my first trackday

[feminine adrenaline]

hi just wondering if some of you could give bit of help as to where i should do my first track day? and whether to do it on my own bike or not? ive been riding now for 15mnths and am from staffs area not sure which company or club to go with?

thanx

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THIS will get you started.

[feminine adrenaline]

cheers joe will try to get in touch to book up

[MarJay]

I'd reccomend Snetterton as a good track for your first trackday!
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[Zimbo]

Bit far from Staffordshire though!

Do it on your own bike.
Choose a track not too challenging (perhaps avoid Oulton Park as it's fairly technical, Mallory Park is cheap, easy to learn, novice friendly and not too far from you.
Book into Novice group.
Enjoy. take advice on bike prep.

Company - I favour No Limits, but Hottrax or Focused Events are also good.

[Adam_P]

Donington Park. It's big, plenty of space, its a nice flowing track and there's good facilities etc.
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[Shaun]

I'm in staffs as well, Darley moor isn't too far from us, a very basic and unintimidating place for a first trackday. The only downside being that for the £100 they charge you could be doing somewhere like Cadwell park that's much more fun, more technical but also more fun.

[Zimbo]

[Snake Eyes]

I did Rockingham for my first track day, two months after I passed my test it was really good fun though. I have also done Snetterton which is nice and easy to learn with nice big straights I just managed to get 130 on the back straight which is the fastest ive ever been on it. but the only trouble I found with snetterton was I was on a 600 so everyone seemed to power away on the straights with their R1's Fireblades and 750's.

But you could do worse than rockingham there are lots of corners but still fairly easy to get to know whats comming next.
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[MementoMori]

Sorry to go off topic, but reading through the costs of UK track days is shocking! Just did a track day here in NZ for $40... that's like less than 15 quid.

Bloody ridiculous prices back home. Don't miss that at all.

Good luck with it though, stupid amounts of fun when you get out there. Very addictive too.
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[oddkid]

Yeah, i'm doing a trackday next month with a group and its still costing £85. prices are ridiculous, especially this time of year when the weather could be so bad it gets rained off.
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[G]

Yours are a load cheaper, but then reading your post, seems you don't get quite so much; 4 sessions, what you describe as almost a pothole forming in one corner.
Supposed to be restricted 120km/h in novice - just that they let people wearing draggin jeans onto a track day would worry me (though you say they don't in a faster group so not so bad).

Unfortunately due to space / noise considerations there's relatively few tracks in the UK, so they’re in higher demand. Also, safety tends to be taken a bit more seriously.
Tracks in spain can be very cheap, however we were generally a bit worried when we found they had no marshals and couldn’t even find the key for the control tower.
After two riders collided, one actually went back on foot to see if there was the other rider still unconscious in a bush somewhere .

[ninja6]

Did my first track day in Feb at Brands Hatch with Focused Events. Brilliant day and a well run day too, so much so that im going again at the end of march. Six 20 minute sessions with a break for lunch in the middle and on the day i went 3 instructors to give advise and take you round if you wished. They also had a photographer around the track all day so you could buy photos of yourself at the end of the day.

[Gazdaman]

From where you are I'd probably go for Mallory.

I did Snetterton as my first, looking back it was probably a perfect first track day. A more technical track may have detracted from the enjoyment.

But seriously, where ever you go, whatever track it is, you'll love it.

Gaz

[Kickstart]

Hi

You are in North Staffs. Oulton is probably your closest track (spent the day there today taking photographs), although Three Sisters is close (small kart track, used for some bike track days, best for Supermotos) as is Darley Moor.

Donington is not that far away. Pretty good facilities, and easy to get to.

I would say take your own bike but just take it easy as you get used to the environment. If it is a hire bike then you won't be used to it, and many hire companies will stop you going out again should you lob one of their bikes down the track.

All the best

Keith
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[feminine adrenaline]

thanks to all of you for your advice on track days, im so looking forward to doing one now i was just a bit worried about binning my precious boy!!!

but i suppose ive just got to go for it, cant spend time pondering!!

[tracyb]

Hello

May I recommend this for your first time.

I only passed my test in November 06, and I've already done 2 track days, 1st was at Anglesey and the 2nd at Brands.

It's a brilliant way to improve cornering skills. I'm not fast but once you get over the initial nerves, it's such a blast whatever your ability.

Beware, you'll be hooked!
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[Simple]

Mallory is a nice easy track,

I did my track day on my own bike so I didn't spend half the day getting to know an unknown ride.

nolimits track days provide as much free tuition all day long as you wish to take on board...
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[krebsy]

I'm off to Silverstone at the end of the month and just watched the track vids that have been posted. The commentator kept going on about how slippery the track was...

Will give it a go, won't be blasting around at 140mph dow the start/finish straight though..

K.
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[Gazdaman]

People talk about some tracks being more slippery than others, I've never noticed any difference tbh. Maybe others are much closer to the edge of grip.

Silverstone is fine, and if you're on a litre bike, I bet you do hit 140, it comes and goes far too quickly.

Gaz

[Simple]

I was told how slippery gerrard was/is if you take a wide line, at one point I took a very wide almost grassy line but was fine...
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[krebsy]

Well I'll be on a 97bhp 600 so 125 is more like it..

K.
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[Simple]

I ride a 46.4bhp GPZ.. it still hits 125 down the straight, and around gerrards with no braking
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