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The thread for lame excuses of why you're not currently racing

Discussion in 'General' started by motion, May 21, 2021.

  1. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    I mean everyone here is a beeb millionaire and laden with crypto investments right? Even Cortez should be racing.

    I have a bunch of racebikes but don't race because I somehow can't find the time to drive 10 hours to the nearest track, I guess. I need a cool 4 stroke racebike that I just plug into the battery tender between races and makes it easy to get to the track. I could race Miller once or twice a year if the stars align. Those are my excuses.
     
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  2. Venom51

    Venom51 John Deere Equipment Expert - Not really

    I'm old and lame.
     
  3. notbostrom

    notbostrom DaveK broke the interwebs

    The battery tender really isn't required
     
  4. BrianC636

    BrianC636 Well-Known Member

    My SV needs a new battery, subframe made for the GSXR superbike tail and GSXR 1000 bodywork to be mounted
     
  5. beac83

    beac83 "My safeword is bananna"

    I'm old and slow.
     
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  6. ton

    ton Arf!

    somebody tried to end me at my last track day. i tried to come back three years later. started over with a school weekend. realized midway through there was a reason i broke up with this particular "girlfriend"... sometimes it's just time.
     
  7. DWhyte91

    DWhyte91 Well-Known Member

    Wasn’t having fun anymore. Smile per dollars just wasn’t there.
     
  8. Senna

    Senna Well-Known Member

    Well, currently I’m in the shitter.
     
  9. Brad

    Brad Swollen Member

    I'm old, fat, fragile and 16 seasons was a lot. I've got more, but that's the popular cliff notes for the beeb.:(
     
  10. casjoker

    casjoker Refusing middle age

    Broke as phuck...
     
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  11. SpeedyE

    SpeedyE Experimental prototype, never meant for production

    When they went to electric start on motobikes, no more kick/bump starts, I said it has gotten too wimpy for me.
    No thanks.

    fred.JPG
     
  12. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    I did a face off against a 13 year old 5 times, beat him on the clamp, plunged and popped 5 times. 6th time my knee locked my back spasmed and I had to be lifted up off my knee.

    My body is shot.
     
  13. evakat

    evakat Well-Known Member

    Hmm... where to begin...
    FZR750RT
    * Work/job.
    * Bike needs safety wired.
    * My front brakes need. serviced!!!
    *I still have antifreeze in her.
    * I need to figure out how to get the rev limiter to work on the IGNItech ecu I got for the 750.
    *Work/job.
     
  14. L8RSK8R

    L8RSK8R Well-Known Member

    No talent, couldn't afford medical care and got the shite scared outta me in B Group :)
     
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  15. tiggen

    tiggen Things are lookin' up.

    Time.

    I do arrive and drive karting a la Josh Owens, I punt little kids off the track, and I don't turn a wrench. Sick.
     
  16. stangmx13

    stangmx13 Well-Known Member

    Taking a break finally allowed me to pay my credit cards off. I even bought a boat and obsessing over that & fishing is far cheaper than racing. That plus a few trackdays on the stack of takeoffs in my garage is keeping me fulfilled.
     
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  17. cortezmachine

    cortezmachine Banned

    low blow haha

    my primRy goal right now is saving money. My lady is starting pharmacist school soon so I want a fat cushion before I do anything like get mangled any more than I am with racing
     
  18. Dave K

    Dave K DaveK über alles!

    If’n I had the cash to do all the surgeries, the pr and the stem cell treatments to take me back to 30 I doubt I’d go roadracing again. I don’t think my brain could keep up now. Nope, I’d go back to my first love - dirty track.
     
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  19. CBRRRRR999

    CBRRRRR999 Well-Known Member

    I couldn't find anyone to race anymore years ago after beating some kid on a Hoonda CBR999RRr-R on my RD 250 my dad built me with TZ pistons. Guys just quit showing up at the local tacks.

    Went to the Dragon when I got old enough and by this time I had a 350 with Bassanis and flatslides stolen off a KZ 1000. I raced a couple guys with real race licenses and they seemed scared to break the speed limit or cross medians so I figured I'd keep racing old fat guys in Corvettes for cash money instead.
    After I finally got my dream job roughnecking in Southwest Texas during the summer I was finally able to purchase a brand new Daytona Special which my cousin Hoss ported and polished as he'd learned tuning working on diesels in the Army before he got kicked out. I took off the centerstand and all the street crap and got it so light the front wheel just skipped the surface in the first 4 gears. I had to put friction tape on the seat to keep from sliding off.
    During all this I broke all my fingers and toes at least once, my collarbone and had a couple concussions from wrecks. I had to lay it down in gravel when a tractor pulled out in front of me and got gravel road rash, the worst kind. After my friends mom who was a nurse and roadsign holder part time picked gravel out with tweezers and wiped my forearm with betadine I swore never to ride in anger again.
    Now I have an animal rescue where we rehome exotic pets to vertically challenged seniors and use local convicts reentering society to run the farm. I still have the Daytona and Bridgestone 350. I take them out late on weeknights occasionally but I'm to old to take a chance somewhere dangerous like a track.
     
  20. Funkm05

    Funkm05 Dork

    I’m old and have 2 kids. Wifey no likey the risk.
     

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