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Post by vespadub on May 18, 2011 17:05:45 GMT
Alright so this past weekend I had my first Sprint race it was a 1/8th mile I won my class and I was one of the fastest bikes there. I posted decent times and good speeds but I fail at reaction times. Can anyone give me any hints on getting better reaction times? My next race is the 2nd weekend in June and I want to improve on what I did this past weekend. Thanks for any help offered. Dan  |
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Post by jonnysnatchsniffer on May 22, 2011 14:18:26 GMT
amphetamines
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Post by madmax on May 22, 2011 15:51:35 GMT
Have a look at some of the italian sprinting videos on youtube (gare di accellerazione).
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Post by noride on May 22, 2011 16:20:42 GMT
you could at least look the part, jeans and boots  |
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Post by noride on May 22, 2011 16:20:59 GMT
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Post by vespadub on May 23, 2011 20:27:12 GMT
Have a look at some of the italian sprinting videos on youtube (gare di accellerazione). I will have a look at more videos and I suppose I will just go out and practice my starts. Thanks |
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Post by charliec on May 24, 2011 21:10:05 GMT
practise at the lights on the road ;D ;D
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Post by Wayne Miller on May 24, 2011 22:13:09 GMT
I guess all you can do is practice to increase your reaction times. Try pre empting the green and actually go on the orange. If you have slow reactions you'll actually go on the green if you know what I mean. ;D ;D ;D By the way I have no experience yet, just observations!!!!  Good luck with the sprinting by the way |
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Post by Wayne Miller on May 24, 2011 22:14:12 GMT
Tut Tut JS !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by tony on May 25, 2011 0:58:29 GMT
I dunno how you launch your bike... but you can gain time (at the expense of clutch plates) by holding the revs up,in gear with the bike pulling but stopped from moving by the brakes...
So you may save a fraction of a second as the bike is already on the biting point.
Other than that-take up a martial art... that will sharpen your reaction times.
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Post by amazombi on May 25, 2011 7:50:42 GMT
Go and "read" the Christmass tree. Watch it, and learn the speed of the sequence. Good sprinters have 0.01 seconds or so of "reaction" time. That's just not possible physiologically. The trick is to watch the christmass tree and get it's rhythm. So as soon as the light goes from prestage to stage, you could actually close your eyes and go through the motions inside. Circuit racing is different and you actually want a "proper" reaction there because there is not real sequence before the flag drops, or the light goes green
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Post by vespadub on May 25, 2011 13:43:52 GMT
Thanks for the input guys. My next race is on the 12th so I hope to put some better times down. My biggest problem after seeing videos of myself is that I wait till the light is green to go. I can not do that if I want to get my times down. I am fast enough to do good but I want to do better and not take the chance of losing a race because of poor reaction times. Will keep you guys updated if I did better during the next round.
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Post by ttscshaggy on May 26, 2011 23:53:04 GMT
lower the front end more |
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Post by tony on May 27, 2011 0:19:08 GMT
or raise the rear end |
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Post by tonyc on May 28, 2011 23:25:57 GMT
Keep u bike level. Ask how the lights / timings work at your races, often your reaction times don't come into play with your overall time, it just starts when u cross the beam.  |
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Post by amazombi on May 30, 2011 9:48:07 GMT
Keep u bike level. Ask how the lights / timings work at your races, often your reaction times don't come into play with your overall time, it just starts when u cross the beam. In Italy it usually is "quando voi". As soon as it's 1/4m or 1/8m there's a good chance that they will use a prestage, stage, red, red, green christmass tree, or one with tripple red (or yellow). As I said, just watch the tree. It alway has the same rythm once it starts the sequence, you just go dadum, dadum, fire ahead after the first red without even watching the light really. check out here maybe: www.rbracing-rsr.com/nhraxtreesp.htmlNot the real thing, but good enough to get the idea. |
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Post by charliec on May 30, 2011 12:54:41 GMT
0.526 seconds ;D
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Post by amazombi on May 30, 2011 15:23:20 GMT
That's 0.026 seconds, anything below 0.5 is considered a red light. Very good. I'm sure you did that first try, and 9 times out of 10 after that. Charly, Bradford is to small for you, the world's waiting.
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Post by charliec on May 30, 2011 16:37:58 GMT
3rd try, just gotta get the rythem ;D |
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Post by amazombi on May 30, 2011 18:40:23 GMT
Exactly what my wife keeps telling me. Amazing.
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