Lunchtime Riding Tips: Putnam Park

To get into and through T1 at Putnam Park faster on a liter bike simply wheelie past your normal brake marker, get on the brakes like never before, make two down shifts, and make it to the apex.

 

Thanks for the Cameron Steele riding tip of the day...

 

Got any tips for entering T9...............

 

How about turn 4 on a cold morning?

 

Yeah, good old turn 4 knocked me unconscious for 15-30 minutes.

My 8 year old son was not impressed to see his dad get a ride back in the meat wagon.

Note to self: don't try to chase down a bunch of 750's on an RD400.

 

That one has bitten many.

 

I hate Putnam

 

And do NOT ride off the end of the curbing!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgQIXz5cb8

 

Ouch! Never seen a crash there!

 

Watch out for the bump about 18 inches out from the curb. Other than that t9 and T10 is like T1 and T2.

 

Most people that crash there grab a handfull of front brake and hit the deck or just ride out to the woods.

Young jake was going to flat track it through dead bear.

 

Yowsa! That track looks like a 30yr old Kmart parking lot

 

OUCH!

 

This is how you ride Putnam...both riders rode lap record pace...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXGvnMMT_s

 

Damn…that's movin

 

And leave the bike in the pits when it's raining ... T4 sucks ass when it's wet


But I can't wait to go back , I love that place

 

Ask Dave Grey, 2 bikes in less than an hour in T4.

 

Huh? I thought that track looked pretty decent, at least on video. I had heard that WERA might go there some day in the future so I was thinking that track doesn't look too bad.

Check out Nelson if you think Putnam is bad

Well we know it's not tire related then. There is not a better tire to be had than the ones he rides on

 

The track isnt bad at all. Turn 4 is off camber, if you stay a 1-2 feet off the curbing your fine. Its getting a bit chewed up in turns 2 and 5. The track has more than enough grip, most complain that it eats tires, and all the stuff on the track (patches, cracks, etc) makes for excellent reference markers

 

Very fun track and great location for the region.

Let's raise some money to hire a proxy between WERA and those owners, so we can race there again.