Keith Code

And this actually helps you turn more effectively.

And there's a reason why Keith Code from California Superbike School teaches using trail braking always, not just on the track.

The other thing is this gives you a safety factor for an emergency stop and a turn.

Since your hand is still on the brake levers, you can quickly stand the bike upright and apply maximum brakes in the event of something appearing in the middle of a corner.

Or is it just going right into like national racing for you?

Well, the first thing that I did when I came back, I took Keith code school at Laguna Seca.

And so this was going back to kind of the end of 1983, I guess.

And I don't know, probably Keith tells everybody this, but at that time he was like, Chuck, you need to start racing.

it kind of does but what's so interesting is that you can never tell who's going to be fast like we get just some old random looking guys and women and people in general that just you just take one look at them and go like there's no way that person is going to be fast and then they're just blazingly smoking fast and it's super impressive.

So I think, you know, and, and also the, the, the guy that runs our motorcycle school that I coach at the California super bike school who wrote the forward for my book, Keith code, he's 82 years old and he was just still at the track coaching 12, 13 hour days.

He got on track and rode a motorcycle.

And so I, You know, I've been coaching with this school for nearly 25 years.

I watched a bunch of whatever videos were out at the time in YouTube.

I bought Keith Code's Twist of the Throttle DVD so I could study that.

And it doesn't really prepare you for the actual track day until you actually get there and get coaching.

Like I was watching all the things that Keith Code was saying.

He's like, oh, yeah, you do this, do that.

All out the window as soon as I got to the track.