Reasons Behind Follow the Leader in Novice

:: looks outside ::


Uhg.


I hate you guys.

 

I sir do not. I will however be happy to drive down and ride with you if you would like to rent it out for a few of us :first:

 

I found a few empty parking lots to drift the Touareg through last night before everything got plowed...I'm pretty hard up for fun right now.

 

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I freaked my girlfriend out one time by pulling the E-brake on my Mazda3 hatch to swing the rear around and perfectly line up an entry to the ally.

I will do this by myself when its snowing and pretend i'm a famous getaway driver.



Multiple times a night.

 

What price is considered "not bad"?

 

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That's not bad. If you get a weekday and enough people to commit.

 

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Does that include ambulance, corner workers etc?

 

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It includes their corner workers and ambulance.

You'd need your own insurance - even if the track didn't provide it, you'd be nuts not to have it.

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I'll keep this short and sweet - I love STT's system. I rode with a different organization my last track day and never had an open session! It was frustrating as all get out. I learned a lot, but never totally got to put what I learned to use.

 

Wanna throw down on a few random dates through the winter at Jennings? =)

 

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I will just say that this depends on the group of people that show. I know sometimes if I feel my group is going to be too over the top I will keep them with me to avoid packing up a crashed bike.

As for people bitching about having to follow someone, you may be in the wrong novice group. If you are being held up then you need to switch to a faster group. There should be no reason to get held up. I know I will spend a ton of time switching people around to get a group that all runs the same pace, this helps both of us as I don't have to wait on one person or have one that is way faster than the rest of the group.

 

So, is passing allowed within the sub groups of N or is that strictly to follow the customer in front of you?

I'd think that riding the CR's ass into/ out of and then waiving at them as they turn around should be a pretty good indicator that you should move to the next sub group. Or Intermediate.

It's not about being held up on the way to the brake marker or while you're crapping your pants and on the brakes 3/4 of the way through the turn trying to prove something to somebody. Just ride and if you can ride under control and mentally relaxed with/behind the CR you should likely roll at the next level.

 

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