Saturday Fun Day

As the time/lap bug bites you that is when trail braking will shave off a few seconds by entering the corners faster and exiting fastererrrrrrrr

Hope you have a great day.

Rick

So it begins.

First session complete. Have a lot of work to do lol

Lunch break . Starting the lap timer after lunch, I wanna know where I’m at. Tire looks better.

Daytona is amazing!

Bumped to intermediate after lunch. Wahoo

Tires holding up pretty nicely!

So here's my write up, videos are loading.

A day of firsts:
First Track day
First time booger a tire
First time dragging knee when not trying to, surprised me actually.
First time passing on a track (oh so fun)
First time having a rider bump into me !! (thankfully our legs touched and there was zero damage)
First time running of a race track (lap after the bump, at the end of the day, fatigue is exactly why, I quite for the day after that)
First time being told I'm leaning a bike too far lmao
First time spinning up 2nd gear on corner exit and not letting off, just letting it spin and grabbing 3rd and taking off.... epic feeling!
First time backing in a sportbike at over 110mph!
Got bumped to intermediate after 3 session

I have video, but I kept forgetting to turn on the front GoPro so early morning is all tail cam action. Sadly, I'd massively improved my body position later in the day, but the tail GoPro was full

If you've any inclination to increase your skill set on a motorcycle, do a trackday, nothing has advanced my skills further than today did, nothing....

Pics of tires at end of day. For a set of tires I paid $100 for, they've gone almost 4k miles, a trackday with respectable nooby times, and they still look pretty **** good. Bridgestone is definitely my favorite brand of tire now.

More boogers on the right because i'm not getting to the edge of the tire and rubbing them off. The track is a little left hand biased, no fast right hand sweepers, but a big very fast left. I can definitively say, very very few people will "outride" the Bridgestone BT016pro on the street lmao, they turn into glue when you get them hot. I was riding with a good skill level buffer, not charging corners, not trying to drag knee, just good fun, fast paced, safe riding. I'm sure if I go back I'll cut 5+ seconds off my time on better tires.

Some points of reference:
1000cc Track record 1:38
600cc Track record: 1:40
Fastest "fast group" guy today 1:45
Fast bro on a GSXR 750 with Dunlop Q4s: 2:00 flat, 1 lap of 1:55 late in the day.

Started the day following an instructor to learn the line times were 2:48 or so.
Second session without instructor in my way 2:22-2:28.
4th and 5th session I was turning consistent, relaxed, and confident 2:15s consistently and a 2:23 inlap (first lap in with cold tires, always hold back some).
6th session I was running 2:14s, but had a collision with another rider, then my head was all fubar, went out and was on a much faster paced lap, probably a 2:10 or slightly under, and ran wide because I was tired and still a little rattled from the collision. Called it a day after that, too many "almosts" were happening for me at that point.