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11-10-08, 08:34 PM | #1 |
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My biking day; ERS
So I had an ERS thing today, whereby I'm followed round by an instructor for 2 hours. He said I was like the tasmanian devil on steroids and that I shouldn't trail brake into corners. Apparantly my rear is hopping around on corner entry and I nail it on exit. Apart from that, I need to start doing better road positioning and straight lining things. Aside from my inherent 'craziness' I'm good.
Just prior to that I thought I'd go for a little blast on the 'loop, two connecting roundabouts. It was a very nice feeling being able to carry like, much, much more corner speed than other guys- this dude on a GSX-R600 was all shooting past me on the straight bits, but then I outbroke him with quite a margin and carried much more corner speed, passed him easily. Just before this he was baiting me by keeping level with me and then accelerating away at a ridiculous rate. Either way, I put this apparent speed down to Blue, who's advice on trail braking has put me in good stead, I wasn't even anywhere near the limit and still carrying much more speed into corners and braking a lot later than them. I was breaking up to about a third through the roundabout (yeah I'm so cool) and then smoothly accelerating out. Was a great feeling passing the much faster bikes. I want to do a trackday. Yeah, my instructor said my riding was pretty good and that with a bit of refocusing (as in don't concentrate on braking to apex of corners on the road and nailing it out) I could be an excellent rider. I apologise, finally, for the long post but it's very nice to be told you have lots of potential/being faster than much faster bikes. |
12-10-08, 07:52 AM | #2 |
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Re: My biking day; ERS
Nice one, congrats....now what's ERS?
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12-10-08, 09:11 AM | #3 |
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12-10-08, 11:54 AM | #4 |
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12-10-08, 12:30 PM | #5 |
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It's an advanced rider thing that apparently gives you money off the old insurance, it's a two hour supervised ride each time and I got graded on 1-3 for different things, when I get all 3s I get a cert saying I'm awesome. I got a few 2s and 1s but mainly 3s.
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I just can't be bothered hearing someone tell me how shocking my riding is!! ... Ahhhh piddle off!!!!! |
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12-10-08, 12:42 PM | #7 |
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12-10-08, 01:48 PM | #10 |
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