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Tried out some minimotard racing tonight @ sugar hill speedway. I had no idea how serious some of those guys are! $5000 minimotards? WTF, are you crazy!? My REAL racebike was less than half that!!! Oh well, after seeing the competition I didn't expect to be very competitive.
Went out for practice and realized a race front and a street rear tire is a great way to learn to slide on pavement! I had hobbs(pasta rocket) on my tail the whole time, so I was kinda pushing it. Came in and saw the rear tire was quite low(20 psi) so I increased it to about 30.
Went out for heat #1 (qualifying)and it was wicked loose all over the place, worse than practice! Coming out onto the straight I was getting it COMPLETELY sideways. I was the only one doing this, so I figured something was wrong. But it was so fun! So I dealt with it. I qualified 2nd to last, right ahead of my buddy Hobbs.
The race went like this every lap: get wasted on the straight by everybody but Hobbs, pull into the infield portion and make up some ground, slide back out onto the straight and repeat. Though the slides were getting exponentially worse (but more fun!) with every turn.
Finished 3rd to last, right ahead of hobbs. Pulled into the pit and eyed the rear tire, apparently some damn engine gasket decided to fail and piss oil all over my rear tire! OOPS! A bit dangerous, now that I think about it. But there were some dirttrack worthy slides out there tonight!
I almost want to race a motard now!!! What fun!!