Anyone from the cafe running this race? This will be my second year out and this race is a blast! It's April 30th and May 1st up here in northern nevada
http://www.vcgp.com/ Cool event in a very cool and authentic ghost town. I drove through there about 2 weeks ago and would have unloaded the bike for some miles, but I had other business in N CA. There's some killer riding between here and there.
Vcgp.com and it's actually in a old town... Not ghost town at all. Many residents still live up there and there's bars and dining and even a decent hotel. Tons of history up there. It's an old mining town. The start is on the Main Street of town. YouTube has tons of videos. They also do a vintage friendly course that keeps some of the way gnarly stuff out but you can ride either. This year I believe it the 47th annual race. Fantastic race and brutal riding. Check out the site and some vids. Usually around 400 entries per day.
I live just east in a place called Dayton and the riding up there is freakin awesome!! Plus for people coming from out of town it's within about twenty minutes of Reno or Carson city which both have decent casinos and all the usual stuff cities have.
The races up there are awesome... Did a bunch of MRANN races up there too.... even watched a bike go 40 ft high on a bomb run.... VCGP is a true classic
Lived up here for a few years now and just recently came across the mrann stuff but like stated above the vcgp is definately a classic. Even when my father lived in SoCal and ran 37 he always made the 10 hour trip up here to race it almost every year from the late eighties to the early 2000s.
I raced that event in 2004 on my 1979 Honda CR250 in the Bomber class. Back then there was no vintage friendly version of the course and it was brutal, dusty and rocky, oh and did I mention it was also rocky? The title sponsor of the race that year was the Kit Kat Guest Ranch, a local cat house in nearby Dayton and I will say the trophy girls were quite "attractive". I heard they were even offering a racers' discount should you be inclined to partake in any of their "services"...
Vintage friendly is new the past couple years. It's brutally rocky indeed haha I punctured the stock at-81 on my 300 the first week I had my bike in those mountains. Right through the tire and tube. Rode home with a flat! Found the rock inside when I got home. Fun stuff though for sure. Last year snowed Saturday and was only 32 Sunday morning
