Re: Track Day video

Erik Weber <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:16:22 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.recreation.motorcycles.svrider.general
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Man thanks those are killer. But yeah, I'm not sure what the point is of al=
l
those barriers. Why not just have grass? I guess it's because the track is
winding back close to itself?

There was about one crash per session at Barber on Sunday. One guy did get
hurt but left under his own power after a long scare.

Erik


On 3/9/06, Matthew Roth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Run-off is definitely an issue at NHIS but I would say that with the
> exception of turn 9 I didn't  even think of it.  Here's the Star School
> website where you can get a good idea of NHIS--I think this is Craig
> McClean-- he's not as fast as Jason Pridmore around here, nor as smooth, =
but
> he's pretty darn fast (then again there aren't many people smoother or
> faster than JP he's top ten in AMA superbike in my book).
>
>   http://www.starmotorcycle.com/photo.htm
>
>   The NHIS Video is in the lower right part of the webpage.  I rode their
> SVS on my second day and that's why I got my 2000 SV.  I was basically
> hooked at that point.  I asked Jason about the runoff and he kind of
> shrugged and said there were some pretty sketchy places but that racing w=
as
> racing and there are more dangerous tracks than this--he did say however
> that he was glad he didn't ever crash there (at least in the sketchy plac=
es)
> but he saw a couple bad ones.
>
>   FWIW only a couple people crashed that day and no one got even close to
> being hurt. My buddy Lou got run off the track by an instructor (out of
> carelessesness by the instructor) unfortunately.  Star School stepped up =
and
> made it right.
>
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