Cornering

[Matt Leech]

...during hard acceleration/braking, and countless times hitting the rev limiter.

So here I am, cornering like I've never cornered before, doing all that wild accelerating and braking, and jamming the rev needle at the top of the gauge as often as I dare.

The bike still carried me home without a grumble, and seems more than happy back on its daily commute gliding through the traffic.

https://motovlog.com/threads/donington-park-final-session-2-x-drift-ghost-4k-cams.16449/

Cheers!

 

[Superballs]

I know what you mean and this was on my mind during the day during hard acceleration/braking, and countless times hitting the rev limiter.

However, aren't our bikes made to cope with this kind of thing from somebody like me who is never going to push the bike to the same levels that a professional would?

What do you think? Will five, twenty-minute sessions, one per hour, really be that bad for my machine?

Most likely but my bike is near 20 years old with 121,000km on it. That's why I would want the same bike with lower km. That and the accelerated wear and tear could leave me without a bike for periods of time I deem unacceptable. I rely on my daily and being without it is disruptive enough that I don't want to do it.

 

[Superballs]

Of course its possible for anyone to kill a bike engine... Look at the morons who rev limit their bike until it catches fire

Doing a track day shouldn't damage the engine as long as its been properly serviced and maintained.
If anything is not right like valve timing, oil levels, seals, clean filters etc then it can fail catastrophically under such stresses.

An engine that isn't maintained will eventually fail in some way with normal road use.
On a track it happens a lot sooner because its all being pushed harder so its like compressing time of normal use.

Again in the case of my bike. It's almost 20 years old and has high mileage as it is. It was clear the PO cared for the bike and maintained it but wasn't necessarily savvy about everything. I'm actually confident it could withstand some track use but there are so many factors that make me not want to use my only bike on the track. I rely on having it and even the risk of badly damaging it in a crash would be fairly disruptive to me.

Having a second bike strictly for the track is really my only option as riding is not just something I do for leisure.

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Number of bikes required = number of bikes owned + 1

 

[Superballs]

Number of bikes required = number of bikes owned + 1

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