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Manches ter Blvd . mail order 213-649·1700 Westche.ter. CA 90045 75<1 for catalog and the ultimate cure Bracket Racing By John U lrich The hardest step In roaq. racing is the first one. Once you've had a taste of racing on pavement ,you need no COnVInCIng. But 'sta rt ing out , ac tua lly go ing out to a track and raci ng for the first time, is the ca use of many fea rs. T hese com mon fears often . . . stand In the way of a prospectlv~ ra cer - ~he guy who wa nts to do It. b u t ca n t ge t up th e mental m om en tum to o~ercome the .rea l '. and . imagined p it fa lls, (not to mention pit crashes.) Bu t seriously . here's a look at some of th e most·mentioned fears felt , (a nd imagined) , by street riders who say they want to go racing . but. .. It's too dangerous : . Co~pa~ed t<;> fast street riding, road road rac.m.g is safer than Sunday _ CITY Road Racing Fears Cycle Center Hodaka ... B u ltac o • K TM 1300 East Edinger Ave. Sanu Ana•.CA 9 2705 714-835-7821 school. RId ing fast on the street . alone or with friends , is ha~ardous in many ways . Most street riders , ( o ~ street racers. for that ~atter) . .don t .wea r adequate protective clot hing - and everybody who has ridden motorcycles for any time at a ll knows that everyone crashes sooner o r later. Slidi ng down Main Street .in street clothes after bailing off a t 40 m iles per hou r is likely to do mo re d amage to your bod y than tipping over a t 70 m p h in Tu rn Six at O ntario wearing lea thers. The street itsel f, (a nd the va ried objects and a nima ls th a t populate it ). presen ts d anger. Blind tu rns. gre ase left . by ca rs. st ra y dogs. roc ks a nd gravel from adjacent emb ankme nts, pa rked ca rs. movin g cars. drunks . idiots, m ental cases . pol ice ca rs. . tic kets . jail houses . fines, licen se suspensions, and on and o n threa ten . the speedy street rider. At the track, corner workers armed with colorcoded flags warn of p roblems in blind tu rns and elsewhe re on the co urse. -Course workers clea n u p a ny debris, mop up ' oil . or set out traffic cones to warn of treacherous pavement. Mechanical sheep (ca rs) are kept off the track. Police are powerless as estatic racers zip by at twice and three times the maximum legal speed limit. And pe rhaps most important of all. just in case something goes wrong. there is ' competent medical hel p standing by. If a rider crashes , one or two a mbulance crews are standing by for immediate first aid - or transport to a nearby hospital. A crash truck crew is rea dy to ha ul a ny da maged machines back into the pi ts . And m edi cal insu ra nce is ready to pi ck up ' th e tab for any ex pensive bo dy re pa irs .... If someone has to crash . th e best place to do it is a t road race -track. But that's not to say th at crashes are inevitable at the track. T h ink of thi s - a t a recent O ntario roa d race . 250 riders co m pe ted in eigh t races averagi ng 10 laps each . Co u nti ng a conserva tive ten la ps for practice . a nd assum ing eac h rider entere d on ly o ne class. (whic h usu all y isn 't the case), that's 5.000 wid e-open raci ng m iles ' righ t the re. On the pa rt icu lar day we've got in mi nd . not one rid er cra shed. I don't know how to race Almost every o rga nization runnin g a fr~e new -ride r onenta tlOn. or ~ew . n der schoo l. Co urse of mstructlon in cludes theo ry (lines and b raking poin ts) a nd on . track . supervised practice la ps. Safety procedures and regul at io ns are also disc ussed . , • It 5 t oo expenslv~ .. . No more: WERA s revo lutionary bracket ra~mg get.' a racer on the track and Into ra cmg for a m~e $8 enthusiast's membership.. car~, as com p ared to the competition license costing $22 . There is no entry fee. although a .S2· " wo rker" insurance fee is levied If a bracket racer decides to enter other 'c1asses later. he can appl y :> his S8 toward the competition ca rd . In addition. AFM . CMC. and WERA . affiliated club licenses are accepted by WERA ' ? ro~ d r,,:ces offers Id .. h on t ?ve a $300 ' . .r a.c ln g S~I~ I You do n t need o ne . All It ta kes 's a leather j acket and some lea ther pants. Everybody knows someone who can" loan them some old MX pants, and leather jackets aren' t tha t ha rd to scrou nge up. If a ll else fai ls. hi t some I swap m eets or check th e Cycle News , wa nt ads . I'll be a st one and lo ok stupid ~ and slow ;I) Fo rge t it. Everyone is a little timid a t first . a nd the wonder of bracket racing is t ha t you race only against ' gu ys going th e same speed as you . In conventional road ra cing. classes are determined arbitrarily by machine size and type (such as Grand Prix . Cafe. Production) . In bracket racing. classes J et rich for banking. ~