hey guys/gals

anyone open for a little kart racing against each other?

http://gokartracer.reachlocal.com

these are not your typical 'concession' karts, should be a good time.

i'm thinking noon-4pm THIS monday Aug 22 ($5 off/per session during this time), so call in sick to work now! RSVP in this thread!

GoKartRacer is in Burlingame (near SFO), right off the 101.

yeah baby!

so does that mean you're in, andy?

list:

Nathan
Vlad (my GF's bro)
Sir Andy
Trekkor
Grant

Maybe:

McMarc et GF
James
Randal
Jenny and Brian
Britain
who else?

I love to do this. I have to figure out how to get out of work that day. Mondays are bad...

QUOTE (lapuwali @ Aug 20 2005, 05:04 PM)

Mondays are bad...

but i think i can make it ...

i have a 1 pm meeting in foster city, so i just have to make that last a bit longer ...
Andy

How about we do this on a Saturday sometime?

"SuperTrack (Mondays 12-10pm) - 3/8 mile course with over 20 left and right turns, 2 chicanes and an elevation change. The largest indoor track in the US!"


I believe that's why he's thinking Monday.

That looks fun

I'm in!

I have a short meeting in Orinda in the a.m.

Perfect!

tell us how much it costs...


KT

My GF and I might be in. I don't understand the pricing. I looked at their web site. What would the average or likely cost for the day or by hour or whatever? I'm not gonna go drop $100 per person. Fill me in.

Figure $60-100 per person. Wicked expensive...

KT

QUOTE (trekkor @ Aug 20 2005, 09:04 PM)

Figure $60-100 per person. Wicked expensive...

what? for how long? why?

F1 is muuuuuch cheaper ...
Andy

Hour of seat time at 40 mph 1/2" off the ground.

See ya there!

KT

looking at seat time per dollar, this is cheaper than AX. (so is time trialing, for that matter). but yeah, figure spending $60-100 depending on how long you want to play. i spend more than that in a day AXing, so this is easily justified to me. plus, these are decent machines.

organizing this on a saturday would be awesome -- i'd love to bring out more people, but i'm out of town starting wednesday for a few weeks and thought i'd get my speed fix in before that... i'm going regardless, just hoping that a few of my 914 friends could make it, too.

I can make it Monday. Next Saturday wouldnt work for me.

great! this is shaping up nicely

bump!


i'll be there between 12 and 12.30... see you guys there!

n

Awesome time! WAY better than working!

Trek, Grant, Vlad (my gf's bro) and I had a blast. We'll try to organize this on a weekend sometime to get more people out there.

*jealous*

Jen

Try to get better pricing too. I'm a poor bastard.

Indoor Karting! ...the Areobics of competitive driving! My sorry as$ 43 year old 6'4" body and 280 lbs put me at bit of a disadvantage with you guys. Then I had this head sock over my face due to borrowing a helmet, closed face helment and your turning all the time in those blasted things - I was gasping for air after a few laps! Hell, by the end of the sessions I coulndt even get out of my kart I was so tired. My arms are still burning! Damn that was fun!!!! I wish I wasnt so competitive, now I'm thinking ok so I'll do upper body work out and drop more weight, then I'll have a shot at you guys. I was thinking a great work out program would be 45 minutes of indoor karting 4 times a week!

Nathan is just plain fast! I was asleep at the wheel compared to him around that course. Glad you brought somone I could beat with you Nathan! Trekkor was long gone too - he was putting a 1/2 to full second on me every lap. You guys were ripping around that course!

I'm thinking bigger kart track stuff would be better for me and my size. I have always exceled at going real fast into sweepers. I even started to catch you guys the first couple of laps in the sections where I had room to run, but then we'd get into the back and forth stuff and my 280 lbs with 9 hp just were too much, then I started getting tired and it was all over.

I may just go back again this week before I start work.

I always got a serious workout when I was a three-times-a-month junkie at Speedring shortly after they opened. Sore butt, sore back, sore wrists.

Wish I'd been able to escape from work to do this. Burlingame is close to the house, but quite a ways from work. Try any day but a Monday, and I can, um, "work from home" that day.

That was really great.

next time we need to bring ballast

Add 100#'s on Nathan's ride.

QUOTE

I may just go back again this week before I start work.

What's to stop us?


KT

QUOTE (trekkor @ Aug 22 2005, 08:55 PM)

That was really great. next time we need to bring ballast Add 100#'s on Nathan's ride. QUOTE I may just go back again this week before I start work. What's to stop us? KT

I'm going Thursday. I'm truly sadistic. Figure its the last chance I have to be totally irresponsible before I join the working world after a 6 month break!