Originally Posted by RMurphy

You offer and we'll take you up on it! We very much appreciate it!

I don't know that I can give much advice because you look like you have a pretty sound approach to what you are doing already. Here are my thoughts after watching the vids on my laptop (small screen, but at least bigger than my phone).

yep, you already know about the up shifting and down shifting thing. You were in third and even fourth a lot when a lower gear would have been way more appropriate on Latigo. You were out of the power band. On the other hand, Latigo being so bumpy, at times it's probably just safer to be out of vtec just in case, so maybe that's not such an awful thing after all. Fourth though? I don't think I ever hit fourth unless I'm suddenly behind a cop and want to be as quiet as possible and way low in the RPMs.

Love how you slowed the vids down for the exciting stuff, like when motorcycles were crossing or riding ON the yellow line. That rider on Latigo who was doing that ought to have been shot (not literally, but you know what I mean). Can't believe those yahoos do that. What if you had bicyclists you were giving room to there and you had to go a little wide (still on your side, but closer to the yellow)? That a$$hat would have been toast and even though it wouldn't have been your fault, fault don't mean squat when you've got a dead motorcyclist in your windshield. That just sucks no matter how you slice it.

You move your hands around on the wheel way, way, way too much. That was one instructor's biggest complaint about me too though. He kept yelling "HANDS!!" at me all the way around Laguna Seca until I got the freaking hint to stop moving my hands. LOL!! I'm way more cognizant of it now.

Your following distances look pretty reasonable. You might give a little more room if you don't know the driver you are following all that well, but you weren't crowding. You clearly paid attention to when stuff was happening in front of you and you reacted.

The drainage dips at the edges of the road at the insides of some of the tight corners on Decker/Mulholland were upsetting the car a bit. Probably want to give those a little wider berth. But I didn't see it make the car get loose, just beating up the suspension more than necessary.

Loved how you backed out of it when you came up on the cluster of bicyclists on Piuma. Good choice.

Third video didn't come up for me, but I think YouTube was having issues.

Originally Posted by Silver5656

What vid setup are you running and what are you using to edit? I've been meaning to get a gopro but shit knowing me i'd never upload them, let alone edit

Originally Posted by ddess

Thanks for the fun morning. Black AP1with blue volks I had to bail prior to lunch, had to be at LAX by 1:30. Sorry I wasn't more talkative I received a ticket driving to the Von's. I definitely missed the best half of the drive.

Originally Posted by ddess

Thanks for the fun morning. Black AP1with blue volks I had to bail prior to lunch, had to be at LAX by 1:30. Sorry I wasn't more talkative I received a ticket driving to the Von's. I definitely missed the best half of the drive.