First of all sorry but this is not a road report, so I hope I'm not getting flamed over it.
From Thai Visa Forum I meet a lot of good people who enjoy riding bikes, lot of them are easy going and fun to be with. Anyhow we decided to meet up for a track day to improve riding skills and hone up, unfortunately only three of us came. That was Simon, Trent and myself who meet up at Bira.
First of all me and Trent was hung over since we celebrated his birthday until 3 in the morning the previous day and we came about 1/2 hour late, then we struggled a bit finding the right entrance which was not that easy to find but we made it.
We started of slowly warming up the tires and getting our head around the track for a while, then we started to open up and gaining speed. We all found the first corner to be a bitch as it turns out to be a sloped curve, and it is not that obvious to find the line in it. The second curve, well it is not easy to find the line at all. The rest is pretty straightforward with nice apex, double apex and S curves, a good challenge.
On my bike I found the tires to really be unsafe when I slid on the front tire in a double apex, it was very sobering and I am glad I found it out in a controlled environment, due to that it was not and accident.
From riding the track a while I found myself seeking a good line, looking at other much better riders and learning from them to really working on my vision and improving the skills. The others pretty much felt the same way. Also tried out some emergency maneuvers like braking etc. And I am very glad I did, as I found the limits of the bike, myself and the tires.
We also had luck because some pro riders were there who helped us by advising on the more challenging parts of the track. After a pretty hard day we left to Pattaya and went bar hopping for the good of the riders, stinking sweat and oil it was impressive to still hear the "love you to much" and we had a lot of fun.
I got the itch of doing this again, and next time I'll post it here. It was an incredible learning experience and it was also a fantastic lot of fun doing it. Hopefully next time when I post it more will join as well.
Unfortunately due to having way to much fun, and learning a lot we all forgot to take pictures, next time we will
Cheers Bard
From Thai Visa Forum I meet a lot of good people who enjoy riding bikes, lot of them are easy going and fun to be with. Anyhow we decided to meet up for a track day to improve riding skills and hone up, unfortunately only three of us came. That was Simon, Trent and myself who meet up at Bira.
First of all me and Trent was hung over since we celebrated his birthday until 3 in the morning the previous day and we came about 1/2 hour late, then we struggled a bit finding the right entrance which was not that easy to find but we made it.
We started of slowly warming up the tires and getting our head around the track for a while, then we started to open up and gaining speed. We all found the first corner to be a bitch as it turns out to be a sloped curve, and it is not that obvious to find the line in it. The second curve, well it is not easy to find the line at all. The rest is pretty straightforward with nice apex, double apex and S curves, a good challenge.
On my bike I found the tires to really be unsafe when I slid on the front tire in a double apex, it was very sobering and I am glad I found it out in a controlled environment, due to that it was not and accident.
From riding the track a while I found myself seeking a good line, looking at other much better riders and learning from them to really working on my vision and improving the skills. The others pretty much felt the same way. Also tried out some emergency maneuvers like braking etc. And I am very glad I did, as I found the limits of the bike, myself and the tires.
We also had luck because some pro riders were there who helped us by advising on the more challenging parts of the track. After a pretty hard day we left to Pattaya and went bar hopping for the good of the riders, stinking sweat and oil it was impressive to still hear the "love you to much" and we had a lot of fun.
I got the itch of doing this again, and next time I'll post it here. It was an incredible learning experience and it was also a fantastic lot of fun doing it. Hopefully next time when I post it more will join as well.
Unfortunately due to having way to much fun, and learning a lot we all forgot to take pictures, next time we will
Cheers Bard