More riders?

Hey Boman, I'm only about 100 miles from Cincinnati. When you fly over to visit your daughter, maybe time it with a race. I'll bring my fzr 600 for you to race and I'll race one of my other bikes. Mid Ohio and Nelson Ledges are close to me. I'll be doing Barber at least once.

 

Well probably run in to you also as those are tracks we're familiar with. I was FZR400, RZ350 and RD400 myself. Still have the two strokes.

 

I would not be surprised if we have met all ready. Were you in a garage at vintage days?

 

Not this year, I've been away for a few years. Last true vintage race I did was 2016 at Mid Ohio. Then 2019 at Nelson on an MZ.

 

I think there might be a little confusion between the many weddings he's been attending lately. I seem to recall the Cincinnati one being a friend or something.

 

Yea my daughter lives in Texas, so I won’t be getting close to those tracks. The Cincinnati wedding was my daughters best friend when they were little. Family moved away after High School to the Midwest. Brrr

Edit: thank you for the invite, though. I have to say I have fond memories of Mid Ohio. I remember being hard on the gas coming out of the keyhole and running off the track, not letting off and coming back on with no problem. Also remember frightening myself in the back section, coming over a rise with too much speed, and having a turn I wasn’t expecting.

 

Oops

 

I'd sure like to see you MZ.

 

I sold the race one but still have a street version.

 

How do you like it ? I looked into selling them back in the day, talked to the importer several times but never pulled the trigger.

 

Not gonna read through 8 pages but here's my idea: Newbies will be newbies. How about us long term riders? I think it would be cool that once you reach X number of entries paid over your whole riding career with WERA you start to get a discount on entry fees. A starting number might be 300 race entries (roughly $27,000). Why 300? I just figured 30 entries per year X 10 years equals 300. Then start to offer a 20% discount on each class entered. Obviously the number of entries to qualify could be adjusted and the discount % but it would be like a loyalty discount for us old dudes. Personally, I'd love it and might enter more classes on a weekend.

 

Thats nice and all, but since you're obviously gonna race anyway... what's the incentive for the org to make less money?

 

It handles great but the engine is somewhat lackluster. I owned an SR500 years ago and think it's a bit more spirited despite having less displacement.

 

Run the numbers on a 4 hour endurance with 2 or 3 riders...

 

It felt pretty cool being apart of three wave starts at the GNF. Only started racing 6 years ago, but the turnout for some of those races seemed like the "good Ole days" to me.