So, Doug and Wilson and I went to Mid-America Motorplex. Makes my local look like a paved MX track. I wanna go back really bad! This is our pit, with the TPL transporter. Sunday was crap and wet, but I did get out once before packing it in. Saturday was too good to push it on Sunday and bring home a broken bike.
Here is a pic of a portion of the track. My camera has no hope of capturing the size -- long, with the top guys doing about 1 min 45 sec laps. Going slow and cautious on the 'mono, but still having an absolute blast, and pissing off guys on bigger bikes in the infield.
And I guess I have made the big time -- Performance Bikes Magazine printed a 1-page feature on the 'mono in the most recent issue. Feels pretty cool that they devoted an entire page to the project. Will likely get it scanned so I can post it proper. Will also buy a couple of copies of the magazine, and maybe get the page dry-mounted.
The big news is that I was able to score a more competitive LW bike off of an online auction called Crashedtoys. A 2008 EX650R -- or ER6F in Europe. It doesn't look like this right now, but I hope it will look something like this in the near future. Dad picked it up in Minneapolis for me, it runs, although it has a "junk" title -- hence the cheap price, and perfect for a racebike. Will have to start another blog!!!
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