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Help me choose, MV F4 or HP4 or 1199 Panigale R
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Have you called your insurance company for quotes yet?
The upfront cost of buying any of these bikes is probably going to be irrelevant.
For jokes, I did some online quotes and was coming up with things like $8/9k per year for me - older than you, married, no tickets in 25 years, no claims, etc...
Hopefully your quotes are way better because you'd be throwing away so much money in insurance per year that you could have bought a second bike in 3 years.
The upfront cost of buying any of these bikes is probably going to be irrelevant.
For jokes, I did some online quotes and was coming up with things like $8/9k per year for me - older than you, married, no tickets in 25 years, no claims, etc...
Hopefully your quotes are way better because you'd be throwing away so much money in insurance per year that you could have bought a second bike in 3 years.
Shaman
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I did, love the traction and wheelie control. Very compelling stuff. Pick and choose your track and keep in mind that you can't tear into a corner like you can with a bike that's been stripped down and properly tired.
Seems like such a waste if you don't run these bikes on the track.....that is what they are built for.
R1Style
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I tracked my RSV4 last season and I plan on doing as many as I can this season (I have a baby coming in June).
Coach Hines
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Oh snap! I LOLed when I saw this (sorry dude that fell) but this is an important lesson to learn
muddysixtysix
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I tracked my RSV4 last season and I plan on doing as many as I can this season (I have a baby coming in June).
You are brave or skilled. I would never risk it. Then again I wipe out a lot.
Tracking is just about approaching the day with caution, humility and with only a desire to learn.
I have over 200 track days in everything from my old Integra GSR to my former heavily modified NSX, which I had $150k into. I did most of those days in the NSX and never once did I have anything close to an off. I ended up instructing on the big track at Mosport (which is scarier than driving it yourself). But stuff happens and I watched many friends write their cars off over the years, including F360CSs, tons of Pcars, a few NSXs...Most of the time the found themselves over their heads and ended up in the wall. No one was hurt.
I strongly believe that tracking makes you a better driver, in a car or on a bike.
Take it easy. Go with zero ego. Let anyone who is catching you on a significantly slower bike past as if they're riding the fastest bike in the world, and learn. People who go with egos, crash. People who go to learn have a great many years of tracking and often end up instructing/racing and being better for it.
Id love to get my kids on the track because when they eventually find themselves in an evolving situation on the road, they will be better able to deal with it having tracked.
I have over 200 track days in everything from my old Integra GSR to my former heavily modified NSX, which I had $150k into. I did most of those days in the NSX and never once did I have anything close to an off. I ended up instructing on the big track at Mosport (which is scarier than driving it yourself). But stuff happens and I watched many friends write their cars off over the years, including F360CSs, tons of Pcars, a few NSXs...Most of the time the found themselves over their heads and ended up in the wall. No one was hurt.
I strongly believe that tracking makes you a better driver, in a car or on a bike.
Take it easy. Go with zero ego. Let anyone who is catching you on a significantly slower bike past as if they're riding the fastest bike in the world, and learn. People who go with egos, crash. People who go to learn have a great many years of tracking and often end up instructing/racing and being better for it.
Id love to get my kids on the track because when they eventually find themselves in an evolving situation on the road, they will be better able to deal with it having tracked.
TF3N
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Was this thing red with a big *** supercharger visible from the rear window?
Might wanna look at maintenance and parts of these bikes as well...
Personally id buy a japanese bike for a fraction of the cost and ride the **** out of it, but to each their own...
R1Style
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Neither... I have insurance!
But in all honesty, tracking a sport bike is the only true way to fully enjoy it.
How does that help you on the track?
