Mark Junge at Vesrah Suzuki invited Joe and me to a day on the track at Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, IL. Unfortunately Joe is in Asia on business but I got to go.
Mark brought along a Supersport 600, a Superstock 1000 and an SV1000 as samples of his road racing world. He also rented a BMW135i [...]
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Today I went for my first bike ride ever while in Taiwan. I have been coming to Taiwan for work since 1993. It is usually such a tough work trip, that I never bother to try to get out for a ride. It take 3 days travel time back and forth. [...]
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The guy driving this truck is an EMT. The front of his truck was covered with confederate stuff.
End of a long season today. Luckily we are only 5 hours from home. I’m pretty tired and ready for some down time, in the big picture of things. Didn’t realize that until half way through the [...]
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This stuff was difficult to walk in. Quads just pushed their front wheels along without them rotating.
At about 10pm last night while I was trying to ignore the loud campers to our west a shower blew through and totally saturated the parking lot. Just after that happened several redneck fired up their pickups and jeeps [...]
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I GOT 5!!!!!
5 laps that is. As you may have noted from my previous post, I had a plan to figure out how to get 5 laps in for the first time at a GNCC. 5 laps has eluded me all season. I have come close, but in the end no cigar. In fact, at [...]
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I do not know if there is a more interesting group of people anywhere! Quad people. ATV riders to be exact. And to be sure, the epicenter of quad-ness is Crawfordsville Indiana!
I know you would not guess it. It surely is not what most think of when they think of Indiana. But, there is [...]
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You know you’re a redneck when you blow up your air mattress by holding it up to the exhaust pipe of your quad and revving the engine. Make that an innovative redneck.
It’s now 9:30pm here and we’ve shut ourselves inside for the night. The rest of the parking lots is abuzz with hooting, hollering, beer [...]
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My wife (and coach) says my van is a money pit and not worth having. This was spurred on after a pulley wheel on the serpentine belt tensioner crapped out and cost me several evenings and $90 to repair. The pulley had been making noise for months but I never considered it to be on [...]
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So this is the big one. Probably the best race of the GNCC circus all year. It is the one that started us on this adventure. I have never been able to finish this race. I fell and broke my front brake line in the first 1/3 of the first lap 2 years ago, and [...]
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Apparently, powerline park is a big off road truck and ATV area. The guys camped there tell me that there really is only the one bike race there per year. It is a huge place. Here is what the race sight looks like from the to of one of the hills on the property.
The [...]
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I’m worked over. We’re in the van driving west on I-70 and will be for the next several hours as we make our way home. We’ll stop at a cheapie hotel somewhere later tonight for a shower, Internet interaction and some Zs. Can’t happen soon enough.
Cross another off the list. The Powerline Park GNCC is [...]
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Ohio. On my way, as the muppets were and as Chrissy Hynde said, “no train station, no downtown.” I read on the GNCC website that a huge number of the best offroad riders live within 100 or so miles of the St. Clairesville Ohio GNCC. Powerline park. Think of all the great races that have [...]
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As we expected we spent the entire day doing bikes. Joe worked on his clutch and I dinked with tires, brakes, front suspension and new graphics. We’re pretty close to the course and the dust was bad while the quads raced. I was wiping dust off the bike and tools most of the day.
It’s warm [...]
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Last fly-to race this weekend. No more $20 carwash Monday mornings, no more biscuit and gravy Denny’s breakfasts. We’ve only go the Ironman GNCC in Indiana after this weekend. IN is only 5 hours from Madison.
I’m writing this post from the passenger seat of the van while Joe drives. We’re somewhere in Maryland making our [...]
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Wow. Seems like just a few months ago, we were building bikes and collecting sponsorship and coordinating gear.
The air is starting to get colder now, and that reminds me of driving to Missouri last winter to try to get in some riding time at a time when riding was hard to find. It was just [...]
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