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A CBR125 is a great learning tool with 1 major qualifier......if you're very young or very inexperienced. If you can competently ride a regular sized motorcycle, a CBR125 is useless to you by the second track session. It is so slow that timing markers are redundant, which means that you don't...

I've been racing XBs for 4 years, a well set up XB is surprisingly quick around a racetrack, but won't rip your arms off, making it a great trackday bike. As much as I love my XB, I'd give my left arm (figuratively) for an 1125, it's flat out fast. My back up bike is a stock 2004 XB12R with...

The difference is in the bead area, there is nothing structurally different in the carcass or tread. FYI, using a tube in a tubeless tire will lower the speed rating by 1 letter i.e. V rating down to H.

I drive a car with a dual clutch transmission, it's freakin' brilliant............for a car. The primary advantage is that it delivers manual trans fuel economy with auto trans convenience. Bikes have structurally different gearboxes to cars so super-quick shifts are the norm and there is no...

Ben's a university professor and you're in grade school, you need a couple of years experience before he can help you. As Fiery254 mentioned, a thin skin won't get you far, lots of good advice so far but more are waiting to see if you can listen.

Of all the reasons not to do a trackday, "it's too hot" is the lamest. No rain tires required, no cold tearing of your new tires, no fogging of your shield, just a bit of heat, uncomfortable but easy to manage. Go out early in the day, drink massive amounts of water and skip a session if you're...

That's just crazy talk. All the cool kids are in red :p Increased competence and the resulting safety is the real goal, I'm sure not everyone moves up..............although I don't understand not wanting to move up.

Say it 'aint so.......

It's high time that you embrace your natural talent and stop fighting it. Repeat after me - "My name is Recipe, and I'm a crashaholic"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.......

Uh Oh, I ALWAYS look back, wave faster riders by and wait for my friends.............am I a bad person?!? :/

I'll take the risk at a trackday over the half asleep minivan murder squads on the 401, any day.

Pro 6 is at Calabogie that weekend. GOLO is on Shannonville long track on the 29th. Driving past both of them to ride at St. Bumpstache..........*comment deleted*

1 more sleep!!!

CALL IN SICK!!! I'll be getting reaquainted with riding an inline 4 again. That should be good for a laugh or 2. Best trackdays ever!!

You're right, there won't be popping from a harsh ignition cut, there are pre-programmed fuel/ignition maps that the ECU switches to as required hundreds of times/sec. you can visually compare the dynamics of the bikes as they pass trackside and tell who's using body position/line/rear tire and...

The rider will have a number of settings that they can use during the race, the really good riders like to have as little interference as possible. If you're standing trackside, it's pretty clear who's using the system most or least. *edit* Also remember that the electronics package is much more...

Cherrypickerracing.com His username is dean. That's how I would contact him if I needed to.

This is the TC system on Aprillia's WSBK homologation model, the RSV4 APRC The throttle control is necessary because they can't program the system for individual riders like they can in MotoGP, but this is a streetbike.

This is why so many riders are compaining that electronics have taken over the role of the rider. It even affects downshifts, I was siting at the entry toT-1 at Indy last summer and you could tell what brand of bike was going by by how it was downshifted, each brand had it's own sequence based...