Unfortunately, I'm not sure even I know! I'm doing a lot of seat of my pants riding right now on that track.
Well, that sounds like a problem. You should be able to at least describe how you do some turns.
After I have ridden a track, I write down everything I did. This helps me to review myself. I also do it so I can look back at it to see how my riding is evolving.
In fact, I keep a journal of all my track day/racing. I write down notes about the track like what gearing I used, type of gas, tires, etc, etc. It all helps. Try it next time you go out. Seat of the pants riding is fun but you have to ask yourself if that’s all you want.
You can follow a faster rider around and probably drop your lap time. But if your not sure what or how you did it, next time out you may fine yourself back to square one.
But keep in mine that my times were on a 2000 748. And there’s no way a FZR 400 can keep up with that. It may have a better chance against my 93 750SS. But I have a lot more torque than your 400 and can get off the corns a lot harder.
But you’re not doing all that bad. I was timing some guys on much more powerful and newer bikes than yours. And they were in the 1:40’s and up. So don’t knock yourself too hard. I think though that if you want to be more competitive, you will need a different bike. The FZR400’s was a great bike for its day. But if you're just out there to have fun, well that bike is fine. Just MO.
I heard there was a big turn out this last weekend and that the track record is now down to 1:20 something. :eek: I think the guy that did that was Dave Roy, an X Ducati racer and now on the USA Ducati factory team as support. Dang, I ant going to beat that lap time anytime soon. :(
