Good training session

Just got home from an early morning session at the track. I did about an hour and a half and focussed mostly on manuals.

It was a pretty productive session as I can now manual both of the doubles on the last straight 2 out of 3 times. Unfortunately the time it goes wrong it goes really wrong! I will keep practising for the next few weeks until I can manual all of the jumps on the track. For this week I am just going to concentrate on the last straight to get it dialled.

A couple of runs I was able to Jump the small table top and manual the two doubles and jump the last table all in rhythm. It felt really good and I now know what I am shooting for.

Hopefully after a week of training I will be able to manual everything on the second half of the track and then I can concentrate on the first half of the track which is bigger.

Once I have bath Dialled I want to start riding in Bristol more as the track is way more technical and similar to most of the tracks that I will ride in the SW series.

I am going to go back to the track after lunch and take the video camera to try and get some video footage to try and see where I can improve my technique. I will post the video here later.

I have also found out that my gearing is wrong. Apparently the best gearing on a cruiser is 41 x 18 and my bike came with a 41 x 17 gearing. I am going to test this in a minute as I am going to swap the maxxis DTH wire tyres from my old GT onto my Redline as I like them better then the Tioga Power Blocks that came with the bike. The Tioga's will be fine on the GT as I  am using it to ride to work and do some sprints on the way so the tyres will make little to no difference.

Also Sunday night I bought some clip-less shoes and clips as I want to start clipping in to see if I can keep up with the rest of the guys as there were only 3 people including me out of 22 that raced on Sunday that used flats. My thinking is that I have to learn to ride properly anyway so I might as well learn with clips so that I don't have to re-learn to ride with clipless pedals later.

I am going to use the clipless pedals that came with my Redline on my GT to practice riding to work and then when I am used to them in a couple of weeks I will buy a new pair of clip-less peddles for the Redline.

The shoes I bought are Shimano AM45 MTB SPD shoes that were discounted from £75 to £42 on Chain reaction at this link http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shimano-am45-mtb-spd-shoes-2015/rp-prod55370

Hopefully this added to learning to manual will mean that I will be able to at least keep near the top guys for the rest of the year.

I am setting a goal of placing in the first 3 in a B final by the end of the season!