (with the exception of starting or coming to a full stop), which is why sometimes on the straight you will hear me miss a gear because I hadn't let the foot lever fully return
Clutchless downshifting coming to a corner, hard under brakes with my ass hanging out of the seat just felt so awesome when it came together (you can sometimes see me in the reflection of the display shifting back and forth).
http://youtu.be/HPD_Au3HLZE (clockwise, longer video)
http://youtu.be/-iIxdHLKITk (anti clockwise, shorter video)
