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Hey guys. Wondering what your opinions are on this semi political question. First of all I've been riding and driving hard since 17, I have 3 years of experience and I know how to be as fast as you can without being stupid. I know my limits. So please no MSF quotes I scored a perfect 100 in both 2 and 3 wheel classes.
Its kinda long. Here is the thesis of it if you don't want to read it all.
Why should track days be used as rare events to tone our skills? Shouldn't we be able to race most days on a track instead of the road. I feel like being able to go to a track when I wanted would remove my desire to speed in normal roads, and speeding on normal roads is way cheaper, paying off tickets, but less safe. Doesn't this seem ridiculous? Society sucks.
I know safety is the way to go for speed, and track riding, on top of just not riding a pre-kat lol, is the safest way to go. But track riding is expensive. Some states have nice situations where you can get track days for cheap, but everything here in the NW is around 200 a day. As a full time student, and I will be a student for another few years, paying for track days is not a viable option. If you think about it, for 200 dollars all you get is a safer road to ride hard on, but the price of a speeding ticket for the amount of time you spend on riding hard is waaayyyyyy cheaper than anything on the track.
Why should track days be used as rare events to tone our skills? Shouldn't we be able to race most days. I feel like being able to go to a track when I wanted would remove my desire to speed in normal roads. I mean whats the point of a speed limit in the first place if 80% of the traffic is going over. Why should a bike have the same limit as a semi-truck. Why are there bike only checkpoints if motorcycles themselves cause almost no fatalities.
Car street racers feel the same way. There needs to be a more economical way to go racing in the US without losing safety. This situation seems to only have gotten worse over time with more liberal policies that require you to pay to be safe or be punished. Riders like me will not give up riding hard no matter how many tickets we get. Its what we do, no other group is so penalized for following dreams. If its going to be more expensive for track racing due to insurance and ambulances then allow us to sign waiver to not have it. If riders could just meet at an area that would be closed off at least it would be more likely that someone would notice if you went down, and there wouldn't be cars or gravel to distract or kill us.
Its kinda long. Here is the thesis of it if you don't want to read it all.
Why should track days be used as rare events to tone our skills? Shouldn't we be able to race most days on a track instead of the road. I feel like being able to go to a track when I wanted would remove my desire to speed in normal roads, and speeding on normal roads is way cheaper, paying off tickets, but less safe. Doesn't this seem ridiculous? Society sucks.
I know safety is the way to go for speed, and track riding, on top of just not riding a pre-kat lol, is the safest way to go. But track riding is expensive. Some states have nice situations where you can get track days for cheap, but everything here in the NW is around 200 a day. As a full time student, and I will be a student for another few years, paying for track days is not a viable option. If you think about it, for 200 dollars all you get is a safer road to ride hard on, but the price of a speeding ticket for the amount of time you spend on riding hard is waaayyyyyy cheaper than anything on the track.
Why should track days be used as rare events to tone our skills? Shouldn't we be able to race most days. I feel like being able to go to a track when I wanted would remove my desire to speed in normal roads. I mean whats the point of a speed limit in the first place if 80% of the traffic is going over. Why should a bike have the same limit as a semi-truck. Why are there bike only checkpoints if motorcycles themselves cause almost no fatalities.
Car street racers feel the same way. There needs to be a more economical way to go racing in the US without losing safety. This situation seems to only have gotten worse over time with more liberal policies that require you to pay to be safe or be punished. Riders like me will not give up riding hard no matter how many tickets we get. Its what we do, no other group is so penalized for following dreams. If its going to be more expensive for track racing due to insurance and ambulances then allow us to sign waiver to not have it. If riders could just meet at an area that would be closed off at least it would be more likely that someone would notice if you went down, and there wouldn't be cars or gravel to distract or kill us.
and I don't care to elaborate.....you probably wouldn't accept what "old fogies" said anyway. You and "others" trying to "hone" their testerosterone on a public hwy are my worst nightmare. If you can't afford a track day to get a release, please sell your bike/car and ride a hooker.
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