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OP return that helmet where you got raped on the price, and use that money you were going to "take a shit in" and spend it on a track day. that will help you increase speed in the twistiez more than anything you could possibly glean from here or even from many street rides.

so.... when am i able to look at the rest of the forum except the oven?

you're going to a track with a fresh repave, and then expecting not to hate Nelson? ...not solid logic On a somewhat related topic, I just watched the 1985 documentary on the 24 hours of Nelson. I swear parts of the track haven't been repaved since this footage. http://www.theriderfiles.com/ (scroll down a bit)

WINNAR!!

Shrug, I had a great time and got some valuable experience with rain tires and learning Nelson since I had never been there. I don't see what happened as any different then what has happened at other tracks with other orgs. STT shutdown Mid Ohio my first TD due to the rain and no one complained since it was the smart and safe thing to do. Did it suck to lose time on the bike yeah, but going out and destroying the bike would have been even worse. As said, you pay for the day and most of us got a discount to start with. (Thx Jbot!) No, the weather wasn't cooperating with us as most of us would have liked and it wasn't a super speed/push the limits day. But $105-$125 for a TD is dirt cheap compared to the $195 of Mid Ohio, Motorcycle Xcitement-$225 and Nesba $145-$205. Choosing to go out or not then became a personal preference on how you felt on if you wanted to ride. No organization should be punished for that. As for the front straight flooding, at least they had the equipment to drain it as fast as possible. I was even out there helping them to streamline the hoses so we could all get back on as fast as possible. Even Mid Ohio has drainage problems in sections when it pours like that. (T8 right hander) and the small stream when you come out of thunder valley. Grattan has T5 that floods out along with some of T10. If it concerns you that much, then do what Dubguy and others have done (myself included) and hold off until you see the weather forecast. Other then that, be willing to deal with unpredictable situations or go buy rain tires from the tire vendors and have at it. No way I would have tried even a portion of what I was doing without rain tires, but pretty sure most people there knew when I was out riding and I had a blast doing it. Just my $.02, but if your going to want to do a LOT of TD's it's better to be prepared for such things.

i leave for fort still on sunday/monday brian.

Hide yo wife, hide yo children, hide yo sump pumps! The Rain Rapist is coming to get yo!

Sir please put your tiny penis away please....

yeah theres another red srt in reynoldsburg and another one in pickerington... could have been one of them.

He's a grow-er, not a show-er

Thanx for the link, thats a good read......and Bellboy, you can get knowledgeable attention in most every forum here, havent been here long but thus far everyone has been hella-cool to the newbs. Just another reason I dig the atmosphere here, and folks are reasonably local to us all for hands-on help, not a LOT of sh*t talkin' either........except for those comfortable enough with one another to do so;) I got thickskinned quick on other forums where cliques exist. Its tough to get straight answers sometimes when dix are kickin' your sack for asking. Personally, I got nothing but good things to say about new riders that are willing to take the risks to ride the roads these days......traffic and stupidity tend to roll hand in hand everywhere we go, but to have the nuts to face it on a bike is real love for the sport. The more of us that ride, the more middle fingers for dumb cagers!!

Judds pic from a ORDN shoot last year.

all those pictures, and not one with his wife on the bike. fail.