If you’re serious about tracking your progress through data, you may want to think through how you want to manage it. As you spend more time tracking data, it will amass and it makes life easier if you have a plan going into it. Managing data includes naming conventions, having a process when you import …
In conducting data analysis of braking, people often assume that they need to have brake pressure sensor data. While this is ideal, it’s often complex and expensive to obtain. Alternatively, and admittedly not a perfect substitute, we can look at deceleration force (negative longitudinal G force). One consideration is that effective braking force (the aforementioned …
In working on my riding, 2020, in sum, was about working on accuracy. For me, this meant more than anything, hitting apexes and using the right controls at the right time. One that stuck with me from 2020 was when my coach said I should be using the brakes for Turn 6 at Thunderhill East. …
When I first started riding track, I used a couple of different SmartPhone apps for lap times with an external GPS unit. I was aware of real lap timers/data loggers but couldn’t get my head around the cost. Gratefully I came to my senses not too far into working on my riding that I bit …
Way back when, I originally I used a SmartPhone app with an external GPS unit for data acquisition but soon after upgraded to an AiM Solo 2 DL. Since moving to the AiM equipment, several riding friends have done the same. Here I’ll share some of the things I do to automate and simplify data …
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