Mid-Ohio Sports Car Track

Over the course of some great conversations with my new friend Phillip, he mentioned that there was a race track somewhere nearby in Ohio that held a great event that might be this weekend called Vintage Motorcycle Days. After a little research on my iPhone (which is now dead because it won't charge, hence the small number of updates recently) I discovered that Vintage Motorcycle Days are next weekend but this weekend the track is holding an AMA superbike race! I wound up talking to another camper who also happened to be a motorcyclist. He said Super Bike weekend at Mid-Ohio was a blast so I decided to go check it out. I arrived at five on Saturday just as racing was winding down for the day. I bought my weekend pass and headed to the infield campground to set up. After setting up camp in a remote corner and cooking dinner, I decided to go for a walk. As I had been warned, the scene was wild. The best way I can describe it is similar to the infield scene at the Preakness steaks before they started clamping down. Except that compared to the Preakness, Mid-Ohio Super Bike weekend has more fireworks, nudity and drunk people bombing around the campground on every kind of motorized vehicle imaginable. At 1130 I had to put in the ear plugs I use for riding to finally get some rest! As I went to bed earlier than most, I woke up earlier than most. The campground was littered with overturned trash barrels, fire pits filled with all types of inappropriate objects and people passed out in a variety of unnatural poses. I packed up quickly and parked the bike near the gate for a quick exit once racing was done for the day. There were three races scheduled for the day and I took the opportunity to see the action from nearly every vantage point on the track. While the racing was excellent, I had just as much fun ogling the huge number and variety of bikes that spectators had ridden out to the track. I was surprised to find that quite a few people were interested in my bike and I met a few very nice fellow KLR owners who wanted to talk about some of the modifications I had made. Overall I had a great time at the track and it was a great way to break up the routine of ride, camp, ride, camp. My plan is to ride to Columbus tomorrow to get my phone fixed so I can be posting frequent updates once again.