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Took my FJR to the California SuperBike School (with pics)!
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<blockquote data-quote="bcutler23693" data-source="post: 1331258" data-attributes="member: 88649"><p>Yes, the FJR is quite larger and heavier than the sport bikes. Fortunately for me, I have never ridden a sport bike (I came from the cruiser world), and therefore, I had no idea what I was missing, lol.</p><p></p><p>The funny thing is that I actually passed a few sport bike during each of my track sessions. Here's what I observed.....if you apply the techniques they teach you correctly, you can drive through a curve at a higher speed than you might think. That's where I was passing other sportbikes (in the curves). I'm sure they were thinking, "how the heck is that FJR passing me??". I even had a student come up to me after a session as say, "Dude, you passed me like 3 or 4 times out there on that big thing!!!"</p><p></p><p>Now the straight aways were a different story. Those sport bikes blew by me!</p><p></p><p>I plan on taking Level III and Level IV next year when they return to VIR and I'm still going to use my bike. I don't want to "taste" a sport bike until I've completed all 4 levels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bcutler23693, post: 1331258, member: 88649"] Yes, the FJR is quite larger and heavier than the sport bikes. Fortunately for me, I have never ridden a sport bike (I came from the cruiser world), and therefore, I had no idea what I was missing, lol. The funny thing is that I actually passed a few sport bike during each of my track sessions. Here's what I observed.....if you apply the techniques they teach you correctly, you can drive through a curve at a higher speed than you might think. That's where I was passing other sportbikes (in the curves). I'm sure they were thinking, "how the heck is that FJR passing me??". I even had a student come up to me after a session as say, "Dude, you passed me like 3 or 4 times out there on that big thing!!!" Now the straight aways were a different story. Those sport bikes blew by me! I plan on taking Level III and Level IV next year when they return to VIR and I'm still going to use my bike. I don't want to "taste" a sport bike until I've completed all 4 levels. [/QUOTE]
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Took my FJR to the California SuperBike School (with pics)!
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