sticky tyres

Nick wrote: Grant, That bit of the pre-drive check sounds ever so familiar.. I could have wrote that myself. Have they 'lifted' my Croft documents? Nick, Croft'04

Nick, the docs are identical.

Sorry Grant but road tyres for me.  I need to get the "nut behind the steering wheel" sorted first so I will be getting instruction. I want to be in good shape in the M3 for Croft.

Take your point John, but arent better driving days supposed to be more focused at improving driver skills?

Never done one so cant really comment, but I imagine the helmet is probably a requirement for health and safety.

As opposed to a balls out track day with a kind of race what you bring idea.

Your not acting daft by the way. Way I see it is that the fitment of all these fancy tyres wont really help if you dont understand the basics in the first place.

Lets lighten this up a little bit. Ive done hods of track days on bikes and was never one to fit super stickies for the track. Last plastic rocket I had on a track was my CBR900RR and that was on Bridgestone BT010's which were its road tyres. Anyone who knows bikes will tell you that the BT10 is quite a soft compound anyway but I found it to be more than adequate on a track for my ability.

John, you mention safety issues about the sticky boots, could it not be argued that with a road tyre you know when youve run out of grip when it starts to squeal and thats your cue to do something about it before you meet the scenery.

Maybe Ive got the wrong end of the stick, but I really thought there was a different focus to the "better driving days" rather than "race days", Im absolutely determined to get the old heinkel sorted so I can have a run out around croft (Gently I hasten to add, its a classic!)

Last time I drove a track was Silverstone with a couple of bods in from Volvo, when I was demonstrating the problems with the original 850 T5 brakes, there wasnt any!

Lancelot,

take your point but it comes back round to the question I posed.

Is a better driving day not all about improving your skills and awareness with your steed in its roadgoing spec and format?

I might have the wrong end of the stick here mind?

Tyres are amazing things, Ive always been fascinated by them, no seriously! I remember getting a V plate S70 T5 at work, brand new and it was fitted with Michelins, cant remember the model. It was terrifying in the wet at high speed. Problem became so bad that the tyres were binned at the first 3000 mile service and replace with Eagle F1's which were stickier that a sticky thing in the wet and superb in the dry.

I once did a two day course at Dunlop all about tyres and compounds etc,etc. It all hinges on raising the co-efficient of friction which in turn equates to more grip. Very interesting stuff, theres more to tyres than the colour black I tell you!!