A fellow member of another board I frequent is trying to organize a friendly drag strip night near him in Benton, IL. According to him, the track is in Benton IL, right off of interstate 57.
We're trying to gage interest and see if anybody from that board, this board, and another board he's a member of (a VTX board...dunno where, never been to it I don't think) wants to participate.
I've never been to one...and think it'd be a whole lotta fun.
He also said the following about the day we are trying to do this (it's gonna be on a Friday night, btw...just don't know which one yet, thus far, July 28th is what I mentioned would work best for me):
1. $10
2. 1/8th
3. LOTS of hotels in the area.
4. Lots of good eats and wine trails and tons of s**t, race Friday, screw around the state on saturday!
5. You need a Helmet, Long Sleeve shirt/jacket, long pants, and a resonably safe bike.
6. We race against all other bikes, if you want to run someone tell the official and he can line you up, other than that the only things I have run are cars and one drag bike, but I think they were going to let me run the bike, the timing was just weird.
I think it'd be a great way to meet some fellow board members (from all of them...), make some new friends, have a good time, and have some good rides, both on and off the track.
I'm hoping to take that Friday off from work ('that Friday' will be substituted for which ever Friday the majority/the buddy setting this up as sets for the date). I'll hope to travel up Thursday evening (it's about 5 hours or so for me..one way on the super slab). Rest a bit, see the city/state on Friday a bit...race that night, do some more riding Saturday morning...and head back home Saturday afternoon.
I've been chatting with two M109R riders via PM about riding together sometime that are near me (one in Huntsville and one in Nashville -- RideHard and Ted) and it'd be great of y'all could join me for the ride up to Benton, IL.
Anybody else interesting in making an appearance? It's gotta be fun...I've never been to a drag race/strip race track and am really looking forward to it.
We're trying to gage interest and see if anybody from that board, this board, and another board he's a member of (a VTX board...dunno where, never been to it I don't think) wants to participate.
I've never been to one...and think it'd be a whole lotta fun.
He also said the following about the day we are trying to do this (it's gonna be on a Friday night, btw...just don't know which one yet, thus far, July 28th is what I mentioned would work best for me):
1. $10
2. 1/8th
3. LOTS of hotels in the area.
4. Lots of good eats and wine trails and tons of s**t, race Friday, screw around the state on saturday!
5. You need a Helmet, Long Sleeve shirt/jacket, long pants, and a resonably safe bike.
6. We race against all other bikes, if you want to run someone tell the official and he can line you up, other than that the only things I have run are cars and one drag bike, but I think they were going to let me run the bike, the timing was just weird.
I think it'd be a great way to meet some fellow board members (from all of them...), make some new friends, have a good time, and have some good rides, both on and off the track.
I'm hoping to take that Friday off from work ('that Friday' will be substituted for which ever Friday the majority/the buddy setting this up as sets for the date). I'll hope to travel up Thursday evening (it's about 5 hours or so for me..one way on the super slab). Rest a bit, see the city/state on Friday a bit...race that night, do some more riding Saturday morning...and head back home Saturday afternoon.
I've been chatting with two M109R riders via PM about riding together sometime that are near me (one in Huntsville and one in Nashville -- RideHard and Ted) and it'd be great of y'all could join me for the ride up to Benton, IL.
Anybody else interesting in making an appearance? It's gotta be fun...I've never been to a drag race/strip race track and am really looking forward to it.