Slicks and warmers are an option you choose to undertake. Your decisions are absolutely no more or less important than the ones your fellow members are making, including the decision to make your warm up lap count, and using discretion in your first racing lap. The VRRA doesn’t owe you or anyone else (myself included) any more or less consideration based on your individual choices of equipment. Your P4 hot slicks are exactly equal in consideration to the P1 biases, and their opportunity at a quality track experience.
You’re right about one thing, the club will never make a change to put one member’s on track experience above another’s. If you want to drag around a generator and put your machinery on stands, you’re welcome to do so, but there’s a less than zero % chance that anything short of exactly the time required to accommodate the session ahead of yours will be considered.
WOW not only have you completely misunderstood my comments but you also shown your complete lack of tact and communication have you been taking lessons from your president? we will be there with nice quite mufflers so as not to offend your soooo sensitive ears!i think you might have picked the wrong hobby though yours is environmentally unfriendly you know firing two wheeled missiles off into the forest every weekend your bound to hurt the wild life see you on pre grid i,ll be the one with the stands and warmers and generator you know the professional way!
andyman64 a little hint, if you want to have a constructive conversation here lose the attitude. The people who run this club are all volunteers and work hard to make our club the awesome one it is. If you don’t like something volunteer to make it better, firing out criticisms and insults will not fix anything and is just a reflection of character.
Sorry, but our forum is a very friendly place for members to share ideas, there is no room for negative posts like this.
i am extremely grateful for the hard work of the volunteers and i would love to volunteer myself if i had the time have you seen how many bikes i have to take care of ? my position as mechanic for the hurst brothers is a volunteer position i do because of my love for the sport and the friend ship and camaraderie we have! i,ll try and be a bit more tactful next time sorry if i offended anyone!
thank goodness Ashton has Arsehole proof thick skin.
Luckily arseholes are few and far between in the club or volunteers like Ashton and co would be running back to their normal lives .
Type with respect and think before you hit send.
Steve Brown
Here’s the point that’s been missed and still looks to be lost: The VRRA has zero ability to affect changes to, or negotiate for, higher decibel limits past the ones we’ve already negotiated for. This is simply due to the fact that the tracks also have zero ability to negotiate with their communities for higher decibel limits past the ones they’ve already agreed to. Insulting the club, then the membership, then me, while it might make you feel better about your personal efforts to “rail against the establishment” won’t do anything but insult those who are actually working to make things better.
What we (The VRRA) do have a choice to do is make our efforts as a racing organization a positive effort for the tracks AND the communities in which they co-exist. And while we’ve used those
Efforts to obtain every possible noise variance available, it does still mean you as racers need to make efforts to keep our “audible footprint” low, and our “visual footprint” high. That is the path that will keep our bikes as close to period authentic as is possible, and our membership racing at world class facilities. Shanny included!
Now you’re welcome to go back to hurling insults at the American.
Can we clarify some specifics as regards to the rules?
Last I checked Period 1 had restrictions listed on exhaust materials (no stainless etc)
If we are to be running modern sound restricting mufflers this will need changing.
Matt, there is a clause already in the rules that cover this:
2g All machines must conform to the noise rules in effect at each track. It is recognized that mufflers
that are not consistent with the period may have to be installed to meet the noise limits.
