Video of GS LC on the track

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Hi All

Cant remember if I have posted this on here before. Just noticed this vid whilst looking through my old youtube vids. Its of me on my old S1000R riding with Dave Halsall at Cadwell a couple of years ago. Watch his lines- very smooth -accurate and flowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5lM40vnhs

Enjoy!!
 
I think you were showing him too much respect ! I had the feeling a few times in the video, you could have nailed him .

Only been to Cadwell once and that was on my Fazer 1000 and I really enjoyed it.
 
I quite enjoyed watching that

I think if you had unleashed that S1000 properly it would have been no contest
I rarely if at all saw the revs go above 9K which ( if anything like the XR) is where the magic happens.
 
thumperbob2002 said:
Hi All

Cant remember if I have posted this on here before. Just noticed this vid whilst looking through my old youtube vids. Its of me on my old S1000R riding with Dave Halsall at Cadwell a couple of years ago. Watch his lines- very smooth -accurate and flowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5lM40vnhs

Enjoy!!
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The lines certainly looked ok to me but is that really the prescribed way to change gear on the track, these days - just pull in the clutch and clunk it down a gear? I'm an inveterate blipper and I haven't been on a track for something like eight or nine years..... :nenau
 
Schtum said:
The lines certainly looked ok to me but is that really the prescribed way to change gear on the track, these days - just pull in the clutch and clunk it down a gear? I'm an inveterate blipper and I haven't been on a track for something like eight or nine years..... :nenau
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Slipper clutches seem to have killed the need to blip. Some'll knock it down two or three and let the clutch sort it.
 
dean0n0 said:
Slipper clutches seem to have killed the need to blip. Some'll knock it down two or three and let the clutch sort it.
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Yes, I suspected as much. However, the fact that Gearshift Assist Pro and similar systems blip the throttle to rev match on downchanges is surely a tacit recognition that it's a desirable thing to do. I much prefer to execute smooth and seamless downchanges by blipping to rev match which obviates the clunk as the dogs engage and I suspect causes much less wear on them.
 
Schtum said:
Yes, I suspected as much. However, the fact that Gearshift Assist Pro and similar systems blip the throttle to rev match on downchanges is surely a tacit recognition that it's a desirable thing to do. I much prefer to execute smooth and seamless downchanges by blipping to rev match which obviates the clunk as the dogs engage and I suspect causes much less wear on them.
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I'm the same but I think the blippers are to allow clutchless down changes (something I used to do years ago when racing two strokes). I'm not convinced about quick shifters, they seem brutal, probably depends on how well they're set up and I'm sure a close box'll help. Even though I've a slipper clutch I still find myself blipping the throttle and feathering the clutch out.
 
Whenever you watch a Cadwell track video it makes the place look flat. Proper roller coaster that place.

A bit of mechanical sympathy feathering the clutch. My old R1100S will have you if you don't or the clutch spines will call it a day. The slipper clutch makes such a difference, just one more thing not to worry about going fast. Ridden a S1000RR around Sneterton and I was wondering how did I cope without one all this time. Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard the BMW system is not kind on the gearbox if taken to the track regularly.
 
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