Riding Your R6

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 Ruin A Yamaha R6

Just in case you want to fill your high compression engine with enough water to ruin it, here’s how. I haven’t figured out what exactly motivated this fellow to go off-roading but something did.

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Ride Report: July 4th, 1200 Miles

I wanted to go riding on the Fourth really really really badly but my bike was down because I stripped my drain plug. I was a madman trying to get that all fixed up in time. Fortunately I was able to get if fixed (and also able to write about how to fix it) in time.

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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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