Spent the day at Nelson Ledges Road Course yesterday, my first day on a road course (I've drag raced a lot in the past and some on a bike). SLF-951 from here was also at the track but on his CBR instead of his NSR. That was actually sort of nice because I can't remember any other CBRs on the track at all. Both of us took the beginner course and I'm glad I did. I had trouble all day letting off way too early for the corners which I wasn't comfortable with. I liked hammering in to a couple of them, but mostly I let off the gas and downshifted early enough that I didn't have to brake much to start the turn. I think lots of that was worrying about grinding my nice and newly acquired Rothmans over the pavement sideways. In fact one guy went down right in front of me after overshooting a corner and that really slowed me for a couple laps.

By the end of the day I was really comfortable running the laps consistently, but knew they were pitifully slow compared to what the bike could run. I think I would really like to have an NSR for the track now. That was lots of fun! Here's some pics:







Oh yeah....the different color t-shirts were just to identify us on the track. They look funny but it really helped keep us together in the morning and let us know who the people were that were ok to pass later in the day. We weren't allowed to pass in the morning but by the last 2 sessions were could do that in a couple places.

The only bummer of the entire trip was when I got home and discovered that the post man had tried to deliver my Rothmans leathers while we were away!! oh well haha

Craig
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Craig
MC21 SP Rothmans
MC21 R fake Rothmans - track bike
MC21 SE R9N