It was actually two sessions close to each other. I already paid for the training and was nervous how I’d do on the track.
My friends called me a week before inviting me to go to an open track day with them. The registration process is quite simple, go in, pay, get a sticker, good to go…
Needless to say I was the slowest one. It’s an addiction. By the end of the first 20 minutes round I was able to touch the ground with the pegs. Both sides.
During the next session I was much more confident that resulted in nearly going off track a friend of mine ended up in the dirt.
Still we had a lot of fun and the rubber finally started to look impressive.
The training
The training was much more structured. We started with a short theoretical intro to cornering and the track, then proceeded to go around with 30 then 40 and 50 km/h without using the breaks to get comfortable on the track.
Then after a deeper technical discussion on each corner individually we were separated into three groups and and started going around after the trainer with different rider in second place.
We got really comfortable with riding close to each other and by the time we got to the free riding part we were able to do a decent speed on the track.
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