Bad idea I have tried and it doesn't work. Get a cheap track bike and have fun, keep your street bike and enjoy both.
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How many track / race days do you guys actually ride per year??
- Thread starter JayG
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Bad idea I have tried and it doesn't work. Get a cheap track bike and have fun, keep your street bike and enjoy both.
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If I had a choice I would be in bed with 5 girls while swimming in a pool of cocaine but none of that is relevant.
Street riding and track is very different, track and racing is very different so you can't really chose between one or the other - I really enjoy street riding for certain reasons, I really like racing for completely different reasons so I couldn't chose between one of the other hence why i do both.
If you have to think about it that much then i suggest just stay street riding.
JayG
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You should consider racer5 which is what i'm doing. Keep the street bike and take the 3 stage track course with them.
After that you can rent their track bikes for only 200-350 a day during track days.
You dont have to buy your own track bike, no maintenance, no additional costs, you dont have to worry about transporting it, it is much cheaper AND you get a instructor every time to help you improve. You can also attend the racer5 races!
This way you can keep the street bike but also get the track experience at a fraction of the cost.
After that you can rent their track bikes for only 200-350 a day during track days.
You dont have to buy your own track bike, no maintenance, no additional costs, you dont have to worry about transporting it, it is much cheaper AND you get a instructor every time to help you improve. You can also attend the racer5 races!
This way you can keep the street bike but also get the track experience at a fraction of the cost.
Last streetbike I owned was well over twenty years ago. Must say though seriously considering a fully geared out V-strom for some serious adventure touring. May have to retire and sell SOAR to find the time to do it though 
Depends on you really, but for me that was very easy---5+ track days should come even with 0 street. I did 14 track days in 2013, although two of them had bad weather and I didn't enjoy them.
I like being on a bike, whether going fast or slow.
It's the only time i enjoy living on this ****** planet lol.
Track/race season is too short in this Country, i wouldn't be able to do track only.
Easy pick, the street bike would be the last bike to be sold.
It's the only time i enjoy living on this ****** planet lol.
Track/race season is too short in this Country, i wouldn't be able to do track only.
Easy pick, the street bike would be the last bike to be sold.
I made the choice and chose track. It wasn't even close. I am only interested in sport bikes and riding them on public roads is pointless IMO.
I am all about the machinery / performance. If you are a fall-afternoon-tootle-around-the-countryside type then the choice is much harder. That can be a fun way to enjoy a motorcycle I guess but I am not there yet.
But pretending you are truly "sport riding" on the backroads is pretty stupid if you ask me. Very limiting, very dangerous, and at least a little bit socially irresponsible. It was easy to give up.
I am all about the machinery / performance. If you are a fall-afternoon-tootle-around-the-countryside type then the choice is much harder. That can be a fun way to enjoy a motorcycle I guess but I am not there yet.
But pretending you are truly "sport riding" on the backroads is pretty stupid if you ask me. Very limiting, very dangerous, and at least a little bit socially irresponsible. It was easy to give up.
Don't fool yourself, riding track can be very dangerous.
Riding twisty roads south of the border at a good pace, but within in your limits is not dangerous.
The problem is that "within your limits" has to also account for the unknown road conditions ahead, oncoming traffic, the lack of any runoff, etc., not to mention police radar. At the same level of risk street riding needs to be much slower than track riding, and generally much much much below the actual capabilities of either the rider or the bike. Which is what makes it pointless to me. If someone else enjoys riding around at 20% of their skill level, more power to them. It's not for me anymore.
Understand that this is coming from someone who lived in the US and spent 5 years riding the mountain roads of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. I am not just basing this on the pathetically boring roads of southern Ontario. All street riding sucks compared to the track, if your main interest is performance.
SlowMo
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Until some @sshat coming towards you decides they can't stay in their own lane and drifts well into yours... nah.. you're within your own limits so it's not dangerous.
Soon as you taste Calabogie or Mosport you'll be saying the same thing about Grand Bend and Cayuga, that riding those tracks suck lol.
I had a blast riding down in PA this year with zx600 and a couple of other friends, never felt dangerous and way more fun that a Td at TMP.
Shaman
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Truth. Even Shannonville.
I've done Mosport twice and it is a blast (and also a pretty nostalgic place for me...) but it is too fast and dangerous for me to want to really push my lap times. Too high of a risk: reward ratio. To each their own.
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