What was your first track bike?

[OreoGaborio]

Originally Posted by was92v

I raced a 95' 500 Ninja some, but it was too slow and it cost too much to make it fast. I grafted an FZR400 front end on it, which worked great and the thing handled OK, just too slow to be competitive.

Yeah, I race an EX for 3 seasons. Luckily my local racing scene (CCS/LRRS) has a class designed almost specifically for the EX500, as that was the bike the local race school (Penguin Racing) used as their school bike. You could buy yourself an EX500 for dirt cheap, throw a shock on it & have a bike that was competitive with anyone else's on the grid.

Production Twins has to be the best bang-for-the-buck race motorcycle road racing class in the US I had a ball racing that class.

[azoomm]

Trackbike? 998 and 748. Now have my current favorite - KTM 450 EXC tarded.

[Racerboy]

Back in 1994 I had a 1993 EX500 when I got my first license with CCS/AMA

I soon swapped that out for a 1992 F2 for 1995 and 1996....moved to FL from AZ and the competition here in FL was too fierce so gave it up

I then came back in 1999-2000 seasons with a 1999 GSXR 750.

In 2005 I got back into it with a 2004 GSXR 750

In late 2006 I changed again, this time to a 2006 GSXR 600 which is what I still use for the track today.