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This article is from the How to Become a
Motorcycle Roadracer FAQ, by Duke Robillard duke@io.com with
numerous contributions by others.
4.2 Racing Schools: When, Where, How Much?
The paper Roadracing magazines (see 6.1 have listings of dates for
most of the track schools. You can also check racingschools.com. It
also cover car schools, but just grit your teeth and skip past them.
Penguin RoadRacing School
347B Pratt Street, Mansfield, MA 02048. 508-339-4673 Phone manned
9am-1pm Mon-Thur by Eric Wood. Held at Loudon, New Hampshire and
Bridgehampton, Long Island, on the Friday before every NE CCS race
weekend. $150 tuition. You can rent an EX500 ($225) and leathers
($40). Qualifies you for a CCS license (for $75) and racing the same
weekend. http://users.aol.com/penguinpro/penguin1.htm
MARRC Roadracing School
c/o Stephen Harris, 112 Woodland Dr, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, (301)
990-6408 (before 9pm). Taught at Summit Point Raceway in West
Virginia, on CCS race weekends. $140, with a $20 discount for
pre-entry. Qualifies you for a CCS license (for another $50) and
racing the same weekend.
Team Suzuki Endurance Advanced Riders School
Travels the country. Instruction from former GP rider David Aldana and
current members of the national endurance championship team. Can be
taken on a street bike (and most people do), but qualifies you for CSS
and WERA licenses.
Frank Kinsey
(407-267-4787) teaches the rider's school at Moroso Motorsports Park
in West Palm Beach, Florida. He also provides advanced instruction at
Roebling Road on the Friday preceding every CCS event (cost $125) and
organizes all-day beginning to advanced classes on other days ($200).
He will also provide individual or small group rider's school
classroom sessions on request.
Ed Bargy's Real Race School
770-745-7809, ebrs@mindspring.com, at various tracks in the Southeast.
$165. Lots of track time and high quality instruction from Ed.
Qualifies you for WERA and CCS licenses and you get a $50 gift
certificate for Michelins. http://www.mindspring.com/~ebrs
The Southeast Sportbike Associations's School
The SSA rents tracks in the southeast for racers and street riders to
get on the track. track time is $75-$125 for the day, and the class is
an additional $25. Qualifies you for a WERA and CCS license.
Concentrates on the flagging and starting procedures and isn't a
go-fast type class.
Keith Code's California Superbike School
818-246-0717, 800-530-3350, FAX: 818-246-3307 PO Box 9294, Glendale
CA, 91226. http://www.superbikeschool.com Some of Keith's classes are
taught on rental Honda RS125 GP bikes, provided by Moto-Liberty, the
Texas racing guys. You should take one of these, in order to find out
how a racing bike is supposed to handle. It's good to have a
benchmark.
FasTrack Riders
310-699-2305. Willow Springs, Rosamond, CA. Classes given at Willow
Springs. Tom Sera is now the guy in charge; Lance Holst is an
instructor, and he also gives private lessons (818-666-0112).
Willow springs new racer school
805-256-1234
WERA New Racer Rider's School
770-924-8404. Summit Point, WV. Qualifies you for a WERA license.
AFM race school
510-537-8208. Given by AFM, the California racing organization. Mostly
Classroom race theory; very little track time. You must safety wire
your bike.
Fasttrax Performance Riding School
Run at Nelson Ledges Road Course in Ohio. Amazingly enough, I don't
have a phone number or snail address for them, but I do have a Web
Page. This Internet thing has gone too far.
http://members.aol.com/Fasttrax40/fasttrax.html
dp Safety School
805-772-8301. A street-bike class given at the various Northern
California tracks.
Learning Curves Roadrace School (LCR).
Closest raceschool to Road America. 7881 West Beckett Ave, Milwaukee,
WI 53218, 414-461-0116 or 414-327-0140, http://www.execpc.com/~rcrrik/
FAST Riding School
Runs at Shannonville and Mosport, Ontario, St-Eustache, Quebec, Race
City, Calgary, and Grattan, Michigan. They rent bikes (GSXR600, YZF600
or ZX6) and leathers. RR#1, Carrying Place, Ontario, KOK 1L0. Phone:
(613) 966-9464, Fax: (613) 968-2681, http://www.reach.net/~fast/
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