I found a great twisties practice area

annguyen1981 · June 01, 2006, 08:25:10 PM

Here in Holyoke, MA.

Holyoke Community College... The campus is surrounded by the main drive... The only bad thing is that there are around 6 speed bumps...

pantablo · June 01, 2006, 09:02:15 PM

when you say "speed bumps, do you mean "wheelie jumps"?

TragicImage · June 01, 2006, 09:09:33 PM

total wheelie jumps.

Phaedrus · June 01, 2006, 09:16:33 PM

"nut crackers" is you aren't careful

makenzie71 · June 01, 2006, 09:46:44 PM

skoebl · June 01, 2006, 10:02:21 PM

Lol nice

annguyen1981 · June 01, 2006, 10:10:44 PM

That's awesome Mak!!

Just to let you know, you counted the number of turns wrong for the Main Course. There are only 10 turns labeled.

makenzie71 · June 01, 2006, 10:14:20 PM

Yeah I wrote the side thingy before labelling the turns....then was too lazy to fix it...

Actually I think I counted that little thing right after T4 when I did the side thingy...which I guess could be a turn, but I bet you could pull right into that straight out of T4.

That and I think the distances for the T series and A series should be swapped...The A series looks a lot longer than the T.

annguyen1981 · June 01, 2006, 10:44:26 PM

Right after T4 you could definitely go straight. Of course there's a wheel jump right there tho.

I'm gonna send that pic you made to a friend who rides also. I met him at this college.

makenzie71 · June 01, 2006, 10:48:30 PM

send it to whoever...lol. If I were you I'd print out about 50 with "Free Track Day next Saturday" written across the bottom and stick them up all over campus.

pantablo · June 01, 2006, 10:51:56 PM

theres definitely a turn between T4 and T5. that rocks.

annguyen1981 · June 01, 2006, 10:54:45 PM

Maybe a slight turn, but IMO nothing to point out on a map. You can see T5 from T4. In a car you HAVE to turn, but on a bike you could go almost straight

Alphamazing · June 01, 2006, 11:00:17 PM

Quote from: annguyen1981 on June 01, 2006, 10:54:45 PM
Maybe a slight turn, but IMO nothing to point out on a map. You can see T5 from T4. In a car you HAVE to turn, but on a bike you could go almost straight

Nah, I think the way you'd exit out of turn 4 would force you to have to flop the bike left, thus making it a turn.

makenzie71 · June 01, 2006, 11:01:26 PM

^that's what I was thinking when I counted it. You could pull it off without having to counter, but you'd have to take the corner real slow.

annguyen1981 · June 01, 2006, 11:09:57 PM

Good point. I didn't even think about that... I'm used to taking that corner at around 15 mph.

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I found a great twisties practice area