Motoyard Trackdays Review

I started riding on the track earlier this year. After being on the track my first time, I can't express how much fun it is and how much you will improve on your riding skills. I did my first three track days with Motoyard up at Streets of Willow.

Never having run on the track before I was obviously nervous my first day out so I signed up for their "Free track session". A lot of organizations offer this now and it lets new riders take a session out on the track for about 20-30 minutes before everyone else. This is supposed to be a much slower pace to help you get orientated as well as figure out whether its something that you're interested in doing. If you like it you can sign up for the day when you're done. Well on my first day they never had the free track session...and I haven't seen it run the other two times I have gone. Motoyard has actually started late all three times I have run at the track with them.

The second time I was at the track was for a track night. This was interesting because rather than going to the track during the typical 100 degree weather, you can go under the portable lights they bring out and run when its much cooler. Well the night started off with half of the lights not even showing up. This set us back almost 3 hrs. Once the track did open up, it was quite a bit of fun and seemed to run smoothly.

The riders meeting at all of the events was very thorough and they even held the C group back an extra few minutes to go over the finer points and make sure we understood everything. The only draw back was the gentleman who was giving the majority of the meeting had a HEAVY Spanish accent and a lot of people had trouble hearing him.

Overall, once the events start, they seem to run smoothly. There are control riders in the C group however they don't seem to follow the same advice that the give out to other riders. I understand that these are seasoned riders but I almost got clipped by a couple of the control riders going by me which caused me to change my line a bit in the corner. This can cause new riders to easily grab some brake and crash. They also do very little to police the other riders and by mid-day any rules (inside passing, etc) that are set are being broken with little regard. Most of the Motoyard guys are relaxing having a beer.

The guys are nice but it doesn't seem like the best org to run with, especially if you have other options...however if the price is right then go for it.