Who wants to share a track bike?

[SnoDragon]

The only "local" track is Mission. The others, are anywhere from 3 to 12 hours away: Pacific Raceways (Seattle), The Ridge (Mason, WA), PIR (Portland), Stratotech (Edmonton), Thunderhill (Willows, CA). Trackdays can run as low as $80 at Stratotech, and as high as $220/day at the others.

[drewnabobber]

Cheapest thing you will ever do in motorcycle racing is buy your first bike. That just isn't where the cost is. T-Rex is right that all the other costs add up, but 1 person riding a track bike 4 times a year is going to use exactly half the tires, fuel, oil and tracktime costs as 2. You're far better off to go in with someone on a trailer or van so you can double-up on transport costs to all the tracks listed above.

[VTR_Rider]

Here's a great bike you can share.... http://www.westwoodracing.com/forums...ead.php?t=5456

[htdub]

Is it really that expensive to own a track bike and doing most of the local track days?

$1,000 for a few track days seems high... But I'm ignorant in the subject, so can anyone enlighten me because despite not being to a track day yet, I have thought about getting a track bike or turning my 250 into one.

Low end of the scale would be tracking your 250. Riding to the track, pack your own lunch. $80 for half day at pitt meadows.

High end would be getting a track bike, transport, track day fees. Track Bike ($3000) + $200 a day

250's are cheap to run. Sticky track tires last forever on 250's. Stick with that.

[armchairgm]

Found a place that rents race ready 250's in Surrey.

http://www.bcmotorides.com/index.html

[Francis]

Out of curiosity, how much riding would half a day be?

[htdub]

Out of curiosity, how much riding would half a day be?

You mean how much actual track time? Probaly 3-4, 15-20min sessions.

[kerunt]

It's something that could work with the right people but I'll tell you from experience that the bike itself is only the beginning. Racers that know eachother at the track lend and swap bikes all the time and usually think nothing of it but that's to people they know and have ridden/raced with. It can get a little goofy with co-ownership when you're dealing with someone you have little experience with and you're both trying to split a depreciating asset that can have a very limited life expectancy. Mechanical work, maintenance, mechanical failures, upgrades, depreciation, crash damage, or even arguments over who's getting the most use of it. No thanks. I'd rather have my own. Cheaper to split transportation costs and things like that.

This.

Much less hassle to just have your own.

[oldsquid]

I've had as much fun on a $1200 Honda F3 as I did on Steve Dicks expensive trick R6. What we do is as expensive as you make it.

I agree with the others on the own it yourself as well, if a buddy wads a bike and doesn't have the dosh to fix it, well, you can figure it out. And to wad a rental bike, or a borrowed bike over the cost of renting also makes it financially unsound. Nothing against anyone who is helping our sport by providing any rental/loaner bikes, I'm just chiming in with my two cents. Better any of us fix our own bikes and damages we've caused other than creating a monetary nightmare by being on the wrong end of an I.O.U.

[Francis]

Not sure if it's mentioned, but what if the other party wants to sell it? What if they want to sell it and you don't have the cash to 'buy' his part? How would you even calculate how much their 'part' is worth?