Why Motorcycle Road Racing is better than Nascar..

[Lowe119]

I think there is nothing more beautiful than leaning down next to the pavement like it is my friend. My person is travelling around the corner on a machine with tremendous power as I feel the smooth - almost frictionless - surface move inches beneath my head. Even though my knee is sliding like a curling stone, the bike and I are getting more than enough traction to do up to 3-times the speeds commuters experience in their protective boxes. This is beauty.  :) ;D

[Dawn]

I think there is nothing more beautiful than leaning down next to the pavement like it is my friend. My person is travelling around the corner on a machine with tremendous power as I feel the smooth - almost frictionless - surface move inches beneath my head. Even though my knee is sliding like a curling stone, the bike and I are getting more than enough traction to do up to 3-times the speeds commuters experience in their protective boxes. This is beauty.  :) ;D

Now that was pure poetry....

 ;)

[Super Dave]

Now you guys are doin' it...

In 1994 I was sponsored by Avon.  The season was kind of a disaster.

Anyway, I was at the Brainerd AMA round.  I always liked to put in my fast time for qualifying early so that I could get my name out on the speakers.

Avons would last for a certain period of time, and they were ahead of themselves in that they didn't have much for a tread pattern.

So, it was beginning to drizzle.

I went out.

I really don't slide a bike around much, but I had to try to do a good time.

Brainerd's turn one is pretty much wide open in sixth.  Two is a bit slower, but it's flat where one is banked.  So, I ran it in to two in fifth gear rolling off as I'm going in.  The front start to tuck and slide...but really slowly...but I'm covering a LOT of ground at about 140.  I get on the gas to get the front to come back, and the rear starts to spool up.  All the way to the outer edeg of the track.  Did that several times.

I got off the bike and called my mom.

"Mom," I said...told her what I just did..."I want to feel like that all day long."

 ;D

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I want to feel like that all day long."

 ;D

I'm touching myself...

[rubberducky]

I think who ever said "I love motorcycle racing more, because that is what I do," is right! We love what it is we do. We will argue it until its past the point of making sense. I know a few people will argue it until it brings them to death. The fact is that we love racing, mainly the racing we do. We are all competitive people in our own rights. I know that if you gave me a tricycle and a few friends a course to race them on, we would be bumping, crashing, laughing, and blooding ourselves up to get to the finish line first. Thats just the nature of competitive racing spirit.

Now do I watch NASCAR, no, its not my cup of tea. Do I slam it, OH YA! I dont see the fun in going round and round. I love road courses. I think they give the diversity that I need. Shifting, braking, slow corners, fast corners. From track to track it is the same but totally different.

If everyone could feel what we do on the track I think they would be hooked on moto RR, but the fact is they cant. motocross didnt used to be so big either, but the amount of publicity and dirt riders has made it popular.

Racing is the best and the worst thing to ever happen to me, as Im sure it is to alot of the rest of you. But frankly the worst seems to go away when I come screaming over a blind left hander and she stays planted to the ground. When Im braking harder and later to pass someone coming into the buss stop and the bike is bouncing around saying nope shouldnt have done that but settles down just in time to make the turn in. I could go on for days, as all of us can. But the fact is we love what we do. I have no intrest in racing metal boxes, who am I to say someone else cant or shouldnt. I personaly dont care one bit if NASCAR fades away, but this is my opinion!

I think more than anything that the grade of people involved with and around moto racing in general is alot higher. I know at the track if someone needs a part and the competition has a spare, here you go. I dont know if its like that in NASCAR but I doubt it.

Renee, if you love the sport like the rest of us, write that report and make sure that everyone understands the passion that is involved, the ups and downs, the sacrifices we all make to continue racing. You are the spokes person for the next generation!

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I know that if you gave me a tricycle and a few friends a course to race them on, we would be bumping, crashing, laughing, and blooding ourselves up to get to the finish line first. Thats just the nature of competitive racing spirit.

Racing is the best and the worst thing to ever happen to me, as Im sure it is to alot of the rest of you.

 When Im braking harder and later to pass someone coming into the buss stop and the bike is bouncing around saying nope shouldnt have done that but settles down just in time to make the turn in.

 I know at the track if someone needs a part and the competition has a spare, here you go.

Renee, if you love the sport like the rest of us, write that report and make sure that everyone understands the passion that is involved, the ups and downs, the sacrifices we all make to continue racing. You are the spokes person for the next generation!

BRAVO!!!  We have a winner!

[dylanfan53]

Renee,

Nascar is to racing as Etch-a-sketch is to art.

Sorry Dave, sometimes I just can't help myself. ;)

[lil_thorny]

Renee,

Nascar is to racing as Etch-a-sketch is to art.

funny, but I've seen some pretty awesome Etch-a-sketch drawings :D

How 'bout this one:

NASCAR is to racing as the Easy-bake oven is to gourmet cooking.

My sister thought she was a chef until the light bulb burnt out. ;D ;D

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

OH, did I forget to mention that I LOVED NASCAR in the 70's, before it got popular?  It was really RACING back then.

Same here. Watching Buddy Baker, Peirson, King Richard, Yarborough, Allison, Bonnett and Gant in the late 70's was great. After Davey Allison died, I really started to stop watching it. FOr some reason most my favorite racers in Nascar died (Kulwuiki, Davey, Tim Richmond, Neil Bonnett).