Racing The R6

Top Nine Instructional Motorcycle Racing Books

I am building this list of top ten instructional sportbike racing books with the acknowledgement that some people are going to have different opinions. Thus, I am going to create a nomination list from comments after this is published. My criteria for a great instructional guide is fairly simple. The author must have credible racing [...]

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Ben Spies Talks About Racing

These are some really interesting and informative interviews. Ben talks about his methods of training and preperation as well as how he learns a track. For those of you who are reading this off the RSS feed (i.e. you aren’t at r6blog.com) you will need to follow this link to watch the videos. For those [...]

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Proper Body Positioning

The more I learn about proper body postitioning the more I realize I don’t know anything. This racer gives a great tutorial on common mistakes made in aggressive riding. Video Link Video Link

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How To Shift Your Yamaha R6 Smoothly and Quickly

The best way to preserve your clutch and shift super fast and smoothly is called preloading. I’ll break it down as simple as possible. 1. When preparing to shift put pressure on the shift lever in the direction you are going to shift. Not enough so that you shift without the clutch but enough so [...]

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Race Settings Sheet… The Paper Remembers So You Don’t Have To

If you are cool then you do a little more than street riding, you get out on the track. If you are double cool you get your mojo, health insurance premiums up, DOT race tires, and go RACE! If you race, you need this. The Super Deluxe Race Settings Sheet RS1000. Gasp at its elegance, [...]

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