Sactown2008
Well-Known Member
What was your method for, "Learning to keep up with very experienced friends in the Twisties.?" Is it just lots of trips into the hills on your own? Is it riding the same curved roads over and over? What did it take to get your knee down during Counter-steering?
I commute SEVEN miles thru downtown Sacramento two days a week(and never in the rain), so not allot of practice there. :rofl:
Looking to hear what other FZ1 riders went through to keep up with their clip-on Sport-bike friends. I will do 10-15 mph over the posted limits on the curves, but two of my new friends this week(whom have gone all over the USA) were doing 20-30mph faster all day long going from Sacramento, to Lake Berryessa to Napa then home. I seemed to constantly be half-a-mile behind them between stops. The guy on the old 83 Guzzi(just bought in Texas and ridden home to Sacramento) and the woman on the white 848(she also owned a Ninja 636 track bike) had SICK cornering skills. We saw a group of BMW dual-sport riders flying around corners, sitting up right like it they were on desk chairs. I thought, "How h*ll can they be so fast? those are not Sport Bikes."
Thank you for any tips.
I commute SEVEN miles thru downtown Sacramento two days a week(and never in the rain), so not allot of practice there. :rofl:
Looking to hear what other FZ1 riders went through to keep up with their clip-on Sport-bike friends. I will do 10-15 mph over the posted limits on the curves, but two of my new friends this week(whom have gone all over the USA) were doing 20-30mph faster all day long going from Sacramento, to Lake Berryessa to Napa then home. I seemed to constantly be half-a-mile behind them between stops. The guy on the old 83 Guzzi(just bought in Texas and ridden home to Sacramento) and the woman on the white 848(she also owned a Ninja 636 track bike) had SICK cornering skills. We saw a group of BMW dual-sport riders flying around corners, sitting up right like it they were on desk chairs. I thought, "How h*ll can they be so fast? those are not Sport Bikes."
Thank you for any tips.