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Step 1 - Get a track bike that is expendable (not enough investment to total out and be financially impacted).

Step 2 - Register for a track day.

This is where I am.  I registered for a track day on February 17th at Firebird West.  My original intention was for Feb 18th at Firebird Main, but the organizer recommended the prior day due to it being a shorter handling course and my bike being an SV650.

Stealing a pic from a previous article by gothicbeaST, this is the course layout:

I am registered through aztracktime.com and they seem to have a pretty good system.  They try to keep the rider amount per shift at 1 rider per 0.1 miles.  I think the above track will host 12 riders per session.  That will seem to keep the traffic reasonable.

I used to do track days prior to 2002 back in Michigan, but at Grattan (a 2.2 mile track), thye would have 40+  riders per session.  That was a little nutty.

Now I’m off to step 3 this weekend.  While I bought the bike some time ago and took possessions of it in December ‘06, I have been storing it at a buddy’s house due to lack of space.  For me, step three is to actually take possession of the bike and give it a shakedown before it gets too late.

This machine is pretty much ready to go short of a battery (possibly) and some rubber (can likely get another couple days out of current skins).  Other than that, it simple maintenance and keeping the rubber side down!