chakraist

The way I see it, having never raced or never done a trackday, that if you want to go faster, a two day test on your on a track with stable conditions would probably be best. To see the most improvement, time wise, I guess doing it on a wet track would be best- I imagine anyone would see real improvement doing this sort of thing. However, organizing a two day test is probably going to be out of even your budget!

The other way of getting faster I imagine is to crash or have a moment at the limit. Obviously this isn't really recommended, but the other day when I crashed, I now know the most lean angle I can comfortably get out of the bike. Now I know this, I can work on things like trail braking and getting the power down earlier. If the front tucked on me trail braking into a certain corner, I'd know that I either need to work on technique or stop trail braking just behind that certain point. Again with getting the power down, run wide a few times or even highside (unlikely on a dry day with the SV with the power it has), then work on being smoother or stop at that point. After that, I'd compare lap times to fastest race laps on similar bikes under similar conditions, if it was within half a second I imagine it would be into an area of diminishing returns and that working on something like racecraft, overtaking etc would be the best way forwards and the final few tenths would come with speed.

Also when you start getting into the area of diminishing returns working on the setup of the bike is an area that you would start to find more and more returns as you got more consistent round a certain track. Although this isn't really related to the question, I think that as one got faster working with setup would yield more results.

I might be way off with this, but either way I think getting faster and pushing your limits is always going to be expensive.