How to - make a good thread go bad.!!!..

[JetPilot]

Lets get another angle on turn 2. I like to take a little wider line through there.
Go lucky 88.

[robracer]

is that the birdman up your arse?

[Wattie]

yeah, holding the 10's up...

Geez. you should be in green group Rod

[JetPilot]

is that the birdman up your arse?

Yes it is.

yeah, holding the 10's up...

Geez. you should be in green group Rod

No Dave im not holding him up, I over took him on a 600.

[Wattie]

is that the birdman up your arse?

Yes it is.

yeah, holding the 10's up...

Geez. you should be in green group Rod

No Dave im not holding him up, I over took him on a 600.

it seems that bike, has a problem with 600's

Jeebz was getting buzzed by them at the FX round today too

[Nick]

EC LAP GUIDE. courtesy of Manning C Grader


Turn 1 - This is a fast left hander. A left-hander means "turn left" and not "go straight on" as a remarkable number of people seem to. Watch out for all those road-registered "fully sick" 2005 GSXR-1000s that blew past you on the straight at 280 ks slowing down to 100.

Turn 2 - The most important corner at the track, as this is where Tim Munro will usually be taking photos, so turn out your knees, girls! This is a double-apex that is slightly off-camber and uphill, as is the gravel on the final third. Try not to put your rear tyre directly on the massive crack in the middle of the pavement unless you have snowmobiling experience. Also try not to do this corner in first gear unless you are on a RC-211V.

Turn 3 - The first of the three genuine right-handers at EC (there are two bogus ones). A late apexing beauty that provides plenty of passing opportunities while the folks who shat themselves on Turn 2 are trying to regain their composure. After the turn, aim for the left side of the track so as to get some airtime on the motocross jump they kindly installed at the top of the hill.

Turn 4 - A positive-cambered right hander. Being positive cambred it is harder to get your knee down, unless you apex the turn too fine in which case you will repeatedly smack your knee on the blue and white concrete lumps called "ripple" strips. This can unsettle the front, particularly when you're not on the bike anymore. A good opportunity here to reduce lap times by going straight and skipping turns 5-9.

Turn 5 - A negatively cambered uphill left-hander. Negative cambre means "don't lean over as much as you might want to". If you fail to heed this rule, then at least try to pick some fresh asphalt to dig, as some of the footpeg exit lines across the track are turning into drainage channels. It's also uphill, so if you don't know what "torque" is, you've just learned what it isn't.

Turn 6 - A pseudo-right hander designed to interfere with your setting-up for turn 7. Avoid the concrete strip on damp/wet days unless you have the previously mentioned snowmobiling experience.

Turn 7 - A challenging left-hander due to the the total lack of any agreement as to where the best turning point is. Consequently you can get T-boned from just about any direction. Plenty of opportunities to pass the people who forgot that there was an uphill drive after the turn and are busy down-shifting. The long white line ahead is a hallmark of the brief period where they toyed with the idea of turning EC into a 2-laned highway.

Turn 8 - Left hander. The entry can be dangerous due to the "fully sick" GSXR-1000 guys (see turn 1) looking up to see if their girlfriends are watching them from the footbridge. Choose your braking markers carefully, and we do not recommend you choose a tortoise trying to get back to the pond at turn 5, as some have done.

Turn 9 - A downhill right-hand hairpin. The fully sick brigade have been known to put their feet down for this one. Try to get your braking done early, as the people at turn 4 don't like oncoming traffic.

Turn 10 - Another mini right-hander designed to cut down the number of bikes that wind up at the go-kart track on the property next door, after straightlining turn 11. Provides some of the most entertaining viewing on the entire track, due to people discovering just how hard it is to downshift and flip-flop the bike at the same time.

Turn 11 - The vote to install an "All traffic must turn left" sign at this turn was only narrowly defeated at the ARDC committee meeting. The decision to install a cafe in the run-off area was approved, however.

Turn 12 - Here the ARDC installed a storage pit in case you need water, band-aids, toilet paper, etc. It is conveniently located about 12 inches from the apex of the turn. Try not to run through it. Once you are through, stand the bike up, keep right and secretly tap the lap timer you're not allowed to have. Then do it all over again!
Manning
C Grader
 

[MrWasabi]

Thought id bump this up considering there is a few days till EC and a large number of people in the slower group.

I reckon all this reading im doing wont stay in my head come crunch time anyway.

oh and read the first post of the thread, however Nick's post is quite amusing

[Blurr]

just get the throttle on the stops and lean the farker

[hoffy]

Rob - were you trying to tell Hoffy he'd be faster if he walked?
ty

pfftt...just noticed this post, launching hoff-attack mode !

you say this with an air of "you ride shit slow and Im da man !! "..

well no offence you wanker, but I'd lap the creek way faster than you, if fact Id lap any track faster than you. You think your quick but you havn't been riding with the big boys for over 3 years and let me tell you alot changes in 3 years, and frankly you have no fucking ideaWTF is going on....so fark off... and grow some nuts and get yourself a real bike

Luv Hoff and have a merry fuckin christmas..

[IsleofNinja]

Merry post Haitus Mr Hoffinator

[ty]

Wow - that was a long time coming Mr Hoffinator - I was expecting a rise ages ago!
If you didn't have 1095 cc's on me I'd kick your ass uphill
(I wanna real bike - wait till I get that Lifan 140)

[hoffy]

If you didn't have 1095 cc's on me I'd kick your ass uphill

I cant believe what a wanker you are... ...Id suggest you wake from your dream "Valentino Rossi" and stop living in that fantasy land you have been living in since your variety of stacks 3 years ago..did you bump your head when it fell over?

dude, you seriously have no idea..you think you are an authority on how to ride fast ..you were never that good..yet feel you somehow have the cred to constantly make insinuations about how others ride..you are truly the wanking man's "COMPLETE WANKER"..

go and buy an R1, then you could hand around people with those self-anointed fully-sik like yourself..and tell each other stories of how you scrape elbows

merry xmas-hoff

[hoffy]

ohh yeah, try Net-Rider...you dont have to back anything up there and just talk bullshit all day long..you intelligence level may be more suited to their drab conversations also..

[ty]

- I got nothing

[Wattie]

fark Hoff.

i never realised you were so fast!