Bridgestone Rory, Warren Dunham, Bruce Lind, Me and Bruce’s ’75 TZ750 after Sunday’s race. Third in the Open class, 10th overall out of 21 from the last row of the grid, best lap of 1.49.863. Caught and passed a 500 Suter on the brakes into T-2. Less than 40 laps total. More than 10 seconds better than the best lap of the first ride on Friday afternoon.

It all came together today in the warm up. Riding this bike requires that you know exactly what you want to do and where you want to do it, and then you must ask the bike nicely.

Bruce and I are planning how to make the bike fit me better for next year.

Racing this bike is like bringing a cannon to a knife fight.

Once again, my starts make everyone else look like they don’t know what the green flag means. Hole-Shot and first! Best lap was another second faster, 1.42.966 on the last lap. Lap 5 backed that up with a 1.43.056. The TZ750 race is next.

Only one round of practice today so I rode the TZ. Best time in the first ride on Friday was 2.00.784, best time in todays practice was 1.54.030. I’m gridded last, row 9. I raced to 18th out of 23 with a best time of 1.52.052. We have shaved off over eight seconds so far and have done a bunch of wheelies. I’m a lot more comfortable with the bike now so we removed the extra seat foam for Sundays race.

I used the warm up lap of my SV race as practice, did a nice wheelie on the start from row three and got the hole shot into to T-1. 619 smoked me into T-2 and ran away. It was a fun race to 2nd.

Tomorrow we race some more!

We practiced on the SV650 and TZ750 today.

The TZ750 is crazy fast on the pipe. We are working on making the bike fit me and I’m learning the bike. On the SV I’m pined in 6th well past the crest of T-1 and braking late for T-2. On the TZ I’m near full throttle and near red line in 6th over the crest but backing off and braking much sooner for T-2. The TZ feels about 50 mph faster over the crest than the SV is.

The first ride on the TZ was a bit overwhelming. I’ve caught up with the bike now and tomorrow I’ll be ahead of it.

We race tomorrow.

We are set up and ready for wheelies tomorrow.

So far as I know, there are only two TZ750’s still racing in North America. I’ll be racing this one at Laguna next weekend with AHRMA. Open 2-Stroke, class. Bruce Lind, the owner will be doing the tuning. For you kids, it’s a ’75, water cooled in line 4, 2-stroke, GP Bike. Race number will be 78E. I’ll also race my SV650 in Thunder 3.

Saturday 6 Hour Counter-Clockwise Buttonwillow Kart Track

1 Team Hawaii #50 309 Laps

2 Garage 8008 #9 309 Laps + 9.803 sec

3 Bible Study Group #2 294 Laps

4 Not Sure #007 277 Laps

5 Race Race Baby #0 274 Laps

Sunday 6 Hour Clockwise Buttonwillow Kart Track

1 Team Hawaii #50 301 Laps

2 Race Race Baby #0 288 Laps

3 Bible Study Group #2 280 Laps

4 Not Sure #007 278 Laps

Overall

1 Team Hawaii with 610 laps

2 Bible Study Group with 574 laps

3 Race Race Baby with 562 laps

4 Not Sure with 555 laps

5 Garage 8008 with 309 laps

Most Consistent

Not Sure with only 1 lap different between two days of racing

Most Improved

Race Race Baby went from 5^th on day one to 2^nd on day two.

All five of my TTR125L’s are ready for this weekends Twin 6 Hour Mini Endurance Race.

Set up at Big Willow with 2WTD on Friday. We move to Streets for Saturday & Sunday.

World record holding endurance team is racing again. Race number 50 as in the 50th State, get it? All 5 of these bikes are testing on Monday the 19th at Adams and racing in my Twin 6 Hour (all the fun of a 24 hour without the pain) at Buttonwillow, July 1 & 2.