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Done a bit of racing..... until a 90 MPH high side turned me into a javelin and T3-T6 (not turns kids....) all get squashed. Sill do quite a bit of dirt biking.
Raced with MRA, USBA, CVMA, WERA and CCS. Been to Road America, Laguna and Phillip Island.
Done a bit of racing..... until a 90 MPH high side turned me into a javelin and T3-T6 (not turns kids....) all get squashed. Sill do quite a bit of dirt biking.
Raced with MRA, USBA, CVMA, WERA and CCS. Been to Road America, Laguna and Phillip Island.
Wow! Probably gives you a healthy respect for those professionals who do this for a living on faster hardware and nearly identical safety equipment.
Wow! Probably gives you a healthy respect for those professionals who do this for a living on faster hardware and nearly identical safety equipment.
We can get back to flat sixes and turbos, but yeah......
I've been to Texas Tornado Boot Camp with Colin Edwards - EVERYONE should go!!! It's just fun, motorbikes, gun shooting, bbq, beer drinking and the random professional racer(s) who just show up. Being up close to a former Work Superbike champ and watching him ride and just his overall intensity is fun. Watching how the guys can do anything they want with a bike is just unreal.
Jake Gagne - current MotoAmerica Superbike racer, former World superbike racer, even qualified for an AMA MX national - was essentially testing while we were doing an endurance race. Watching him back in a superbike with well past 200 HP was just mindblowing. He passed me between T5 to T6 at High Plains and just power backed it in and spun the tire up all the way through T6....
I was at California SuperBike School and Dovi showed up on a street legal Panigale to "ride" Laguna before the MotoGP race; just unreal. Joe Roberts (current Moto2 racer) was there with Wayne Rainey that day too. I think Joe was 16 at the time, practicing no braking around the track; just being smooth.
We can get back to flat sixes and turbos, but yeah......
I've been to Texas Tornado Boot Camp with Colin Edwards - EVERYONE should go!!! It's just fun, motorbikes, gun shooting, bbq, beer drinking and the random professional racer(s) who just show up. Being up close to a former Work Superbike champ and watching him ride and just his overall intensity is fun. Watching how the guys can do anything they want with a bike is just unreal.
Jake Gagne - current MotoAmerica Superbike racer, former World superbike racer, even qualified for an AMA MX national - was essentially testing while we were doing an endurance race. Watching him back in a superbike with well past 200 HP was just mindblowing. He passed me between T5 to T6 at High Plains and just power backed it in and spun the tire up all the way through T6....
I was at California SuperBike School and Dovi showed up on a street legal Panigale to "ride" Laguna before the MotoGP race; just unreal. Joe Roberts (current Moto2 racer) was there with Wayne Rainey that day too. I think Joe was 16 at the time, practicing no braking around the track; just being smooth.
I started the thread, and I'm not complaining, so please carry on - very cool stuff.
Done a bit of racing..... until a 90 MPH high side turned me into a javelin and T3-T6 (not turns kids....) all get squashed. Sill do quite a bit of dirt biking.
Raced with MRA, USBA, CVMA, WERA and CCS. Been to Road America, Laguna and Phillip Island.
Great pics - now i can see where your username came from - nothing escapes me ..
(Right to Left: Troy Bayliss, Wayne Gardner, Daryl Beattie, Kevin McGee, Olivier Jacques, Marty Craggill)
Philip Island's front straight, circa 2006
Phillip Island is just AWESOME!!!. It just flows. Coming down the straight, roll over the down hill, you instinctively just want to brake and admire the southern ocean. then you realize how much farther you have to go and how much FASTER you can go. Just loved that track. Lukey Heights has so much more elevation change than it appears on TV; can't imagine Iannone and hitting that gull.....
And the track day was almost nothing. $500 US for the track day, lunch, gear and BMW S1000RR with fresh tires. What a great trip that was.
More silly motorbike photos. 1st couple are from Utah Motorsports park (formerly Miller) through the Attitudes. Kid on the 520 bike was 13 at the time. He raced MotoAmerica Stock 1000 last year and scored points in all his races at 17....
Second group is at Halloween Boot Camp - Seriously, GO!!!!! Go by yourself or a group of friends. It is an absolute hoot.
You like a giant next to that Blackbird and that is no small bike!
Thank you, I think...
This is why I have such a deep respect for the guys flying around the track on bikes at light speed - my center of gravity is way to high for me to ever feel comfortable beyond 6/7/10ths, I simply did not feel I had the control.
In a straight-line, however, that was a different story and thus, why I got the Blackbird...
08-19-2020, 01:44 AM
