I got my CMRA race license with LoneStar Track Days at Texas World Speedway, then just faxed a copy to AHRMA (American Historic Racing Motorcycle Assn) who then cross-licensed me to roadrace vintage. For my race school, I took my newly scratch built '69 Triumph Bonneville and used it for the morning sessions.
Good thing I also had my son's Ducati 900 Monster that I was delivering to him in Austin, my Bonnie spit a valve adjuster cap and lost a rocker oil acorn nut. If that hadn't happened, I would have continued to run the rest of the day with no oil going to the top end! Turns out the hard pipe to the rockers was clogged.
I'll tell you one thing, a teenage girl on a ninja 250 can lap a relatively competent 50 year-old on a classic Triumph in about 3 laps.
I'll tell you another thing, blasting the old Triumph around the bumpy high banking at about 90MPH was fun, but zipping past at nearly 130 on the Monster was something else entirely! My glasses were rattling around inside my helmet it was so dang bumpy...
Good thing I also had my son's Ducati 900 Monster that I was delivering to him in Austin, my Bonnie spit a valve adjuster cap and lost a rocker oil acorn nut. If that hadn't happened, I would have continued to run the rest of the day with no oil going to the top end! Turns out the hard pipe to the rockers was clogged.
I'll tell you one thing, a teenage girl on a ninja 250 can lap a relatively competent 50 year-old on a classic Triumph in about 3 laps.
I'll tell you another thing, blasting the old Triumph around the bumpy high banking at about 90MPH was fun, but zipping past at nearly 130 on the Monster was something else entirely! My glasses were rattling around inside my helmet it was so dang bumpy...