What makes YOU a roadracer?

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

you complain when cars in front of you on highway off-ramps don't stay
on the line, causing your exit speed to drop.

     Oh man does that apply to me! I hate when some dork in a sports car passes me (in my truck) on the interstate as I have my turn signal on to exit and at the last second they cut in front of me and onto the exit ramp only to carry no corner speed at all! Use to have a guy in a late model Trans-Am that would do that to me several times a week on my way to work. But the difference with that situation was that the ramp was dual lanes onto a bypass and was a decreasing radius turn. That guy would be several car lengths in front of me at the start of the ramp, but I would stay in the other lane and leave my cruise control on at Interstate speed and blow by him mid-turn in my 3/4 ton Suburban like he was sitting still!  ;D That guy never learned and was never able to go thru that turn like I could.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

My commute is two hours a day, with most of it highway.  I'll just be driving along thinking about racing when I look down to see I'm doing 100mph!  Oh Nellie!  Better slow down!  Ten minutes later, 100mph again!  Buying a car with cruise control has really helped me avoid this, but the drive takes longer now... ;D

Offramps?  Don't get me started.  People just can't drive.  I have a sweet S-turn offramp on my ride home.  I've scraped the wall with my driver's side mirror a few times when I had the beater Mitsubishi!

[stumpy]

 What makes me a Roadracer....I'll tell ya!!!!!
I have a knife to my throat and thoughts of suicide now that the first race ISN'T this weekend now!!!  ::)
Thinking of driving the 900 miles one way and spending 2000, Just for a track day... :-/




Stumpy

[Xian_13]

Don't think of Topeka as a Trackday...
But a test and tune day for RA ;D

[cornercamping]

When the scent of VP in the air wakes you up faster in the morning instead of coffee  ::) ;D

and..

When you get pulled over by the cops and give them your race license instead of your drivers license (I've actually done that one before)  :D

[GAMEDIC]

I'M BROKE!!!!!!!!!!!! :o

[CCSRacer114]

   You slide the rear wheels of the grocery cart to make the turn to aisle 4.

   Your best friend and toughest competitor comes down with the flu Saturday night and all you think about is "I've got a podium in the bag".

[2Bfast]

I find racing exciting, but I don't overwhelm everyone in my life with my hobby. I understand loving to race, but it's one thing when that's ALL you know and want to do.

[MarkB]

...you have no problem dropping $20 a head to get into a joint where the standard of the toilet facilities rivals most prisons in Uganda.

[cornercamping]

Roadracers Wallet Contents:

Health Insurance Card
Bunch of maxed out credit cards
Race Licenses
Tire Contigency Card
$20.00 in cash
Drivers License

Roadracers Glove Box (mine atleast):

Tire Gauge
Insurance
Truck and Trailer Registration
Bike Registration
Bike Frame Registration
Bike Title
A whole crap load of wrist bands in different colors
Michelin Stickers  ;D

 :P

[rubberducky]

1.selling anything you dont need to race to pay for racing.
2.renting an apartment because it is 10 min. from the track you will race at twice a season, even though you now have to drive 45 min to work everyday.
3.wearing jeans with holes in them instead of buying new ones so you can afford to get your suspension serviced.
4.your convinced that speed limits only apply to normal people, and your pretty sure that you can convince the cop that just pulled you over of the fact.
5.youve been know to instigate a race w/ a person in a sports car while in the work truck.
6.time spent away from the track is considered time to prepare for being at the track.
7.if youve been known to call co-workers squids more than 10 times a day.
8.you realize that racing is more addictive than crack and more expensive too but refuse to seek counsiling anyway.

[KBOlsen]

Here's a use for all those wristbands... link 'em together and use 'em for decorating the Christmas tree!