After seeing a story on MA and 1977 because hey I'm a lazy, I thought I'd carry on some information to those who might stumble across my blog.
The MMRL is a new racing league oriented toward those who wish to race their moped. To me that is a awesome idea since nowadays all motorcycle racing that does take place is all 100+cc's and the Grand Prix 50cc(later 80cc) racing ended in the late '80s. Their site is here, and it has the basic information on rules and prices at the track for racing.
Being a Dutchman and being a frugal one at that it seems like a cheap way to have some fun and show off skill of your moped riding capabilities. As for safety, seems like it'll cost about $100 more with a full faced helmet, racing clothes(just mostly leathers), ankle high boots, and a few things done to the moped. Basically same thing as The Thunderdrome which is coming to the Gilmore Car show this weekend! Actually the MMRL is having races in Jackson the same day as the Thunderdrome in Kalamazoo so it should be interesting.
I'd actually like to see something near Grand Rapids, even though Kalamazoo is about an hour away I'd like to have a race much closer. Maybe a more relaxed race without to many restrictions and have it informal, more like a underground thing. When you give a person the chance to perform on their own terms its a whole lot more fun then having a whole set of rules, if a guy in a super mod'd ped wishes to blast a all stock ped then by all means have at it!
Last night on my late night beer run, a thought popped inside my head that I had to go to the Indian Mounds dr. which is one of the roads that I'm gaga over. Anyway I went there and even though I went down that road numerous times, I noticed something new, at 9:30pm I stood in front of a gate at the starting end of a one way street! Now this came to a shock to me but then like the founder's of Thunderdrome I came to the conclusion of a moped race because the Kent Trails bypass said gate which can accommodate foot/bicycle/moped traffic onto the one way road and also gives us a buffer against any cars.
The only downside to this idea is that I don't know what time they close up the gate, I assume its at/near dusk because of the Hopewell Indian Mounds Park. Which is weird since its over a mile away and its a one way street. Either way I plan on scouting this territory and figure out when they normally close off the road.
Hopefully near the Summer Solstice a moped race might commence in the evening(a night race would be sweet!), be it a 1v1 or timed track(using hand held radios) or maybe something else. Its not everyday that a road is closed off that is about 3.5 miles in length!
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