Motorcycle racing on this track would be a blast!

Thanks very much for watching and I hope you had a great ride! It has to be warmer out there in Texas than it is in California right now. :)

Thanks, Evan! It was a lot more interesting and a lot more fun than I thought it would've been. Have to go back again and enjoy the ride when we're not busy shooting a video. :)

@bikestrikesrazors We had a dear family friend who was once the Grand Marshall of the Historic Races at Laguna Seca. Bill Pollack. He raced the Cadillac-Allard J2 to many victories back in the early Fifties.

@@evanking920 How cool is that! Loved going to the historic races with the family back in the day!

Will do, Deezynar! Thanks very much for watching!

@@bikestrikesrazors I can't recall any of your videos that I haven't enjoyed, so it's no sacrifice for me to watch.

Nice! I had no idea so many tracks around the country had bike-specific days! Yep, for some reason I always imagined auto racing tracks to be completely flat. Just goes to show how wrong I can be. :)

I believe COTA (Circuit of the America's in Austin, Texas) also has a bikes only event around the track.

It doesn't beat the pie under the subway overpass near Ave R in Brooklyn but it's some first-class pizza!

I once saw a bad crash during one of the historic races. A guy trashed his very expensive vintage Ferrari. Yikes!

I’ll look into it! Thanks for watching!

Lol! Yeah, we were so busy trying to shoot the video that we really couldn't just let loose and enjoy ourselves. We really have to get back down there and do this again when we can just "ride". If you notice when the road bike rider drops down in front of Rich, he starts out moving faster than we are, keeps pedaling, goes into a full tuck, and Rich, while he's not even pedaling, stays right with him. The aerodynamics on the trikes are so much better on the downhills, with the slightest bit of pedal power, we could've blown past him at any time. :)

I just saw this now, Michael- 9:20pm, on the night of the track event! Did you go? What did you think? I'm always the last to know! :)

@@bikestrikesrazors Yes. I went. Weather was warm and sunny. The uphill to the Corkscrew was a bit strenuous. The Corkscrew was great! I did four laps. I was the only trike there. I had a great time. Thanks to you guys for the reminder about Twilight Cycling. I think I'm going to try to do it often. I got a couple of comments about my going really fast through the corkscrew. I found it was quite comfortable going fast when I didn't have to worry about deer and pedestrians jumping out in front of the trike. It would be fun to meet you guys if you came down to the July event. Hope to see you there. By the way, I retired from Pebble Beach and can't get free golf any more. Sorry about that.😃

@@michaelmcdaniel5053 Great to hear you had a good time out there, Michael! Yep, I was shocked by how steep that climb was up to the top of The Corkscrew. It was worth it though for the ride down! I just checked and all the remaining Twilight Cycling nights this year are during the week, when we can't take the long trip down from Shingle Springs, so it looks like we'll have to wait and see what next year's Twilight Cycling schedule looks like. No more Pebble Beach?! I guess now you'll have to settle for the Pacific Grove course, which, while it's no Pebble Beach, is pretty dang nice. :)

@@bikestrikesrazors If you guys happen to be coming down this way for riding or golfing, let me know. I'd be happy to join up and play golf or ride on the bike trails around Monterey with you. I'm retired now so unless my lovely bride has me doing something, I'm usually free as a bird. By the way, I think the ride from Marina to Pebble Beach has the Tahoe trail beat for "beauty". But of course that's just my opinion.

@@michaelmcdaniel5053 I think I agree with you. That ride to Pebble Beach is a stunner! I'll let you know the next time we're down there with the trikes!

Hey, Mark! I just checked my Strava and maximum speed was just under 41mph. I can’t imagine our average speed was too high as there were lots of hills and we were spending more time shooting video than actually riding. That’s something that’ll be remedied the next time we do this. Best of luck finding a race track that’ll allow this in your area. Someone had already commented that there was a track in New Jersey that had regular bicycle nights and they didn’t even charge the cyclists. Makes me feel ill used for having to pay $10! :)

@@bikestrikesrazors…thanks for the info. I had no idea that tracks had such elevation changes. I knew they were banked but was totally unaware of the hills. Getting up to 41 mph is pretty scary! I know the race track in the Poconos in Pennsylvania lets folks on but I now live in New England. The racetrack in NH might have a similar program. I’d love to give it a go! I just got home from Florida yesterday . Four months down there with crummy weather until the last three weeks. Very windy and cool. It’s 37/windy/raining here. That’s some welcome home! Thanks for the great video. I’d love to,buy one of those retro cycling jerseys you mentioned last year…any luck there?

@@markfeldman6509 Yikes, 37! I'm complaining about riding in the high 40's. It's almost nothing but rain here this winter with the last 4 of 5 Saturdays (one of my ride days) rained out. When a video gets a little old, KZfaq puts it on the "back burner" so not too many folks are seeing the jersey video anymore. The local vintage club here is talking about trying to make a similar jersey with the club's letters. Not sure if anything will come of it, but I'll let you know.

@@bikestrikesrazors thanks for your efforts. I feel your pain with the bad weather. Had a lousy rainy windy season in Florida. I was out riding in the weather but Floridians were not very happy with the chilly temps and winds. For a New England guy it was shorts weather. Out tomorrow,in fleece with my buddies. Will hold off on the golf until its at least 55-60. Thanks for your great videos. If you ever come east give me a shout and rode the great tips with me on Cape Cod. You can ride my 700 and I will ride my 559. The lobster rolls will be on me.

@@markfeldman6509 Thanks very much for the invitation, Mark! That sounds like a great place to ride!

Hey, Bruce! This time around we were so busy shooting the video we couldn’t really make an effort to go fast, which is the natural inclination on a race track. :) We’ll be going back at some point just to push it and enjoy the ride!

Hey, Keith! Top speed down the hill, according to my Strava, was 41mph. That explains why I was having so much trouble making that turn at the bottom. :)

This was a great example of the difference between bikes and trikes. Going up the hills, we were slower than the bikes, but downhill we were faster. When you see the bike rider drop in on us in the corkscrew, he was in full tuck pushing his big gear the entire time, while I wasn't pedaling, and we went down the hill at the same speed. :) Because we were shooting a video, we were just trying to get shots and not really trying to "open it up" on the track. I'll have to go back sometime just to see what it's like to try and speed around the track.

@@bikestrikesrazors "I'll have to go back sometime just to see what it's like to try and speed around the track." Please do - I'd be really interested to see your lap time and average speed. And I'd really love to see you blow the road bikers off the track. But that's not a complaint about today's video! It's great again, as usual. Really looks like fun. I never miss your videos.

@@johnsimion2893 Thanks for watching! I'll try and give you a "head's up" if we're doing another video at the track.

5 more times this year, but none on a weekend. 2024 Dates: Friday, March 15th 5:30 - 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 11th 5:30 - 7:00 pm Thursday, July 25th 5:30 - 7:00 pm Thursday, August 29th 5:30 - 7:00 pm Wednesday, September 18th 5:30 - 7:00 pm October 9th 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Hey, Tony- We were just busy with shooting the video and never really even had the chance to try to go fast. Going down that long hill, the "corkscrew", I hit 41mph, but even that was limited by the fact that one of us was holding the camera which was causing drag, and the other had to stay slow so he didn't get too far away from the guy with the camera. We're definitely going back on another of the twilight cycling nights, not worrying about shooting a video, and just having fun rolling around as fast as we can. Thanks for watching!