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I hope that once everything with lockdown settles again, I can ask nearby go-kart places whether they have any way of facilitating it.
For the last year I’ve tried to get my instructor to get some cheap minimotos and set us up a little cone track in his training area. But then again I was also trying to get him to extend his fences into the little area of trees and build a tiny trials track too!
On the topic of direct transfer of race skills, the XJ and I had a relatively good ride today. I’m learning what it needs to run properly, and that I’m just too snappy with the controls and need to put a moment of pause between clutch/throttle blip-or-chop/gear shift, and to be sure that I’ve been resting a foot on the lever to get a preload. Very few clunks today and mostly just positive clicks. The main bad shifts were lacking finesse and attention, such as not moving the throttle as far as I had assumed.
Only 60 miles or thereabouts, but the roads were so dry I started playing with my body position. Cars were certainly giving more room behind me as I began hanging off the side on sweeping turns!
Definitely getting more comfortable with its personality as a bike, that I’m moving my body more.
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I think it’s the way forward. Tyres last forever, cheap, chill, friendly people and just as directly transferable to big bike.
Only fly in my ointment is I’ve got to pull the sodding engine and split it to fix 6th gear jumping out.