pandy's First Track Day (She SUCKS! LOL)

[jserio]

could always be worse. glad to see you're doing well. 

[Domindart]

thanks for replying pandy. 

[yamahonkawazuki]

Hey pandy, if you want i can make the series of photos into a slideshow, with your permission of course, perhaps even set to music    , jus lemme know

[pantablo]

girlfriend, how many times have we talked about going down  .

come out to streets oct 29-30 for the sportbikeswest.com 20-day event ($99/day!). I'll show you some good lines and a few tricks...

let me know when you're going to bw...I'll try to make it. You know, they call me "mr. Buttonwillow"...

glad you're okay. now STOP IT.

[yamahonkawazuki]

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[Roadstergal]

Ouch.    But I'm glad you're OK!

I really recommend some dirt riding (or supermoto - you can take the SM school out here!).  It has several really good outcomes.  It helps you get used to the feeling of the bike moving under you, and how to react to unexpected situations calmly, without panicking.  It helps you learn how to ride properly when you lose traction.  And, of course, it will help you do the right thing when you go off into the dirt.

Dirt and SM have done incredible things for my track competence and my street safety.

(I remember at the recent 250cc MotoGP race, Simoncelli went off the track during qualifying.  He used the throttle to spin the rear and turn the bike, and avoid going headfirst into the wall.  Another kid on a 250 went off into the dirt during the race, grabbed the brake, and hit the ground.  Dirt exeperience helps you even at that level!)

[pandy]

Hey pandy, if you want i can make the series of photos into a slideshow, with your permission of course, perhaps even set to music    , jus lemme know

What music?  

girlfriend, how many times have we talked about going down  .
let me know when you're going to bw...I'll try to make it. You know, they call me "mr. Buttonwillow"...

Bahaha! I've never had a man say he didn't want me to go down.    We're still working out the details on BW....the date being bandied about now is Oct 14th..... I could use some of your good lines and....er....tricks...

I really recommend some dirt riding (or supermoto - you can take the SM school out here!). 

Dirt/SM are definitely on the agenda. I was actually signed up for SM school when the cager hit me in early June. I started in dirt earlier this year, and I'm definitely going to get a dirt bike and a toy hauler and a ...and a..... and a million more things..... soon. 

[Roadstergal]

D'oh!  Stupid cagers!

Brok's school is the shizz.  I'd go ahead and rent one of his bikes for it; show up and hop on.  The next school is in Stockton, to go along with the SMUSA round...

[pandy]

D'oh!  Stupid cagers!

Brok's school is the shizz.  I'd go ahead and rent one of his bikes for it; show up and hop on.  The next school is in Stockton, to go along with the SMUSA round...

I'll definitely check into Brok's! I much prefer the idea of destroying riding the school's bike! 

[pantablo]

girlfriend, how many times have we talked about going down  .

Bahaha! I've never had a man say he didn't want me to go down.   

I didnt say anything about not going down...

oct 14th eh? I'll see if I can scrounge some cash for that. who is it with?

[yamahonkawazuki]

Hey pandy, if you want i can make the series of photos into a slideshow, with your permission of course, perhaps even set to music    , jus lemme know

What music?  

something both fitting and respectful. so how you doin today oh gorgeous one

[joshr08]

glad your ok but after reviewing all your pics i think i seen where you went wrong.  in the one pic right before you hit the ground you had a hand full of front brakes. not sure if anyone else noticed that or not.  something im tring to teach my wife not to do on our new to us suzuki dr 125 that we just got for her to learn how to ride on.

[bikejunkie223]

I looked at the photos too, and i too see where you went wrong. When you were crashing and eating dirt you should have been turning!

[jserio]

i think she knows what she did wrong. one of those, "oh f%$k why did i do that?" moments eh? besides, this is pandy we're talking about. did you guys really expect her to have a track day and not crash?  an e-beer for pandy! 

[Roadstergal]

This is what happened when I was too grabby with the front brake in my first Supermoto race.



Hobbling around on crutches for a few months does wonders to make you not snatch at the fecking front brake.  Using it smoothly, good.  Grab, bad.   

[natedawg120]

This is what happened when I was too grabby with the front brake in my first Supermoto race.

Hobbling around on crutches for a few months does wonders to make you not snatch at the fecking front brake.  Using it smoothly, good.  Grab, bad.   

that sucks.  I haven't put my new bike down yet but I have had the ass puckering moment of panic breaking the gixxer like i did my GS, that learned me real quick.  I promptly went to a parking lot and practiced just a little more, just like i do every spring as a refresher

The police don't like practicing though, since when does practicing in a parking lot = stunting, stupid college town....

[pandy]

This is what happened when I was too grabby with the front brake in my first Supermoto race. Hobbling around on crutches for a few months does wonders to make you not snatch at the fecking front brake.  Using it smoothly, good.  Grab, bad.   

OUCH!!!!!! Your lesson was a bit more brutal than mine (though it still hurts to cough, laugh, and sneeze  )! You look as though you're enjoying some fine pharmaceuticals in the second pic?? Or is that just exhaustion and pain. 

something both fitting and respectful. so how you doin today oh gorgeous one

Well...ok..but I skurrd!!! 

I looked at the photos too, and i too see where you went wrong. When you were crashing and eating dirt you should have been turning!

HAHAHA!!!!  Yes, I should have been turning...  And I was glad to get the pictures, because that allowed me to see that besides turning, I shouldn't have been grabbing a handful. 

i think she knows what she did wrong. one of those, "oh f%$k why did i do that?" moments eh? besides, this is pandy we're talking about. did you guys really expect her to have a track day and not crash?  an e-beer for pandy! 

That's *exactly* what I was thinking.....right after saying to myself, "oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh******t!!!"  As for the rest. 

[frankieG]

i volunteer to nurse you back to health 

[pandy]

i volunteer to nurse you back to health 

 

[frankieG]

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