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.

Nice one, congrats....now what's ERS?

Originally Posted by muffles

Nice one, congrats....now what's ERS?

+1 well done m8

Originally Posted by muffles

Nice one, congrats....now what's ERS?

+1

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

+1

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.

Originally Posted by chakraist

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.

I see, good on you for doing it (The insurance thing must be an incentive, but surely dictating the choice to do it?).

I just can't be bothered hearing someone tell me how shocking my riding is!! ... Ahhhh piddle off!!!!!

Originally Posted by chakraist

It's an advanced rider thing that apparently gives you money off the old insurance.

Not all insurance companies though.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by chakraist

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...........

Strange isn't it, up to this point I thought you were talking about a trackday....

Originally Posted by Red Herring

Strange isn't it, up to this point I thought you were talking about a trackday....

lol, there are never any cars down there and there were other bikes doing the same thing. Cheaper than a trackday, more boring than a trackday I guess but still entertaining.

[Red Herring]

"Down there"?