2011 Track Junkie Thread
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Originally Posted by xthumper32x' timestamp='1314017969' post='20900947
You guys have any good sites to order equipment like gloves and helmets? Looking to get some stuff for the future 
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You guys have any good sites to order equipment like gloves and helmets? Looking to get some stuff for the future
I second OG Racing. You can shop their website (ogracing.com) beforehand so you know what to look for in the store. There's so much cool stuff it's kind of overwhelming.
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You guys have any good sites to order equipment like gloves and helmets? Looking to get some stuff for the future
I second OG Racing. You can shop their website (ogracing.com) beforehand so you know what to look for in the store. There's so much cool stuff it's kind of overwhelming.
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Lou,
Glad you both are fine. High speed instruction carries a risk and sooner or later you will have a student go off in a big way. Brakes are the one thing I routinely check and monitor throughout the day/event.
I had a student have brake failure in T1, we went into the gravel at about 110mph. The student kept the wheel straight and we came to a safe stop in the gravel pit.
Every instructor has to weight the pros and cons but once you have been to the track enough times you realize it is not just fun and games. Everyone who knew Cale knows this, but sometimes the point gets driven home again.
At least now they have a tire wall 9 tires thick in front of the wall that Cale hit.
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Originally Posted by Budman05' timestamp='1314015802' post='20900867
Off was total brake failure at the entry point of 10.
Lou,
Glad you both are fine. High speed instruction carries a risk and sooner or later you will have a student go off in a big way. Brakes are the one thing I routinely check and monitor throughout the day/event.
I had a student have brake failure in T1, we went into the gravel at about 110mph. The student kept the wheel straight and we came to a safe stop in the gravel pit.
Every instructor has to weight the pros and cons but once you have been to the track enough times you realize it is not just fun and games. Everyone who knew Cale knows this, but sometimes the point gets driven home again.
At least now they have a tire wall 9 tires thick in front of the wall that Cale hit.
I checked the brakes before the first session and before the third one where they failed. Looking through the wheel, the pads appeared to be as thick as new. I could see the rotor through the other wheel openings and they looked good. What I couldn't see, while the rotors were about 1 1/4 inch of surface, the pads were about 1/2" taller. So they were pretty much down to the backing plates, but I couldn't see that. It spit out the right front outside backing plate and the left front caliper was frozen afterwards. The more I think about this, I wonder if the inside and outside pad material were actually touching each other above the rotor. Who knows? I didn't see them pull it apart, only afterwards.
I am fairly certain I couldn't have seen this issue, without pulling the wheel, since the caliper was covering most of the area where it would have been obvious. That is what really concerns me.
BTW - I forgot I didn't have a wing going into turn 3 and
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