Mike Sullivan Road Race and Performance Riding School

Mike Sullivan is a NW racing legend. He’s raced everywhere and everything. So I decided to take is level II race school.
First the staff consisting of himself, his wife, and his daughter are super nice. Great people and they helped me out even through a scheduling snafu.
Next the instructors and how you’re assigned to instructors works well. I was assigned to NW racer and HDFFC team guy Todd Horn. We’d start the day in the classroom session where Mike would lecture on various subjects. The beginning session is mundane and everything I’ve heard before. The following sessions specific to how he attacks the track is definitely worth the cost of admission. After the classroom we’d head out on the track with your riding instructor and practice what was discussed. Todd was relentless… I was doing this wrong… that wrong… but throughout the day I slowly improved so that I think during a race I’m hopeful I can take a few seconds off my lap time.
The instructor pool consists of local fast guys… Tom Wertman, Ross Delong, Mike himself… several others. So no matter who you got assigned to you would get some good instruction on how to race.
The ONLY complaint I had was that the speeds were mixed. I was certainly not the slowest as there was a guy out there who looks like he just learned to ride. But it can get a bit dangerous with the mix of bikes… this became evident as a guy ran into me in the chute (the fastest part of the track). He was trying to pass… went off the track to avoid ‘a&# packing’ me. Came back on and we came together and touched bars. As soon as I saw him I stiffened my arms to keep it straight… luckily we seperated before the wall and I made the turn. He ended up blowing both his tires out. Lucky neither of us died. But that’s motorcycle racing and I associate this incident more with the guy being dumb than with the school itself.