Joe, I've got a Scott's damper -- easy to reach from the riding position. So I make sure I "tighten" it while I'm in the staging lines and loosen it again when I'm slowing, in shutdown. As for the thing about forgetting how little it'll turn -- maybe you don't remember a few years ago when I was at the fuel truck and departed, planning on doing a 180 and going to the pit. I wanted to turn way tighter than the bike would allow -- and that's when I dumped it at about 1 mph on the pit road. I still haven't lived that one down.
At Bonneville there's nary a problem - partly 'cause the bike is on the transporter trailer most of the time, and the rest of the time it's got about a quarter-mile to make the 180 from the course to the return road. There I'm not bothered by the 15-degree-max. rule. At ECTA events -- unh, different story. . .