How do you practice?

[BLACK SQUIRREL]

:-) and a couple of us on the whay outside line..... this is where the brass balls come in...

shhhhh.

[BMFR6]

EVERYONE in novice/amateur

bingo. this is my point.

[butcher bergs]

EVERYONE in novice/amateur except the first few :-) and a couple of us on the whay outside line..... this is where the brass balls come in...

I know one Novice on a 600 that doesn't brake unless he's about to ass-pack someone.

I mean, hell, that's only 3rd gear (barely) from the Start line into T1.

[SVRACER01]

Good starts are important. I find Loudon to have quite a few good passing places. I'd say its a multiline track. Most of the great spots are where it takes some brass balls to hold it open later than your opponent.

outside of 8...no one sees that coming

[Paul_E_D]

Try the dirt on the inside of 8! It's a MUUUCH faster line than the outside. No camber changes and you can enter 9 sooo much faster.

Whoops, I wasn't supposed to share that...

[RyanNicholson]

Try the dirt on the inside of 8! It's a MUUUCH faster line than the outside. No camber changes and you can enter 9 sooo much faster.

Whoops, I wasn't supposed to share that...

thats one of my all time favorite passes, just for the fun factor of riding on the outside of someone around T9 laying on their bike.

Doesn't happen against the really fast guys though. Rule of thumb, if you're getting passed in 9 you're not going NEARLY fast enough through there haha.

[seth399]

thats one of my all time favorite passes, just for the fun factor of riding on the outside of someone around T9 laying on their bike.

Doesn't happen against the really fast guys though. Rule of thumb, if you're getting passed in 9 you're not going NEARLY fast enough through there haha.

thats where i should be able to make up about 3 seconds this year ahaa..I think I was going like 8 mph around turn9 when I first got on the track last fall

[BMFR6]

Rule of thumb, if you're getting passed in 9 you're not going NEARLY fast enough through there haha.

If your front end isn't pushing like the track is wet, you're not going fast enough through 9

[Crash Dummy Denno]

If your front end isn't pushing like the track is wet, you're not going fast enough through 9

Having a quick hello with the moonscape on the outside of 9 slowed me down a bit...

[Kitt]

If your front end isn't pushing like the track is wet, you're not going fast enough through 9

that's good news for me, but yea - I learned to turn my shoulders in 9... the front end was pushing, got my suspension done and mike told me I was just being a pussy... building the balls to be on the throttle a little harder through there.

[BMFR6]

yeah, i've talked to pk about it before. the front pushes in 9 for everyone. he can tune it out, then you get faster and it pushes again, and he tunes it out again, then you get faster, etc.

[Kitt]

Having a quick hello with the moonscape on the outside of 9 slowed me down a bit...

[OreoGaborio]

But there's no air on the moon, how come the wind is kicking up dust in that picture?

Government conspiracy I tell you... Denno never went to the moon

[RyanNicholson]

oh c'mon, T9 is wicked fun.

[Kitt]

oh c'mon, T9 is wicked fun.

I'm still surprised he got up *generally* ok from that!

[RyanNicholson]

I'm still surprised he got up *generally* ok from that!

if by get up generally ok, you mean on a backboard and taken to the ER... sure.

haha. But yea, he got a bad concussion and that was it. Arai FTW.

[GixerJockey]

oh c'mon, T9 is wicked fun.

Who the hell was that???

[RyanNicholson]

Who the hell was that???

Ron Poulin back in August, not sure what happened exactly but he lost it going into 9 and his bike ended up in the trees behind the track.

The nurse at the hospital thought I was his son

Getting a little off topic though, just thought I'd throw another crazy T9 pic into the mix after denno's

[nt650hawk]

oh c'mon, T9 is wicked fun.

The bike was 3'-4' off the ground in the birch trees. I was there to help pull it down.

[KB]

Try the dirt on the inside of 8! It's a MUUUCH faster line than the outside. No camber changes and you can enter 9 sooo much faster.

Whoops, I wasn't supposed to share that...

So you're the one who showed Neal that little trick. That guy passed me there on his 125 one day. Spooked the fuck out of me.

KB

[TTD]

Maybe someone mentioned this already (didn't real all 5 pages!), but for me practice was never about lap times, but sections.

So while my total lap time may have been 1 or 2 seconds off my race pace... in any particular section or sections, I might have been on or even faster!

Basically, I used practice to get up to speed and to put sections of the track together (knowing that I would not likely get a clean entire lap).

Now... the warmup lap was a different story. I never understood going real slow on the warmup lap. In my head, that was the only time I had to get my body on race pace!

I had more "almost" crashes on my warmup laps than all of my practice sessions.

[a13x]

Maybe someone mentioned this already (didn't real all 5 pages!), but for me practice was never about lap times, but sections.

So while my total lap time may have been 1 or 2 seconds off my race pace... in any particular section or sections, I might have been on or even faster!

Basically, I used practice to get up to speed and to put sections of the track together (knowing that I would not likely get a clean entire lap).

Now... the warmup lap was a different story. I never understood going real slow on the warmup lap. In my head, that was the only time I had to get my body on race pace!

I had more "almost" crashes on my warmup laps than all of my practice sessions.

Yea that's how I said I do it in practice

[Kurlon]

So you're the one who showed Neal that little trick. That guy passed me there on his 125 one day. Spooked the fuck out of me.

KB

I need to learn this line...

[RyanNicholson]

I need to learn this line...

Its not too tough, just need to find the balls to hold the gas as long as possible and go through some bumps, dirt, etc at like 90mph while trying to tip in for 9 so you carry more speed than the guy your trying to pass around the corner.

gets ya around the other guy tho.

[Paul_E_D]

105-110mph through there! There are two spots you can do it. One is at the first rumble strip. You can go from apex of 7 straight for the rumbles early in 8 staying on the gas fully as you just touch the dirt and renter the pavement as you head up to the treehouse.

The other is late in 8 near the cone that is tipped over. there's a pavement strip that just ends. There's a pretty good hole there and it's a rough line, but you have a perfectly straight setup for 9 and can hold the gas open past the treehouse. Most people are leaned to far over from taking a wide line through 8 and cannot hold it open without risking crashes like the ones above...

Just talkin smack gets my adrenalin going!