Originally Posted by nunyo
Out of curiosity, when you're hitting 150+, what tires are you using? To get to 150 before turn three you must be coming hard out of one and not even lifting (sorry, I'm used to competing in cars) for turn two, right? Have you altered your gearing for track use? In the school we talked quite a bit about reducing from factory specs your gearing in order to allow for the top gears to be used primarily. The idea being that because the upper gears are typically closer to each other in ratio, you can keep the bike in the sweet spot of it's rev range over a greater portion of the track.
Thanks again for your post.
tires: pirelli supercorsa
Gearing:stock
i have a little more powerband on the 1000cc bike so the stock gearing is fine right now.
coming out of 2 i get caught sometimes as i tip it in i hit the rev limitter in second (about 125 mph), so instead i shift out of second early. i'm on the gas all the way around corner 3(140mph or so i cant reall look down) and shift to 4th gear (its more like a controlled slide since the 1000cc hp spins the rear the whole time) right before the quick left right(rolling off the throttle+down shift) before braking hard (i grab 2nd gear)for 5 and 6. once the puck hits at 5 i keep the same line for 6(opening and closing the throttle to keep it in line). imagine making 5 & 6 one corner like a one corner. ---> ) use your imagination a little. i lose all my time in the back more technical because i have to keep the throttle in check....and i know the wiggle the rear gives you at turn 8. i also highsided recently there. try and take 9 and 10 similar to 5,6...once the slider is down use throttle control to direct the bike. 11 hammer the gas(shift second to third), i brake real late for 12(back to 2nd gear). 13 (3rd gear)the puck hits gas is twisted on easy (upshift to 3rd). 14 i straighten up the bike while i hang off like a gorilla and i'm on the gas and right as i hit 3rd gear rev limiter its hard on the brakes (quick throttle blip and down shift, its just out of habbit my bike has a slipper clutch blip not really needed). i run deep into turn on and then square it off and drive the bike a hard as i can(battling to keep the front wheel down) shift early for 3 and it starts all over again...
*note on the 3,4 i actually hang off a bit more. i also try to hit the red dot marker at turn 3 with my knee. i try to pull my knee in before i actually hit it but sometimes i hit the marker and it flies up into the air.
i'm trying go get the video from VHS to my computer. i have a good one of me the first time on the GSXR1000 at jennings with no bodywork, trying to relearn my line. the good one i have my buddy lester (he runs 1:24's on a 99 R6 with rear sets and a -1 front sprocket...the bike is bone stock other then that.
) if following me and he hits the camera with his chin at turn 3 so you cant really see me but you see him reel me once we hit turn 7...
hope anyof this would help out.....but you need to just follow someone woh is faster then you(not like way faster but just a little, and looking as far throught the corners i cut off about .3sec.)