Motorcycles
Motorcycles have always offered a way to get great performance at a low cost compared to your high performance sports cars. It's difficult to describe the incredible feeling you get taking a motorcycle up and down twisty mountain roads. On a perfect day it's almost like an out-of-body sensation.
Of course they have their down side too. I've had 3 wrecks in the 18 years that I rode motorcycles and the last one made me decide to hang up my leathers for a while. I wanted to replace the motorcycle with its nearest four wheel equivalent - a Lotus 7 kit car from either Birkin or Caterham. But we ended up with a more practical solution the MR2 Spyder.
My current bike is under repair sold. It's a 1992 Yamaha FZR 1000. A real pleasure to ride. I was hit on Hwy 17 and dropped the bike in four lanes of traffic at 60 MPH. The bike suffered mostly bodywork damage, as I seemed to absorb the majority of the impact!
I need to update the links below with some more road racing information.
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Motorcycle Links