09/09/08 Another trackday, a PSSR event. This time my day went pretty smoothly and it was M's turn to have mechanical troubles (see 748 and M's corner pages). For me the goal was to run the 900, work on hanging off more, relax and generally enjoy the day. Which is what I did, save for a lunchtime trip to Motocorsa to procure 748 parts.

I started out taking it easy and basically stayed with that. My focus was hanging off more and as the pictures below show, I'm getting better at it in some turns but could go quite a bit farther in others (images courtesy of XQSME photography).

Laptimes improved a bit, too, with a best in the mid 1:25s. Still nothing spectacular of course and I was one of if not the slowest guy in the A group, but I had fun and felt good out there. Had to switch knee sliders from side to side, the new pavement is quite abrasive and the sliders have just about had it. Rotating them like this will make them last a while longer.

As it turned out M got to do a couple sessions on the 900 as well. While I enjoy this bike very much she is not as comfortable on it and went out there somewhat reluctantly. Nevertheless she was able to make progress, although she would have done better on the 748. Maybe some day we'll have a trackday when nothing breaks and everything goes well. Until then, this is still better than nothing :)