On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:56:50 -0700, Gary Lee, www.vwrack.com <gary2a@TELUS.NET> wrote: >I used to ride motocross and enduro, but am now interested in motorcycle >road racing. I rarely ride on the street, too dangerous :) >Any other road racers out there? > >Gary Lee >GSXR 600 Snipped above. I raced roadrace bikes for a while. A Honda Hawk NT 650 was my main track bike, run in the middleweight twin class. But after a few crashes I switched over to sports cars and a Porsche 928..Doesn't hurt so much (only the wallet) to go off track in that. I did a few of those Nevada Open Road races, too, before going exclusivly track. These are timed events where they close a section of highway and let you go as fast as you want for a given distance. I recently re-drove one of those race courses (the Pony Express 100) in the van, Battle Mountain to Austin, a distance of close to a hundred miles..We did the distance in a bit under 2 hours in the Van..In the Porsche, at our target speed of 170mph, we were right at 33 and change minutes to cover that distance..The car with the closest finish to each target speed was declared the winner. Often the interval between finishing positions was measured in 100ths of seconds. Pretty different trip in the two vehicles.. Don Hanson Ya gotta love Nevada...A state where the Cops will close the roads for you to go 200 mph for a hundred miles, where prostitution is state supervised, where the mainstay of the economy is gambling and you can own an assualt rifle or a VW with a small block Chebby motor... |
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