Roadracers are junkies........

[lil_thorny]

Dave,
thank you for being you...love ya man.
Anthony,
good to see you here...be sure to stop by again
by my pit and well have a pint my Irish friend!!!
Cheers,
Benji #30.

[am_#65_john_deere]

did someone say pint :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)see ya at blackhawk.

[am_#65_john_deere]

thanks for the fund info,  

[lil_thorny]

aye,
you fancy a pint do ye?
well then we'll have to ditch the women and
have a couple Sat. night.
till then,
Benji.

[am_#65_john_deere]

ditch them,????? my one can keep up with me for a good few hours...........then she spews it all upand starts all over again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,she'd probably drink ya under the table :) :) :) :)

[lil_thorny]

bring her with....and Jeff too. we'll make a party of it!! ;D ;D ;D

[am_#65_john_deere]

no problem, i'll bring the guinness and whiskey.

[lil_thorny]

oh be still my beaten heart...
you truly are a dear friend :'(<--- happiness

[sdiver68]

Here you go, here are all the details of the Air fence fund:

http://venus.13x.com/roadracingworld/actionfund/

And then wear your free t-shirt to every motorcycle event to try and drum up awareness and further contributions.

[Super Dave]

dave, just a quick question??????streets of steamboat and park city utah,sound like races on closed public roads.do these races still exist????, is there anywhere in the u.s that races on street circuits?

Yeah, they were the actual roads of the towns.  So, you had spray paint around manhole covers, curbs, paint lines, medians, etc.  Raced at Steamboat from 1995 to 1999 ( the last year) and then at Park City, Utah in 2000.  I don't think they ever did it again.

It's kind strange to do.  I could go pretty fast, but you always needed to keep a little something in reserve.

Now as for Heartland Park Topeka...

The surface was obviously less than ideal.  I remember my first laps thinking to myself that I had made a pretty bad mistake in coming.  However, I WORKED ON MY SET UP.  It's as simple as that.  I was pretty dumbfounded by how fast I was going.  Larry Denning made the same comment.  He bested his previous personal best on the track by a second and a half or so, I think, even though we all seemed to agree that the track was worse than it was two years ago.  

[Tezboogie]

It doesn't matter if you are a club racer or a "whatever racer" we are all still human beings with family's. And yes, we do have the choice to race or not race at that particular track.
It's just really sad that we even have to go to a track and make a dicision on weather we're going to race or not.
I race at tracks with walls all the time, and i have seen some nasty shizznit at some of those tracks.
Some people, even some roadracers, hate it when we bring up stuff like this......unless of course it's them or someone they know or love gets hurt.
I'm sure i'll be visiting one these tracks soon again and i'll go out there and do the best that i can, because i'm a roadrace junkie. I'll try to be safe, but who know's?
It's just really ashame that money, walls and tore track conditions, out weigh the value of human life in the end.
The funny thing is, is with humans beings, we wouldn't have motorcycles or race tracks.

[Super Dave]

I'll try to be safe, but who know's?

I think that goes for everything, doesn't it?

I was watching my boys at a friends house playing on this rope swing thing.  I'm watching going through all these scenarios where they can hit their head on things and stuff.  When we were in Jr High, we lit my friends back yard on fire.  You do the best you can, try to minimize the risk.  

What is the alternative?  Live in a box.

Tez, I don't know about you, but if I don't get an opportunity to blow off a bit of steam at the race track, I'm not fit for human consumption.  I used to drive a full size Ford Bronco in SCCA events (with an In-Line 6 engine) when I wasn't racing...I'd just kill those guys and they didn't get it.

Somewhere around December, if I don't get some kind of fix, I start beating the wife's car.

Without motorcycle road racing, I think I'm more of a danger to myself and everyone.  I really don't ride a street bike, because the rush of whacking the throttle on the street is too inviting...and the risk is SOOOO high...  Isn't that the real danger?

I've raced a whole lot of races for a whole lot of years.  I've been on the experiencing side of some bad stuff, and I've seen worse.  But it hasn't detered me from doing what I love....LIVING!