Can I please get a link to where you purchased those. lol
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A frickin' loaf of bread. I can't do it. Put it in my pack, it's squished. Strap it to the seat. Umm. No. However..... Next time I want to bring a futon home, that's the trunk I'm looking at!You're just jealous because you can't ride to the store and come home with two twelve packs of the bottled beer of your choice.:Flip:
Here's a couple from my first track day. Body positioning is far from ideal, but I'm pleased for being the first time actually getting some lean on. I believe I've already corrected my foot placement, that toe is really hanging out there.
Hopefully my next set from last weekend will show some improvement.
Hopefully my next set from last weekend will show some improvement.
Very nice. You're not far off. A few tweaks here and there. As a matter of fact, that first pic from behind your upper body is very good. The spine is nice and aligned with the centerline of the bike. Feet, like you mentioned could use a bit of work and your body overall could be a bit lower, but not bad at all. I've seen pros with far worse form than that. lol. There's always room for improvement. Is this a session track day with different groups? (skill levels)
I'd say outside knee tighter, elbows in, head lower and more toward where the mirror would be. Also, your inside knee seems pretty extended for the angle your at, but like JK said. Tweaks. Looking pretty good, man!
I didn't know about the toe-pointing. What's up with that?
Thanks for the kind words.
One other thing I noticed from other pictures is that I need to get my gopro suction mount off my tank, its restricting me from getting tucked on the straights. I actually hit my head a few times on the straights.
Jon-
This was with STT, which does split you up into advanced, intermediate, and novice, and then novice is split into like 5 groups of 5 throughout the morning to teach you certain skills. The CR's are very knowledgeable and really enjoy helping.
It actually felt this last weekend that I may have been getting my butt to far off. Felt like I was sitting on my thigh. I need to concentrate more on my arms and shoulders to get my chest on the tank and inside should behind my ear.
buzz-
One thing they teach is to get off the bike more than what you need, that way when you do get faster or the bike slips, you are already comfortable getting off the bike. I was also trying to find the ground with my knee. I actually did drag my knee a few times this last weekend.
If you let your foot pointed off the peg to much, you're just asking to drag it on the ground, and that could throw you off.
Detrich
This is the first time I've seen photos of myself actually riding. I think they are extremely helpful, but you pay a good penny for them too.
One other thing I noticed from other pictures is that I need to get my gopro suction mount off my tank, its restricting me from getting tucked on the straights. I actually hit my head a few times on the straights.
Jon-
This was with STT, which does split you up into advanced, intermediate, and novice, and then novice is split into like 5 groups of 5 throughout the morning to teach you certain skills. The CR's are very knowledgeable and really enjoy helping.
It actually felt this last weekend that I may have been getting my butt to far off. Felt like I was sitting on my thigh. I need to concentrate more on my arms and shoulders to get my chest on the tank and inside should behind my ear.
buzz-
One thing they teach is to get off the bike more than what you need, that way when you do get faster or the bike slips, you are already comfortable getting off the bike. I was also trying to find the ground with my knee.
I actually did drag my knee a few times this last weekend.If you let your foot pointed off the peg to much, you're just asking to drag it on the ground, and that could throw you off.
Detrich
This is the first time I've seen photos of myself actually riding. I think they are extremely helpful, but you pay a good penny for them too.
That's what I mean. I haven't heard the reason behind pointing your toe out and down like your doing. Keeping in mind I fight to keep my inside knee in, since I've no pucks. When the knee does drop, what's the benefit of pointing your toes out and down? Also, you've only your heel on the peg, and it's pointed in towards the side of the bike. The rest of your foot is at such an extreme, downward angle, it seems as though you're trying to touch toe to pavement.
You mentioned that it was your "corrected" foot position. I've seen GP riders do the same. I'm on the endless quest for the perfect form, and I just don't know the purpose of pointing your toe down so drastically. So I'm very curious as to the reasoning behind it.
DakinechicK
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Hott.
I would say thats all, but I do notice your elbows way out... tuck those suckers in! Good job though on your first track day. Looks like you had a blast!! Hope you learned lots.
Great pics!!
Working on your feet is actually one of the hardest things to work on. Largely because what your inside and outside foot are doing are different. And just like anything some riders have different styles. The main thing you're trying to do with the inside foot is keep it off the floor. Boots have toe sliders for a reason. But you don't want to have to used them if you can help it. With the inside foot, you normally want to be on the ball of your foot and not so much point the toes down, but point them in toward the inside of the bike and actually lean the foot over so that really only the outside edge of your boot is in contact with the peg. This kind of naturally happens when you stick that inside leg out. Buzz, since you're not extending your inside leg, you're probably not experiencing this at all. You can kind of see it in this pic I cropped down to just my inside foot.
You can see the space between the inside of my foot and the peg. The outside foot, you generally want to be on the ball of your foot again, and by pressing down with the ball of your foot, your toe will naturally point down a little, helping the outside knee lock into place on the tank. This one you can see the outside toe pointing down, but it's only like that to put weight on the outside peg and lock into the tank.
Some riders will actually move their outside foot forward on the peg and hook the heal of their boot onto the peg as leverage. MotoGP riders almost all do this. That's one of the things new riders tend to get confused over. They hear "ride on the balls of your feet" all the time, but see pictures like this where the outside peg is locked into the heal.
In fact that pic shows exactly what I'm talking about. See how his inside foot is on the ball, but leaned over so just the outside edge is in contact with the peg. If he were carrying less lean angle but still had his knee on the ground, his inside leg would be at a greater angle, as would his inside foot. The fact he doesn't need his knee stuck out so far to get on the ground (using it as a feeler gauge to judge his lean angle) means he can keep more of his foot on the peg.
You can see the space between the inside of my foot and the peg. The outside foot, you generally want to be on the ball of your foot again, and by pressing down with the ball of your foot, your toe will naturally point down a little, helping the outside knee lock into place on the tank. This one you can see the outside toe pointing down, but it's only like that to put weight on the outside peg and lock into the tank.
Some riders will actually move their outside foot forward on the peg and hook the heal of their boot onto the peg as leverage. MotoGP riders almost all do this. That's one of the things new riders tend to get confused over. They hear "ride on the balls of your feet" all the time, but see pictures like this where the outside peg is locked into the heal.
In fact that pic shows exactly what I'm talking about. See how his inside foot is on the ball, but leaned over so just the outside edge is in contact with the peg. If he were carrying less lean angle but still had his knee on the ground, his inside leg would be at a greater angle, as would his inside foot. The fact he doesn't need his knee stuck out so far to get on the ground (using it as a feeler gauge to judge his lean angle) means he can keep more of his foot on the peg.
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you might be seeing the picture wrong, not sure, but my heels aren't on the pegs. Actually the ball of my big toe is. I have my heal pulled tight against the healguards/swingarm.
Like jon said, getting your knee out causes your hip too rotate, and you foot will want to point in the same direction.
They teach to get the ball of your foot on the peg, middle on the edge of it. You can actually see holes on the bottom of the instructors boots on the ball of their foot near their middle toe where they are digging into the edge of the peg.
Jon, did you bend up the little lever on your sidestand or does it touch down? I've been taking my stand off at the track because it touches at the same time my toe slider touches. It doesn't look like your stand would touch when your toes do.
You can see the space between the inside of my foot and the peg.
Thanks, JK. I've been "balls of the feet" since I started sport riding, simply because once I tried it, I was amazed at the difference it made to the way the bike felt and handled. Your added detail of the how's and why's was enlightening.
I was afraid I was missing something, some part of technique I had not been aware of. Perhaps as bmw675 suggested, I was mistaking what I was seeing in his picture. It's all good!
I was afraid I was missing something, some part of technique I had not been aware of. Perhaps as bmw675 suggested, I was mistaking what I was seeing in his picture. It's all good!
I havent modified it at all. I did touch it down once but that was with a passenger and i weighed 45lbs more at the time and didnt have the racetech springs in the front yet. so my ride height was too low. What setting do you have rear shock preload at? That may be the issue. If the bike is riding low youll drag hard parts sooner.
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My suspension is upgraded to Race Tech and Eibach and the setup is good. I did give it another notch of preload after my first track session with my new tires (when my stand touched down a few times). It's just that I found that if my left toe slider touched, so did the stand. It's not a big deal to pop the stand off for track days, so that's what I've been doing.
Yeah thats odd. It is something i always used to worry about but like i said, only time it happened was when i was lowridin'. When it did hit, it hit hard. It bounced us up so quick we almost went wide in the turn. Scarred the hell out of me. I dont hang off my lower body with her on the bike so we were iust carrying too much speed and needed too much lean angle.
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These are from last weekend at Putnam Park in Indiana. I wish I would have had my previous pictures back before this trackday, so I could see what I need to improve on.
This first one looks like I'm tucked more than I was earlier in the month.
My inside foot looks better that it did previously, but can always use some more work. Over the winter, I'm going to get some rearsets that will make it more comfortable getting it in the right position.
Note: I did buy all my pics for the weekend (80 or so), I just haven't received them yet. These were taken off their website.
This first one looks like I'm tucked more than I was earlier in the month.
My inside foot looks better that it did previously, but can always use some more work. Over the winter, I'm going to get some rearsets that will make it more comfortable getting it in the right position.
Note: I did buy all my pics for the weekend (80 or so), I just haven't received them yet. These were taken off their website.
danieljardim
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Playing with my phone camera and DIABA.
Always wondered if we could do the same license plate thing with the FZ6R. Already have integrated taillight, so no need for blinkers. No way I would let a license plate defile that beautiful duc tail :leghump: