Brands Hatch GP Track Day - 6th August 2024 - Adv. Group Session 2 - Triumph ST 765 RS

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  • Опубліковано 13 гру 2024

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  • @7omBurrows
    @7omBurrows 2 місяці тому

    Nice riding, I'm really tempted to get a 765RS as my next track-bike. Quite a few riders in this group look like they should be in novice/intermediate!

  • @twistandgo3414
    @twistandgo3414 4 місяці тому

    Another nice few laps there! Bikes going great! 😎👌. Nice riding.

    • @somotorrad5509
      @somotorrad5509  4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks 👍 watching my own footage from just a month before, seeing where I can improve and getting the chance to have another go so soon definitely helps.

  • @timwilson3871
    @timwilson3871 4 місяці тому

    Going really well there. I was also there that day but was in Inters on an MT10. I’m thinking of either getting Tuono Factory or Street Triple RS

    • @somotorrad5509
      @somotorrad5509  4 місяці тому

      Thanks 👍 So many to choose from and I have tried to ride most of them. I test rode a 2020 Tuono Factory. Very nice front end feel, but very cramped, especially compared to the MT10. Definitely one to try before you buy, if you haven’t already. The 765 is great on road, just enough for me. On track it is a brilliant manageable tool to develop your skills. Obviously the power becomes a limiting factor to lap-times eventually, if that matters.

  • @verdeboyo
    @verdeboyo 4 місяці тому

    Hey Sir, I shared garage with you and your Mrs. You kindly helped me with my paddock stand on RSV4-RF for my session in Inters. Great footage👍🏻I really need to step up. How did you find it the first time you moved up to Advanced?

    • @somotorrad5509
      @somotorrad5509  4 місяці тому +2

      Hi there, I remember, lovely bike. I’ll come and say hello if I see you on another day. It was a while ago for me now, just because I’ve been riding for years, including track-days. Big differences in speed and unpredictable lines causes problems, which I’ve experienced and no doubt you will have seen. I guess it comes down to experience, confidence and honesty. In the advanced group especially I find riders will appear up the inside of you on the brakes into corners (especially me trying to get past on my slower bike!), so you need to be experienced enough not to be surprised and confident enough to adjust your line a bit without them distracting you. Many more days out on track is the best way to find out! 😁

    • @verdeboyo
      @verdeboyo 4 місяці тому

      ​@@somotorrad5509 Hey, thank you so much for very detailed reply. I'll definitely keep that in mind when I feel the time is right, but for now I'll just keep dodging the slower riders in Inters. Many thanks again friend👍🏻

  • @rtg1018
    @rtg1018 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for sharing another great video. Your riding looks very consistent and helps me to see where the best lines are through the course. Some other riders seem more intent on making a pass instead of displaying finesse in controlling their bikes.
    I see that you've changed the display screen style to choice number 4 for this video. In one of your comments to a previous video, you echoed the concern that many owners of this bike have about the lack of readability of this display while riding. I share this concern as well. I have been using style number 2 because that has a prominent digital tachometer in the upper center of the display, along with the speedometer and gear indicator. I don't really prefer a digital tach, as that is not as easy to monitor as an nicely designed analog style tach, but I find it easier to read then the graphic "butterfly" style tachs these bikes come with. Is there a reason you don't use the digital tach choice in your display set-ups? Do you make use of the large speedometer reading while riding on track days? If yes, can you help me to understand where the speedometer readout is useful?
    I see when the traction control symbol lights up briefly as you exit most corners. Is the traction control activating due to the bike wanting to spin the tires, or to control the lifting of the front wheel, or perhaps some of both?

    • @somotorrad5509
      @somotorrad5509  4 місяці тому +1

      Thank you very much 👍 I took a step back this time to slow down a bit more in the turns and get pointed in the right direction to get on the throttle as soon as possible for the straights in particular, where I lose time on the bigger bikes. Ground clearance is a limiting factor here, as I don’t have racing rear-sets.
      This is why the traction warning is coming on so much, it is through spinning up marginally, not wheelying. You cannot feel it intervening, if it really is with this small amount of slip? It may be just allowing this much slip in the track setting. It’s not intrusive though or even dangerous like some older systems, but it does completely intrude into wheelies. The bike is perfectly manageable without it, which is good as I hope to be returning to Cadwell soon. There I switched it off permanently to stop it cutting in too soon whilst needing to wheelie over ‘the mountain’. I have it switched off on the road all the time. Triumph need to separate slip and lift at least, like Yamaha and others.
      I was trying out the screen settings to see if I could make it any clearer and simpler to read just for the footage! It is pointless on track, completely unreadable in any setting. Thankfully I know what gear I’m in on track, because I am counting them up and down in my head generally, to hit my ‘markers’. As for the rev-limiter, I’m just listening to this quiet stock exhaust and guessing. I hit the rev-limiter often because it is still gaining power at that point, which is frustrating. It needs a higher rev limit and at least a bright flashing programmable rev light.

    • @rtg1018
      @rtg1018 4 місяці тому

      Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the lack of usability of the display. I sometimes jokingly refer to the display design by Triumph as being an intentional safety feature. They knowingly made it useless so that riders will keep their eyes focused on the road or track instead of staring at the display.
      On a more serious note, I usually don't focus much on the display, and particularly the tach, once I am used to riding a bike, as I can recognize through engine sound and feel what the rev range is. But, it is always nice to at least have a display that you can look at in a glance to keep tabs on where things are when you need to confirm what's going on, such as monitoring your speed if you are concerned about getting ticketed. Fortunately, speeding fines are not a big concern for me because little is done to enforce limits where I ride in Thailand.
      One of the future model iterations of the Street Triple will likely be touted by Triumph as having a fantastic new display that you can actually read while in motion! Then as their marketing strategy will probably go, everyone with an older model will want to trade theirs in to get the new features.