Guide to doing your first motorcycle track day | KNOX
Channel: Knox
Date: 2020-09-22

Guide to doing your first motorcycle track day | KNOX

So you are looking to do your first motorcycle track day. Having recently been through this process myself, I put some thoughts and tips down on how to do a motorcycle track day that I have learned during the process and thought would help budding motorcycle track day riders from my own point of view. Often, pieces such as these are written by experienced motorcycle track day riders who may overlook certain elements facing the new track day rider, so hopefully, you’ll find this guide down to earth and covering most important things. 

Breaking the guide into 3 sections, we cover some important items to consider during your track day preparation, considerations during the track day, and then finally what happens after the big day.

The video breaks down into:
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Preparation 
13:48 - During your Day
19:47 - The Aftermath!  

For both track days this Summer, we were at the amazing Oulton Park in England, one day with No Limits, one day with MSV Track days, both excellent providers and ran the day like clockwork. For some reason the No Limits day seemed to attract faster and more committed riders, with MSV organised day being a bit more of a mixed bag with a few more road going motorcycles on it. 

I was riding the amazing Suzuki GSXR 750, an incredible machine that comes into its own on track! Although with the baffle in, it certainly doesn’t run right (something Ill be fixing shortly). I was also running Dunlop Sportsmart 3 tyres, an incredible choice for road and the odd track day riding. We’ll also be putting out a review on this tyre soon. Geoff was riding the Kawasaki Z1000sx, while a sports touring bike, he can still hustle it round Oulton Park, and Olly was on his tyre shredding Yamaha R1.

For all the gear mentioned on the video, please check the links below:

KNOX Handroid MKIV Gloves - https://www.planet-knox.com/product/handroid-gloves/

Knox Aegis Back Protector - https://www.planet-knox.com/product/aegis-motorcycle-back-protector/

KNOX Dry Inside Base Layers - https://www.planet-knox.com/category/mens-base-layers/

Knox Trooper Shorts - https://www.planet-knox.com/product/trooper-mtb-shorts/

Hope you enjoyed this guide, we’ll be featuring more track content going forward, so stick around!

Aaron
KNOX
https://www.planet-knox.com/