Roadstergal
09-18-2005, 01:24 AM
The GSX-R - wow, it is a completely different bike from the SV. I expected it to be like the SV, but with a few significant differences here and there. Nope, heart and soul, it's a different bike. It's tractable and well-behaved and... for lack of a better word - bored on the street. On the track, I started to see the outline of its potential off in the distance - and also the potential to have my own rear bitten by it. It's not very tolerant of unsmoothness or hesitation. It wants to go, and it wants a firm hand. It's going to take me a lot more seat time to be truly deserving of this thing, IMO.
On the more prosaic front, I feel like it's set up too stiffy for me. Stock, it's probably set up for Yer Average Guy. Something I should tweak sooner rather than later.
NESBA is usually a very safe and controlled school, so there were a surprising number of offs today. No group seemed immune, and they were all the d'oh - slap head kind of off. Like the guy who went out, advanced group, first session, and in the first turn, laid it down. Didn't get 100feet. A gal I was getting ready to pass on the straight went down just as I was moving to pass; that was a little hairy. It looked like she dropped the hammer before she or the bike was ready, wobbled and fell. I was sure I was going to hit her, but managed to look somewhere else and not.
Still, a very informative day. After lunch, I took stock of what was going on and dialed it back, just worked on my line.
http://www.roadstergal.info/9_17_05/
On the more prosaic front, I feel like it's set up too stiffy for me. Stock, it's probably set up for Yer Average Guy. Something I should tweak sooner rather than later.
NESBA is usually a very safe and controlled school, so there were a surprising number of offs today. No group seemed immune, and they were all the d'oh - slap head kind of off. Like the guy who went out, advanced group, first session, and in the first turn, laid it down. Didn't get 100feet. A gal I was getting ready to pass on the straight went down just as I was moving to pass; that was a little hairy. It looked like she dropped the hammer before she or the bike was ready, wobbled and fell. I was sure I was going to hit her, but managed to look somewhere else and not.
Still, a very informative day. After lunch, I took stock of what was going on and dialed it back, just worked on my line.
http://www.roadstergal.info/9_17_05/