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Superbike-Coach Announces Its 2023 Schedule

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Press Release, 1/2/2023

Sacramento, CA – January 2023

Superbike-Coach Corp announced its 2023 class schedule today. The popular riding school has upped the stakes to include new benefits and offers to their street- and track day rider students.

Superbike-Coach Corp provides sport photography by Dean Lonskey free of charge at all classes and events. And, the track fee is included at their Cornering School program. They also offer free snacks, coffee and drinks throughout the day. The riding school offers these unique classes and renowned 1-on-1 programs for both track and street riders.

  • Cornering School Days 1-3 – For all street and track riders on a small race track, no track fees
  • Rider Passenger Class – For all street riders and passengers on a small race track, no track fees
  • Body Positioning Class – For all Sportbike street riders, track riders and racers, no track fees
  • Track Academy – For track riders and racers of mid levels and up, no extra track fees
  • Road Skill 1-on-1 coaching – For all street riders of all ages, levels, and categories
  • Wheelie Course – For all street and track riders, and racers of all ages
  • Knee Down – For all sport street and track riders, and racers of all ages
  • Track Drill 1-on-1 coaching – For all sport and track riders and racers of all ages and levels at your track day
  • Supermotard 1-on-1 – For street and track riders, and racers of all ages
  • Basic Rider 1on1 – For absolute beginners, to prepare for the M1 drivers license test
  • Suspension Workshop & Track Time – For all street and track riders on a small race track, no track fees
  • Track Days – Non competitive environment for every rider and bike

The 2023 season class event schedule is as follows:

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 01/14/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 01/15/2023

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 01/22/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 02/04/2023

Cornering School – Day 3, at Little 99 Raceway on 02/05/2023

Track Academy, at Little 99 Raceway on 02/19/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 02/26/2023

Track Rookie Class, at Little 99 Raceway on 03/05/2023

Body Positioning Class, at Little 99 Raceway on 03/19/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 03/26/2023

Road Skill 1on3, Foothills, at Placerville, CA on 04/02/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 04/03/2023

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 04/23/2023

Knee Down, at Little 99 Raceway on 04/29/2023

Wheelie Course, at Little 99 Raceway on 04/30/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 05/14/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 05/19/2023

Cornering School – Day 3, at Little 99 Raceway on 05/21/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill West Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 06/03/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill West Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 06/04/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 06/11/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 06/16/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill West Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 06/17/2023

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 06/25/2023

Road Skill 1on3, Castro Valley, at Pleasanton on 07/09/2023

Knee Down, at Little 99 Raceway on 07/15/2023

Wheelie Course, at Little 99 Raceway on 07/16/2023

Rider Passenger Class, at Little 99 Raceway on 07/23/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 07/29/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 07/30/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Buttonwillow Raceway, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on 08/05/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Buttonwillow Raceway, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on 08/06/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 08/13/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 08/19/2023

Track Drill 1on3, Thunderhill East Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 08/20/2023

Cornering School – Day 3, at Little 99 Raceway on 08/27/2023

Track Day, Thunderhill West Raceway, at Thunderhill Raceway on 08/27/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 09/10/2023

Suspension Workshop & Track Time, at Little 99 Raceway on 09/17/2023

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 09/24/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 10/08/2023

Knee Down, at Little 99 Raceway on 10/21/2023

Wheelie Course, at Little 99 Raceway on 10/22/2023

Cornering School – Day 2, at Little 99 Raceway on 11/05/2023

Cornering School – Day 1, at Little 99 Raceway on 11/19/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Buttonwillow Raceway, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on 11/25/2023

Track Drill 1on4, Buttonwillow Raceway, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on 11/26/2023

Cornering School – Day 3, at Little 99 Raceway on 12/03/2023

Track Academy, at Little 99 Raceway on 12/10/2023

Road Skill 1on3, Foothills, at Placerville, CA on 12/17/2023

For more information, please visit www.superbike-coach.com or contact them via email at info@superbike-coach.com

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Cornering Day 2 for 12/4/2022 rescheduled

Our Cornering Day 2 for 12/4/2022 will be rescheduled due to weather conditions. A new date will be announced ASAP. All students are informed via email.

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Knee Down and Wheelie Course weekend is coming up

Here we go again… our Knee Down and Wheelie Course weekend is coming up on Saturday and Sunday. All hands on deck for the Superbike-Coach team. You can’t even imagine what grade of preparation, this requires from all of us. This is demanding having our shit together on the tech side, mentally and physically. Just picture the expectations to feed and to keep it in balance with safety and success. You can’t do that for everyone, but no matter what… we try to make a cow lay eggs sometimes. I am steering the ship right into the storm and Marion, Dean, Wayne, Mark, Lindsey, Chris and Rafael are hissing the sails right into it.
Hear our battle cry!

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Superbike-Coach team went to play

I use to call in the Superbike-Coach team about 2 to 3 times per year. This is an important thing in many ways. With all the work everyone has and our tight class schedule- where it’s all about others- this is for US to have fun. Not that we need that one, but yea, a team binding measure if you will. Today I invited Marion, Chris, Dean, Wayne, Mark and Rafael for 3 races at K1 indoor karting to show them my appreciation.

LOVE YA’LL.

Headcoach Can Akkaya, Superbike-Coach Corp

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Superbike-Coach Photographer Dean Lonskey

Superbike-Coach operates since 2009 in the United States. We started out offering the Road Skill program as a class until I’ve developed programs specifically for small tracks. I think it was in 2010, when we started the very first Wheelie Course at Little 99 Raceway in Stockton California and added the Knee Down class in 2011. I was mostly busy with small groups and especially 1on1’s on big track with the Track Drill program. The most popular program was yet to come in the end of 2013- the Cornering School from Day 1 to Day 3.

This program was quickly darn popular. It is colorful, energetic, passionate, and filled with people of all ages, genders, levels and characters that I urged to conserve the vibe in pictures. Well that’s why, and to give my people something additional. Something others don’t… free sport photography.

Technically it ain’t hard to hire a photographer, so I made my way through some. I mean, sometimes I had a different photographer from class to class, but nothing beyond ‘clicking the cam’. Don’t get me wrong- they were all good, and some are still friends. However, something was missing with them. What I needed was someone who sees what I see. Someone who wants to be part of the revolution which Superbike-Coach represents. Someone who cares what happens. Someone who is loyal and shares the passion.

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That moment of passion, respect and eager

He was shy and scared talking to more than one person at a time, but he grew into it. His picture quality weren’t the best back then, but that’s not always priority. All I knew from that particular class with Dean is, that he will learn and develop just because of the way we do the classes and through time, so I hired him.

I think it was in 2014 when Dean Lonskey and his friend signed up for the Wheelie Course and when he heard that my photographer had let us down by not showing up. He quickly walked up to me and told me how much he loves the class and that he actually does hobby photography. I liked his energetic nature right away and asked him for a try-out.

That Cornering class with him and Marion on my side was a delight through and through. Was it ‘perfect’?… no, how could it?! But there was the spark I was missing. An ex-Moto Cross racer who hears my racer heart beating. That is enough to cover what’s not perfect yet.

In all those years we shared ups and downs and we have a healthy way to deal with opinions and differences- I wish to see happening for this country btw.  Today, Dean Lonskey is a Superbike-Coach to the bone. Meanwhile, hundred-thousands of pictures have become more than a keep of moment in time- they are a proof of progress to our students… all for free!

All this goes way beyond clicking the cam.

Headcoach Can Akkaya, Superbike-Coach Corp

Dean offers photography in many ways. Go see him if you have a need for it:

 Dean Lonskey Photography

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Class Ghosts

This entire Superbike-Coach thang is so deep in my soul that it keeps me not just physically real busy- but also mentally. I always reflect on the performance of the entire team after every single class- especially on my part. Things like… what I said, what I did, what I demonstrated. Those things make me overthink on how can I describe things better to make them more plausible, on how my people learn best. Also things like how to make them trying more, trusting more, and to reach the individual. To gain more human understanding pretty much. Sometimes those reflections turning to visions… literally.

Most of the time this happens when I have a 1on1 the following day after a class. I see and hear ‘ghosts’. I remember every word has been said. I remember what everyone of the SBC team did. I remember most of my students names and faces, and what they look like when riding. I remember and analyze their body language- on and off the bike. Their responses, questions and gestures. Somehow, I’m able to make sense out of all this.

Dean Lonskey at SuperbikecoachMy 1on1 student is warming up on the track we mostly using, the Little 99 Raceway in Stockton. I walk around to check on him/her and some little things seem to trigger those visions. Black front tire marks on turn 7, where I had the class practicing emergency braking out of full lean angles. Voices- faces- disbelieves- fears I felt in the classroom when I started describing the procedure and when I walked with a smile to my bike to dress for a demonstration. I hear Dean saying “wait for their surprised faces” while he prepares his camera with an amused smile. He is with me almost ever since, and I can’t even imagine to have someone else in his place. He knows that I ‘tick’ like this and helps me when I’m too critical with myself.

superbike coach corneringschool General PicsWe all love surprising our students with subjects they never heard of- with things they think is physically impossible to do. That requires a lot from me. To lead them- discipline- motivate them and to keep them calm all at the same time. This is when Marion helps me pointing out students who need extra attention because they might be confused about it or being overly scared. She noticed I’m loosing up my arm after the demo and reaches a water and checks on me “are you ok?!”.  Her eager to keep the tight class schedule on track is a fight against windmills, cuz’ I go till everyone has it down.

superbike coach corneringschool General PicsStudents are on now group by group to make their first attempts. They struggle- they fail and this is when Wayne stops them to tell them exactly what I need them to do. There is a virtual Superbike-Coach tattoo burned deep in his soul! He gives it all he’s got- no questions asked. Walking back to the classroom, and Wayne reports what he noticed and felt about it, because also he knows that I need this to see if we can make things better.

superbike coach wheelieschool General PicsMy 1on1 student comes off the track to get his first mission for his next track session. I walk behind and hear laughter’s, excitement and joy of yesterday’s class. Some ask questions- someone just says “wow… didn’t know this is even possible”, and Chris responds with an exited smile “oh, there is a lot more of this coming!”. Then he moves on to fix someones bike- no questions asked. Chris says “I got this”, and I deeply believe  him there.

superbikecoach wheelieschool octoberThere is just that one guy we seem not to reach, Mark reports. He says I gave him extra time and attention but he seem not to be happy. We can’t make everyone happy. That’s the nature of things- he knows. Mark is sweating through and through. He successfully fixed the wheelie machine and walks over to our mini bike to fix that one right after. I know he will.

I gave my 1on1 student some missions on the track and walk into the shed where we run the classroom sessions, and I see and hear all those ghosts and voices of the previous class, where the power and the passion is still present. Ones, I found myself stop walking and to just listen and it runs like a video in front of my eyes all again. I was smiling and took a deep breath, realizing how much I love this team and what we do. Knowing that I’ve reached most of them fulfills me.

I know I’ve arrived. This is where my professional racing career meant to and up, and I feel blessed to have found this group of people on this side of the planet.

Headcoach Can Akkaya, Superbike-Coach Corp

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Superbike-Coach Can Akkaya podcast interview with the Rider Magazine

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Superbike-Coach Can Akkaya in podcast interview with Greg Drevenstedt of the the Rider Magazine
https://ridermagazine.com/2022/08/19/can-akkaya-ep-43-rider-magazine-insider-podcast/

 

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