Chennai xBhp Track Day - 22 Feb '09 - The Discussion and Pics thread

[badriyan]

Just FYI, International bike racing will finally be coming to our country with the 4th round FIM asian championship happening in Sep this year at Chennai. More info here: http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/motorspo...d-chennai.html

You guys should come watch and see actual world class pro's in action. The top 5 riders in the 600CC class actually lap our most experienced asian gp rider Dilip Rogger in the races, so you can imagine how fast they are. Some of the top japanese riders who take part in the 600cc class are competitive racers at the world level (suzuka 8 hour race etc). Expect to see some track records being broken, it will be a treat to watch. They will be working on improving track safety too to conform to FIM specifications. Finally we're moving in the right direction.

wow thats great news, waiting for september

[stewarch]

a finger.

@all : Do you guys have any idea how the bikes came from Mumbai ???
The 5 biker souls rode down from Mumbhai the day before.
Hats off to those who had the heart huge enough to ride the bike down from Bombay. I was overwhelmed when i heard these guys rode down to chennai. THAT TOO ON SBKS'.

We drove the bikes down from Mumbai. Left Mumbai Friday morning 3am and arrived Chennai Saturday afternoon. Left Chennai 9:30am Monday morning and just arrived back in Mumbai 11:00pm Tuesday evening. We had support car and shared driving between the bikes and the car. Stopped in Bangalore on the way down overnight and Hubli overnight on the way back.

[MR ACE]

@ 2 Sai's & Madhu: General Inspection

@ Saicheeco: Before Clicking Pics 'Warn Me'

@ All: The Pics Are Damn Good, Kudos To Praveen & Saicheeco

[Praful]

The p220 experience.
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Post track-day I guess a lot of them realised where their bikes belonged and the pulsar owners sure had nothing much to say in the presence of the RTRs and R15s

& Well I guess most of the Pulsar owners realised that their bikes are not meant for the tracks, but to rule to streets! (where their crappy handling,can be overshadowed by fantastic straightline performance)

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A few here believe that learning on a bad/tough handling bike will make you a better rider on a good handling bike. I dont agree. Killer has given the explanation.

Not a few, just I asked this question. And I don't believe in such a thing, I merely asked Killer if such a notion is true.

Who's this ZiMA rider..!! Pretty good leans by him...

He is Vimal from Gutzy Roadies ..... Ask Praful about him, they both were actually racing

I din't know the ZMA rider, but he was really good. He was taking corners pretty well.
We both somehow always ended up riding with each other, either he behind me or me behind him. At the corners I was slower than him, but was catching up with him on the straights.

This guy has good potential, a few trackdays down and he'd be blasting about the track!


@saicheeco:Nice pics there!

@killer: Thats fantastic piece of news there!

[Fury]

So instead of saying "Donkey this is all you can do, stay off the track" just try to make donkey faster, untill u buy a horse.

Hehehe.......so true....anyways as far as I'm concerned I had a ball on the track.

BTW anyone go pix of me....ie Red pulsar 200 with the 'stealth style' motocross helmet??

All in all nice event.

Ride Safe

[bikerfas]

As a First timer to the tracks, i having a great learning on the tracks... was able to make only few laps with sajiv's bike... all the discussion over here would be of good help to the newbee's on the track... also this track day helped to learn/shape up my photograhic skills...

@ Killer: thanks bro for your fantastic news abt the track and the method/ways to take the corners... will try them when we hit the tracks next time...

@Xinfii: your shots were wonderful man.. keep rockin

@ All: thanks for the wonderfull shots of the Track Day...

@ saicheeco: thanks for capturing me was wondering whether anyone clicked me or not...

[pranay]

... Red pulsar 200 with the 'stealth style' motocross helmet??

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Ride Safe

Man, that helmet was out of this world. It was posted earlier in this thread by veeemax.

Pic by veeeemax:

[Samyaza]

@Fury

Get a good pair of gloves now. And I hope that watch isn't too expensive.

[EL LOCO DIABLO]

Superb Pics by Sai and Praveen and all the other correspondents as usual, But am still waiting for Wonder's and SkSy's (I hope i'm saying it right ) share of pics. Wonder,time to get on your P.C. and finish that writeup, it's still only half way through

[sajiv]

Trackday experience

Awesome trackday.

Before entering the track I was pretty worried about crashing (again). Memories of the crash from the R15 championships were still in my head. Added to that, the first corner one has to tackle after exiting the pits is C2.. .. Scary..

started off with some warm-up laps. Now came the time to concentrate on body position (had read a lot about it here). Though I am not sure whether my technique was correct, the shift in body position did help a lot. felt that i was comfortable in taking left handers than those long right handers(not sure why ). After a few laps, the ride became smooth. I was not running wide and was able to be on the throttle at the exit. This i was doing at a reduced pace with not so much lean. But I felt good .. Came back to the pits and scanned through some photos to analyze whether my ride position was any good. Realized my head was at the wrong place (thanks wonderboy for pointing that out).

During my second session I tried correcting my ride position and concentrate more on C1, C2 and C3. After about 5 to 6 laps I was able to do these corners at a relatively decent pace. Later, from one pic I realized that I my ride position is still incorrect. Need to get more practice

@all: great to meet all u guys and I must say awesome pics.
@wonderboy: when is the next track day?

Some pics from my side.

[pranay]

^^ great collection of pics there sajiv. Really good shots!

[Joel]

@sajiv - Nice pics man.
Bring the rest too.

[sajiv]

^^ great collection of pics there sajiv. Really good shots!

@sajiv - Nice pics man.
Bring the rest too.

Thanks guys..Well, credit should go to my brother who took most of the shots.. will upload the rest of the pics tonight.

[kushanth]

i wonder what happened to sksy.. i`m sure he has some good snaps.. is he still on the track ??

[wonderboy_tm]

I guess the pics i shot are with Sksy.....
He is a bit busy with work now guys........

i will finish the write up tonight.

@shajiv :If you feel like riding on the track .... i am always free.... gimme a call..... when you do you want the next track day ??