Now I want to race motorcycles...

...bearing in mind I've ridden a motorcycle once... when I was like 12.

http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-motorcycle-events/motorcycle-racing-ahrma-zm0z13ndzbea.aspx?PageId=1#axzz2nE77Kd6D

Damnit, me too now.
Seems like maybe the best thing ever

If horse racing is the Sport of Kings, then AHRMA is the Passion of Joe Six-Pack

I know a guy that runs old BMWs at Loudon, NH. He keeps trying to get me to go, offered up a bike and everything. With my compulsive nature, I have enough vices.

Thank you.

Never turn down a chance to race a motorcycle..... its all theyre good at

I started racing at Loudon this year with the USCRA on a family owned RD350. I raced in Mid-Weight Production (MWP) and one of my older brothers raced same bike in 3 other classes. I also used my XR100 flat tracker in Open 100 class. http://www.race-uscra.com/ Cheaper the car racing....and closer to me too so less hauling gas bills. :)

I have most of a CB160; I did two races in 2007 with a borrowed engine, and it was lots of fun, despite finishing dead last. I'd like to blame a very tired engine that saw me losing 3+ seconds each on the front and back straights (from second-to-last; everyone else was out of sight), but I'd probably have just been DFL by a smaller margin with a fresh engine

It did give me the opportunity to experience getting lapped, and at least I was steady enough that nobody found me in the pits afterward and offered to flatten my nose.

I've actually spent the last couple of weeks wrestling with trying to make a decision between picking up this rebuilt engine and having another go this season, or just offloading the roller and getting it off the massive list of things hanging over my head...

We have a class just for the CB160... To bad your on wrong coast.

In reply to 44Dwarf:

We have one here, too! Heck, I thought this was where it all started! (well, Seattle, but there's a lot of commingling...)

Actually, my impression is that the Formula 160 near-stock gentleman's agreement thing has mostly been diluted, but there are a fair contingent of 160s running in the 200 and 250 classes... I think with the rarer and rarer incidence of dragging new (ha) 160s out of barns and garages, there was a natural movement to an easier-to-obtain cheap bikes, and a lot of folks have moved to 250 Ninjas...

To each his/her own. I love riding bikes, never wanted to race them. Mostly because I've never enjoyed sliding them in turns. Cars I'll drive sideways of backwards with stupidly reckless abandon. But a bike, I want no slipping. I've never been comfortable with it.

In reply to foxtrapper:

I know what you mean. I never got very comfortable sliding on my DH bike (without using the rear brake), although the few times I got it 'right' felt awesome - although I'm sure the slide was barely noticeable. I watch videos of pro racers doing 2-wheel drifts into corners at will while at terminal velocity and I'm just in awe.

Sliding on my road bike scares the crap out of me.

Fox and Ian you both need to spend a weekend at American SuperCamp! http://www.americansupercamp.com/

Here in NE PA, racing is the last thing people want to do with a motorcycle. The idea of a high performance bike is one with straight pipes and a raked fork.

I rode my old 89 750 Katana to work last summer and was asked: "Is that a racing bike?" I live in cruiser heaven.