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Jeandr said:
We all can choose where to spend money to have fun, it probably cost just as much to drink a case of beer at a bar each night as it does to go racing with a Honda CB350... choose your poison
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I figure I have saved enough by not drinking and/or smoking this year to make the entire AHRMA calendar next year.

...now to sell that argument to my wyfe...
 
bill said:
tell that to people like pat mooney, tim joyce and dave roper to name just a few. these guy's are extremely fast and take it VERY serious. the average joe has NO business on the same track with them to just go out for a wobble around.
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There will always be guys who take vintage racing very seriously and it's great that they do, they're the ones upfront providing the race element. But, they're racing in classes where other people are (or should be) riding bikes manufactured over a spread of a fair few years and with varying degrees of competitiveness. The most important thing in vintage racing is to get the biggest variety of bikes out on the track and if some of them are less than competitive and are "parading" around at the back of the field then the fast guys need to be ok with that; if not they might be better off racing an R6 in 600 supersport.

Up here in the vintage racing impoverished Pacific Northwest, I remember a few years ago, we had a grid of 11 bikes representing 9 different brands which is as it should be.
 
grandpaul said:
...now to sell that argument to my wyfe...
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GP, I know this is a British bike forum and In Great Britain they spell Tire as "Tyre", but that doesn't make your significant other a "wyfe".
 
ggryder said:
grandpaul said:
...now to sell that argument to my wyfe...
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GP, I know this is a British bike forum and In Great Britain they spell Tire as "Tyre", but that doesn't make your significant other a "wyfe".
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I've used that spelling for over 20 years; it's a personal thing.

As to bill's comment, I've never been present when a rider was meatballed or black-flagged for being too slow on track, and they DO police that. In fact, I can't recall anyone mentioning such an occasion on any of the racing forums I've been on. People who race in AHRMA are at least nominally capable of holding a proper line, maintaining a reasonably competitive pace, and not posing a danger to others; I place myself in this group.

If a person is a reasonably competent rider, successfully completes a racing school recognized by AHRMA, and has the wherewithall to field a legal bike, I believe they ought to try it. The new "NexGen Superbike" class is an opportunity to do exactly that.

I believe there will be two groups in the new class: the "upper" group comprised of very fast and/or wealthy riders who can afford very fast bikes and who will be competing for podium finishes every race, and the "lower" group comprised of all those that find cheap Interceptors & Ninjas and get out there and compete for every place they can.

In my opinion, one group will be having no more fun that the other group, and the slower group have every bit as much right to be on the track as the fast group.
 
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