Track Days at Taupo: 10th Feb and 14th April

LB · 19th January 2005, 05:03

BRM are running two track days at Taupo:

Thurs 10th Feb, registration from 8am, sessions 10am-4pm
"Cornering, braking, general riding tips - road or race bikes okay, go as fast or as slow as you like, your choice - full riding gear essential. Lunch supplied. No cancellations - if it's wet it goes ahead - you learn more"
$30.00, restricted to the first 30 riders to register.

Thurs 14th April - Ladies Only, registration from 8am, sessions 10am-4pm
"Cornering, braking, general riding tips - road or race bikes okay, go as fast or as slow as you like, your choice - full riding gear essential. Lunch supplied. No cancellations - if it's wet it goes ahead - you learn more"
$30.00, restricted to the first 30 riders to register.
Note: no boyfriends, husbands or partners are allowed on the track or in the park while training is going on

For more information or an entry form contact Glenn or Bev, glenn@brm.co.nz or bev@brm.co.nz or phone 07 863 6959

**6Chris6** · 19th January 2005, 05:38

Cheers Lynda.

I love that track and will definately be going down for the first one.

[Edit] On a thursday :disapint: Oh well, have to be a long weekend.

**James Deuce** · 19th January 2005, 05:50

Ladies only?

What's up with the discrimination?

**White trash** · 19th January 2005, 06:44

Well I ride like a girl, so I'll be there for the April one.

**Ms Piggy** · 19th January 2005, 06:52

Originally Posted by Jim2

Ladies only?

What's up with the discrimination?

Nibble, nibble, nibble.

**claire** · 19th January 2005, 08:20

I'm keen to go to the April 14th one, just told the boss I was having that day off. Who will be offering the riding tips etc on the day does anybody know>

Claire

**StoneChucker** · 19th January 2005, 09:29

Thats Bullshit!!! The first one is co-ed right? So, why the fuck is the second ladies only?

You know what? Fine, I can accept it. Just PLEASE build a ladies only lane on the highway...

Equa-what?

**Motoracer** · 19th January 2005, 10:15

Originally Posted by Jim2

Ladies only?

What's up with the discrimination?

Yea, what's up with that???

**James Deuce** · 19th January 2005, 10:18

Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily

Nibble, nibble, nibble.

It isn't a troll. 30 years ago a "ladies only" approach to traditionally male activities was necessary to establish legitimacy and feasibility, but now it is approaching reverse discrimination, almost as a punishment. We're a generation and a half down the track. Out legislature is female dominated. women are people again. Just what is the battle again? And don't give me the glass ceiling crap either. If I left the workforce for 5 or 6 years to get through the early childhood years, when it's important to have a stay at home parent, then I wouldn't expect to enter the workforce at the same level I left it, as my knowledge would be horribly dated.

The reason nurses and other female dominated professions get paid less than they should is because when push comes to shove the taxpayer, including women, won't pay them for it.

**Blakamin** · 19th January 2005, 10:35

Imagine the uproar if the first one was blokes only.......

**Hoon** · 19th January 2005, 10:46

Yeah I can understand the logic behind a womans only track day. Turning up to a 99% male track day could be a little intimidating and could hurt the learning process i.e. not asking questions because they may sound trivial to others and not feeling comfortable on the track with others blasting past......kind of the way us mortal male riders would feel going to a training day full of MotoGP stars. While some might embrace this "jumping in the deep end" approach, others may not and I guess these are the people this day is targeting.
Disclaimer: By no means am I implying that the difference in skill level between the average male and female rider is of MotoGP proportions!!

Originally Posted by Lynda Blair

Note: no boyfriends, husbands or partners are allowed on the track or in the park while training is going on

This kind of backs up my belief, by removing the distraction of a criticising spouse and allowing a female rider to learn at their own pace and make mistakes in a comfortable stress free environment of similar riders.

Its no more discriminating than a learners only or road bikes only track day.

**White trash** · 19th January 2005, 11:19

Okily-Dokily then.

Soon enough, i'm gonna have a "Squids only" trackday.

All riding instructors, spouses and parents will be asked to leave the track and immediate grounds (they are permitted to await arrivals at Taupo hospital A&E).

Advise givers will include Lance Lowe, Death Inc and Myself. Advise will be received from Loosebruce as how best to "step off" a TL at 12 o'clock.

**Blakamin** · 19th January 2005, 11:24

Originally Posted by White trash

Okily-Dokily then.

Soon enough, i'm gonna have a "Squids only" trackday.

All riding instructors, spouses and parents will be asked to leave the track and immediate grounds (they are permitted to await arrivals at Taupo hospital A&E).

Advise givers will include Lance Lowe, Death Inc and Myself. Advise will be received from Loosebruce as how best to "step off" a TL at 12 o'clock.

Sweet... but cant we just have it in a carpark somewhere????
make it easier for LB's TL to disintergrate

**James Deuce** · 19th January 2005, 12:13

Originally Posted by Hoon

Its no more discriminating than a learners only or road bikes only track day.

Right then. I'll organise a male only train trip/wine trail to the Wairarapa vineyards, and you can chip in for the PR budget I'd need to justify it.

Gender discrimination is political correctness gone mad. It only works in one direction. There would be a huge outcry from WIMA if I organised a men only track day, excluding family members and ANY other women from attending.

I have no problem with the categories you've selected above, but woman only days are no different to white only track days.

You make the comment about male partners stressing their female partners out, but that cuts both ways too. I gave up bucket racing because in two meetings in a row I crashed and my wife ran on to the track. How is that any different? It isn't but I'd get shit heaped on me for being a mysoginist kiwi bloke if I banned her from coming to race meetings.

It is exactly the same as white's only park benches. Everyone has rationalised away the fact the discrimination on grounds of colour or gender is bad in any form. For some reason it is OK for the previously oppressed to do it back to the former oppressors. It achieves nothing, and ultimately sets up a paradigm of social behaviour that is the reverse of the previous social structure, not an equitable arrangment where people have learned from the past.