This is why I'm not into "track days"

daisoman said:
Wow the guys who have spent decades riding dirt, street, and now track, and are speaking form an experienced standpoint, not just speculating from the peanut gallery, really took this personally.
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Fixed it for ya
 
Lol ever since I started track riding, the dangers of street riding became a lot more apparent. I've calmed down a lot on the street since.
 
a very good friend of mine got hit on deals gap buy a truck that cut into his lane. he is no longer with us. died on impact.
slow safe rider killed buy a truck not paying attention. this thread is moronic to say the least.
 
Say what you want, but street riding and using cars as mobile chicanes is still a lot of fun.
 
Been racing mx a few years. I've had some pretty nasty crashes, I've been run over multiple times (once by multiple bikes in the space of a couple seconds) landed on, and pretty much every possible way to crash. 80-100' jumps, sometimes close enough to another guy you could reach out and touch them and a mx start is the craziest lap in motorsports. Yet I still feel safer being out there where everyone is aware, conditions are controlled and most of the other people are somewhat skilled.
Live seen some bad injuries. Open femur fractures, lots of other fractures, even a slight evisceration just this year... And they all lived to ride another day.

Road riding scares me. I honestly just use the bike as a cheap commute tool now. (I save money by riding the bike even with bike costs factored in). Unknown surface conditions, wildlife, and all those people out there not paying attention, distracted, day dreaming, and too many people dont have the skills to drive even a golf cart.
If you do go down, you have 5000lb vehicles that need to avoid you, obstacles on the side of the road to try to not slide in to, and if you're alone a night on a back road you could lay there for hours or even a couple days before someone finds you (had a relative trapped in her camaro wrapped around a tree for 36 hours off the side of a county road before someone who was looking for her found her).
So yeah, way safer on the track.
 
rmemedic said:
Been racing mx a few years. I've had some pretty nasty crashes, I've been run over multiple times (once by multiple bikes in the space of a couple seconds) landed on, and pretty much every possible way to crash. 80-100' jumps, sometimes close enough to another guy you could reach out and touch them and a mx start is the craziest lap in motorsports. Yet I still feel safer being out there where everyone is aware, conditions are controlled and most of the other people are somewhat skilled.
Live seen some bad injuries. Open femur fractures, lots of other fractures, even a slight evisceration just this year... And they all lived to ride another day.

Road riding scares me. I honestly just use the bike as a cheap commute tool now. (I save money by riding the bike even with bike costs factored in). Unknown surface conditions, wildlife, and all those people out there not paying attention, distracted, day dreaming, and too many people dont have the skills to drive even a golf cart.
If you do go down, you have 5000lb vehicles that need to avoid you, obstacles on the side of the road to try to not slide in to, and if you're alone a night on a back road you could lay there for hours or even a couple days before someone finds you (had a relative trapped in her camaro wrapped around a tree for 36 hours off the side of a county road before someone who was looking for her found her).
So yeah, way safer on the track.
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To spare some accidental Google image views :sad1::

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eviscerate
 
It wasn't much... just an 8" gash. Two hands kept them in... Actually he held them in himself while he waited for the track medics to get to him. His dad drives one of the water trucks and was the first one to get to him actually. Both were pretty calm about it.

But, that was a really rare injury, I haven't heard of that happening on a MX track.
 
rmemedic said:
Road riding scares me. I honestly just use the bike as a cheap commute tool now. (I save money by riding the bike even with bike costs factored in). Unknown surface conditions, wildlife, and all those people out there not paying attention, distracted, day dreaming, and too many people dont have the skills to drive even a golf cart.
If you do go down, you have 5000lb vehicles that need to avoid you, obstacles on the side of the road to try to not slide in to, and if you're alone a night on a back road you could lay there for hours or even a couple days before someone finds you (had a relative trapped in her camaro wrapped around a tree for 36 hours off the side of a county road before someone who was looking for her found her).
So yeah, way safer on the track.
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The ironic thing being if this was in another thread, everyone would be all over you calling you a pussy because you are afraid to ride street.
 
I'm not into track days, because I fell asleep 10 minutes into watching FASTER.
 
Dr.Manhattan said:
The ironic thing being if this was in another thread, everyone would be all over you calling you a pussy because you are afraid to ride street.
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A lot of people react the same way when they hear that I race.

"Isn't that dangerous?"

I get it. I understand why they think it would be. But after I explain it in a bit further detail they'll usually agree that it is safer than street riding.
 
dricked said:
Unless pushing your personal limits and seeing what your bike is capable of scares you, you might not be into riding track.
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Ya true its not for everyone. I was just saying to the previous poster that watching a movie doesn't really equal to actual track days.
 
daisoman said:
Ya true its not for everyone. I was just saying to the previous poster that watching a movie doesn't really equal to actual track days.
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No way, it's exactly the same! Just like playing Call of Duty is the same as being in combat.
 
I wonder if it sounds like we are all a bunch of "I gave up street riding to race" kinda riders? I hope not, because I love street riding immensely. Not for the same reasons as I used to though. Also, when riding on the roads, I am not deluded into thinking that I am somehow exposed to less serious dangers just because my speeds are lower than they are at a racetrack. I am well aware of my mortality. I used to be one of those guys using roads as a outlet and personal test space for my riding prowess.....and somehow Darwin let me away with that for 20 yrs on public roads.

Then 3 yrs ago, I did my first trackday, and then raced with SOAR a week later. My whole outlook on riding motorcycles changed in one lap of real racing, and I realized that I had never made my 05 GSXR1000 break a sweat, and all the while I thought I was riding the wheels off of it. I sold it. It was very clear what a waste of potential it was to ride a 160 hp bike like that on the roads. I now use sportbikes where their potential can be used. I bought a supermoto instead for the street......and every mod I make to it turns it more into an adventure bike.

Now riding street, I want to explore, see new things, experience new places. Wander. Go places cars might not be able to venture. Get off the beaten path. I do not city ride. Ever.
I find the racetrack exciting, but it's true, that lap after lap the scenery is the same. However, for riding fast, there is no safer place than a racetrack. Period.
 
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