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I think that the main expense of track days is the tyres.

A track day at Phillip Island will set you back around £79 equivalent, £75 if you're a regular. At Eastern Creek, around £70. That gets you 6 x 20min sessions.

Problem with a track day is that if you're a quick rider, you'll chew through a set of sticky sports tyres about every two or three track days, or about £70-105 per day in tyres. Throw in fuel, food, and transport, and you're looking at about an extra £50 on top of that.

So all up, a track day here costs around the £210 mark, or about $500 Aussie dollars. Even if the track itself was free, it'd still be around the £140 mark at best, or about $310 Aussie.

That's the sort of thing which the average Aussie could afford every 2 months.

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This is where it helps to know someone in GP... we get rather spunky Dunlop 208GPs for £65 a pair straight off their team truck with monotonous regularity :D

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Hmmm, 1/3rd price Dunlop 208GP's, or full price Pirelli/Metzeler's. :uhh:

That'd actually be a hard choice for me, given that the Dunlops chew themselves apart about 3x as fast as the Pirelli Corsa's/Metzeler M1's. On Tuesday I went from 25% worn Dunlops to no tread left at all on the rear in spots by day's end, and the front chewed to crap. Basically ~$370 in tyre life gone in the space of 2hrs riding. :mad:

I like the way the Dunlop's stick. Don't like the way they feel - front end got uncomfortably vague on me at times at high lean - almost like it was about to push - whereas the Powers/Corsas/M1's don't have that vagueness at any time, and feel planted (well, at lean angles up until the footpegs sans feelers start scraping anyway). Hate that the Dunlops really do need to be 1/3'rd the price of anything else to resemble value for money. Only thing I don't like about the Pilot Powers is that they have this "dippy" feeling at about 70% lean unless you put highish pressure in them.

Still, if the Dunlop's are available for cheap enough, like you're getting them for, then I wouldn't complain.

Just my 2c on tyres I've experienced so far.

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Wish I could find a cheap source for tyres for the NS125... :( Missin' my baby...

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For the record, I meant the bike itself. Tyres + maintenance + repairs + fuel I didn't even consider.

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Sounds to me like you need a mid-life crisis. :evilaugh:

I liked this definition I saw at another web-site.

Mid-life Crisis - It's what boring, jealous people call it when somebody makes a positive change in their life and starts doing things they enjoy instead of spending all their days fulfilling society's obligations.

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perielli diablos
or dunlop gp20s are whats on my nsr normaly depending on financhal status

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Life may be about to improve - the 7gear Mito125 ex-works race bike is being retired to life as a road bike... :evilaugh: I've watched it cruise down motorways at 120mph under a friend of mine who happens to weigh near on 19 stone... wonder how it'll go with a l'il 10stone wiry runt like me strapped to it!? :D Going quietly mad since the NS got taken off the road... 27 days to go til the start of the 06 season tho... better start doin' me botty bounces

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10 stone eh? You are a lithe lad. Tipping the scales at about bang on 15 stone here. Wouldn't mind being 12.5 stone again one day. Slowly working my way there. Any less than that at my height and build (fairly broad) and I have to start sacrificing significant muscle mass.

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Typical brit - all skin n' bones n' legs n' feet... :D (and hair)

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Marci, is it the older Mito or the super-yummy cagi-mito-evolution (916 lookalike)

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Older one....

http://www.bodo-schoenhuette.de/moto...ito125.jpg.jpg

`cept all in red...

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tires for the NS shouldn't be hard to find i get mine for 70 each

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Was back at Phillip Island on Thursday. Slowly cranking up the pace to a reasonable level. Now hitting ~1:51 lap-times.

Here's an action pic, taken in about the exact same location as the one above. Even just looking at me then, and now, I can see why my lap times are coming down quickly.

http://www.employees.org/~slf/R1/pird-09-03-06.jpg

Gotta break into the sub-1:50's, and then I'll be a happy boy. Was booked into the medium-fast group on Thursday, and was passing everyone. Only guy who got past me was the track-day organiser who's an ex-racer and even he reckoned I wasn't that easy to get past. He certainly wasn't pulling away from me with any great speed once he did get past. He typically laps in the 1:46-47's on tuned up-specced 600cc bikes. If I ever get this street-trim R1 down to 1:44-45's, I'll know that I'm starting to get decent at this gig.

Time to book myself into the fastest track grouping and start picking up some ideas and lines from the guys who are going quicker than I.

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70 each is more cash than I have right now... like I said... need a CHEAPER source - and I can get em for £49 each (Bridgestone BT45) from my regular supplier... however, I need even cheaper than that...

S'up for sale for £250 now anyways...