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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: mklep on July 20, 2005, 08:56:37 PM

Title: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: mklep on July 20, 2005, 08:56:37 PM

Last week I did my first track day up at Pocono.  The phrase "what a blast" doesn't come close.  Since then, my daily commute to work, not that it was ever that thrilling to begin with, is a bore.  Yea, I know, I'm riding, and I do enjoy riding.  

I understand that the first step to recovery is admission to the addiction.

Well, here goes:
        My name is Mark, and I think I'm addicted to riding on the track.  Excessive speed in a controlled environment gets me going.  Leaning the Bandit til I get a knee down does more for me than any illegal substance ever did. (trust me on this)  Sharing this same enthusiasm with everyone else at the track feeds the exhilaration.  

Until your next track day, how do you cope?

Title: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: PitterB4 on July 20, 2005, 10:30:37 PM

I moved this over to the General forum.  I feel your pain, Mark.  I haven't even ridden since the track.  Will probably get out this weekend - back to the world of gravel and SUVs!

Title: Re: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: Red01 on July 20, 2005, 11:06:59 PM

Quote from: "mklep"

Until your next track day, how do you cope?

Do you think some vacation time and a road trip into the rural twisties will help?

Title: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: smooth operator on July 22, 2005, 10:43:03 PM

I also have been hooked on track. But Pa. still offers some good riding (except for the pot holes and fresh tar and chip)too. Of course you can't ride like you can on a race track, but you can still work on smoothness, using throtle managment as a tool to adjust speed,power and weight transfer. I have all the next possible track days marked on my calender,and etchted in my brain. But in the mean time I enjoy a morning ride accross the borders along Pa. and NY.  Dan

Title: post track day let down
Post by: oremike on July 23, 2005, 12:41:30 AM

The first couple of times I rode on the street after my track day I noticed how narrow and slow the street was compared to the track. It felt kind of wierd. On the other hand on my first lap on the track I realized that I had ridden every corner befor some where else so I was able to relax some.
Mike M.

Title: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: gsxr400 racer on July 24, 2005, 01:07:08 AM

ITs simple alot of bench racing with your bro , like when you get old you talk about high school like it was yesterday when it was actually a decade or more ago, or you just quit riding on the street and become a verey verey broke racer like the rest of them , money is no object for my hobbie! Wait till you start riding on slicks! and have to have that shock , or that quik shifter, or those carbs ! Racing Rules ! ambulances rule ,corner workers rule. Ma and PA coming out to find you in there yard sucks! :beers:

Title: since track day, I'm bored with riding!
Post by: Garyola on August 03, 2005, 01:46:07 PM

I totally understand your dilemma, MKelp.

Riding on the street to me now just seems too slow and dangerous. All I see is obstacles and bad surfaces. I took my street bike out of the city now and I don't ride in town any longer. I have the B12 up at my old farm house out in the country and enjoy a ride out there on weekends.


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