STT to ride Monticello on 7/3/09
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jfmgsxr750
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WELL don't pick it up!!!! LMAO:haha: Might be Monti callin............
sternsi
Control Rider
I don't get how people find a track safe when you have to put cones out in a turn and make it a no passing zone. This is a race track, not some back road in the canyons. I get it, you guys are all the fastest on the back canyon roads. If you can go there fast, then you can ride on a track that is dangerous. :banghead:
jfmgsxr750
New Member
Full course
OOPPPSS more of this just in:STT is working on running the full 4.1 mile 22 turn course in oct!!
Mark is right, many of us orange county riders, have ridden 9w (bear mountain area), 218 along the hudson, the hawk's nest area rt 97 etc. We are used to concrete barriers inches from the road. Zero run-off and 60 to 200 feet drops. For many of us this was/is a typical sunday morning run!!! So when we come across a track some consider dangerous, we don't feel or see the danger.
Maybe some of the other orgs who only book in the tri state area will jump on the Monti bandwagon.
opcorn:
OOPPPSS more of this just in:STT is working on running the full 4.1 mile 22 turn course in oct!!
Mark is right, many of us orange county riders, have ridden 9w (bear mountain area), 218 along the hudson, the hawk's nest area rt 97 etc. We are used to concrete barriers inches from the road. Zero run-off and 60 to 200 feet drops. For many of us this was/is a typical sunday morning run!!! So when we come across a track some consider dangerous, we don't feel or see the danger.
Maybe some of the other orgs who only book in the tri state area will jump on the Monti bandwagon.
opcorn:
GoodKnight
New Member
FYI, just recently one of the tpm coaches broke both of his ankles at shenandoah when a blue group rider got off pace, on the race line, in a turn, to pit out, and the coach lowsided feet first into a wall.
jfmgsxr750
New Member
I know I was there, I wish Omar a speedy recovery. You would figure someone in the blue group would know how to pit out. :dunno: It was near the end of the day too. Terrible accident. Crashing sucks period.
GoodKnight
New Member
tpm is already really sketchy about their groups as-is, then you combine them and you now have a group where the skillset can be so mixed.
i have a friend who is in blue, and he went to one of the combo days, and he came up to a rider who had no business being in red, let alone in a group with blue riders. the red rider altered his line last second going into a turn, and his entry speed was so much slower than my buddy that my buddy almost rear-ended him. luckily, he was anticipating it, but he came off and said he's never running a mixed group again.
isnt the whole point of having groups so that you can seperate people into groups of comparable skills/speeds?
jfmgsxr750
New Member
I have done a few dates when they were running cars but the groups were not mixed. But I do see a few dates on TPM's schedule where the groups are mixed. I have signed up for one of those mixed dates and will see how it goes. It can be very frustrating for the faster riders in blue to mix with others in the red group. I will try it, if I don't like it I wont do another one of the mixed days.
jfmgsxr750
New Member
Some on here feel cause NESBA deems a track unsafe how dare any other org ride there. Sorry but it don't work like that. It's called choice. Who do you think Monti will listen too, a org that may book 6 days or one who will book over 20 dates. Many of the smaller orgs have more dates at NJMP than NESBA. I look at all the orgs schedules and decide what dates I wanna do that will work for me.
vanbreezy
New Member
I find it funny that people think IF you spend money at a track. The track will be more willing to fix it or make it safer. I already have your business without fixing anything, Boycott by the leading trackday orgs would have been more effective. Even more so in a fucked up economy. The economy is the only reason this track considered opening it's doors. :dunno::dunno: