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I grew up racing dirt bikes, spent a bunch of my 20's racing Ninja 250's and SV650's with moderate success. I've never taken a break from riding, but I haven't raced in about 5 years since moving back to the Boston area. When I lived in CA and OR I had plenty of friends racing, and tracks were never too far away. I've been feeling sort of in a slump lately because I'm lacking the motivation that competition brings, so I'm making the early New Years resolution to get back into racing.
Now for the hard part...what type of racing??
I'm leaning towards drag racing, for a few reasons:
1) I've never done it.
2) It's somewhat local (Wednesday and Friday nights in Epping for open practice). In general don't need hotels or campers and all that. Light on commitment.
3) I have a buddy with a drag car who takes it to Epping regularly.
4) Cost is relatively low (have all gear, seems like decent prepped bikes can be had <$3500 (already own some bikes I could potentially build), I think fees for street nights are $40 for unlimited passes).
Other forms of racings I'm considering, along with reasons and questions:
- Vintage MX - where (if anywhere) are clubs racing? This would be my top choice if there was somewhere local.
- Flat track - only done it a handful of times and always had fun, but doesn't seem too common around here
- Bite the bullet and do LRRS. My biggest hesitation here is the time commitment.
So...can you talk me into, or out of, getting into drag racing?