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Had two great days at New York Safety Track with Tony's Track Days. Ran the Downtown direction Sunday and the Uptown direction Monday. Was on my 2006 SV650S as usual and it ran like a top. Softened the rear end a little on my last track day at NHMS to help with some tire tearing and the bike feels better but at NYST it seemed more prone to walk wide on throttle. Not that I was pushing it as this isn't a track where I want to go past the 85% mark. In fact, the only event even close to a "whoops" the whole weekend was on the out lap for my first session ever around it in the Uptown direction. I run really careful the first 1.5 laps and then pretty careful with less lean angle for another half lap so I was putting along… and wow does that first long 180 degree right-hander tighten up at the end. Nearly stood it up and hopped into grass. That would have been seriously embarrassing.
Pics the Arcy (pro photographer) just put up from "Downtown" day:
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h646a2693#h646a2693
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h6eeec35d#h6eeec35d
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h670b6f9a#h670b6f9a
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h6044fad5#h6044fad5
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h6d675b7a#h6d675b7a
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h6d9a1601#h6d9a1601
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h6e818fb0#h6e818fb0
http://photos.otmpix.com/p491365325/h60edf8ef#h60edf8ef
And some pretty boring video as I'm not racing and there aren't a lot of people in the advanced group. I think the vids show what I do on track and a little of what a track day is like on a bike. Skip forward some in each as the first two laps of each video are me warming up tires. I don't run tire warmers like many of the folks do and honestly I'm over careful warming up my tires.
http://davespragg.smugmug.com/201308...th-TTD/n-s3hfh
This track is great fun and Tony and crew got us all more track time than most could handle. Good times!
Dave