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  6. Anyone heading to BeaveRun on June 12th with trailer space?

    in Track is Crack

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    i'm doing beaver run but am going up friday to camp and fish with the family and doing the track day on sunday the 13th. I'm pretty sure i may have 1 spot left on the trailer but am waiting to hear back from a friend wether he is going or not (he's been flip flopping). We will be camping about 30 minutes away from the track. If my buddy bails i will trailer your bike but i already am trailering another that has offered to pay for gas. If u have a canopy that u use on saturday and i could use sunday i would say thats a fair trade. I could let u know when i hear from my friend and if u don't mind your bike being away from the track we could work something out.

    Cool. That just might work, depending on how your situation plays out. Keep me posted!

  16. UPDATED: Dayton May 30th ride meeting spot!

    in Events

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    Good point and if you don't want to confront a tool tell one of the ride leaders at a stop or gas stop. This is why you need more than one person with a group of people over ten who haven't all ridden together before. The leader needs to stay up front so the other guys can ride with the tool who says he will calm down and won't.

    I can picture what happened on the ride where the guy moved up. He thought you guys were holding him up because others were pulling away so he moved up. The problem with that is they weren't pulling away because they were going fast between curves they weren't slowing down for the curves like he needed to. Estimating corner entry speed is an important skill to have, anyone can go fast in a straight line and group rides aren't the place to do that.

    You are a good rider for any group so you have the integrity to confront someone and didn't that accident change the mood of the ride? If it could have been prevented it would have been worth the little drama it might have caused at the time to save the entire groups good time.

    You know, I wouldn't say he was a 'tool' for riding that way, just that he might have been inexperienced. I feel like I probably rode like that my first few group rides of my first season. Going to the track really helped me learn to choose a line and a comfortable speed. I'm still learning, so I'm not nearly as smooth and quick as I would like to be! I usually place myself right at mid-pack and move forward or back from there.

    I just chaulk his mistake up to inexperience, though, and I guess reading stuff like this on a forum helps people to learn that it's better to ride at your own pace than to feel out of control, screaming up the straights and nervous in the corners.

    I thought you brought up a really good point and thank you for the reminder!

  21. UPDATED: Dayton May 30th ride meeting spot!

    in Events

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    Nick, not telling you how to run your business but you should have a route posted or have at least two other people from your area that know the route also and are willing to ride in the middle of the pack and sweep. At twenty-five bikes the riding ability will vary by a wide margin so keeping them together will be difficult without help even if you plan on waiting for everyone at every stop. Recounting all the bikes is hard to do at every stop, if you have a sweep rider giving you the thumbs up at stops it helps with keeping things organized and moving along. It is difficult to lead more than ten bikes at a time, twenty-five will be damn near impossible without support. There are a lot of pack issues that need to be taken care of that you can’t see from the front. Saying “Don’t tailgate” is nice but people riding over their heads happens a lot on big group rides, touching the center line is a big indicator of riding over their heads and unless they are called out on such behavior by others in the pack you simple won’t know about it. One accident that can be prevented will make for a much happier experience for all.

    You know, this is an interesting point and I've wondered about this before.

    I noticed a rider going over the yellow line a few times on one of our recent Coshocton rides and he seemed to be in over his head. Surprisingly, after the next stop he had moved even further forward with the faster guys and he crashed soon after. I felt somewhat guilty because I saw the signs and I didn't feel comfortable saying anything.... I mean, who am I? No dude wants to hear that from a chic, plus I would still consider myself somewhat of a beginning rider as I'm only in my 3rd season.

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