Re: TMP August 25th (Thursday)
As far as
stormcat is concern he/she isn't ready for a REDDAWN track day as of yet this is no disrespect to he/she. For the record racer5 doesn't allow anyone to run coolant
but if i was Fawaz and someone showed up at the track and its there first time or they forgot to take the coolant out of there bike i would allow them to go out on the track. The reason is i would hate for someone to travel all that way and then pay to get in and then only to be told they cant go out on the track. Besides renting tracks isn't cheap and its a business, but i would let the person know that this will be there first and final time i would allow this from them. I would also keep and eye on them all day to make sure they weren't doing any thing stupid to cause them self or others to crash which would mean coolant on the track.
fbm, I was
not running coolant in my bike. It had already been switched over to Water Wetter in June to go to Calabogie. This isn't about what I was running in my bike, it was about the fact that I crashed on my first lap. See this thread for what happened:
http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforum/showthread.php?143257-My-2nd-TD-and-1st-ever-crash
I ended up there with 08CBR1000 from an invite through a mutual friend we have. Everything was fine until I went down, and then after that I was overly anxious, didn't know what caused me to go down, and was therefore, overly cautious. I was following 08CBR1000 and our mutual friend on that first warm up lap and it was not what I considered fast by any means. However, considering that was the first time I had ever kissed asphalt in five years, I was pretty freaked out when we weren't even fast when it happened. 08CBR1000 apparently thinks I should have just jumped back out on the track as if everything was fine. It doesn't work that way. But ironic that he never said a word to me that day. Choosing instead to slag me on here about my "skills." He's also a liar. I counted the number of laps I did post-crash since I recorded them all on my GoPro. I did a total of 13 laps and went back into the pits every time the track became overly congested again or when being passed in the corners began to make me feel uncomfortable. Each time I decided to head in I gave a clear, correct hand indication that I was pitting with plenty of warning to the other riders on the track with me. He also claims that I 'complained' about being passed. I did not.
I said it freaked me out because I wasn't used to it and ended up remaining frozen on bad lines to make sure no one hit me, and that I didn't hold anyone up. 08CBR1000 has a bee in his bonnet because I am beginning to think he has a financial stake in Reddawn's TDs.
If 08CBR1000 had actually been concerned about how I was doing that day, he wouldn't have just sat there eating burgers and making wisecracks. Our mutual friend, who had never been on a track before I may add, was the one who stepped up to the plate and insisted I was going back out there, and that he would follow me. Pretty noble for a guy who was new at this. If I was somehow a "danger" during my 13 laps broken into sessions of 2, 2, 3, 3, and 3 laps, then either he, 08CBR1000 or the organizer himself should have approached me and offered to tow me around the track until I felt better. You know, like other organizations do. So not only is this claim that I was a "danger" BS, but if there had been even a modicum of truth to it, one would think they'd do something about it. No one said a word to me, so what does that tell 08CBR1000? That he's full of crap.
I have never claimed to belong anywhere else but in the green group, so I don't know what 08CBR1000's issue is with me. He does seem to think all one needs to do is take a course and magically they'll be in yellow/intermediate. Uh, no. And he also seems to think I should have been able to just shake off the lowside and carry on. Uh, no again. And he also apparently took everything I said as a harsh criticism toward his precious TD org. All I wanted to know was if Racer5 holds their TDs in the same way: no breaking up of groups based on experience level (i.e., green, yellow, red), and if they're lax in their rules like Reddawn is (i.e., yes, I also saw folks pulling wheelies down the straight and yes, there was passing all over the track). Considering this was my first TD sans coach/instructor control, I am not interested in repeating that experience. Hence the reason I queried Racer5 about this.
EDIT: And for the record, I returned to the track on Aug 13-14 (Calabogie through Turn2 to do two CRGs). By the 14th once my coach/instructor let me go out alone, I was doing laps just under 3 mins, so you and 08CBR1000 can feel free to
suck it if you don't think this green chick belongs on a track.
