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Originally Posted by DLIT
Where's the knee down in the wet pics? How did you adjust your positioning on your bike in the wet?
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Originally Posted by PhiSig1071
Don't know about the pics, but body position is WAY off the bike. I have drug knee in the rain on a set of DOT's.
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Originally Posted by DLIT
That's what I figured, I was hoping to get input since he was at a school. maybe they knowledged him.
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There was no photog at the Roadracing school so I don't have pics unfortunately. However I guarantee I'll have some wet races next year and then I'll have some
PhiSig is right about body position. There are only a few differences between dry and wet, really.
Basically you need to hang off a lot... but I hang off a lot already so it's the same.
You should always be smooth, but this is exaggerated in the wet because the amount of "un-smooth" you can get away with is decreased.
The biggest difference that I noticed was combining your actions (or not, rather). Basically, it seemed to me like rain tires could brake, accelerate, and lean pretty fucking well, say like 75% of what you can do in the dry. However, you can only do ONE of those at a time... make sense?
There are also a few line changes you make at NHMS in the wet, mainly in turn 2.
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Originally Posted by Ebbs15
I'm really interested in that sort of racing... I'd really like to learn more about it... just seems more my speed I think... steady... ya know?
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Endurance racing isn't slow by any means... from what I know, you basically have a team of guys who ride one bike one at a time... you run the equivalent of a race or a GP, then pit in and fuel the bike up, let the next guy know a couple tips, and send him out. It's like a relay race... you still race just as hard, but it's a long battle. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about all that though...