Have you ever been in "The Zone"?

[el medico]

I'm sure each of you have your own ideas and versions of "the zone" but for me today, it was an amazing experience.

After a hard afternoon of cleaning the bike, the chain, and installing the R&G frame sliders and GSXR pegs  by myself, I took the hoopty out for a ride. Once on the freeway, the exhilarating feeling of the sixth gear, 7K RPM roll on took over and I felt like the bike and I became so in tune. I went out to my local canyons here in San Diego and almost had a euphoric buzz as I leaned side to side zipping through each curve. I was focused. I was fast. I was free.

Like all good things, it came to an end when my bike sputtered into the reserves, so I took the rest of the ride easy on the way back to the gas station.

So tell me, fellow GStwinners, have you ever been in "the zone"?

[motoarch]

I love days like that.  Usually it happens for me at the track.

[jestercinti]

Yep. Today actually.

I live in Cincinnati, wife is in Indianapolis for the weekend. She called to tell me that snow was coming and needed boots, gloves, etc for her and our son.

Loaded up the book bag, strapped to my back, and off I went. Met 1/2 way cause the temp was going from 55 south fast.

Got behind some guy in a Lexus. He was going fasst. Stayed behind him the whole way. Everything was in rhythm. Like I was being towed.

Got to my destination, made the handoff, and had to high-tail it home.  Getting cold with snow coming. No one in front of me, not a car on the road, just me, the high beams, and a million white dashes on the road.

Didn't even see the "welcome to Ohio" sign. Just in the moment...me, machine, and mission.

Good times.


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[Suzuki Stevo]

I use to get in the "Zone" riding dirt bikes, getting in the "Zone" on the street can get very expensive very fast.

[pliskin]

Yea, I get in the zone all the time. Especially after I pound a NOS or Monster energy drink. Really lets you focus. Some times I get into what I call the "tunnel". The tunnel is something I've just started experiencing on my VFR800. I twist the throttle and it's like when Han Solo puts the Millennium Falcon into hyper drive and the stars fly by like light steaks. I can compare it to holding on to an electric fence and you just can't let go. Or, like going over the top of a roller coaster with a rocket motor.....it's dizzying. On a 1-10 scale with 1 being wide awake and 10 being passing out. I'd say it's about a 9.

[stokes776]

On my trip from Illinois to South Carolina on my GS. Coming into Charleston on I26, it was either 4 or five lanes wide, pretty heavy traffic.  I was going a good clip above what I should have been, but everything just felt right. Day before had spent riding The Dragons Tail. Had spent that morning come down out of the mountains into the rising sun, beautiful scenery, and now you could just start to smell the salt water in the air. Throttle felt great, and the clutch was smooth as silk shifting down for power, up once I got that power.  There was a guy in some type of sporty looking car, might have been an Audi, made eye contact and he started zipping around traffic on this four or five lane highway.  I was matching him maneuver for maneuver (passing traffic), sometimes lanes apart and then we would come back to the same lanes.

This lasted for maybe 10-15 miles and was probably really dangerous in hindsight, but only for the excess speed, all lane changes were done safely (None of that cutting 5 feet in front of a car)!

[el medico]

It's a shame that the nearest track to me is in LA. To be in the zone, and at a track sounds like heaven...

[Calpantera]

It's a shame that the nearest track to me is in LA. To be in the zone, and at a track sounds like heaven...

Autoclub Speedway Trackday on the 19th of next month, its what 1.5 - 2 hours up the 15 from SD to Riverside? I live about halfway in Murrieta..
http://trackdayriders.com/index.php?action=eventdetail&eventid=7167

I love that track, even took the 300C out on it once.

Here is some vid from a trackday at Autoclub speedway on an R6 (Not me BTW)