Archive for March, 2007
Pics from the weekend
A few pictures from Sunday morning:
My pit neighbors: friends from kneeriders.com
Jennifer and Jason’s rig. Nice setup.
A bunch of other folks.
Fans. Yes, these folks show up to AFM races without any personal friends riding. They just like watching races. Much to my embarassment, they made me autograph their race schedules. Ok, [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2007 under Posts.
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Ups and downs
Quite a weekend. How can things be so much fun, and so hard at the same time?
Saturday started early, with registration and tech inspection starting at 6:30am. These are some early, long, full days. Oddly, I slept rather well the night before. In fact, I slept well all 3 nights I was out there. The [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2007 under Posts.
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Putting it all together
Who knew? There’s internet access at the track.
It’s been a very busy week of prepping the bike for the races this weekend. There’s a list of technical requirements for the bike that far exceed the regular track day items like taping headlights, brakelights, etc. Basically, no fluid should ever be able to spill on the [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 under Posts.
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Buttonwillow weekend
2 days of camping at the track and riding my butt off has left me a bit worn out this week, but it was well worth it all around.
Sleeping on pavement isn’t the greatest, but with a warm sleeping bag and thermarest, it works out just fine. Nothing like being awakened by people parking a [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under Posts.
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Buttonwillow Trackday
Zero degree sleeping bags are a good thing. Not having one in 40 degree weather isn’t much fun. Nevertheless, it was pretty nice to sleep in the car and wake up as the track gates were opened. No more roach motels for me, thank you.
The weather was a balmy 74 degrees in the afternoon, with [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2007 under Posts.
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