r/Trackdays

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a bit of a reality check and some honest advice. I have a 2025 Yamaha R1 currently on its way to me, and as the delivery date gets closer, I’m starting to experience some self-doubt about whether I can actually master this machine or if I'm getting in over my head.

My goal is to become a genuinely good, skilled rider and start doing track days.

I’m a 23-year-old with solid experience on a CFMOTO 450SR(rode it for two seasons), and I’ve briefly ridden an R6 and an older 2010 R1, so I already know what to expect from the super sport.

I completely respect the 200 hp, and it definitely intimidates me. Is the jump from a 450cc to a modern R1 manageable if I stay disciplined, or is this bike going to completely ruin my confidence?

Thanks!

Man!!! One of the coolest adrenaline filled days of my +30 yr old life. Fastest, tightest, twistiest pieces of road I've ever ridden!

If it wasn't for the Insta360 my boy had, I'd never believe it... I was not leaning y'all... At all basically. I was using counter-steering and trying to keep pace. It worked, but with greater risk. When I stopped leaning the bike... I took turns so slow...

I felt like I was leaning with body position, but I was wasting movement (twerking on the seat), my arms stayed bent (clamping the tank with my forearm), I didn't bring my shoulders far, my head was sitting right above the tank.

It was so surreal to see in video how much I didn't do what the coaches kept asking me to do.

I guess I'm scared to hang off... I'm scared that hanging off won't actually help with turning... I took with little to no entry speed...

Any advice is welcome.

Hello, currently have a cfmoto 450ss with ~30 000km. Was thinking about getting a gsxr 750 as a daily and occasional track weapon with the only thing holding me back being the lack rider aids and the significant jump in power.

Since I learned to ride on a bike with ABS and traction control, I've never ridden anything without those electronic aids.

So should I get the gsxr 750 or go with smth like the r9?

I'm going to the track for the first time tomorrow. Changed tires to brand new and was going to change brake pads and fluid (almost 3 years now) 6.4 miles.

I sent my bike to a shop to get the coolant changed and he said I didnt need to replace brake pads after he looked at it (looked like there was 50% apparently).

Chat GPT seems to see I am due for a brake fluid replacement already since its past 2 years. Will I be fine at the track not changing it?

Also track day is 1 hr from here I am getting some help getting my bike to the track in the morning but I will have to ride my way home after the day is over which is a 1 hr commute. Will I be good to ride back home? I heard track kinda drains you alot, true for beginners?

Any help to the last two paragraphs would be helpfull. Bike is a 2023 CBR650R Honda

I plan to change the brake pads and fluid after this track day or end of this month before the next track day I decide if I like it tomorrow.

Thank you all.

I’ve only gotten to ride 2 sportbikes. 13 gsxr600 and 07 CBR600RR. I enjoy tight technical riding the most and my current CBR has an amazing front end feel, chassis, and nimbleness despite being almost 20 years old. Just curious if there are sportbikes fellow riders find to handle particularly well above others they’ve ridden.

With Yamaha discontinuing the R6 completely now, I feel the era of 600cc racebikes like the R6, CBR600RR, zx6r etc. is coming to and end.

I remember when I started riding, if you wanted to get a fully faired sportsbike, you had two choices: a 600cc one, or a 1000cc one. Now we got all these weird frankenbikes, 636, 750, 800, 900 whateverthefuck. Do you think the classic 600cc inline 4 bikes still have their place for a while, or are more and more restrictive laws in regards to emissions etc. forcing manufacturers to step the ccs up to get similar numbers, and thus making newer 600cc inline 4s less and less financially viable?

While its not an issue for the track at the moment, the prices for an R6 here right now are more than 2x of what they were over 10 years ago - same bike, same year, and a lot more kms/miles on them. And i dont see this getting any better when the other brands stop building 600cc sportbikes too.

Hello fellow track homies, its time to finally swap the oem brake pads on my '26 tuono v4 factory. What's the recommended front pads for half track, half street use? I had no complaints about the oem pads except after about 1600 miles they are pretty much gone along with the rear tire (which is on order as well)

I did some precursory looking and found some possible options from sbs and vesrah, just kinda weird the sbs pads are literally half the price...

Im in Texas so whatever I need I'll probably order from AF1 if they have it, just curious what yall recommend first. Thanks!

I've got my eye on a track event that's a pretty long drive away, and I'm trying to decide whether to ride the bike there or find another way to get it to the track. I was browsing Number 1 Auto Transport while looking at different transport options, but I'm curious what people here usually do. If the event is several states away, do you ride, trailer, or have your bike shipped? What would you recommend based on your experience?

Just did my 3rd track day a week ago with an instructor and got some feedback that I was braking too hard and late for long slow sweepers. Because of that, I’d overslow the entry, the front end would unload, and I'd kinda end up in no man's land mid corner waiting for the bike to turn.

He told me to brake earlier but lighter, and it made miles of a difference in my cornering. The bike felt infinitely more stable and the front end felt hooked, but I'm still not completely dialed in.

It’s kinda the classic rushing corner entry mistake. Physically it makes sense, but psychologically, my brain tells me that I'm going too slow the moment I move my braking marker back and don't get that G-force from braking hard.

How do you guys deal with this? Or rather, what helped you stop trying to find time by braking ever later?

No matter how many times it's brought up during the riders' meeting and throughout the day, some people just can't help themselves.

I'd like to know what people do when someone swoops in front of you. While they're mid swoop do you try to cut inside (making it a strange but legal pass)? Or do you try to pass them on the outside while they're heavily braking (if there's room to get around them)? Or do you just patiently wait behind them (because they're on a bigger bike, so they're going to blast away on the straight)?

This is really cooking my noodle trying to have a good strategy for solving this annoying issue. TIA.