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Message started by LostArtist on 06/15/11 at 18:01:45

Title: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/15/11 at 18:01:45

has anyone ever done one?

http://ridesmart.info/

this weekend there's one close to me on Sunday, got a "special" offer to do it for $70 (half price) and free rental of leathers and other stuff.

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by webhead on 06/16/11 at 03:43:18

If you have a sport bike then go for it! Looks like fun. I took the smart rider course where I live but they don't have a track.

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/16/11 at 05:50:35

Maaan, if all I had was a moped Id hafta think about that real hard,, Id sure want to go,, If you have the $$$ & the weather looks like its gonna be nice,, drop the $$ & go have fun.. when else do you have th chance to play in a corner & NOT be thinking at all about "Am I gonna get a ticket" Or, Is some idiot gonna run me over? YOu can just focus on the ride,

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/16/11 at 10:09:16

I've a got a buell xb9s, does that count as a sport bike??? and the rear tire needs changing pretty badly so that's another $200 on top of the $70, and gas and food so we're talking spending around $350 for a day at the track . . . which otherwise would be about the same if it wasn't for that tire thing, thinking about passing on this for now, maybe another day.

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by Paladin. on 06/16/11 at 15:09:05

I don't like pain. I do not want to die in pain.

You can ride at the edge unless you excede the edge -- which means you must fall, slide, etc.. Helmets and leathers and armor is so you do not die on the track. And it works! Very few people die on the track. Learning to ride in the track does teach you to faster, safer.

Me, I prefer without pain. I prefer avoiding collisions to surviving collisions. I have no need to ride the track. I have need to ride to the edge.

You should take the Track Day Class. You will be a more skillful rider than I am.

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/16/11 at 17:03:06

the 200 needs spent anyway.. but oure the man who has to make the call on whether its affordable right now,,

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/17/11 at 11:02:09

contacted them this morning on the phone and I can use my S-50 instead of my buell so I"m trying to go, just waiting for a coupon code they said they'd give me. then in August I'll try to go again but with the Buell and maybe try level 2

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by Southpaw on 06/17/11 at 11:47:39

Sounds like a great opportunity to me! Hope you can swing it and have a blast!

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/17/11 at 18:05:01

got the coupon code 50% off and leathers and boots are supposed to be free but the code didn't work on them, but I plan on just going on Sunday with my S-50 and learning a lot and having fun.

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/17/11 at 20:53:56

Dont scrape anything up & hav a blast,

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/19/11 at 16:56:11

yeah, you can take a cruiser to track day. . . .

just don't try to follow the sporties through any turns or around the track

so your "learning" opportunities are limited, but it was fun going around a racetrack was cool, I'm going to miss the turns, cause my normal commuting is straight as can be.

I left early for a couple of reasons, 1. I had to go take care of some of my friends dogs while they are out of town, and 2. after going out around the track about 15 times, um, yeah kinda got the been there done that and now I'm bored thing going on. and 3. if I needed help, the instructors all had sport bikes and I'm not comfortable trusting them to lead me around at a cruiser pace/style of riding vs their sportbike style of riding. I'm sure there was more I could have learned but idk what it was and no one was telling me anything, good or bad.

would I do it again? no, I'd save up for the advanced MSF course

Title: Re: track/training day
Post by LostArtist on 06/20/11 at 10:42:40

my track day photos

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a9/mxr199/My%20day%20at%20the%20track/?albumview=slideshow