Drug testing?

**Zedder** · 24th November 2013, 15:18

Originally Posted by skippa1

Maybe........there should be a whole lot of new racing classes formed. Stoned or straight. Enter one or the other dependent on what you are into. Great spectator sport.

just throwin it out there

Lol, maybe have different classes, of one rider only, for different drugs/alcohol and see if they make around the track.

Quite a good research project and should be gubbermint funded...

**haydes55** · 24th November 2013, 16:24

Originally Posted by Zedder

Lol, maybe have different classes, of one rider only, for different drugs/alcohol and see if they make around the track.

Quite a good research project and should be gubbermint funded...

Sounds like a good sponsorship plan haha

**Biggles08** · 30th November 2013, 06:47

I read through half this thread then got bored. If you think it is ok to have ANY performance reducing agents in your blood stream while operating a race bike you have no place on the race track with me or anyone else. If I ever found out someone was found to have ANY sign of drugs or alcohol in their system after they had crashed into me or caused me to crash...if they or I were not already dead, I would make it my goal in life to ensure they NEVER got on a race track again.

You have choices in life...choose wisely...drugs/alcohol or racing...not both.

**Biggles08** · 30th November 2013, 15:39

Originally Posted by vinducati

All joking aside.
If you race you have a serious responsibility to the other riders on the track.
Also to their family and yours.
They idea of testing for one drug is really not the point.
The point is attempting to change the culture some people are into.

If you want to take drugs at all, like I said join a band.

What if you do both????

my brain hurts!

**Katman** · 1st December 2013, 07:57

Like I've already said, until steps are taken to ensure that legal highs are treated in the same manner, you're all just blowing smoke out of your arses.

**bluninja** · 1st December 2013, 10:09

Originally Posted by Katman

Like I've already said, until steps are taken to ensure that legal highs are treated in the same manner, you're all just blowing smoke out of your arses.

Is their a test for Arse smoke?

**Grumph** · 1st December 2013, 10:14

Originally Posted by Biggles08

I read through half this thread then got bored. If you think it is ok to have ANY performance reducing agents in your blood stream while operating a race bike you have no place on the race track with me or anyone else. If I ever found out someone was found to have ANY sign of drugs or alcohol in their system after they had crashed into me or caused me to crash...if they or I were not already dead, I would make it my goal in life to ensure they NEVER got on a race track again.

You have choices in life...choose wisely...drugs/alcohol or racing...not both.

Quite agree - But what I've found interesting on this thread is the immediate concentration on "recreational" drugs...

Don't any of you care that someone next to you may be using performance/stamina enhancing drugs ?

**bluninja** · 1st December 2013, 10:22

Originally Posted by Grumph

Quite agree - But what I've found interesting on this thread is the immediate concentration on "recreational" drugs...

Don't any of you care that someone next to you may be using performance/stamina enhancing drugs ?

Hey, perhaps I could do a Noriuka Haga and take diuretics drugs to get my weight down.....damn I'd need a lot

How about some stimulants to get utterly focussed......and some steroids of course to make my privates smaller....every bit of weight loss counts.

Of course if you go down the performance enhancing drugs route, you'd need to do out of season testing and the like.

**Drew** · 1st December 2013, 12:13

Originally Posted by Grumph

Quite agree - But what I've found interesting on this thread is the immediate concentration on "recreational" drugs...

Don't any of you care that someone next to you may be using performance/stamina enhancing drugs ?

Honestly. Nope.

Might be different if I was up against someone for the top spot and knew about it. But the likelihood is pretty low of that happening.

**Akzle** · 1st December 2013, 15:19

*apparently* mouthswabs aren't asnz standards approved. (wonder which jew came up with that)
and.
dont show up positives *immediately* after smoking a doob.
but i've a suspiscion doob wouldn't show up in a piss test for a while, being fat soluble and all...

**Biggles08** · 1st December 2013, 17:50

Originally Posted by Katman

Like I've already said, until steps are taken to ensure that legal highs are treated in the same manner, you're all just blowing smoke out of your arses.

I agree with the need to eradicate all forms of chemicals that alter a racers perspective at all...legal or otherwise... but one does not excude the other. In the meantime, anyone who is knowingly partaking in 'drugs' AT ALL (for lack of better terminology) and then getting on a racebike is a potential murderer. 0% tollerance to any form of mind altering substance is the only acceptable level I am happy with...if we have a way of checking for these, whatever tests they may be, we should use them.

On other points, Motorcycle racing is not the platform to make political statements on the merits of if a drug should be legal or otherwise. As far as I feel, all mind altering substances are off limit when racing. I personally limit my alcohol consumption to max x3 beers the night before a race day and some may feel that is too excessive. Maybe they are right. I know I would pass a test in the morning however...some I have seen in the past would not have. If I ever see this again I will be bringing attention to the officials about it as it is not acceptable behaviour ever.

**nodrog:Me** · 1st December 2013, 17:55

Originally Posted by Biggles08

I agree with the need to eradicate all forms of chemicals that alter a racers perspective at all...legal or otherwise... but one does not excude the other. In the meantime, anyone who is knowingly partaking in 'drugs' AT ALL (for lack of better terminology) and then getting on a racebike is a potential murderer. 0% tollerance to any form of mind altering substance is the only acceptable level I am happy with...if we have a way of checking for these, whatever tests they may be, we should use them.

On other points, Motorcycle racing is not the platform to make political statements on the merits of if a drug should be legal or otherwise. As far as I feel, all mind altering substances are off limit when racing. I personally limit my alcohol consumption to max x3 beers the night before a race day and some may feel that is too excessive. Maybe they are right. I know I would pass a test in the morning however...some I have seen in the past would not have. If I ever see this again I will be bringing attention to the officials about it as it is not acceptable behaviour ever.

don't forget, 8.30pm bedtime too.