Back to California Superbike School
Back to school on a BMW S 1000 RR. (Photos by Etechphoto.com)
A couple of friends ? sportbike riders and track-day regulars ? recently invited me on their Sunday morning canyon ride. I showed up on our Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS test bike. It was early, the road was empty, and we tore away. I say ?we,? but I lost sight of them after the first mile and soon resigned myself to not keeping up, doing no justice to the Triumph.Â
Decades of riding experience have given me the required confidence in physics and tires to throw a motorcycle into a turn, but that confidence faded once our speed picked up. If I was going to truly test bikes like the Speed Triple, I needed to hone my skills. My friends, it turned out, were both graduates of California Superbike School, and over a weekend in June I signed up for two days of training (Levels I and II) at Streets of Willow Springs, a 1.6-mile track in Rosamond, California, about an hour north of Los Angeles.
California Superbike School has a fleet of 40 high-tech BMW S 1000 RR sportbikes.
In the 1970s, Keith Code enjoyed some success club racing for the ?Pops? Yoshimura team, but he also discovered he had an aptitude for analyzing and communicating the techniques required to carry speed through a corner. Under Code?s instruction, many a young racer shaved seconds off their lap times, demonstrating that speed wasn?t just a matter of innate talent but teachable skills. In 1980, he established a school to offer his uni...
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