oulton park moment...

[greg]

...i might have needed a change of pants after this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgGYXO81sM

other than that though i had a good day yesterday. will do a bit of a writeup about my (good) experience with easytrack too when i get a chance

[damian]

deffo a bit of a twitcher that one !!

[DoktorMandrake]

Rather you than me, eh.

[The Red Barron]

looked a bit damp, but all the same not what you want.  Well done for not panicking

[Bias]

  well done that man for holding it together

[Skynet-T800]

Did you "chop the throttle"? or keep it on?

[radicalrabit]

ok  have to ask because I have never done anything like that    so excuse me if I sound stupid..
 No shifting your bum off the seat   for the corner, a bit close to the  apex whit elines then It looks like a moment  as you poured the power on coming out of the corner?  so what mad ethe bike want to stand up like that ? and did it do it again on the next lap of did you sus what caused it and avoided it the next time round .
  I only ask because My honda shoved its tail out  and I got a real tank slapper comming out of a bend going up Chunal Hill I found after my back tyre was low, wlel the front was also  but  someone suggested it was me putting the power on to harshly  coming off the bend .  I would love to do a track day on a proper bike and learen the art of getting my knee down and not getting scared to death at 180 mph.

[radicalrabit]

I would love to be able to type and then find that what I wanted to say was what turned out instead of the errors I always find. I know a lot of it is down to stress at the moment but it still makes me seem a pratt!

[mikiboy]

You don't NEED to lean off a bike.  It just helps with minimumising the lean angle.
It was damp.  Change of direction, possibly left hand side of tyre is colder.  It happens.  Chances are Greg had little input in the save apoart from not panicking.  In my experience you really don't have time to panic..... until you stop and think about it.


RR.  Give a track day a go.  Just book into novice and use the instructors.  Maria was on my R6 and used one every session.

[greg]

Here's the full video (with sound) from that session

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Lm-bUDaPI

the slide happened around the 13:13 mark. All I remember thinking was "well there goes my damage deposit"

i think i had run over a painted line which had less grip as it was wet (chicanes always feel more slippery to me as it is), juding from the engine noise i was powering it on slightly as i came around, and possible chopped the throttle or clutched in. I guess the best thing to have done would be to clutch in and let the tyre regain traction.

I was running a set of racing wets, so luckily they had a lot of grip, I'm not sure if I would have stayed on with a normal set of tyres.

I know now my body position was wrong (I'm still a novice), I had an instructor follow me later on and he noted that I should be leaning my upper body off more, as I was keeping it centred. I also need to work on my downchanges (and not being afraid of going too fast on the straights). Was watching the Simon Crafar Motovudu video that I got for xmas, and that had a lot of useful info in it too, such as getting lower body in the correct position for the corner while the bike is upright, so as not to upset the bike.

Can't wait to get back out and do some more track days

[guru]

Chopping the throttle is the sort of thing that'll get you sliding on the floor more often than not, it's one of our built-in survival reactions that's not helpful on a motorbike. Doesn't make it any easier to control though. It can turn a nasty slide or a lowside into a highside, that's the short version!

Re body position, again coudl waffle for hours but when it comes to dangling off, the guidelines (such as they are) are: get your outside shoulder over the filler cap, most or all of one ass cheek off the seat, and anchor yourself with your body so you're not pushing on the bars. It takes some getting use to so don't just hang right off on the first go. And don't worry about your knee, it'll come soon enough, but if you try too hard it might only go down with the rest of you.