With much of the country’s road system half-choked by traffic, it is easy to understand the popularity of track days where limits of bike and rider can be explored. Whatever is achieved, it will not be at any cost to the licence, allowing the owner to ride away in the big outside world.
With older machinery, the potential for high-speed progress on the wide open spaces of modern race tracks can well be a bit too much of a good thing. The Sunbeam