We do race....just ride....Pacific Coast Highway AKA PCH... From LA to San Francisco....checking out some Cali Gurls too...LOL...

 

i have just watched some of your ''silver state racing''

oh dear. no bends, nothing exciting going on there then.

watch real racing
John McGuinness in Practice 01-06-10 - The official Isle of Man TT website

 

or this
On-board - Guy Martin - The official Isle of Man TT website

 

this is what mr honda wanted when he built fireblades.

 

Oh, I understand now.

We don't exactly have that here. This country is WAAAYYY too big, at least in the west, to have the kinds of roads you're talking about. Plus, lots of the cities are laid out in nice, square grids, so there aren't so many 'fun' public roads to race on.

More to the point, perhaps, is that the public transportation system here IS the road system. So, people get super-cranky when you close the roads.

I think it's cool that you have the chance to race on the public roads there, and I'd love to come visit some day and take in a road race or two!

EDIT: I take it back. The REAL reason we don't have more road racing is that too few here want it badly enough.

 

hey your more than welcome, we are quite an accommodating bunch us brits (dont believe all you have seen on the news reciently lol)
roadracing is organic, its alive, not sterile like gp etc.

ps, not taking anything away from those guys by the way, rossi, simmo and co are still the fastest, but all have backed away and said ''not likely'' to the roads.

bit if a bad one this but watch milky's crash on the island a few years ago, ouchhhhh

not for the feint hearted (160mph into a drywall)
Milky Quayles explosive Isle of Man TT crash - Bikerpunks.com

 

as of last count i have road raced at 35 different tracks across the country and worked at another 20 for pirelli tires so 55 and counting as texas is on its way

 

nice,

you still working for pirelli?

so are you counting purpose-built tracks as ''road'' ??

 

The US is a very litigious society, and I would be very surprised if any municipality would invite racing on its public roads unless a sponsor came in and fully indemnified the municipality. Participant and spectataor deaths are not uncommon at Isle of Man. If something like that happened in the US, it would surely be followed by lawsuits that could easily bankrupt the town.

In this country you have a hard time finding a public pool with a diving board or a playground with a seesaw, which should give you a sense of how fearful towns are of being sued if someone gets hurt on their property.

 

Sad but true.... It is getting such that the general US population has little-to-no common decency, refuses to take responsibility for personal actions, and all around seems incapable of using good old fashioned common sense. People will try to run across (jaywalking) a busy highway, get hit by a car, then want to sue because "the driver should have avoided them."