Motorcyclists gain experience in different ways as they learn riding skills and hone them to perfection. Often, riders will practice unsupervised in parking lots or pay for track days, lapping a race course with other riders. Some may pay for guided street instruction. But, tracks, parking lots and street rides don’t truly prepare the rider for the real world.
One of the problems of unsupervised learning is that a rider often develops bad habits that won’t be evident until the time those riding skills are tested for real. It’s important to emphasize correct techniques with an instructor close by to coach proper corrections.
Confusion
Parking lots are size limited, which means speed is limited for the most part, with a few exceptions. Most parking lots are not painted like roadways and don’t have obstacles along the edges like roadways do.
Conversely, most roadways don’t have cones to guide your course. When you choose to use cones to guide your sight lines, you get in the habit of looking for cones. Last time we checked, your line through an intersection or demanding corner was not guided by cones. So by relying on this method, your speed and closure cues are jammed into your brain out of context.
Track Day!
Track days are great for teaching you how to anticipate cornering and braking at high rates of speed. Cornering skills and braking confidence are greatly enhanced. The real world does not look like the track, is not engineered like a track, nor does it allow for errors when you set up for a corner incorrectly. You also train your brain to look for ways to be faster, not necessarily safer in a real world environment. Supervised street riding is probably the best way to teach you what to look for and how to react, but the problem with the street is that there is very little safety mitigation. In other words, you can’t control other drivers, animals, pavement condition, or other obstacles you may encounter.
For these reasons, we have designed a facility that will vastly improve your skill set and maximize your chances of taking the right action when that action has to be automatic.