Saturday, November 01, 2008

Oct 13 + 14 --> Infineon Trackday with CLASS

Amazing, superb, scintillating .... what can i say.

My first trackschool / trakcday with CLASS (Reg Pidmore). 2 days at Infineon. Got the bike prepped by Chris with the Hotbodies bodywork on. So excited i was. At the last moment, Neil bailed out and called me to inform he could not give his truck ... Bummer !!! where do i search for a truck now ? Called my friend, Umesh at Budget and he manged me a F150 for 55$ / day ... Its pricy but I had no other option .... Lesson learnt again --> Do not rely on people too often !!

Well, another issue which happened was, we could not haul 2 bikes together (ie mine and Prabhat's) . If he would have allowed me to open the front fender i would have managed, but dunno why he was so skeptical about opening the fender. Well, he rode to the track.

We checked into Econo Lodges and Suites on Sunday night and had a good meal at Burger King. All excited for the next day.

Well, i cant really explain how much it was to me to ride on a track. Learnt a lot .... Learnt that 15 year of my motorcycle riding was wrong. Learnt about body positioning, cornering, relaxing and what not. It was so so fun ... was hauling ass 3 digit on the speedometer without worrying about any cars or cops. By mid-day i was passing B-group (C-group in a actual trakcday) guys left and right .. For the first time scraped my knee guard ... Yeaaaaaaaaaaah !!! I mean i cant really explain how happy i was.

So, ya let me end here now. its too difficult to explain. I am going to run Laguna Seca in Decemer. Me and Chris together. Am gonna buy another bike and convert this one to a full race/track bike with all the goodies. I need to be more fast, more comfortable, more relaxed, and improve and improve on body positioning. The other bike will be only for tour purposes.

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