What's your 2010 schedule shaping up to look like?

[OreoGaborio]

Originally Posted by marko138

If you do the Beav or Summit swing through and pick me up. My biggest challenge getting to the track is not having a truck or trailer.

Yeah, I hear that!

I used to ride my bike about an hour & 1/2 up to the track for a track day. It wasn't all that bad, but I also had friends up there that could give me a lift home should something happen.

Regardless, it STILL made for an exhausting day & a long ride home.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by OreoGaborio

Yeah, I hear that!

I used to ride my bike about an hour & 1/2 up to the track for a track day. It wasn't all that bad, but I also had friends up there that could give me a lift home should something happen.

Regardless, it STILL made for an exhausting day & a long ride home.

Guys here used to do that when going to pocono, I dont know how they did it. Same thig at loudon, I did a fishtail day with the desmo group and a lot of the guys were putting the bikes back into street trim at the end of the day.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by tommymac

I can do that, I gues once the other schedules come out and I figure out my plans we can work something outbeing i def want to ride both of those tracks this year.

You're the man.

Originally Posted by OreoGaborio

Yeah, I hear that!

I used to ride my bike about an hour & 1/2 up to the track for a track day. It wasn't all that bad, but I also had friends up there that could give me a lift home should something happen.

Regardless, it STILL made for an exhausting day & a long ride home.

I'd never ride to the track. For the exhaustion factor and the "what if".

[OreoGaborio]

Eh, it kinda sucked on the ride home but it wasn't all that bad... did it for a while. All of 2005, really so probably 8-12 times.

But again, it made for a long day and I also had friends that could have taken care of me if something happened. I just didn't want to make them go out of their way by bring me up there if I didn't have to. We usually went out to dinner afterwards, so it would give me time to relax and recharge a little.

It's definitely much more convenient if you have a trailer, but I wouldn't say it's a necessity. We have probably 5-10 riders a day that ride to our events.

[marko138]

My 'closest' track is Pocono and thats 2 hours away....so, for me, riding just isn't a doable thing.

[OreoGaborio]

oof, ya, screw that.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by shmike

Oreo, do you find any difficulty switching between Instructor speed and full on practice speed? I know not everyone has this problem but I sure as hell do.

I have actually considered giving up control riding because it takes me 1/2 a day of race practice just to get back on pace.

I may bring a 2nd bike to the trackdays as a strictly Novice/Intermediate control bike.

Funny, the beginner / intermediate control riders just bomb around in B and C at fast A group pace. I bet they don't have issues getting back up to race pace. I've had them almost take me out a couple of times and exchanged words.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by marko138

My 'closest' track is Pocono and thats 2 hours away....so, for me, riding just isn't a doable thing.

And its pocono

Nesba has some interesting dates so we may all have to figure something out for a td or 3.

Tom

[marko138]

Originally Posted by tommymac

And its pocono

Nesba has some interesting dates so we may all have to figure something out for a td or 3.

Tom

Yeah, exactly. Really wish that give that infield section a pave job.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by marko138

Yeah, exactly. Really wish that give that infield section a pave job.

I have gone offroading out there a few times and its quite the adventure to say the least. Got thrown over the bars of my bike once when the front tire planted in a crater out there

Tom