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Originally Posted by Daimo
haha, see I really struggle on the straights, and it was too cold to really get on the brakes really hard or get the power down (last year in the summer I was braking at the 200m marker, Monday was at the 300m marker). It was annoying though, some of the 1000cc's would come blatting past then practically stop on the bends.
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Yeah, sorry about that
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Originally Posted by Daimo
I give people a lot of room as I don't want to take anyone out. I could have run in the fast group, but they were all racers prepping up for this season and I didn't fancy it after having so many cut me up at Brands a few weeks back. When summer comes in though I'll go up.
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I only moved up from the novices last September - well overdue, really, but the final straw was that the novices just started to feel downright dangerous - I could never work out what line the bike in front was going to take so I could do a clean pass. Not so much a racing line as Brownian Motion on two wheels. That said, look what this berk did to me when he forgot to brake...
Watching the videos, I can pinpoint all my major faults (braking too early; turning in too early so even when I hit the apex I run wide on the exit; inexplicably revving out in first rather than change up to second). Shame I couldn't do two good days back-to-back, as I find I can spend the second day fixing the faults from the first.
On the plus side, the new tyres (Michelin Power Supersport) are awesome. Streets ahead of the crappy Maxxis hoops I was running last year.