Taken it to the Track

It's time to go to the track. I was quite nervous about riding with a lot of other riders in a small area. Small compared to the real streets with real cars. On Friday, October 4, 2008 I attended my first track day at the LV Motor Speedway on the Classic Road Course. This track day was sponsored by Sportbike Track Time. The novice group was split up into groups of 3-4 and had female racers as instructors. This was the Femmoto 2008 but men also participated on this day. People came from all across the country to attend this event; it was great. Like I said, I was pretty nervous and wasn't sure I was up to the task but it was too late for that. My husband had put new race tires on my F4 so the bike would slide on the corners and it didn't. Partially due to the tires and partially because I didn't go fast enough to slide. I felt like I was flying around the track but it was not so. It didn't make much sense to me to fly up the straights just to slam on the brakes at the turn so I didn't. My husband kept nagging me I could go faster so on the last lap of the day I managed to pick up the speed a look slightly more respectable.

On Saturday, only women were allowed on the track. Different motorcycle manufacturers, i.e. Kawasaki, Aprilia, and Buell etc. brought their bikes to the track for the women to ride. There were street demo rides for the public, men and women, provided you had a motorcycle license. Riding the different bikes on the track was unbelievably fun. When you go to a dealer to look at bikes you can't take them for test drives like you can cars so this gives you a chance to try different types of bikes. I'm sure the manufactures are hoping you like a bike enough to buy one. I did learn that I no longer wanted to ride a standard motorcycle like my FZ6. I wanted to ride a true sportbike; it just felt right.