GetnJgyWitit
Mon 12/20/04, 12:06AM
Well first off man am I tired! Tired of smiling! :D
Ok anyways. What can I say but WOW!
My race was the last one of the day. So I had a chance to sit back and worry a ton and watch all the other guys and gals out on the track show me how it is done! Talk about feeling slow after a day of this!:sad:
So I am grided dead last. 21st. but I am on the inside, which is a good place to be. My nerves were shot and finally the green flag drops I have an ok start, but I think I am still in last place. I pick up two spots in T2 and head towards T3. Right away I see a waving yellow so now I know that I can't pass anyone. :mad: Next thing I know we are being called in. A rider had gone off the track in T4 and hit the wall. Not good, but I can't let that get to me. We regrid and try it again. This time it is now a 4 lap race instead of a 6 lap race.
So I am in the same spot again, but this time a guy on a Harley Sportster pulls a false start and he has to go to the back of the grid. Nice! Now I have someone behind me! LoL Green flag drops and I had a pretty good start. I feel like I am up in the top 10 pack. I am on the inside and I make the mistake of shifting to 4th going into T1. I am hard on the gas exiting and the bike feels like a pig. One passes me on the outside so I quickly realize that I need to downshift and get moving. I pussy footed it and hit a false neutral between 4th and 3rd gear! I am hard on the gas and going nowhere! By then I had a few more bikes pass me and I am pretty sure I am in dead last. :mad: I get it into gear and then I have to try and play catch up. I pick off the sporster guy in T2, which was scary as hell because his back tire was just bounding all over the place I thought he was going to crash and take me with him! Passed another going into T3 and now I am felling pretty good. Now I had to get pass ubermensch (Tom). By the way Tom you have a beautiful bike! Me like:love: I was all over his ass in T4 and followed him all the way around the track. :mad: I just couldn't get passed him. Then on the second lap as we were coming into T8 I knew I had more speed then him and I passed him setting up for T9. But now the main group was already half way down the front straight. I knew I had to make up some time. I went as deep and as late as I could into T1 before braking, but it was to deep and to late! :eek: Hard on the front brakes I could feel the front tire starting to lock up and the rear coming off the ground and the only things in my head were turn!, downshift! ohhhh Shit the pavement is running out!!!! But I got the bike slowed down and turned it in. I was way off the race line, but no one passed me! I just kept pushing it all the way around then with 1 1/2 laps to go I caught the group of people. The guy in the back of that pack was on an SV as well. I picked him off on the inside of T4 and then tried to catch the other two with in striking distance. I would start to real them in in T8 but they would just walk away from me down the front straight. I hate inlines! Last lap and the same thing happened again. I would get close, but just couldn't get a wheel in there. I finished 16th which isn't that great, but I know that I have room to improve!
Ohh and now I know what people mean when they say "race pace". That was by far the fastest I have ever ridden my bike out there. And the great thing is I know I can go faster!
Thanks Zoran for your help, Kurt it was great of you to come out and watch. Kurt Spencer thanks for Fucking with me when I was looking for that damn spring! :p Tom thanks for the extra shims. Shaggy you the MAN! finishing 3rd! and for all of your help thank you!
Thank you BuyMoto.com! You guys are a huge support!
Until February!
Ok anyways. What can I say but WOW!
My race was the last one of the day. So I had a chance to sit back and worry a ton and watch all the other guys and gals out on the track show me how it is done! Talk about feeling slow after a day of this!:sad:
So I am grided dead last. 21st. but I am on the inside, which is a good place to be. My nerves were shot and finally the green flag drops I have an ok start, but I think I am still in last place. I pick up two spots in T2 and head towards T3. Right away I see a waving yellow so now I know that I can't pass anyone. :mad: Next thing I know we are being called in. A rider had gone off the track in T4 and hit the wall. Not good, but I can't let that get to me. We regrid and try it again. This time it is now a 4 lap race instead of a 6 lap race.
So I am in the same spot again, but this time a guy on a Harley Sportster pulls a false start and he has to go to the back of the grid. Nice! Now I have someone behind me! LoL Green flag drops and I had a pretty good start. I feel like I am up in the top 10 pack. I am on the inside and I make the mistake of shifting to 4th going into T1. I am hard on the gas exiting and the bike feels like a pig. One passes me on the outside so I quickly realize that I need to downshift and get moving. I pussy footed it and hit a false neutral between 4th and 3rd gear! I am hard on the gas and going nowhere! By then I had a few more bikes pass me and I am pretty sure I am in dead last. :mad: I get it into gear and then I have to try and play catch up. I pick off the sporster guy in T2, which was scary as hell because his back tire was just bounding all over the place I thought he was going to crash and take me with him! Passed another going into T3 and now I am felling pretty good. Now I had to get pass ubermensch (Tom). By the way Tom you have a beautiful bike! Me like:love: I was all over his ass in T4 and followed him all the way around the track. :mad: I just couldn't get passed him. Then on the second lap as we were coming into T8 I knew I had more speed then him and I passed him setting up for T9. But now the main group was already half way down the front straight. I knew I had to make up some time. I went as deep and as late as I could into T1 before braking, but it was to deep and to late! :eek: Hard on the front brakes I could feel the front tire starting to lock up and the rear coming off the ground and the only things in my head were turn!, downshift! ohhhh Shit the pavement is running out!!!! But I got the bike slowed down and turned it in. I was way off the race line, but no one passed me! I just kept pushing it all the way around then with 1 1/2 laps to go I caught the group of people. The guy in the back of that pack was on an SV as well. I picked him off on the inside of T4 and then tried to catch the other two with in striking distance. I would start to real them in in T8 but they would just walk away from me down the front straight. I hate inlines! Last lap and the same thing happened again. I would get close, but just couldn't get a wheel in there. I finished 16th which isn't that great, but I know that I have room to improve!
Ohh and now I know what people mean when they say "race pace". That was by far the fastest I have ever ridden my bike out there. And the great thing is I know I can go faster!
Thanks Zoran for your help, Kurt it was great of you to come out and watch. Kurt Spencer thanks for Fucking with me when I was looking for that damn spring! :p Tom thanks for the extra shims. Shaggy you the MAN! finishing 3rd! and for all of your help thank you!
Thank you BuyMoto.com! You guys are a huge support!
Until February!