by HondaGalToo
Ok, so I’ve been doing trackdays since 1995 and have taken several schools/instructional days over the years. I’d always wanted to add the Yamaha Champions Riding School (formerly Freddie Spencer School) to that list, but flying out to UT or NV made it cost- and vacation time- prohibitive. When the opportunity arose to take a private school organized by a fellow NESBA member at my home track, NJ Motorsports Park, I seized the opportunity and signed up. I’d heard that this school, unlike the others, teaches trailbraking, and that was my main impetus for wanting to take it. I’d been trained my entire riding career to only brake whilst the bike was straight up, get off the brakes, and then turn in. I was therefore skeptical about the whole trailbraking “mystique”. I was doubtful. I was nervous. I thought if I ever tried trailbraking I would fall down. I figured it was a technique useful and necessary for racers, but not for an average trackday/street rider like me.
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