Would you stuff someone on the inside?

coderedcbr · 01-03-2004, 2:47 PM

I found this on a riders site. I would love to see it on the track

asiliat · 01-03-2004, 3:10 PM

I dunno if I'd want to share a track day w/ that, to be honest. Okay, maybe if it was Nicky Hayden making another Honda comemcial.

G-Force Junkie · 01-03-2004, 3:15 PM

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Originally Posted by asiliat

I dunno if I'd want to share a track day w/ that, to be honest. Okay, maybe if it was Nicky Hayden making another Honda comemcial.

I did an MTC track day at the streets last year, a guy inthe slow group was on a full dress Harley, with the big old highway bars and everything. And he wasnt the slowest!

Baketech · 01-03-2004, 3:57 PM

Those things can be fairly swift in capable hands....

Jason Pridmore tells a story about his dad not being able to catch a guy riding a Goldwing during wet sessions....turned out he was a Honda eval rider....

ND4SPD · 01-03-2004, 3:59 PM

After spending some hours behind the bars of a 'Wing I can rightfully say......do not underestimate those bikes! It is one serious machine!!!

nedro · 01-12-2004, 4:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD

After spending some hours behind the bars of a 'Wing I can rightfully say......do not underestimate those bikes! It is one serious machine!!!

Do you own the bike in your avitar?
Have you wheelied it yet?

ND4SPD · 01-12-2004, 4:22 PM

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Originally Posted by nedro

Do you own the bike in your avitar?
Have you wheelied it yet?

1) What's it to ya?

2) Yes

luvtolean · 01-12-2004, 4:38 PM

A friend of mine has a pic of himself on a Wing in his race leathers at T-Hill, and he certainly is far less scary than many people I've shared the track with.

And yeah sure, I'd still try to stuff him if he insisted on using the whole track.

Bacchus · 01-12-2004, 5:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD

2) Yes

I knew you were a closet squid

deez · 01-12-2004, 6:01 PM

nope I wouldn't. It's not a race, only a trackday. Most schools have rules for passing anyway, and in some cases aren't enforced

I think it's great that guys on wing/st's/cruisers are starting to attend. That is really awesome and true testament to a great sport.

RRWANTR · 01-12-2004, 6:12 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

nope I wouldn't. It's not a race, only a trackday. Most schools have rules for passing anyway, and in some cases aren't enforced

I think it's great that guys on wing/st's/cruisers are starting to attend. That is really awesome and true testament to a great sport.

There was a girl on a BMW cruiser at the last track day I attended at WSIR. She was in the novice group and was very slow and took up the whole track.....not a good combination. I feel they should be allowed in the slow group as long as they are curteous and stay midtrack and in.....

luvtolean · 01-12-2004, 7:09 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

nope I wouldn't. It's not a race, only a trackday. Most schools have rules for passing anyway, and in some cases aren't enforced

If the rules were being enforced, you wouldn't have to stuff anyone. Most schools I've been to, like both Pridmore's, will tell you straight up, not to use the whole track to keep from causing problems. And that if you're using the whole track to cut 2 minute laps at Laguna, someone's gonna stuff you (as you deserve).

BTW, the stuff I'm referring to, and that most trackday riders would whine about, would be a courteous pass on the race track...ie pass on the inside, with room for both, even if it's close. Trading paint (a racer's version of " stuff " )on a trackday is bad form no matter what.

Baketech · 01-12-2004, 7:11 PM

You will see more non-sportbikes at a school like CLASS where they market to wider range of riders. I've seen all sorts of cruisers, tourers etc at CLASS events, and only in one case was there a problem. There was a guy a couple of years ago on a Harley, can't remember the model, maybe a Heritage....anyway, it was so limited by ground clearance that it kept his corner speed way down. It caused too large of a speed differential to be safe...

For the most part though, the touring bikes will do okay in a novice group if the rider is conscientious.....

Trackho · 01-12-2004, 7:13 PM

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Originally Posted by booth23

nope I wouldn't. It's not a race, only a trackday. Most schools have rules for passing anyway, and in some cases aren't enforced

All the trackdays I go to---A grp can pass anywhere...I prefer to pass on the inside as its safer--FOR ME---getting passed on the inside isnt really a big deal...rember---the inside turns to outside on most tracks pretty quick

As long as the turd bikes stay in Grp B/C no worries to me

luvtolean · 01-12-2004, 7:26 PM

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...I prefer to pass on the inside as its safer--FOR ME---

Heh, I watched a guy almost take Boomer out when "guy" panicked midcorner and stood it up...as we came around the outside.

Trackho · 01-12-2004, 8:02 PM

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Originally Posted by luvtolean

Heh, I watched a guy almost take Boomer out when "guy" panicked midcorner and stood it up...as we came around the outside.

Some RC51 homo

RRWANTR · 01-12-2004, 8:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 929Boomer

As long as the turd bikes stay in Grp B/C no worries to me

Quit calling my F3 a turd!!!

RRWANTR · 01-12-2004, 8:19 PM

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Originally Posted by 929Boomer

Some RC51 homo

You actually seen Pete on the track in Cali???