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Main Area => Odds n Ends => Topic started by: annguyen1981 on June 01, 2006, 08:25:10 PM

Title: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: annguyen1981 on 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...

(http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/3023/hcc2mt.jpg)
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: pantablo on June 01, 2006, 09:02:15 PM
when you say "speed bumps, do you mean "wheelie jumps"?
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Post by: TragicImage on June 01, 2006, 09:09:33 PM
total wheelie jumps.
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Post by: Phaedrus on June 01, 2006, 09:16:33 PM
"nut crackers" is you aren't careful  :laugh:
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Post by: makenzie71 on June 01, 2006, 09:46:44 PM
(http://www.photoartclub.net/holyoke.jpg)
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Post by: skoebl on June 01, 2006, 10:02:21 PM
Lol nice  :laugh:
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: annguyen1981 on June 01, 2006, 10:10:44 PM
That's awesome Mak!! :thumb:

Just to let you know, you counted the number of turns wrong for the Main Course.  There are only 10 turns labeled. :laugh:
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: makenzie71 on 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.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: annguyen1981 on 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.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: makenzie71 on 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.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: pantablo on June 01, 2006, 10:51:56 PM
theres definitely a turn between T4 and T5. that rocks.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: 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
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: Alphamazing on 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.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: makenzie71 on 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.
Title: Re: I found a great twisties practice area
Post by: annguyen1981 on 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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