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phil675 said:
I did a trackday back in April and I'm glad I didn't buy a new suit because I haven't managed to do another one since!

I scoured eBay for days and managed to get an old (90s by the looks of it) Dainese suit for £80 which did the job fine. It's a 2 piece, I tend to wear the trousers and a textile jacket on the road. If you will get a lot of use out of it then fair enough but I didn't want to spend £350+ on something I would use maybe 4 times a year.
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I told the guys at work and they looked at me like I was crazy buying new. These guys have dedicated r6 track bikes fully kitted and tuned for track days, and they both eBayed their suits.

One of them has a spare 54 two piece which zips together, if it fits, he said I could borrow it for the track day!

How did you find the day itself? My only concern is that I ride a SM, so do a crap load of engine braking when going into corners, kicking it down and sliding the back in. Not sure how this will translate to a track.
 
Some people just don't even think about looking, I usually work on the basis that if a car is following closely to the one in front, a) they're a tool and b) you need to presume they will pull out on you so leave loads of room and be ready to send it on.
 
misterjingo said:
How did you find the day itself? My only concern is that I ride a SM, so do a crap load of engine braking when going into corners, kicking it down and sliding the back in. Not sure how this will translate to a track.
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Hmm well I was on an SV650 in the novice group at Bedford, I was really nervous until I got on track and found it to be a great experience. Plenty of people on much faster bikes not really pushing that hard until the long straight.

Nobody is racing so don't worry about going too slow. There was a guy on a KTM390 that got past me a few times although he did highside :p Take food and water.

When you say sliding the back in, that may be frowned upon, the briefing guy said no wheelies or skids, but perhaps that just means no being a prat. Somebody else might know the ins and outs.
 
T1Cybernetic said:
Bloody hell, Just seen this = https://www.facebook.com/tom.t.casey/posts/1012297068884240?pnref=story
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Poor riding form by the chap on the bike also though.

Sat literally touching his rear offside quarter before the car driver started his overtake. Neither indicated from what I can tell from the poor quality footage. The car sitting so close to the slower vehicle in front was a screaming warning sign that he was likely considering an overtake.

Might have fared better if he had moved out into the opposing lane in good time and started to accelerate past rather than the rapid swing out maneuver he did perform.

Unfortunately the biker always comes off worse. :/
 
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It was poor riding/driving all round but I can't beleive the guy in the car didn't stop, how can you drive off with no idea if the guys dead or not!?
 
Always risky overtaking when there is enough space in the oncoming lane for a car to also overtake.

Best to make a lot of noise and gun it past giving plenty of space.

Same when in a fast car and you want to go past multiple people, always the risk of someone pulling out without looking.
 
The Facebook comments are funny, none of them probably don't ride a bike yet feel they know enough to comment on how poor the car driver is, forgetting the bikes mistakes too.
 
To be fair it's exactly the same in the bike groups, people are far too quick to decide bikers are always the victims just because we'll almost always come off worse.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Many people (including myself at times) have a habit of taking bends they know, as they ride them often, at too fast of a speed. The maximum speed possible physically around the bend (machine, rider ability) is a much different thing to an appropriate speed.
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This! And thats how I have ended up part bionic, you could go around your favourite roads a thousand times with no problems but the one time there is something around the corner.... its game over.
My days of flying around blind corners are long gone, if the people I ride with want to do that then fine, I catch up no problem after anyway :p ;)
 
tom_e said:
Everyone dropped anchor and I was literally a foot or 2 too close, got on the brakes but didn't stop quite soon enough so ended up with my back end in the air and my screen squashed up against this guys bumper. Cracked my screen and a tiny bit of paint transfer from my nose cone on his bumper so I got off very lucky although I'm now aching after having 200kg of bike land on my leg.

Guy was a biker himself and could see I wasn't nailing it or jammed up his arse I was just a little too close obviously.

Oh well we live and learn, screens already replaced and scuff has polished out. Just waiting for the beer to ease my leg now!

I'm definitely coming up fast on fireskull levels of crash test dummy at this rate :o :D
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Ooops, I think you've overtaken me now mate :p
Glad you are ok though.
 
I'm still not bionic though :(

I need to stop riding on ice that would have left me with the white van man trying to squash me and last night as my only incidents :o
 
Just under 2 years and around 25k miles, so my drops to time riding ratio is a little high for my liking!!
 
I think in the first two years I was on two, maybe one, same as your latest one, new to the SV going to college and guy in front brakes sharply I grabbed the front brake and it was a bit damp down I went.
Im not sure this was within 2 years though but also binned the 750 on a roundabout, and surprisingly for once I wasn't going for knee down, its a big truck route to the motorway so I'm going with something on the road.... :p
 
In the 2 years I've been on big bikes I've had one off. Guy entered the roundabout without looking while I was lent over...no where to go but down.
 
Fireskull said:
This! And thats how I have ended up part bionic, you could go around your favourite roads a thousand times with no problems but the one time there is something around the corner.... its game over.
My days of flying around blind corners are long gone, if the people I ride with want to do that then fine, I catch up no problem after anyway :p ;)
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This. There's a fantastic corner near my work that you can take at speed, it's single one way but blind and has railings along it, so messing it up wouldn't be a good idea.

I used to lean in and blast around it, one day some guy decided to jump the railings and cross right after the apex. I was leaning in and only saw him in the road after I'd rounded the corner. The guy, rather than stop, tried to run across the road. I braked which brought the bike up, and it headed straight towards him. I must have missed him by an inch or two!

I've been more careful since then :D.
 
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