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This year (at least so far) they've been emailing anyone registered the friday before, by noon if it's cancelled. I emailed Gwen Friday and it wasn't cancelled as of then. Should be good to go this time

anyone going to mid ohio on monday? weather looks decent and the keyhole is slightly less crappy after the patching

No worries, there was at least 1 maybe 2 nearly identical bikes. My helmet was dark grey, other guys were in black or something helmets. Beautiful day to be out, next time get out there with her.

Blue gsxr number 789, mostly black gear. There was at least one other blue gsxr that looked mostly identical. Cool I'll check back later

I saw someone (maybe you) sitting with a camera and wondered "whoa is someone taking pictures?" Hope I can find one of myself, I don't have anything with my new bike yet. Thanks

We were all very surprised they actually had the event. Weather was great an they put a huuuuuge concrete patch in the keyhole which is slightly bumpy but better than what was there before.

anyone going to be at mid ohio tomorrow?

Pretty sure it's cincy

I'm guessing that N2 rents the track, and much like the groups that rent mid ohio, they run regardless of how many people show up. That's a lot more appealing than the mid ohio school that can and will cancel an event the day before. 6/4 isn't even a weekend day!

Full Throttle Adrenaline Park in Cincy. I've never been. Didn't one of the indoor? karting places in columbus shut down recently?

before covid, we could put up an autox announcement at CRP and have 70 cars there if the weather wasn't terrible. If we told em "gotta swap coolant, drill this and that, etc" I'd expect maybe 5 cars to show up, if that. People are lazy. They might be getting lazier? I've already seen 2 tracks and a pile of parking lots get shut down, we're kinda running out of venues here... Are any of the indoor karting places in columbus doing mini-moto? I've seen that one in cincy does events

Wow Thunderhill has SUPER lenient reqs- unplug or tape lights, tape or fold mirrors, disable lights https://www.funtrackdayz.com/faq/ Chuckwalla gets a little more stringent and adds "drain plug wired or siliconed" and mirrors removed https://chuckwalla.com/motorcycle-events EvolveGT looks about the same as LEANTD, requiring coolant and some safety wiring for advanced and race groups and recommended but not required for intermediate and novice. No idea if that has impacted their attendance.

Was it the mid ohio school or whatever in 2009? Or was it still one of the other parties like STT or something doing the rentals. Last few years I've been there it's only been with mid ohio school, maybe they have more requirements than whatever old org I used to track with there.

They are in novice. Last few times there, Novice has been follow-the-leader parade laps

Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, Eagles Canyon still has SUPER lax tech. https://eaglescanyon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ECR_MotoSafetyInspection.pdf LEANTD requires the mid ohio stuff in advanced, but novice and intermediate skate by in mostly streetbike-trim. https://leantd.com/trackday-regulations Surely the way to get new riders into this isn't MORE stringent requirements and LESS accessible events.

LOL no I've never had to do that. Telling someone "hey man come to the track and spend a couple hundred bucks to see if you like it" is an easy sell. I always bring extra tape to help clueless newbs, get at least one/year. Telling someone "oh yeah, you have to drill holes in some stuff, get safety wire and pliers, remove mirrors, etc" is a major turn-off. LEANTD or whatever only requires that stuff in advanced. Mid ohio has plenty of problems with infrastructure and management, the increasing tech requirements and price can't be helping. And no weekend days is LOL. Also, sorry to inform but the 4/19 mid ohio day has just been cancelled

Novice group takes it pretty easy at mid ohio anyways, but yeah- you're going to be TIRED especially if it was hot and/or raining. Don't have an oops on the way home! I'd definitely try on some leathers before buying. Iron Pony had a few last I was there. An undersuit or compression shirt/pants makes it WAY easier to get in/out of. I paid like $600 for some joe rocket leathers that are still goin after a few crashes, and scored another suit for $300 barely used on craigslist. I think cyclegear lets you order to the store, and return if it doesn't fit, when I do that stuff I order like 3 or 4 sizes and walk out with one LOL.

trick #1- have a backup bike welcome to the site, the older VFRs sound really neat

When they started requiring intermediate to safety wire they crossed the line into "really guys?" Loads of videos at other tracks of people with mirrors that aren't even taped up!, no safety wired anything, stock coolant, and somehow the world doesn't end. I'm sure they wouldn't have upped the requirements if they didn't have a problem at some point, but if other tracks are doing it why can't they?

And stop requiring excessive tech? And stop raising their prices? And stop cancelling events? And have events on weekends? Is whoever owns it ready to sell yet? RIP Mid Ohio.

Saw the forecast for 4/12 mid ohio track day- no, it's too good... it's a trap, surely something is wrong. I better register just in case.

coolant swapped out for mid ohio on Monday. Track day season, engage!

Streets are still open. The brine makes things interesting and you can wear double-protection and not break a sweat

troll thread is troll. all that tease and no cheese

Showing $240 for single day, pretty sure it went up? https://midohio.com/courses/motorcycles/performance-track-riding They cancelled like half the days last in 2020, and the track was definitely the worst I can remember it being.