What is special about California Superbike School's 2 Day Camp at Laguna Seca?

A key element to what makes our California Curves to Laguna Seca tour so amazing is the California Superbike School Two Day Camp. This is so much more than just track time at Laguna Seca and it's far more focused than your average motorcycle track day instruction.

Two-Day Camps are open to both first time California Superbike School students as well as returning, upper level students.

Two-Day Camps have all of our bells and whistles. More importantly, there is a 2:1 student to coach ratio making it semi-private coaching for each student. In addition, with only two small groups, students have half again the track sessions of our regular school days to hone the skills. The bells and whistles? Aside from fantastic new S1000RR BMW bikes some bikes are fitted with on-board video you can review with your coach. Lean-Bike, Slide-Bike and the Panic-Brake Bike and full riding gear and lap times and breakfast and lunch and healthy snacks and everything else that you need is provided. Riders experience a complete refit of their riding skills.

The Two-Day Camp delivers concentrated rider training with a twist. The staff will mainline you with the information and intensive, hands-on practice at the Two-Day and our on-board, over-the-shoulder video provides you and your coach with exact details of both what you are and what you are not doing right.

Two-Day Camps fill up quickly. Leod Escapes has some reserved so book your ASAP.

Two-Day Camps Include:

• One-on-one consultant style instruction for returning Level IV students.
• Over-Your-Shoulder video and reviews by our on-board video "coach."
• Riding beautifully prepared BMW S1000RR, with fresh Dunlop Qualifier 3 tires.
• Emergency Stop training on the Braking Bike, with Galfer brakes, naturally.
• Riding the Lean Machine.
• Riding the Slide Machine, but only when you are ready!
• Lap times are provided to chart your confidence.
• Assigned on-track riding coach at just 2 students per coach.
• Breakfast, Lunch and healthy snacks all day.
• Way too much track time: 7 on-track sessions each day, weather permitting.
• AGV leathers, Alpinestar boots/gloves and Schuberth helmets all provided free.
• A major surge in personal riding freedom and the finest training available on Earth.

Braking Bike

Everyone would like to improve their braking skills, so school director, Keith Code, dreamed up our outrigger equipped braking trainer. Because it is nearly impossible to crash this bike, riders can lock up the front wheel and find out what it feels like. How much force does it take to lock up a bike? What do you do if it does lock? How do you control a front-wheel slide? What are the telltale signs of impending lockup? That's what can be discovered, without the normal gut wrenching fear of crashing. Riding the Braking Bike is a part of the Two-Day Camp. 

Lean & Slide Bike

What is your optimum seating position? How and where you sit on a motorcycle may not sound like a big deal but it’s huge. Once you discover what your optimum seating position is, you'll understand. This marvelous training aid allows us to custom adjust you to the bike in a fraction of the normal time and much more.

Later, when used as the Slide Machine, we bring you up to speed on controlling corner exits. Everyone knows that the single most terrifying part of riding a motorcycle is trusting your tires. When will it slide? Do the tires give you warning before they let go? What does it feel like? Those used to be hard questions to answer. Not now. As usual, Keith came up with the simple solution to mastering it. 

Lap Times

More than anything, timed laps give riders a good yardstick of their confidence and point out some interesting facts about cornering skill. Was the student: 1. Consistently improving? or 2. Improving their consistency? Both are important and both a measure of confidence. You might say that lap times are for racers, but, whether riders admit it or not, we know they'll instinctively push towards their limits — timed laps gauge that push. Plus, riders should know the truth about their skills and exactly where and how these limits affect their riding and cornering. If the improvement is real, it should be measurable. That's what lap times are all about. 

Camera Bike

If you want to remove the uncertainties and doubts about riding, this is the ultimate. Now you can do it and see it too. Our on-board video camera captures the most important technical elements of riding. Each student rides on the video bike and records his own Over-Your-Shoulder tape, each day of the Two-Day Camp. The tape is then reviewed with a Riding Coach to check progress. Exactly what you are doing and how, are totally captured on tape. If you don't see it, we hit the rewind button.

Here's a list of a dozen things you, Keith and your coach can see, hear and objectively correct:

• Throttle Control
• Lines
• Leaning
• Braking
• Your use of key Visual Techniques
• Downshifting and Braking
• Rider Input
• Suspension Control
• Line Changes
• Body Position
• Accuracy/Consistency
• Smoothness