Witnessed a bad crash

[sheizasosay]

"Cagers" is a motorcyclist term for car drivers.

I can't say that I am completely "prepared" as far as equipment goes. I need a Hans device, I should wear my fire suit all the time and I should have a fire system in my car.

But I have never tuned a wheel on the track without being mentally prepared to load my car/bike up with a shovel.

It may just be a culture thing. In the motorcycling community crashes and written off bikes are a non event. No one cares. It's expected. Hell, broken bones are a non event. The only time the "community" gets shaken is if someone is med-flighted out or dead.

Checkity check. Yeah, I don't know if I can honestly say that I am mentally prepared to wreck. I, without a doubt and whole-heartedly, realize the possibility of crashing is real and that the crash doesn't give a crap if I'm prepared for it or not.

Hey you know what would be cool? I'll tell you...*prepare for fantasy land*....:
Imagine that you are in some race leathers, helmet, pads(maxi) and you got voice comms with the driver. The driver is on asphault in a nitro- methanol, bazillion horsepower dragster. Parallel to the 1/4 mile of asphault is a 1/4 mile river of McDonald's balls (10 feet deep). Attached to the dragster is a hook. Attached to that hook is a bungee chord. Attached to that bungee chord is a harness under a river of McDonald's balls. You are in that harness. Imagine...how bad you would crap yourself in those race leathers when you hear and feel that dragster rocket out of the hole. The bungi chord is stretching and you know your about to get ripped through the space-time continuum thingy.

Turn down for what?!

 

[Department Of Boost]

Hey you know what would be cool? I'll tell you...*prepare for fantasy land*....:
Imagine that you are in some race leathers, helmet, pads(maxi) and you got voice comms with the driver. The driver is on asphault in a nitro- methanol, bazillion horsepower dragster. Parallel to the 1/4 mile of asphault is a 1/4 mile river of McDonald's balls (10 feet deep). Attached to the dragster is a hook. Attached to that hook is a bungee chord. Attached to that bungee chord is a harness under a river of McDonald's balls. You are in that harness. Imagine...how bad you would crap yourself in those race leathers when you hear and feel that dragster rocket out of the hole. The bungi chord is stretching and you know your about to get ripped through the space-time continuum thingy.

Turn down for what?!

Are you on the red or blue meds today?

 

[sheizasosay]

I don't get out much. Sometimes I just can't wait to be an idiot. Then I try to get all the "idiot" out at once and it just turns into a story. But to answer your question...."purple pills".

 

[TGR96]

"cagers" crack me up sometimes. Does anyone really think that wadding your car up is not on the table at a track day?

I've never gotten on the track without being prepared to crash. Maybe I'm just weird.

I have crashed my sport bike on the track more times than I could ever remember. But if I wrecked it, all I did was throw it in the back of the truck and head to the house. So I totally understand the consequences of a crash. It's a little different with the car, since I drive it to and from the track. I don't have a truck and trailer to tow it with. Plus, it's my daily driver.

I actually bought an old miata to use as a track car, something I wouldn't get my feelings hurt too bad if I wadded it up. I just want to take the mustang to Atlanta since it is a high speed track.

Hopefully the $180 I just spent at lockton affinity will turn out to be money waste!

 

[jayel579]

It may just be a culture thing. In the motorcycling community crashes and written off bikes are a non event. No one cares. It's expected. Hell, broken bones are a non event. The only time the "community" gets shaken is if someone is med-flighted out or dead.

Every time I thought about tracking my bike, this is what I thought about! I sold it last year but a small part of me wishes I took it out once. I might again some day.

What we do on a race track is dangerous, no other way to look at it. There is nothing that we will do out there that will add value to your car.

 

[Department Of Boost]

Every time I thought about tracking my bike, this is what I thought about! I sold it last year but a small part of me wishes I took it out once. I might again some day.

What we do on a race track is dangerous, no other way to look at it. There is nothing that we will do out there that will add value to your car.

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."

Hunter S. Thompson