[Ducati] Laguna Seca, Hot, Nasty and Dusty

[Mike Aquino]

Mike,

I wouldn't go ever again if I were you. It sounds like hell. There 
wasn't UNLIMITED free water for you? The nerve!
Free babysitting of your helmet, leathers, lawn chairs, etc. was done on 
a SCHEDULE? Gasp!
I hear they actually stopped letting Duc's park on the island when the 
was no more room...Scandal!

Get a grip dude...

Try checking your gear for free at Honda or Yamaha next time. You'll be 
even more disappointed.
The hours of the gear check were the same as the rest of the island and 
were not only posted but announced constantly over the loudspeaker WITH 
the race schedule for the day. I volunteered at gear check all 3 days as 
I do every year. Where do I think I'm going? Maybe I should wait around 
til 7:00 for people that can't read a schedule or plan ahead.

As for the shortage of FREE water. The hospitality volunteers were 
handing it out as fast as it was being delivered. Water and ice  are 
bought from a vendor and delivered along with ice to the island. Ducati 
is at the mercy of their schedule and delivery. When the water ran out, 
reasonable intelligent people walked 50 feet and BOUGHT a bottle. What a 
concept!

I'm with you on the vantage points, bleachers, etc. but Ducati is going 
WAY above and beyond with their hospitality. There is no other marque 
that even comes close.

I know, I know, it's much easier to whine online than take 
responsibility for your own experience.

Get Speed Vision and stay home next year. There will be more room to 
park on the island for me and my friends.

ride safe
skid

mike major wrote:
>>
>>        Ducati Island was fine as a place to hang out and check out 
>> bikes, meet fellow ducatisti etc.  I appreciated the coffee and 
>> snacks but it was hot as hell, there was a shortage of water and very 
>> limited places to sit.  The gear check was a good Idea but because 
>> the races always seemed to happen just as the gear check was shutting 
>> down, you couldn't see squat from the Island, I always found my self 
>> returning from my vantage point as the race was concluding.  Because 
>> the Ducati folks insisted on shutting down the island and gear-check 
>> on their own schedule (I don't know where they thought they were 
>> going in the traffic jam) and I wanted to see the superstock and 
>> supersport races at the end I found myself, after having to relocate 
>> my bike then lug all my gear to a vantage point where I could see the 
>> bikes and aforementioned jumbo-tron, standing in a pool of sweat and 
>> swearing never again.  Later, Mike D. Bike.