Having a go at something to the best of your abilities and resources is never a waste of time.
Consider: do I know how to ride a motorbike? Yes/No
Do I know how to race a motorbike? Yes/No
If no, which for arguements sake I will take as the answer given that you admit you have done your first clubmans race, so by definition you do not know how to race a motorbike, then;
Do I have a decent amount of money to spend on something I don't know how to do?
Or, do I have some money to spend on learning how to do something I don't know how to do?
In your case, on the face of it anyway, the latter is the course you should take, in the first instance anyway.
Jump into the shallow end rather than the deep end. Get involved in the 250 Production class of racing for almost 3 fifths of fuck all.
Learn all you can, take coaching, take lessons, race every meeting you can possibly attend and have a ball learning to ride the bike beyond its limits. Limits that will not hurt you unless you really screw up.
If you take the other course, such as 600 or even Pro-Twin for that matter, it can cost you so much more money and you can get hurt and what is worse, you can end up in a position where you are too scared to push yourself to find limits and learn good lessons.
250 Production is about the rider, not the bike, so while it is simply a fact of life that a rider with the same skill level as you who is 30 kg lighter will beat you, there may well be riders 10-30 kg less than you who cannot ride so fast, so you can beat them.
Then after you reckon you are riding the skin off the 250, then move on to another class. Once you have some skills.
Hyosung Cup? I am in two minds about it, but the fact of the matter is that Hyosung NZ have put togther a package. All the bikes are the same, so it is up to the rider to tweak what can be tweaked and to ride better than the rider in front of them. All things being equal, the Hyosung is not the bike that the Kawasaki is, but when all the bikes are the same that becomes irrelevant. It would also allow you to race in 250 Production class as well, so all AMCC, VMCC, PMCC, MCI and Sthland MC events. That is a fuck of a lot of racing, should you dare to venture south of TK.
Here's the plug: Rider coaching during VMCC winter series available with Moto Academy NZ (www.motoacademy.co.nz)
We have a Hyosung Cup rider with us this year who is taking the next step onto the IMD250 GPMono machine, and will also be riding his Hyosung 250.
Come join us.
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Originally Posted by Davenc30
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