Triumphrat

TB-T100 · 06-15-2007

Yesterday, my beloved Bonnie got to spend roaming around a professional race track, with green me on it. I recently enrolled in a bikers-skills-improvement course. In my neck of the wood (Norway) there is a Senior Motorcycle Club (for those over 40) that organizes courses. Courses are open for everybody, and include a set of skill-enhancing exercises. It is all supervised by trained instructors and participants get individual feedback on their performance. The final day is spent at a race track.

I can truly recommend everybody to participate in courses. It certainly helped me to get a better appreciation for the way my bike handles.

Ride safe, and enjoy it!

PS This topic should have been named "Day at the races" (one of the best Queen albums ever), but that could have been confusing.

PPS It is probably not neccessary to mention that my bike was the only one that you could see more chrome and metal on than plastic. Although some of the others were also nice. Each according to his taste :-)

SpeedyPete · 06-15-2007

Hey good on ya TB.

I'm scheduled for my first track day at the end of June. Caution being the better part of valor I'm renting a 600cc race bike and not riding the bonnie on the first time out.

If I go to a track again, I would consider taking the bonnie but I'm a bit wary of the tech inspection process and would like to see it first hand before trying with the bonnie. I know others have taken the bonnie out to the track with no problems so why not me?

Anyway, I'll let you know how I do.

P

Airboss · 06-15-2007

Sounds like a blast! I'm a bit jealous! Do you have any pics of you running your bike around this track? I'd like to see that!

Cheers!

TB-T100 · 06-15-2007

Should be no problem riding a Bonnie round the track. With a little "saddle-shifting" you can go pretty fast around the corners. As I got used to how fast she can corner the footpeg touched the ground (a couple of times).

Also the feel when you come out of a corner and use the torque to accelerate is awesome. Don't need to do a lot of shifting, like the plastic-rocket crowd does.

Sorry, no photos. I went there alone (more than an hour drive away) and didn't know anybody else there. Would be cool though :-) Think maybe next time I will try to organize something.