My first FAST School:
My first day at the FAST School, in 2000, at an all Women's Day. FAST School is an wonderful way to learn about track riding, and improve your street riding too. I had a great group of women to enjoy my first track-school experience with - you can see from the photos just how intensely we enjoyed it :-)
3 very excited riders, exchanging ideas after a session on the track
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My first experience with the joys of a 600cc motorcycle
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Andrea and Andrea: more intense bench racing after a track session
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One of our instructors at the FAST School, Canadian Superbike racer Frank Trombino
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Eddie Brunet, one of our instructors, surrounded by women track riders, including the side-car-racing duo, the Woodchis sisters Rosemarie and Christine.
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Vulcan at Mosport:
Now here's a sight you don't see every day... a Kawasaki 500 Vulcan, 1992 belt drive model, on the internationally famous road course at Mosport July 2001.
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Photo Credit: Flair Photo
It's a bit like riding an eel, but the I learned a great deal riding the Vulcan on the track.
This past summer, when I passed a rider on a 1947 Indian in the vintage racing practice sessions, I probably had more sympathy for what he was coping with than most of the other riders on shorter wheel base bikes. :-)
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Photo Credit: Flair Photo
The Vulcan with it's majestic length does not make an ideal track bike, nor does it's flexy tube frame (which copes so well with street riding & touring duty) lend itself to an agressive track ride. It was still a great deal of fun to let the Vulcan stretch it's legs up the back straight, and test it's cornering clearance limitations. This may be why I had to have the frame welded the next winter.
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