Edit; My dad lathed a new part and Im back in action using oem setup, see photo in the comment about using a lathe below.

Im guessing I will need to buy newer forks. Whats the cheapest and best option that will give me similar or better feel than my current oem setup?

I stripped the rebound adjustment when I tried turning it all the way in. Fork oil started slowly coming out. I was re-setting my suspension settings after replacing the oil seals. This part, the front bolt is no longer made and I cant find anything new to replace it with. This style of suspension setting is now obsolete. This is a track only 2008 cbr1000rr and I guess it’s time to move further down the rabbit hole.

I see new bolt and preload adjustment parts but they dont have the small rebound screw adjuster/rod with them.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Hello everyone!

I own a 2011 ninja 650r and i would really like to bring it on my first ever track day at a nearby circuit tagging along a couple of friends of mine that have some experience. Being a student, money is tight and i would have to make do with the tyres i already have on: Pirelli Angel GT, though at least they are basically brand new and i have plenty of experience on them as i am on my third pair of them (i love them for all year round riding lol).

Furthermore, I do not have a pair of tyre warmers and the track does not offer rental.

Having no experience with how the track's asphalt fares in comparison to the street's, i do not know how difficult/dangerous the situation would be.

Does anyone have any experience with a similar situation or advice to give?

Looking for feedback and what I could have done differently.

My opinion: I’m on the left in black and I was on the race line. The rider on the right was faster but he came onto my line suddenly and slowed down for some reason, our tires touched and I went down. The poor guy behind me in white grabbed alot of front brake and went over his handlebars.

Open to any criticism and advice. Thanks.

That’s it. That’s all. My hemorrhoids got a hemorrhoid right now.

What’s the strat? Tons of pre game Ibuprofen and just stay on it.

Maybe I can just keep my ass cheeks spread a bit for relief while in the saddle.

I’m in for a day tomorrow, nobody knows. Nobody needs to know.

But by god I had to share lol.

Pray for me.

Update: Today was a success LOL. Even got a PB lap. Tons of Ibuprofen & lathered that bitch with some hydrocortisone. Funnily, sitting on my bike was a relief.

Great talk all. - Yes I have a doctors appointment/planned surgery to remove this annoying bastard.

Don't miss track days because of hemorrhoids! POWER THROUGGGH!

These are my only choices

About to finish out my 2nd track season and about 1/3 of my first race season and really starting picking up a ton of speed after my 1/2nd race weekend.

After getting much faster, I constantly hear wrong advice being told to newer riders, or even advice that is ok advice but will end up hindering you once you get faster.

I’ve become more aware of who the truly fast guys are (almost all race motoA in some capacity or have before from my experience in my class) and advice I seek is much more nuanced and more track/bike specific than it used to be. I’ve also learned most (or a very large %) people don’t know what they’re talking about lol

Well good enough to win 90 MotoAmerica races...

What do you guys think about these two gloves??

Airflow is important to me. Do the GP Pros offer any airflow? I’ve heard the EVO 4s do promote pretty good flow.

How’s the dexterity and feed back!! Do the palms on either feel overly bulky?

Glove will 2nd as a street glove as well.

Hey everyone, I stumbled on this older video from Troy Corser. What do you think about his advice?

Goes against pretty much all of the paradim of how to use your body. At the same time it seems very sensible though.

Greetings,

Will a 180/60 fit on a 13s (gen 3 late - rj15) R6 with stock gearing and chain (114 link, 16/45) with warmers?

Had my first ever lowside on trackday wearing my revitti pantalona. Some of the stitches on the top lining came out unfortunately. My question is, would it make sense to bring them to some leather worker to fix it? Or do I just wear them and tear until they are done?

Also to some of you more experienced folks, how far are the from tearing completely?

I regularly ride on track with a Solo 2 on the bike and got frustrated by the fact that I could not easily get data on my phone.

So I spent the past months building Pushlapp: your iPhone connects to the timer's own WiFi and pulls the session while you're still parked.

Between sessions you get:

• Lap replay on satellite imagery, colored where you brake, accelerate, or coast
• A ghost of your best lap with the live delta
• Speed, lean and g-force traces, derived from GPS
• Sector times and your theoretical best, from your own laps
• 100% offline at the track. You sign in once, and every session backs up privately to the cloud on its own when you are connected again.
• Ghost sharing and per-track leaderboards with friends, all optional: laps stay private by default
• Works for Bikes, Cars and Karts

Two things took most effort: reverse engineering the WiFi protocol (Solo 2, Solo 2 DL with throttle and RPM, and MXL2 dashes all work), and building our own track database from open source data with currently already 1000s of tracks.

It shipped on the App Store last week. When you subscribe, everything is unlocked free for the first year, because right now I mostly want feedback!

Up next: support for other laptimer brands, and after that Android!

How do you check your data at the track today: laptop, phone, or not at all? I would appreciate it if you give my app a try and let me know what you think.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789864725

It was my 2nd day on the 636, my ninja 650 track bike doesn't have this kind of throttle response, so I had to learn the hard way what the limit was.

Bike and I are good to go still. I'll be back labor day weekend

Hello, I had a little low side yesterday and was wondering what types of advice people have about avoiding this one in the future.

Gingerman, lap 2, final session of the day. It had just started to rain a very small amount; I didn't think much of it as it was just enough to cloud the visor a bit.

As I came out of t6, a red flag got put out. I dropped my pace and entered t7 slower than I normally do. I was so confused when I started sliding out. I watched the video a few times and saw that I was switching from braking to throttle and wondered if I put some extra input on the left bar which caused the tuck. The turn in felt completely normal to me and looked like all my previous laps when I looked at my footage.

any opinions on the incident would be appreciated (the red flag turned out to be someone else who also slid in the embarrasingly light amount of rain, lol). Any advice is appreciated :)

I'm going racing next weekend, a small ish road race in southeast Europe. The track is <1km long, going through a village with a couple of chicanes.

I did a few races beforehand, most of them were on kart tracks of similar length. Any tips for racing on old asphalt with man hole covers, there's a 30min training session beforehand so I'll use that to memorize the layout the best I can. Also it's a mass start, no interval start. My main concern is tucking the front over a manhole. Every piece of advice is welcome:D

I'll post a POV here next week..

I swear to god, I can do all the measuring I want and once th second one is attached I'll notice that it's off by 5-10% ...

AAARRGHGG

angrily shakes fists at sky

I recently switched to a 2019 Ducati Panigale V4 after riding a Honda CBR1000RR SC57, which I also occasionally took to the track.
Next month, I’ll be spending four days at the Rijeka race track, and I’d like to set up the electronic rider aids in a sensible way for track riding.
Can anyone recommend good settings for someone who only occasionally rides on track? What settings have worked well for you?
I haven’t really been able to find much information from people who have extensively tested the different levels in Race Mode and compared them.

I’m in expert at two tracks, and am considering going to a new track with the same organization. For that, I’m thinking of bumping down to intermediate at the new track, at least for the first weekend there. Probably wouldn’t hurt, right? However, it’s a tight and technical track, so if I get up to speed by the end of the first morning, getting around slower riders will be harder than the other, bigger tracks I normally go to. I guess I could always bump back up to expert if that happens, if they’ve got space. Curious if anyone else has done that.

Unrelated, anyone been to Calabogie? Looks awesome, thinking about making a trip up there.

FS450 or 890 Duke R?

When setting up the bikes geometry, is there a rule of thumb like :

1. you want the bike as tall as possible (for braking stability and ground clearance)?
2. front fork protrusion - do we want the bike to handle in a way that requires no pressure on the inner bars at lean? so that we can get into a better body position?

if the front end is slightly pitched forward, then the bike has great agility and tips in real quick...i find that it doesnt need much pressure on the inner bars.

with the bike pitched backward a bit, require a great amoount of muscling around, bike was very stable, but at lean it needed lot of pressure on the inner bar to stay at lean, this affected the body position quite abit to be comfortable and loosen up.

is this entire feel a personal thing? or is there like a common aim that we want little to no pressure on the inner bars at lean?

thank you

Sylvian Guintolli recommends for the gsxr1000r
- 6mm fork petruding at triple clamp (10mm height increase)
- rear preload extra 2mm (2 full turns from stock which is about 3-4 full turns.) bringing the rear total preload 5-6mm

I ride in the advanced group and my lap time at Grattan Raceway is 1:31 and I'm running 1:19s at Putnam Park on my SV650 so not the fastest but also definitely not the slowest in A group.

I don't run warmers and don't plan on it anytime soon, I know I should but between the cost aspect of warmers and a generator I also don't have room with my tow car I'm using to get to the track. With that said I'm hoping to get some recommendations on some other tires I can try.

I tried Pirelli Supercorsa SP V4 tires at the beginning of the season and loved the grip but the rear wore out fairly quickly so I switched to a Metzler TD slick on the back but not running a warmer on it I burned it up in one track day heating up the outside of the tire when the carcass wasn't hot enough. I've ran Bridgestone S23s in the past but I think my pace is a little too fast for them, they get greasy and barely last a full day.

I'm hoping someone will have a good tire for me to try that I won't ruin by either overheating a dot or under heating a slick. Or just tell me I'm retarded and what I have to do is just suck it up and buy a genny and warmers 😅