My Phillip Island track day

[Masterchop]

Respect for finding a way to sweeten the Melbourne trip, and having your wife spend her birthday at the track instead of shoppping by herself on a day when you had $3.5k of unplanned spending.

AS someone else said, sounds like you still enjoyed the trip, and really at $550 including insurance it is good value!! What would it cost if you were 18?

And whats their thought on tyres.... do they just negotiate the cheapest deal(must go thru a lot) or the get the best deal on one's with the most feedback........ Did all the hire bikes have the same tyres?

They have a deal with Dunlop,All the bikes are fitted with Dunlop Qualifers.
On the day they are fitting tyres constantly to other track users bikes,they also had Pirellis for sale,but they only fitted Dunlops on the hire bikes.

[Masterchop]

Here is a couple of before and after photos.

[Tim 39]

Doesnt look too bad, but I guess its what you cant see thats the worst ie bent stuff. Looks like a nice bike for a hire bike though! how many did they have there?

[Tim 39]

They have a deal with Dunlop,All the bikes are fitted with Dunlop Qualifers.
On the day they are fitting tyres constantly to other track users bikes.

You'd think that with the number of insurance claims, it would be cheaper for them just to run race tyres. They must have plenty of crashed bikes due to the qualifiers going off like that.

[Masterchop]

Doesnt look too bad, but I guess its what you cant see thats the worst ie bent stuff. Looks like a nice bike for a hire bike though! how many did they have there?

Yea,didnt look so bad on first look but rear wheel and subframe and muffler were all bent and they suspected the frame also.
They had 7 bikes there on the day but I think they had more elsewhere.
4 were crashed on the day I was there,all front end looses.

[kiwifruit]

sounds like a blast, apart from the bin / bill (ouch!)
thanks for sharing

[Tim 39]

4 were crashed on the day I was there,all front end looses.

You'd think that would be a good hint to them that they shouldnt be running those tyres... maybe they havent had much trouble in the past

[Flyno]

sounds like a shit load of fun!
im there in ovtober on my 125, cant wait motogp 125cc support class! woho!