All in the rider...

[OreoGaborio]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Ah but again that comment was made AFTER your rude response to my question... anyway,who really cares?

MY rude response???? You mean this one?

Originally Posted by OreoGaborio

Using the camera angle I used, it's tough to tell just how far I'm hanging off the bike. Compared to most track-day attendees I'm hanging off like a monkey. Put a less experienced rider on my bike w/ this camera & their chin & shoulders would probably never leave the field of view.

With that said, you make a good point... I'm NOT hanging off that far... you don't have to hang off all that much for it to be incredibly beneficial. Get your shoulder over your gas cap, your chin pointing through the turn & your ass 1/2 off the seat like I'm doing & you're doin pretty good.

Anyway, how far I was hanging off wasn't the point of the video... the things I was trying to demonstrate were listed in the first post.

Taking into consideration that this post came right after your "Um Pete,you don't seem to get that far off the bike." comment, I thought my response was about as rude as sending you a dozen roses.



Now please read the following with an open mind, as I kinda sorta have a little bit of experience "reading" riders' attitudes when it comes to riding on the street & track and as such I've kinda developed a sickeningly accurate sense of picking out the guys (and girls, too) who are most likely to crash on a given track day.... The riders w/ chips, lumps, or whatever you want to call it, that have something to prove (whether it be to themselves or someone else), as well as an urge to "shut some people up" on the track are more often than not the ones that end up taking a big dose of their own medicine.

Please re-think your entire approach/mindset should you ever decide to return to the track... it sounds to me as though you've got a lot of mis-directed emotions going on.