Learning to Ride (Track vs Street)

[CrazyKell]

In my opinion track riding is an amazing tool that can teach you a lot of skills transferrable to the street.

The track can teach you how to react in certain situations and more importantly care and control of your bike. A lot of people are just unaware of what their bike is capable of and it clouds their reactions, leading to incidents.

[z06boy]

I can see track riding 'helping' you ride on the street but by no means will is help as much as actually riding on the street. Urban riding is totally different and although track riding will help...you'll still be a n00b when you hit the city...it's just totally different.

Riding out in the country and in the mountains I can see track experience helping a great deal more.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by z06boy

I can see track riding 'helping' you ride on the street but by no means will is help as much as actually riding on the street. Urban riding is totally different and although track riding will help...you'll still be a n00b when you hit the city...it's just totally different.

Riding out in the country and in the mountains I can see track experience helping a great deal more.

I have a friend of mine who lives upstate and has good roads right in his backyard. Up there I can barely keep up with him, bu the knows the roads and is a skilled rider. We came down to NYC for a bike night and it was like night and day in dealing with traffic and weaving through stuff. Every few lights we had to wait till he caught up to us.