Track Day weekend! Hope any of you others that would like to go can make it. Shawn would be a good contact for this, we're leaving Lafayette Saturday morning. Riding at putnam park. See you then.

 

what's the cost

 

All the info is here http://www.putnampark.com/ but i think the desmo is like$160, no safty wire req, coolent not recomended, but ok, and no fur. USBA is $150, back protector req., watter and watter wetter req, no fur. Spelling sux i know but in hurry at work no time for sp check

 

This Was Fuhreakinawwwsuum!

 

I SECOND THAT!!! :YEAH :YEAH I just want to say thanks to mike for letting me use his bike, leathers, gloves, and thanks for letting me break in those pretty new knee pucks!!! Best time ive ever had on a bike!!!

 

sweet, I need to try it sometime

 

i need a track day my damn self!!

are there any good twisties in IN.anywhere?

 

Yeah but they come with a side of gravel , blind corners , stupid drivers , or all of the above, so about the only place I'll push it is at the track. :YEAH

 

that is really smart of you

but...i use the streets as my race track. i ridez to die!!! i cant afford $160 for the track day...$50 for food and gas and other things...$250+ for tires and i still dont have leather pants....

so you have any good routes out there?

 

$160 for the day at the track, $500 for the leathers, $400 for the helmet, $200 for the boots, and $100 for the gloves. All trashed now, along with $600 worth of parts on the bike, but it was all worth it. Low-side at the track, get up ride back to pit beat parts back in line tape what fell off, break out the spar helmet, and be back on the track with in 2 hours. On the street, at a minimum, at the speed of travel when I low sided, most likely from the looks of the leather, skin graft, and concussion, most likely, with cars or trees around, much worse.

Moral of this story, don’t have one. But, the track is for pushing it to the edge, and that is where I choose to do that, and recommend that others do. The street is not safe for anything above 75% in my opinion, and that is pushing it, with the variables involved. Ask anyone, and they will tell you, I will push it with almost anyone anywhere, so I’m not preaching, just stating my opinion, take it for what it is.

 

i joke about the streets as my race track ....that will **** people off..not here tho(sbn,,,ect)
i was just trying to ruffle some feathers..i have been riding bikes for over 19 years...im actually older than you...if your 26...im not a kid...im just looking for some more roads of the USA...we get bored here and ride 500 miles in a day...ur next door...so im just looking for some roads...chicago gets boring if ur a rider...im not a parking lot cat!

so ya got anay good roads out there...

 

Glad you're alright sean, sorry to hear about the low-side

 

Wasn’t ruffled, and I know others have more experience than I, but I would rather people think about the experience of the track as worth it, rather than a waste. And, as I said, I have pushed it on the street many times, and will probably continue to, however, no one ever accused be of being a fast learner. Cruse Erik can attest to my street stile, and Gixxer671 has seen both street and track, I am just saying that the track is safer.

As far as roads there are not many great roads in Indiana either. Southern Indiana has some, I think it is 137 or something that isn’t too bad, and some short stretches else were. For the most part it’s just roll a direction and see what happens. The road will take you somewhere.

 

As soon as my laptop quits being a little biotch, and lets me upload the video and pic I will post some pic form Saturday and Sunday. Some of the pictures were lost due to the camera being testy, but most of them were of my bike in pieces anyway.