I instructed Hundreds of Track day Fellows in Taupo New Zealand many years ago, sometimes up to 180 riders a day in some cases with actual National Champions as guest coaches for help with the numbers. Anyway my standard guarantee was to any track guy, street rider, beginner Racer if you hired me for 4hrs I'd cut 10 seconds off your best lap time or no Charge. I don't believe in Classroom Bullshit, I could trick my students into going so far out of their comfort zone without them noticing, first just gaining their confidence and just me watching every move they made weather they were following me or them. When they started to realize that they could stay up with me I'd dial it up ever so gently over laps with them following me they'd find a new comfort zone without noticing. By the end of the 4hrs it was always more than 10 Seconds Hahaha 🏴‍☠️🏁

I only started riding motorcycles late in life - at age 50, 4 years ago. I’ve now worked my way up to fast group at our GP track and I try to do at least one track day or training course per month. Absolutely love videos like this which allow me to progress so much faster than just trial and error, or even worse, just doing the same thing over and over every time.

This video is pure gold! To all the young guys wanting to skip a level - watch it again!

I still remember one day in the pool at the Thunderhill Hotel. You told me something that helped me get faster immediately. I pondered this all night because it didn’t make sense at first but you told me “you’re using the brakes too much. Brakes only slow you down” you brought me to my greatest revelation of racing: Use as light and as little brakes as possible to achieve the perfect apex and perfect exit. Still haven’t got it perfect, but much closer! Great video GoGo

Although it goes back almost 40 years, the book "A Twist Of The Wrist" is still a good read.

It must've been a sign for the motorcycle gods that I landed on your video. I've been riding now going on 4 years, with 2 of those on the track as well. I can see now that I've been going at 100% each session, each turn and hearing what you are saying about counter steering and purposfully going slow, makes sense and I hope to remember your words and apply them to next track season. I look forward to more of your videos

Love this video! Great to see you and Derek! Looking forward to the next one.

I love how you add pnboard photage as examples! Awesome learning as allways! Thank you Eric!

Stumbled upon your video and as a newer track rider myself I thoroughly enjoyed it! Your stories and commentary added a great touch. I’m a student of YCRS and really enjoyed how you broke down some of the concepts. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed for more 👍🏻

This is a great format, learned a lot this video. Please make a more detailed video about how to turn the bike quickly, like the way you talked about consciously pushing the bike underneath and applying the pressure on the bar while releasing the break simultaneously.....many thanks, cheers

Thanks GoGo and also huge thanks for taking one for the team Derek! 😁 This a great topic and it's a video I'll come back to as the new track day season approaches. I've been trying to go faster through bends in exactly the wrong way... just as you've described it.

Loving the concepts you shared here GoGo, it's easy to get caught up in going 100% all the time and 'dealing with it when it happens' but the real wisdom comes with knowing what will happen (if you strategize properly) and what needs to happen. I recently launched my own channel to keep track of my improvements as a track rider (and future racer) and despite making a lot of improvement I still feel like a complete newbie. Subscribed and looking forward to learning more.

That's a new chapter Eric. Unexpected one but ohhh so welcome. Still 4 months before the first trackday. Please please give us some more 😊

Weekend track rider here, you freaking nailed it on the head. I’d say 80% of my track sessions I’m just going 100% and being reactive to just about everything. This was a great discussion that we all needed to hear. I ride and am just constantly trying to push the limit causing me to be late on entry and then late on braking for the next corner.

This is all gold!!!trackday rider here for 30+ years, been a track instructor, not the fastest guy but do ok. Love the style of the video, I’m sure very helpful to all that view. 👍👍

Love seeing a new video from you. Good stuff.

Incredible value, proactively choose the point to where to go slowest, also the paradigm with the raw talent was gold. Havent seen anywhere (in utube vids) the data graph with the steering input, breaks, lean angles, another good one how Derek was losing the apex. Really useful information, I hope there will be usage of those things in next episodes too! Greetings from Greece.

Ready for part two, love the information

Fantastic vid! Really enjoyed it looking forwards to part 2!

Stumbled across this. GoGo, that single year of racing in 2010 with the SuperDuke and that TriValley team was the pinnacle of everything I did in 40+ years of riding. I remember your one piece of advice/demand; “Don’t come back to the racetrack with that DOT front tire.” That Michelin V slick front changed everything. That, and the Super RJL Vesrahs. Glad to see you are still going at it. I miss the camaraderie of the paddock more than anything.

Watching from South Africa. Just bought my first trackbike. I havent been on track in a year and just finished my first 8 hour endurance race. Trial by fire but I loved it. This coming year I will be focusing on getting alot of practice laps and getting faster to prepare for my first season in 2025. So this series couldnt have come at a better time for me. Thank you please keep them coming. I subscribed and all ears😁

Great video so much to learn 🙌

Gogo, thank you for this channel and all this amazing information!

You cant be a champ if you dont keep looking at what can make you faster, great vid again Gogo

This is the first time I clearly understood what slowing down to go fast truly means. You can literally blow corners so minutely you dont really realize it. All because you didnt let the bike finish turning.

Nice vid. I've come back to bikes from karts and every single one of your points is valid for both. Racing is racing and you've got to respect the vehicle as it contends with the laws of physics

This video is awesome! More riding tips videos please. Cheers

Before getting my licence and my Ninja 250, one of my fellow employees who raced motocross talked about putting weight on the outside peg to get around the corner faster. I think it was a way to get more tire connected to the dirt but I could see it being a way also to turn without leaning as much; avoiding that low siding. Thanks, I enjoyed that talk. I used to be a Cross country ski racer and was quite familiar with guys passing me and just shaking my head.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and years of experience from your mistakes so we can benefit! Life, motorcycles, and racing are a journey and a fun one at that!!

Top quality advice

This was awesome! I'm a rookie racer, just finished my 2nd season and this was some great advice! I take this with me for the next season!

Glad I found your channel!

Thank GoGo! Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast!

Great video, I can’t wait for next one 👍 ,Derek is lucky to get coaching from you.

The best advice I’ve heard in a while and haven’t heard before is choosing where the slowest part of the turn will be. I think it’s going to be a game changer for me, can’t wait to try it out! Subscription earned.

Many disciplines can benefit from the slower is faster methodology. Excellent tip. Thank you

Thank you Sir! I know now, more than ever, I have been doing many things wrong for decades. I learned so much during this one video!!!!

This is fantastic. Love the discussion of proactive versus reactive. At over 50 years of age, riding (more or less) since I was 7, I've only in the last few years started riding more proactively. It is a game changer.

Appreciate your take on explaining the process of riding the most efficiently= speed. Thank you.

Perfect video to end 2023! It's a talent to just sit down and talk and engage an audience for 40 minutes... you have that talent (I am jealous! :-)) - please keep using it! Wonderful insights. It is funny that you picked Laguna Seca to explain what happens during counter steering because turn 1 taught me that insights after years after riding. If you can't control your bike through turn 1 you can never get a decent laptime at LS (fun fact: Jonathan Rea was asked what the most intimitating turn on the WSBK Super bike calendar is and his answer was: "turn 1 at LS!"). I wish you and your loved ones a great and fast 2024!!!

hii from Bulgaria 🎉just started watching until this guy with that amazing humor said its 3 o'clock and I turned my eyes to the clock and hey its 3;15 lol😮😅 cant wait 2hear what this brother has2 offer ❤

Great video Eric

At 41:00 you perfectly described my first crash at NJMSP Thunderbolt. Not done turning but now have to get on the gas....oh sh!!!t After that I started doing Keith Code trackdays almost 14 years ago. Being a former flight test engineer/pilot it was always about the data. Cobbled a data recorder onto a bike and asked him, his instructor Coby and his son Dillon to walk me through the data with video. Cutting edge back then. You make a great point that a lot of people spend a lot of time trying to go faster, without objective data understand what was really going on around the track.

Top job 💪💪💪💪💪💪

Great insight and overview! I think it can all be too easy to get caught up in the details but the data brings a whole new level of understanding. Would love to see an onboard with your narration and data. My biggest problem is spending too long on the side of the tyre which might be fine on a 250cc but not on a 1000cc! Would love to hear your views (and probably more relevant to the counter steer discussion) on how to get it turned better. Keep up the great work

Excellent explanation of moving the bike out opposed to muscling the bike over when counter steering

Amazing video Great tips THANK YOU so much 🎉

Eric is spot on here and I can say I’ve also done everything mentioned in this video when I was racing as a Novice and even today as an expert. This sport has challenged me more than anything else in life mentally and physically! I can also say that I’ve passed GoGo during a race a couple times albeit short lived by the end of the race 😅. Cheers to you Eric! I hope this series does well. AFM#77

Excellent video

I trained few times with Simon Crafar and Troy Corser. The big difference is not that they are miles faster than most other instructors, it wouldn’t probably make a difference in my case, but you get this trust package, you know they won’t get you in trouble when you push your limit and follow them faster than ever before. Simon is a fantastic dude as well.

I have been riding im not the fastes but i think i had potencial.Thanks for all of this explenations finaly some one have smart talk and aproache to what ridign meens .Before this a lot of things didnt so clear for me keep up the good work 🙂

🍻 thank you for sharing yr knowledge.....

Ok Gogo I did what you asked. Liked and subscribed. 2023 My first year on track on the east coast. Thank you for this video i have watched it a few times Learned and laughed a lot! PROACTIVE

good insights here! when my financial ship comes in, I'll be at nearby VIR for every trackday and take every lesson possible. your discussion about the lines is helpful. there may be no best line for everyone. your point about how we are all built differently is important. i've always been very stiff and if i didn't take yoga, i'd not be able to ride sportbikes. funny how so many people remark that us older riders are unexpected on sportbikes, probably because most americans don't maintain a sports physique. I hadn't done a trackday for too many years when I went out last year on the full course. i realized that i was riding like on the street; making sure the turns were clear! of course they were! instructor said i was riding in "safe mode", LOL. I ride quickly on the street but try to leave a margin in case of the unexpected. this is something every street rider should do, of course. the best thing about one's first trackday is realizing how dangerous the road is. i suspect everyone slows down on the street after then.

I didn’t Al Pacino raced motorcycles. I swear you sound like Pacino in the movie heat. Lol. Anyhoo, awesome explanation, awesome video. Thanks so much.

You just explained my first track day. 😂 great work bud.

Yo E! Great vid. What are the boxes you’re sitting on?

The amount of good advices in this video is unbelievable, i have still the feeling that when you speek with other riders and start to talk about counter steering they watching you like you are a conspiracy theorist with aluminium hat 🤣🤣🤣 is crazy how everyone tell you different things and you get your mind mixed and you don't understand gow to ride faster, how to enter the corner, what to do when you are in and how to exit , this is the main secret of riding fast on track, is unbelievable that nobady say this plain straight like is a secret

I have to say as a former racer in his 50s this is a great vid. I guess I got lucky, as my dad wouldn't let me have a tricycle when I was young. We were to broke so I started out on a little kids bike at 2 and some change. So counter steering just came natural, but I could see how that would mess alot of people up. BTW , you should do a vid on brake feathering into a corner. When I learned that and the rear brake , it lets you really dial in the corners. Bigger bikes I not sure if its a thing but it sure was on my 125s,250s , 400cc and 600cc'S. Well anyways great video!!

PS.: I also wanted to second your experience on the Superduke. I am your age and riding my whole life. But I have learned more about riding in the last 3 years on the Superduke (with your guidance) than all the decades before. The bike was a huge challenge to get dialed in but now I love it (and I still feel being a little bit better than the bike :-))!

Great way of explaining counter steering - moving the wheels over to create lean. I've never seen this demonstrated better than Rossi vs Marquez at Philip Island if I remember correctly. Marquez was being aggressive as usual and ended up in a position tight on the outside next to Rossi - and Rossi went for the turn (probably a bit early...maybe intentionally) and took Marquez out when the wheels moved over. I forgot which season it was, but I'm guessing 2014.

This is avesome. I do track days and I suck at going fast so this is extremely interesting.

Please do more of these

These videos are just packed with secret knowledge

Great video and what a lucky bugger Derek is receiving 1:1 tuition from you! I’ll volunteer if you cross the pond 🇬🇧

When I was racing 1993 to 1996 rgv250 production motorcycle, slight mods from stock , jetting , suspension , external gearing , tyres and pressures, looking back I wish I had access to the kind of info that is about today the only thing I learned was that at the max pressure I was running was the max I could use before the tyres became slippery I never went lower , I just followed the norm of all the other bikes by lowering it over the forks a bit , never raised the rear or had the front at stock ride height , gearing was not to difficult , but a few more combinations may have been better , the biggest thing I found was that my bike was a street bike that I doubled with and I unknowingly took all the rear sag out by winding preload onto the rear spring , that unloaded the front made for some really unnerving front slides , I had one big slide on the front at amaroo park in sydney , got talking to an a grader he looked at my bike told me to wind the rear spring off, never told me why so I still didn’t know , no measurements, the more I wound the rear spring off the better the front stuck to the point I was able to change my riding style to suit the bike , wasn’t till only a few years ago that I got to understand about rear sag settings , my 1098s Ducati has given me an e-Ducati-on small changes can make massive diffferences to how a motorcycle can change

Thank you for the great video. Just subscribed. Do you prefer flat bars to clip on's in terms of steering input ?

Awesome video . I hope you do more content. I am a new track Day Rider . I got a few questions on what's the best place to get some of your gear for your motorcycle any input that you can give me would help me along . I would greatly appreciate it. God bless you and I hope you have a great race year ahead of u

The 3 takeaways I am writing so that I remember them: 1) Don’t be reactive, be proactive. Flat out forces your hand, slow down. Notice your breathing, tenseness. 2) Be conscious of what you are doing. Eg. Think about the counter steer. 3) Use speed strategically, i.e. going slower into a turn will help you get the bike turned sooner so you can get on the throttle. Note to self this also sets you up better for the next turn. It also avoids a crash in the apex. Just from watching the videos I could see this in action. Superdukes bike was always turned on the apex sooner and he was back on the throttle sooner. There were no reactive moves.

Snowmobiles perfect counter steering🤘🏽

please make a video about set up for 990 super Duke 💪

Interesting.

Hello Superduked, hope this message finds you well. I am curious if you have any experience with the 890R by any chance? I see you have a vast amount of experience with the 1290 r. O have been riding since I was 19 y.o. now in my early 30's but havent been riding much at all for the past 3-4 years, lofe getting in the way haha. My reason for asking if you have experience with the 890r is I am looking to getting back into riding. I currently have a 600RR but wanted to get into something slightly more upright. I would love a 1290R or the new 1390R but I think thats alot of bike for me personally. I will be doing mostly street riding would like to start going to track days but have no experience as of yet on the track. I would like to hear your thoughts on the 890R if you have any experience with them if not what are your thoughts on the 1290R, if possible could you lend a suggestion. Thank you for your time and excellent videos thus far.

Hey! I’ve been doing track days for a few months now and I’m signed up for afm racing this summer. I was wondering if you ever ride in California because I would love to meet you. I have little guidance and I’m only 18 but I have a lot of passion and a lot of speed. So I would just like to meet you and ppl like you who have such great advice!

Nice picture with Scott Greenwood, another FAST old guy....

What kind of seat/tail section does your bike have? Is it custom? It looks like its gives more support during acceleration because it is higher

Hey dude, I love this video. I have a question for you: what do you do for a living? How do you get to afford these sweet bikes over the years?

I had a great laugh at Gavin’s expense!

Time in between trying something is probably the biggest improver when your at a very low level of competency, ie stand up paddle boards with balance, guitar playing , your fingers doing what you need them to do without needing to force them by needing to think about them , muscle memory , driving a non synchromesh gearbox, coordinating your feet in a car brake clutch/motorcycle , and being smooth with a throttle, a big v twin makes you need to be smooth picking up the throttle from closed exiting a corner lol

When you're not a "Natural", to be the best, you have to study all the steps to accomplish that. I have some innate abilities

Jeesus i thought i was the only one that thought of leaning like this. I explain it like when this as well or like balancing a bat on your finger. The bottom of the bat is like the tires on the bike. Another reason i try to get people to get their kids stryder bikes not tricycles.

Getting a message from the future. Kinda feel like Marty

Whats up with the pros that drift into a turn then point shoot and out !! As if they dont really turn much at all...

Don’t the bars turn in a countersteering motion naturally anyway? I was under the impression that you should trail brake to the apex, by which point you’re at full lean, and at that point any steering input could be an issue. Perhaps I have misunderstood your explanation about this.

Slow is Fast😜

Do you think a lot of riders don’t counter steer or don’t realise they are doing it ?

Amazing. You unlearn a lot and clear a lot of BS from your old stale riding habits..

All you guys are missing is a fireplace and a purring cat on a rug…

While sitting on Milwaukee packouts

You might see someone going faster and think you're slow... Rest assured, I'm slower

It's 2024 already now? You're from the future? 😱

Ra urus

Moto for dummys 😂 Lol I still don't understand are you leaning left for the turn and steer to the right?

24 minutes in and Im still waiting to learn how to ride faster. 34:15 Still havent learned anything. Im out Blah, blah, blah

2024 huh?

2 minutes in and nothing has been taught. Just 2 minutes of hot air. Why waste time?

Did I miss the part where there was any tangible advice to justify the title ? This is just blokes sitting around telling stories about riding and who they know ..

more us Bs

No way u are faster than when u were younger, u had crappier machines back then but now u are older, just not possible to overcome age and be faster on a motorcycle, this is not car racing where old bad in shape rich playboys can be competitive :D

Eh, go mountain bike for a couple of years and learn corner entry. Everything else is cake...