Last tuesday I went to the nearest MX track to practice in Marysville CA. I had a blast. I am trying to prepare for my first MX race on sep 25 at cycleland speedway in Chico. Since I cannot practice at Cycleland I have to go to Marysville every tues thurs nights to practice. Any way went last tues and had fun. There were lots of fast bikes and the track was very crowded but i got a great workout and learned a lot. I have never jumped my quad before and this was good experiance. Anyway I went back this tues(tonight) and was going a lot faster. The track was a little less crowded and I was getting better lap times by about 9 seconds. I was getting further on the jumps but still not clearing the biggest tables. I was about 10 laps into it when one of the track officials waves a yellow flag at me. He pulls me to the side and says I have to leave because I am going too slow. Addmitantly, I was getting passed by a lot of dirt bikes and other quads, yet I had also passed 4 other dirt bikes while being out there. I argued and asked what it would take for me to be on the track. They told me I would have to clear all the jumps, and that there was an umcoming race and too many bikes were too fast for me to ride out there. Also no one else got kicked off the track that night for going too slow. Needless to say I was pretty frustrated. I am new to quads and new to the sport. I used to race stand up jet skiis and had never been kicked off a track. I do not know how or where I can properly prepare for an upcoming race when the only mx track available I get kicked off of. Does anyone know where I can get some practice in or should I go back next tues and try again. I live over an hour from the track and it sucks to get the boot after ten laps. Sorry bout the long post just had to vent.

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thats wierd, uhh juss try and keep up buddy [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

You have just seen a good example of a dirt bike rider not liking atv's. You should of asked for your money back, saying that you were going justa as fast as some of the other riders. I don't think that they would give you your money back. but it doesn't hurt to ask is a polite manor.

 

I did ask for my money back and they were happy to give it to me. It still didn't replace the 30 bucks I spent for gas but whatever. I just thought the whole thing was BS

 

that is total bs. I can't believe they would do that, then again, the flagger probably is a dirtbike rider, and you are in Cali.

still. I practice at a track where on average, I am one of 5 or 6 quads compared to 15-20 dirtbikes on an average Sunday or Saturday. I have never been told to leave the track. Then again, most of the time I'm passing dirtbikes and rarely get passed by another quad. But I would never ask for one of the little dirtbike riders to leave. that's just wrong.

apparently no one ever taught them to share.

 

crap like that makes me sick, hearing your story makes me want to load my dozer up and come to ca to plow that track down. this is a fact, some people loose their memory when dealing with slower riders. they tend to forget that they did not come out of their mother riding fast. there is a track in memphis that we ride at. yes there are mostly dirtbikes there, i would say 6 to 1 ratio, but the owner divides everyone up for 15min practice sessons. kids, teen to adult dirtbikes, and then quads. if you go back you might want to suggest this idea, it seems to work great here in memphis.