First Track Day - Heartland Park Topeka w/ RideSmart

[EvilBetty]

[Nick Calne]

Excellent stuff.  

[EvilBetty]

The Tiger just loves the curves.  It was so wild to be taken in the straights by 600cc bikes but yet catch them in the turns.   :shock:

We were all beginners though.  I'm sure an experienced rider on a Ninja 650r would have taken me every time in the curves.

If I wasn't so damn heavy The 1050 Tiger probably could have kept up on the straights better too.

[ChazzyB]

Great fun!

Why were your lights all taped over?

[EvilBetty]

Old track rules...

Mainly for when lenses were glass... kept the track from being covered in bits of glass from a collision or fall.

Now mostly just to block light that may distract riders.

Because my taillight was LED, I had to cover it in about 4 layers to block the light from it.

[rf9rider]

Did you get your knee down?  :lol:

I remember my first track day on my RF900 at Mallory Park, great fun.

The Tiger looks a bit strange amongst the race bikes, although  i`m thinking of doing one on the Steamer next year.

[EvilBetty]

No I was wearing textile gear so my knees stayed comfortably above the tarmac.  :)

[HockleyBoy]

Nice one, looks like great fun.

Will have to find a beginners track day for myself next summer.

[oxnsox]

Haha... now I can see why you're looking at the Duke.
I just spent the weekend helping out on a training course, unfortunately here we only have a cart track (short and tight, no room for speed on a bike), still it's great to be able to circulate on a track and have the odd peg touchdown thru the corners

[NeilD]

s, although  i`m thinking of doing one on the Steamer next year.

they do 'supermoto' track days at cadwell, so would fit in there..  :)