Green Racing?

Hello. My name is Mary, or "sportbikerchic" to the motorcycling community. I'm a motorcycle racer and an instructor on the track. I was recently reading an article about LiveGreen that got me thinking about my motorycle racing and the footprint that it may be leaving on the world.

As much as motorcycles are supposedly better on the eco-system than most cars (at least as far as fuel-economy), I'm not so sure that's the case once we introduce racing into the equation. My bike could get about 40mpg if I rode sedately on the streets, but on the race track with the RPM needle knocking on redline the whole time, that gas mileage drops to something closer to 15mpg. Add in aftermarket exhausts, engine modifications and suped-up race fuel, and we're probably not doing so well.

So I started wondering how we (the racing community) can try to recoup the damages that we've done with our bikes. Possibly something as simple as organizing a collection to buy trees to plant. I'm not looking to change the racing community, just to come up with a one time thing we can do as a whole. Perhaps some of you can help us with ideas. I can't promise I can get the community to back up the idea, but it's very much worth a try!