Definitely some good info/advice in here. I have been thinking about some side work I could pick up but not as easy for me and since I am a salaried engineer, I get long hours and no overtime. I have in the past picked up some free lance work which I might look into again. I have a lot of ideas for things that I can design, have laser cut, and sell pretty easy but I just need myself to get to it. I wish I could split gas with other people but I don't know of anyone that lives around this area to pick up and take with me to the track. I am trying to get a couple of guys at work talked into doing some track days. I am spending a good bit of money just getting the bike put together and setup for the track but the experience and knowing the bike that much better is nice. It would have probably been cheaper to just sell my bike and buy an already setup track bike. I haven't done anything crazy financially by charging to credit cards or anything like that so far. The bad thing about motorcycle racing is the lack of payouts but I can understand it to a certain degree. I raced tough trucks a bit and my uncle races modified tough trucks and has dumped a ton of money into his truck but at least there are pretty good payouts for most of the races and entry fees are relatively low.