AT on a race track

[matt]

Anyone taken an AT out on a race circuit with Lasertecs or similar and given it a thrash? How low can you go?

[Chad]

Anyone taken an AT out on a race circuit with Lasertecs or similar and given it a thrash? How low can you go?

never got mine on a track but used to get it bloody low though

as taught to me by my riding guru maveric

[Lord Vader]

Oh master please tell
would the wise one pass on his knowledge to us unworthy ones

[Cie]

Some guys at work are organising a track day at Thruxton, I hope to get mine on there. Before anyone asks, it's closed to my work only. I'll try and see if it'd be possible to get us on there.

As far as how low can you go.. goes.. I scared myself a couple of weeks back, in a left hander getting onto the A303, with the wife on the back, scraped my left toe on the road as I went to change up gear

That's as low as I've had my AT and I'll not be there again unless I'm going to have a rest!

[iswoolley]

I've discovered that TKC80s will grip as far as the bike will lean, which is all you need. I was riding two-up, with fully loaded Zega boxes, in the Picos de Europa last week. Went into a corner which started to tighten up, and tighten up some more, so I rolled off the throttle and pitched the bike in as far as I dared, which turned out to be enough for the footpeg to ground out. Funnily enough, in the past I've had the Zega boxes scraping the ground around a UK roundabout. So I guess there was a difference in the camber of the two roads.

[Maverick]

I don't know, have pushed my AT over the point where I felt comfortable and still not managed to ride the last mm or so from the rear tyre off. That is of course with TKC's which I think grips pretty darn well for a knobblie

Secret is to start on the outside work your way in and pray you gonna make it Just keep your eye on your exit point and let the bike do the rest

[Dilbert]

Just keep your eye on your exit point and let the bike do the rest

Good advice Maverick, after trying all sorts of "techniques" I find I go round a bend best if I just chill, drop it in and wind it out, too much thinking makes you worry and tense up.

Anybody else hang off the wrong side

Wayne Gardner (i think) used to do this back in the early eighties on production racing bikes, basically you drop the bike in to a left hander, say, and then lean over to the right side (feels like a lot of lean, but it's not that far over really), especially good in long bends and slip roads, allows you to get lots of lean but use your body weight as a counterbalance instead of it adding to the weight leaning, if you get my drift? (I guess the forces are a bit like the sports guys "weighting the pegs")

It does mean though that you don't get low, but it feels really solid, doesn't work so well for short tight bends, that's when you need to tuck in tight and drop it as low as you dare