A little update

[Trip]

yeah copy and paste up your race report

[ceo012384]

Word. Round 5 report:

Everyone else is, guess I might as well make a quick report.

Long story short, it turns out the front end of my R6 was bent for the past two months after a crash... I thought it was all in my head and have been beating myself up about it and not having fun up there. I let a couple other people take it for a spin at the track day and they were like holy shit this bike is fucked! lol. Was able to get it straightened out at the track Friday (thanks GMD) and get a couple short practice sessions on it.

Two races on saturday, wet track in the morning so no practice since I knew the races would be dry. My brakes/front end/cornerspeed confidence still aren't there but are slowly coming back. It's still in my head and I just need some more seat/practice time to get there. I know I can do it. Ran a lot of low 23's... pretty sad. I know I can get the teens but trying to force it seems to make things worse.

Saturday
Fun little battle with Lorenzo in both of these races. Still fun racing even though I'm not back up to pace.
Race 1 GTO: 3rd place
Race 4 MWSB: 9th place

Sunday I raced the new motard and did well... there are two distinct packs in the amateur ranks and I'm right in the middle; towards the end of both my races I was literally by myself. With a little more practice I know I can hang with the front guys, I just need to be better on the brakes and add a little cornerspeed in the right handers.

I did get into the 24s on the tard and had a couple fun battles in the first several laps of both races but in the end couldn't quite hang. In LWSM I got a great start and the holeshot into T1... held off the red bull rookie Alexander for an entire lap, my new claim to fame LOL, and he got me into T1.

Sunday
Race 2 motard: 6th / 12
Race 5 LWSM: 6th / 13

Also that 15 y.o. red bull rookie kid on the kawi running 19s and 20s knocked all of us AMs finishing spots down a notch for this weekend. Jesus he is fast I guess he technically isn't old enough to have an expert license or something like that a13x told me...

The fact that I am only 1.5 seconds off my R6 pace on the tard certainly speaks volumes about my lack of confidence and comfort on the big bike. I really want to fix that but it seems the harder I try, the worse it gets. I'll get back there, I just need to relax and have fun.

[Trip]

Understand the lack of confidence on the big bike completely. I barely wanted to ride it after my incident at barber. Good news as long as you keep it upright, it eventually goes away.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Trip

Understand the lack of confidence on the big bike completely. I barely wanted to ride it after my incident at barber. Good news as long as you keep it upright, it eventually goes away.

I'm still there after my lowside last fall. I'm not nearly as fast as I used to be...and I was never that fast to begin with.

[Amber Lamps]

I'm barely getting my mojo back after my incident last year. It's funny you mention the front end, because I had a similar situation with my fork being slightly tweaked, getting that fixed and then having the fork "fall apart" which destroyed my confidence at the rally. Now that I have everything sorted, I really want to go back and try that again! I'm sure that you'll be fine Chris. You learned really quickly and got fast in a hurry. I'm sure that you'll shake the demons and be right back up there in no time!!!