Originally Posted by mihlbach

Racing is dangerous, period. Expect someone to get hurt at some point. However, legitimate road racing takes place on a closed course and does not involve non-participants. Alleycats, on the other hand, are not on closed courses and they endager both participants and non-participants. It is this aspect of alleycat racing that is both unethical and irresponsible. A rider getting killed is sad, but ultimately not surprising. One of these days, someone, in an alleycat race situation, will hit a pedestrian, or force an innocent motorist to collide with a non-participant, potentially inviting serious legal consequences to both the guilty rider and the race organizer(s). Its sad that all of you, apparently due to your obviously overinflated senses of self-entitlement and self-importance, fail to acknowledge this.