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Thanks to the Tony's Track Day team! Had a great time at NHMS with the team and fired off a bunch of new personal bests on my SV650S. I'd been stuck at a plateau for a while so this was a satisfying accomplishment for me. I'm a continued customer of TTD because of how well Tony and team run their events, in the glow of yet another great track day I thought of some standouts from just this year alone.
Cool stuff:
- I know it's not NHMS, but I had a missing bolt at NYST the night I showed up and missed it on my check (rear brake line guide hoop), John Lin found it in tech and then directed me to his trailer where he found an extra bolt in like 30 seconds… done! Since I had tools a plenty but likely no such bolt this was a high relief and typical of the crew's general awesomeness for the customers.
- Mike Kurtz setting Alex and I up with new tires faster than we could remove and remount each end on the bike? Oh yeah…
- Joel Allen helped me crack the barrier that I reached to on my own. Having hired Joel/Pete/Ken for one-on-one days before I know them all well and I went to Joel knowing where I wasn't feeling comfortable and needed to improve. Did a quick lead follow and then talked with Joel afterward to take in how best to approach the change. Went out after that on my own and cracked previous best I set earlier and the later the best lap I've turned. I blame all of these guys in particular for my riding as well as I am, along with all the other instructors and control riders who have helped out.
- Had an issue with a weird ripping sort of thing on newer tire. Tony and Graham immediately jumped on this immediately to help me dial in the bike to cure this and also with how to change my riding style to help cure this as well. Mike was right on it too as soon as he got off track and confirmed the same . Problem seems solved as the weird ripped looking patches are wearing away now.