| Just like Age996 I will be several years behind. I've taken part in competitive motorsport before but only on 4 wheels navigating rally cars; enough to have tasted the competitive buzz.
This year is a very expensive one for me and I simply can't afford it, because I've also done enough motorsport to know that there ain't no such thing as cheap racing.
On the other hand I was immediately taken by the thought of doing Desmodue for a number of reasons. Racing is something that I've always wanted to do, and since I will also be 50 later this year I wanted to give it a bash as one of lifes ambitions before I get too old to try it (after all at my age even if I start in a couple of years I've hardly got the prospect of another 20 years racing like you youngsters). The other factors were that it's a club thing. Not saying it won't be aggresive racing but in it's first season there would have been a whole bunch of novices learning together, by the time I get to do it you'll all have a couple of seasons head start and have very sharp elbows and big blades sticking out of the wheel spindles (like Ben Hur).
The final reason that I was attracted to it is that I ride a low powered ST2 but still manage to squeeze into the fast group and keep up with, or stay in front of, more powerful and sporty machines on track days. With a level playing field I quite fancy myself as being pretty competitive, which might be total crap, but I may get a chance to find out for myself in a couple of years.  |