Anyone else talking RACING?! <--- of the motorcycle type

Discussion in 'Racing & Track Days' started by drewl, Jan 13, 2011.

  1. FoothillRyder

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    No kiddin'! They must have exchanged the lead ten times on that one lap! :cool:
     
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    foothillryder you have to be good to race on my track thats what real men and racers are made of narrowest part of track is 6.4 metres widest is 8.5 metres.
    This coming year i will putting a wsb sp1 through there.
    We have bsb riders as well along with sidecars (outfits) formula 2.

    Oh its the place to be
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    The place to be here is on a bench. Most of these guys don't go much faster than thumbing a dozen characters/min on TeeVee remote controls or are not reading the Tshirts that say," The older I get, the faster I was."

    Lots of club racing here in the US. The guys with the big balls are the crews that do the real road races in Ireland and lest we forget, The Isle of Man, where the roads have been on diets since 1900..;)
     
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    Um.... yeah... :cool:

    Done a bunch of that club racing 'back in the day', before the tracks were sanitized to comply with safety regs. Still not the same is the Irish road circuits or the TT. There's definitely something very daunting about a 'course' that's 37 miles for one lap, where many corners have no sight line while being negotiated at 150+ (that's mph), and there could be something in your path just beyond that stone corner post.

    Yes indeed. Big ones. :cool:
     
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    I wonder if some of these guys even attend live racing. In my hood, about $8.00 will get you in the gate, pits, parking, overpriced eats, a camping spot and the crappers. Sorry no trophy or keepsake locks of pubic hair from the really fast guys are available. The umbrella girls are sort of doggy but the umbrellas are dual purpose.

    So have they cut off that last half mile at the TT or is it blocked with Germans who have become roadkill?
     
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    Anyone going to Miller for WSBK?
     
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    hey badbilly you have a good point about the irish and the tt riders indeed its a point that you cant really dispute . Ask any irish riders , the dunlops, farquhar, gartland, dr jon etc and they will tell you ireland is good Isle of man tt is brilliant , ask them of Aberdare and you will get a similar answer it doesnt matter the size of the track or the location be it state side , uk or ireland etc its the racers that make the event . We pay them to appear in their finery with their best pitcrews and they ride balls to the wall with a passion that is never equalled .A pal of mine once said it doesnt matter where we race its all in the finish, and as you say sat on the couch with tv controls. Lets take it as a compliment for its those guys who love to watch us racers entertain and argue who has the best racetrack in the world . My vote goes to me .
    I love this forum only just joined and already i feel at home .
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    Word has it that there are more Irish here than in Ireland especially around St. Patty's day.. or is it really St. Paddy.. Nothing like the IOM anywhere. Tracks should be improved IMO. Case in point much like could Ali whupped Tyson and all that, in a back to the future scenario a box stock Kawasaki of recent vintage would kick some serious GP ass with the right rider and a set of sticky tires.

    My or it would seem "our" points are much the same. This thread had dissolved into essentially a bench race and post race stats coupled with prognostications garnered from the media about who was going to be in the catbird seat next meet in Moto-GP. Or,as we call it in my hood, Starfuckers Paradise.
     
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    My crystal ball tells me, I see a man who may well have spent some time in the Pacific NW.. Not all the umbrella girls are doggy, some are just rotund.
     
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    Sorry BB last motorcycle race I camped at ( '85 Bathurst ) ended up in large scale riot against overly heavy handed Police with a Television News car overturned and set on fire. I'd rather go do the odd track day and watch Moto GP on TV with a few friends like I have since before Gardner won in '86.....
     
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    I know exactly what you mean. A guy accidentally knocked over his portable barbeque at one racemeet here and ruined a whole package of hot dogs. This, unlike camping at Laguna Seca whilst pricy to be sure, may well have never had even an incident close to the one you discribe with attendance near the 200k mark. OTOH, if you go for that sort of thing we have our regular rival club shootings that are televised from Las Vegas. Something for every taste wot?
     
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    That was a great battle. Reminded me of one of my favorite laps of all time with Tommy Hill & John Hopkins. The video below is one of my all time favorites and the commentary even makes it better. The Eurosport announcers should be mandatory for all road racing :bravo:

    [video=youtube;MjePvNcu8n4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MjePvNcu8n4[/video]
     
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    Great racing!!! IMO, the commentaters both are in need of adenoidectomys..
     
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    Fantastic racing with great commentary, watched it twice and couldn't believe Hill won both times. :cool:
     
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    Hopefully those two are not like that around small children.
     
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    HOLY CRAP, those WSB races were FREEKIN awesome. Glad BMW finally won and they would of had two podiums in race two had it not been for a Honda rider ( Rea ) who I always root for take them both out . AWESOME, wish I could go to UT in two weeks. Saw the first 4 WSB with AMA there when I lived in UT and that track is TOP NOTCH. Took me 20 miles from my door step in my 4 wheel drive to take a dirt trail up and over the Wasatch mountains to the track . Boy do I miss that
     
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    Apparently Espargaro liked the sound of Marquez's Moto 2 bike.


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    Well, the Honda 2013 apple cart just got seriously upset... "Calling Marquez, we need you from the bullpen son..."
     
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    and Kudos to Casey for his decision. Going out on top is the right way to do it, IMHO. I'm sure the recent birth of their first child was a big influence; but if the real passion is gone, there's no other choice to make. :cool:
     
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