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Video: Skid! So are the Flat Track lessons courtesy of Royal Enfield and star Johnny Lewis
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:34
Racing Flat Track they have something special that hooks us to the screen. And in this case we have Johnny Lewis teaching his students to master the bike on the gravel track.
With how difficult it is to set good lines in this discipline, it is not surprising that riders like Valentino Rossi have made it part of their training in order to improve their potential in the Motorcycle World Championship.
They wear a modified Royal Enfield Himalayan
Rolling on a circuit like this with a flat track motorbike It is a very complete experience to improve maneuverability on top of the machine, but the truth is that it is best if you have a good teacher.
The official Royal Enfield pilot in the discipline, Johnny lewisOf course, he is one of those who can best tell how the machine is tamed in such a slippery terrain and in which going to the ground is really easy.
For the lessons, use is made of beautiful Royal Enfield Himalayan that, after the pertinent modifications, are renamed FT411. And the truth is that it is difficult to recognize at first the model from which the basis is taken.
In the end, what is achieved is to leave the Himalayan at 170 kg, 15 kg less than the factory trail, for the same 25 hp. More than enough power, as we can see in the video, to fully cross in all corners.
It may seem easy, or maybe not, but of course the difficulty you have is obvious. Normal that some of the best MotoGP world riders have made the Flat Track part of their training to gain confidence in the loss of traction on asphalt. Valentino Rossi even has a circuit of these at home …
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