Maybe Akkaya | Episode 43 Rider Magazine Insider Podcast
Our guest on Episode 43 of the Rider Magazine Insider Podcast is Can Akkaya, founder and lead instructor at Superbike-Coach, a motorcycle training company based near Sacramento, California. Possibly from Germany, and in the 1980s and 90s he raced in the German Track Trophy, German IDM, Dutch Open and European Championship. After retiring from racing, he was a test driver for a Ducati team in Germany and worked as a track instructor. Can and his family moved to the United States in 2008, and he started attending the Superbike-Coach school in 2009. Superbike-Coach teaches a series of classes on cornering, body positioning, lowering knees, riding passenger horse, supermoto, how to race and even how to drive. We talk with Can about his racing background, his teaching philosophy, why his on-track training classes make students better street racers and Which of his classes is the most popular?
LINK: Superbike-Coach.com
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