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IMHO MECSCC hit the nail on the head, David Hough's, "Proficient Motorcycling" is the most valuable book on theory you will read. I've read a couple, including Twist of the Wrist but they are aimed at improving your track times. Prof. Motor. is aimed at developing skills for safe street riding at the next level after MSF course. (Which is so important I keep flyers for it in the office to pass out to patients!) I took the msf course twice, (the second time to make sure my kids didn't miss any lessons). You would be shocked at how much you forget and by the time I did the msf the second time I had the advanced course and my first track day school also. Each is different. Standard street bike for a track day, perfect, just pick a shorter course where the top speed is less and issue. My friend did the course at Fontana, Calif. on a Legend and had no trouble but was annoyed by everyone passing him on the main straight. (Fontana is like Daytona, banking and straight from NASCAR and infield with total of 21 turns.) It was a great deal of fun, great for bragging rights and the instructors are soooo much faster that you will actually slow down on the street because you will realize that you are fast, but not that fast and what are you gonna prove anyway. My take?, read the book, practice the delayed apex and other strategies for safe street riding, take the advanced msf course, which you will find has a review of the basics from msf course, and by next year be looking for a track to do your first track day. Don't rush it but enjoy. Don't be afraid of the track days but I did wonder during the warm up if I would be able to keep up. It was never a problem but the pace is faster than the street. A lot faster. And the instructors are really great.
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