Motocorsa...

[Grampa Joe Joe]

Well the E-race, Kneedragger and I went to Motocorsa today, had a blast. Bikes held up well and we had fun riding with all the bikes that people spend a good dime on. I put a vid cam on today, when I get the footage I'll post it up. Should be cool. E-race (Erik) and I went back and forth and passed a lot of people.

In all it was a good day. I must say onething that chaped my hide... There was a guy out on the track with sparkies. If you don't know what I mean by that, he had metal in his knee pucks. Well, I was coming out of three and headed into four when he passed me in the short shoot and I was right on him. He then touched his knee and I saw the sparks. Thats no big deal, but what was he kicked up all the metal shavenings and other Sh*&* that hit me in the neck and on the visor, I was right on his back wheel looking for revenge and an inside pass when he pull this BS.

Afterwords I went and asked him why he has sparkies. At first he said he did'
nt know what I was talking about, later he said that they are legal. Legal or not, dumb move...Bottom line he was an ass. After I voiced my displeasure with him he took off the street gangster c&^p and put on some real protection gear.

Sparkies have no place on the track.. I can't understand why anyone would send hot metal shaving down a race track and think it was COOl....What a DMFSOAB... When I went and told him it was not cool he lies and said he did not have them...what a squid. After I talked to him he changed the pucks. The funny thing about it was he had his friends just call out BS comments afterwords. After hearing that, I thought, "I bet he lives with is mom, what a girly b*75h....

[JohnPaul]

sparking pucks are legal to use on a track? that rule should be looked into..i would think that would be a safety distraction as well as hot debris being thrown on other riders is not cool at all :thinking:

[TOM-CAT]

To say that it is legal, is only saying that the trackday organizer hasn't banned them. From what I have heard, many organizers do ban them, for a number of reasons.

For experienced riders, the sight of sparks coming off of a bike dragging hard parts, is not uncommon. However, for less experienced riders, this could be quite distracting and unsettling. Then from a track surface perspective, most metals are harder and more abrasive than plastics or ceramics. So the damage done to the track surface will be greater, than if regular sliders were used. Additionally, sparkies serve no legitimate purpose, other than to draw attention to the wearer. If corner workers are constantly being distracted by a rider wearing sparkies, they way inadvertently endanger other riders, by failing to perform their duties.

I for one, would be very opposed to the use of sparkies for the above listed reasons. I did not know about the issues that Joe Joe described. Having heard about his experience, I am even more opposed to the use of sparkies, and would be vocal in my opposition to their use at any trackday that I would attend. :yell:
:2cents:

[rickster]

To say that it is legal, is only saying that the trackday organizer hasn't banned them. From what I have heard, many organizers do ban them, for a number of reasons.

For experienced riders, the sight of sparks coming off of a bike dragging hard parts, is not uncommon. However, for less experienced riders, this could be quite distracting and unsettling. Then from a track surface perspective, most metals are harder and more abrasive than plastics or ceramics. So the damage done to the track surface will be greater, than if regular sliders were used. Additionally, sparkies serve no legitimate purpose, other than to draw attention to the wearer. If corner workers are constantly being distracted by a rider wearing sparkies, they way inadvertently endanger other riders, by failing to perform their duties.

I for one, would be very opposed to the use of sparkies for the above listed reasons. I did not know about the issues that Joe Joe described. Having heard about his experience, I am even more opposed to the use of sparkies, and would be vocal in my opposition to their use at any trackday that I would attend. :yell:
:2cents:+1, Tom. IMHO only someone desperate for attention would use that kind of crap on the racetrack-- or anywhere for that matter. I'd be pretty pissed, and probably wouldn't have been as diplomatic as you were, Joe Joe!:bash:

[Grampa Joe Joe]

If I was stupid and did not care, I would have punched his sorry arse.