Ride Faster. Ride Safer.
RIDE FASTER. RIDE SAFER.
ROUNDUP
Extend your classroom to the web
HAVE YOU READ NICK IENATSCH'S best-selling book, "Sport Riding Techniques: How to Develop Real World Skills for Speed, Safety, and Confidence on the Street and Track"? Are you a graduate of Freddie Spencer's High Performance Riding School, where, for 12 years, Ienatsch was the lead instructor? Or, more recently, the Yamaha Champions Riding School, which counts AMA and World Superbike Champions Scott Russell and Ben Spies among its guest instructors? Surely, you've come across Ienatsch's editorials, features and road tests in Motorcyclist, Sport Rider (which he helped found in 1993) and, for the past 12 years, Cycle World.
Now, Ienatsch and fellow YCRS instructor Ken Hill have teamed up to create a new membership website, wwwFasterSafer.com, that professes to "continuously update you with information that improves your riding." So, what do you get for $7.99 per month? A lot, claims Tenatsch, including "street-riding tips, track-day techniques, fitness information, in-the-shop how tos, tests on the latest parts and pieces; think of it as a constantly evolving riding technique magazine.. .in motion." These highly energetic enthusiasts push what they refer to as the "non negotiables" of motorcycle riding. One of these "building blocks" is trail braking, which Ienatsch defines as "the practice of trailing some front-brake pressure into the corner." He writes, "We want to trail brake to control our speed closer to the slowest point of the corner. The closer we get to that point, the easier it is to judge whether we're going too fast or too slow."
AMA Pro SuperSport race-winner Elena Myers spent time last year with Hill at YCRS to refine her speed shedding skills. "We worked on braking to the apex of the corner and how hard you can really use the brakes," she said. "Obviously, when you're trying to find that next second on the racetrack, it's not 11 hraking 100 yacds deeper or anything drastic-it's little improvements that make a big difference." You don't have to be a professional racer like Myers to benefit from www. FasterSafer.com. Recounting a recent conversation with 1969 250cc World Champion Kel Carruthers, Tenatsch says. "Motorcvclin~ is sutmosed to be fun!"
FASTER SAFER.COM
Matthew Miles
