Roebling Road - my first track day is Monday.
 

Any tips? I have already asked many questions and read a bunch but if you have something interesting throw in your 2 cents!

Thanks

Relax.

Trust yourself, your tires and your bike.

Follow the CR's lines and suggestions.

HAVE FUN!

What he said.

Also if they give you the opportunity, maybe walk the track ahead of time. Get a feel for it and an idea of what to expect.

Thanks! Nate Kern will be instructing and I hope I learn some things to take to the Gap in May too.

And I refuse to get addicted!!

Kern is a nice guy.

He came to one of our days about 2 years ago.

He's pretty quick.

Good luck with not getting addicted, let me know how that works out for you. :wink:

In all honesty, it's either something you will be addicted to, or something you'll hate. I've seen both, but only a few manage to dislike it.

Make sure you get some pics to share with us!

This!

have a blast!

What's the scoop on the GAP trip in May?

It's a yearly trip the members of another site I frequent (gasp) to honor the first member who passed away riding. He died on the Gap and we have a small cross where he died. I've been the past 3 years. While it is a memorial, it's also a lot of fun. :). There are usually about 60 of us.

2 years ago at dinner I found myself sitting beside this guy named Jared. :lol:

He is a great instructor, I had him for 5 laps of NJMP a few years ago and he really put me through the paces. He would scare the shit out of me though in the one corner where his back tire would fly a foot to either side under hard braking.

yep.....didn't he come up to you and tell you I said Hi? LOL I ran into him on the dragon...that was a messed up trip...trying to meet everyone who was there...:lol:

Update! :) I had a BALL!!! My tires are toast now too! :lol: All kinds of crazy thoughts keep running through my head.. lol

The coolest part though.. I got to 2UP with Nate! OMFG!!! 3 laps and it's impossible to describe without using a lot of expletives! It was thrilling and terrifying at the same time.

And another addict is born...:wink:

prety much, I love seein gpeople after their first day, and I tell them to kiss their money goodye LOL

You know, if you want Gap instruction. All you got to do is PM me and let me know when you are up there. :P

If I bet money every time this happened, I could live at the track.

I went once...4 years ago.

I went a couple of times and sold my sportbike. LOL

It's not that I even disliked it. I just have better things to spends money on.

You bought a GS. That's cheating.

I honestly have 1000x more fun on the pit bike than I did on the sportbike on the track. You still get that competition feeling, it's just you can push your ability 100 fold without any worry for yourself or the motorcycle. You can practice backing it in and all sorts of shit I would of never attempted with a $7k motorcycle.

lol

I'm just not up for paying 150 or 200 bucks to ride for a day. I only did the first one b/c it was only 100 bucks.

I'm in the same boat. If that shiz was free I'd be there every weekend. With fuel over $4 though it's spendy just to GET to the track now...

this is where having your home track a whole 17 miles door to door is jawesome!

I'd rather have the gap 30 miles away.

This is how I feel about a motard. I'm not a speed freak. I've DONE 170mph, and it didn't blow up my skirt any more than 100mph does. But what it DOES do is increase the "what goes wrong at 60 goes really fuggin wrong at 120" factor for me.

That's why I like my supermoto and SMALL tracks like Patriot. Speed is limited to about 95 mph and you get all the excitement of deals gap without the gravel, fuck-nuts with trailers, oncoming cars, and locals with their oil and kitty litter.

I also like the mini-moto on kart tracks.

On the BIG tracks (VIR full) there's just too many ego-hungry wannabe GP stars that never seemed to get selected by the big guns :skep: who try to prove something to everyone else. Whereas on the smaller tracks it really DOES take skills. A huge powerplant can't make up for lack of ability.

or all the jockeys on liter bikes who blow by you on the straights only for you to reatke them by turn 3 :lol:

This is what I didn't like about the track. I didn't feel comfortable running with the advanced guys, but there were so many idiots in intermediate it wasn't worth riding with them either. Rather just get passed constantly running with the advanced guys.

You and me both sister! :lol:

Gawd those guys are annoying. Gawd forbid you pass them to avoid their sandbagging because they cant take a turn. I gotta say I agree with Troy tho, the tiny technical tracks are way more fun than the tracks with huge sweepers, etc. I like Jennings, but I LOVED Lil Tally. Funny tho, the guys on the liter bikes hated it for some reason...:wink:

I still enjoy the track days, funny thing is some of the tracks I like have the bigger straights, but I like the turns and how those tracks are set up (summit main and vir south) Mid Ohio I realy liked and would love to ride it in anger on my own bike (did the ktm day last year and had the fear of wadding up an 18kdollar bike that wasnt mine)

This year between the baby, rising gas prices and a little property tax issue I probably wont be out this year :(

This will suck!

I really wanted to do a track day with your crazy ass

trust me I am going to try my best, trying to snag as many extra shifts as I can. I am about 2 hrs from NJMP but their tracks are eh to me. I figure if it sonly one or 2 days I want to go somewhere I like and would do summit, beaver, loudon or mid ohio.

Plus you know me the wheels are always turning, trying to scam or scheme up something LOL