You're hugging the tank, tucked as tightly as you can behind the screen. You've banged up through the gears and the tach needle is bouncing off redline. The motor is screaming as you knife through the air at over 150 mph.
Nothing comes close to the adrenaline rush, fear, focus and thrill of road racing motorcycles.
I had the opportunity to sit down and talk about this with Dave Rosno at the CCS road races at Road America on Saturday. He is a veteran racer with fourteen championships under his belt, and he runs Visionsports Riding School. He currently races a 2001 Suzuki GSX-R600. I raced a couple of seasons in the late nineties on a Honda RS125 GP bike. I asked Dave what he would recommend and how much it would cost for a new racer to set up a bike like his.