Originally Posted by jambo

And I shall bring a camera to provide you with months of Avatars :lol:

Not done Lydd, I may pop along for this, not sure if I'd be riding or not but sounds like an excelent day out 8)

Originally Posted by jonboy

Yes, but they can on the road too.


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Originally Posted by Sid Squid

I can't understand this attitude, really I can't.

Now don't take this as being rude, I fully appreciate that no-one actually wants to crash, but you'll happily ride your bike on the road, with traffic and rubbish surfaces, potholes and and gawd knows what other risks, but worry about 'smashing up' your bike on the track, where everyone is going in the same direction, no-one will pull out in front of you, the surface is good and known, there are no blind corners that something nasty is hiding beyond, (in the unlikley event that there is something in your path you will need to know about, there'll be a marshall waving a flag at you). Is that attitude realistic?

Think of a track day as being your favourite bit of road but with everything that makes you back off removed, and I'll bet on your favourite bit you don't always back off as far as is scrupulously legal, but then neither do I, sometimes, and, if you'll do that, why not at a nice safe track?

It's of course entirely true that you can crash at the track, but if you take the excellent advice given above there's no reason why you you should risk crashing any more than you would on the road, where you ride every day most likely, and in reality the chances of a crash are probaly lower then on the road, and if you should be unfortunate then the consequences are likely less serious, plenty run off etc etc, no-one to tangle with once you've slid off.

Do it, you'll have a grin a mile wide after the first lap, and it won't go away for days.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

I can't understand this attitude, really I can't.

Now don't take this as being rude, I fully appreciate that no-one actually wants to crash, but you'll happily ride your bike on the road, with traffic and rubbish surfaces, potholes and and gawd knows what other risks, but worry about 'smashing up' your bike on the track, where everyone is going in the same direction, no-one will pull out in front of you, the surface is good and known, there are no blind corners that something nasty is hiding beyond, (in the unlikley event that there is something in your path you will need to know about, there'll be a marshall waving a flag at you). Is that attitude realistic?

Think of a track day as being your favourite bit of road but with everything that makes you back off removed, and I'll bet on your favourite bit you don't always back off as far as is scrupulously legal, but then neither do I, sometimes, and, if you'll do that, why not at a nice safe track?

It's of course entirely true that you can crash at the track, but if you take the excellent advice given above there's no reason why you you should risk crashing any more than you would on the road, where you ride every day most likely, and in reality the chances of a crash are probaly lower then on the road, and if you should be unfortunate then the consequences are likely less serious, plenty run off etc etc, no-one to tangle with once you've slid off.

Do it, you'll have a grin a mile wide after the first lap, and it won't go away for days.

Originally Posted by svsk2

I may be up for the 6th May