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I may as well get this started since I will need a lot of help and advice with this.
My plan this year is to make it to Daytona in October.
I will use This thread as a point of discussion and documenting the entire experience. It might help someone else in the future as well.
The dates: October 16-20th
The place: Daytona Internstional Speedway
The plan: race CCS and ASRA as an AM in all the classes I am allowed to.
The Bike: 2000 Suzuki SV650
I am still in the research of everything so any pointers would be great.
I have to choose between 3 options to travel.
1) bike gets transported with a company: estimate cost:$500 round trip. Airfare based on my most recent research $300-500. Hotel for 5 nights: $750. This method allows me to rest during my travel and requires
The least time off from work. It also is the only option if I go by myself.
2) drive! Bike gets transported via company: $500. I drive down there in my Mazda 3 that gets 40mpg highway. Roughly 2500 miles round trip = 62.5 gallons. Let's say 65 @ $4/gallon that's $260. Not bad. Especially if a friend or two come along and help with gas. Hotel same thing: $750.
3) Rent an RV and drive down. This came in mind in case 4 of us go down. I like this idea because it can turn out to be like a vacation too. But I'm having a huge problem. I cannot find a place that rents RVs for unlimited miles. At $29/100miles I'm looking at $750 just for miles. Plus about $1000 to rent the RV for 7 days. Plus gas at about $550-600. I save the cost of the hotel and make an experience out of it but it seems extremely expensive and I would have to depend on commitments that others are coming...
Here is where I need some NESR help. Does anyone know of a place that rents RVs for fair money and has either unlimited miles or a good high miles package? Or does anyone here have an RV that would be willing to rent to me for the trip?
More will be posted with time. For those who want to discourage the trip or the effort and have anything to say please don't post. I am trying to keep this thread as clean and informative as possible. I am looking to hear from people who have been there (Gino, John, etc) to get pointers about the track or maybe suggest a hotel whatever anything that can help. I know nothing about the track besides that it's high speed. So I have no clue what gearing I will use what else I will have to change on the bike etc. I know nothing about the area. The hotel pricing I got was mostly from expedia. Not sure how close/far those are to the track or if there are better deals.
I hope most of you can share the trip/the stress and hopefully some winning with me via this thread.
Thank you,
Sav