Bloody hell!-leave you lot for a day and look what you get up to..........................
To answer some points:
Weeksy is just trying to put across his viewpoint that it is going to cost-I think everyone who enters KNOWS it is going to cost-there just seems to be a disagreement as to how much-well the answer is-NO-ONE-KNOWS YET!
AND-it will be different for everyone depending on so many factors that it is impossible to calculate.
Some things however we can calculate.
New Era have said that they will try to keep race entry fees down to £100-so 6 events, £600
Fuel-if you use more than 3 gallons per event you REALLY need to get your fueling checked-so say £15/event so £90 total.
Tyres-there is a possibility that we may use a control tyre(Bridgestone)-no decisions yet. I don't see anyone really being able to use the same set for the whole season but worst case would be 3 sets, and more likely 2 sets I would think so say £400.
All of the events are 1 day with the exception of the first where we have a novice practice arranged at Cadwell on the Saturday at the end of racing. I personally don't see a need to book the practice days since these are usually used to set the bike up and there isn't that much you can do to a 600.
As to sleeping in a tent-well I did it with Johnny B at the beginning of this year and providing your tent is ok it's not too bad-it's only one night after all. You can get a big party tent for £200 which you can get at least 4 bikes in so that's £50 each between 4 of you.
Fuel to get to each track is variable depending on what you drive and where you live, food at the track?-well you eat at home don't you so you have to buy it anyway so basically no cost.
SO, entries, fuel, tyres, food and 1/4 of a party tent come to less than £1,500-the bike is up to you........
"especially at my age, 44 a week tomorrow."-a mere youngster Kev-I'm 56!
"Look at it from this perspective... we have 2 riders... of equal ability on equal bikes.
Rider 1 spends the night before in a tent freezing cold, gets up for a cold wash and a crappy cup of tea from the van.... he then gets into his freezing cold leathers and stumbles off to get onto the bike that's covered in dew from the night before.
Rider 2 has spent the night in his caravan in a bed, he gets up, has a shower, a bowl of porridge and climbs into his nice warm leathers, gets onto his lovely dry bike and shoots off on his brand new and fully heated tyres....."
Am i getting anywhere ??? weeksy-Steve if rider 1 is Wee Johnny B rider 2 gets his backside handed to him-he doesn't sleep very much, doesn't eat breakfast, and is STILL dam fast and that's on an old shed of a CB500
"antonye, not so sure about the ACU and road licence thing, plenty of racers don't have their road licence ? Some aren't even old enough"-deliberate policy of ours to keep it to current road riding members and prevent someone entering a 4 stone 14 year old minimoto champion.
"To whoever is thinking of entering just do it regardless of what anyone says about cost, you'll wonder why you didn't do it years ago" and that is about the most sensible piece of advice that's been posted here all day...........
John
[Edited on 13-12-2004 by Monty]