Got paid to ride a motorcycle at a track again this weekend, always a good way to spend a weekend.  I started to feel bad near the end of Saturday, turns out I forgot to eat, all day.  53 years old and I could still use my Mom to feed me.

“Hey Ed,

Been riding around for a few days, and well, just wow. Night and day difference so far, and I’m just getting familiar with this “new normal” before I fiddle with it. It is so awesome not to pogo over every bump, run wide exiting every turn, get crazy tank slappers at triple digits, and bottom out on the brakes and go skipping over bumps. I can not stop smiling while I’m riding, it feels like I’m finally riding the bike the way it was supposed to handle from day one.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing such an incredible job!

Arik”

Please take it easy with the triple digits Arik and enjoy the ride.

Two 300 Ninja’s at once!  One done and the other will be ready tomorrow.

Meet Elmo and Jen of trackexperience.com

One of the things I loved about learning to race in Hawaii with a small group of people was sharing our motorcycles with each other. It’s a great way to broaden your experience, it’s fun and it brings more people into our sport. Endurance races are another good way to get new people racing.

Jen has been letting her friends ride Elmo for some time now at trackexperience.com track days. I first learned about this from FB posts by enthusiastic riders who are now hooked. Jen built Elmo as a way to get more woman riding and to help grow the Femmewalla Race class of CVMA, it’s working.

If you have the chance, I think the risk of damage to your bike can be balanced with the joys of sharing our sport.

You can check out photo’s of Elmo’s build and the riders who have taken him out on Jen’s FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.bauer.507/media_set?set=a.10204908541426477.1073741840.1628500986&type=3

The Mystery School’s Rich Oliver stopped by to visit Lindemann Engineering over the weekend while Tony Serra was hanging out. Between us we have a few number one plates.

You can see my five from Hawaii and there is a stack of WERA Regional #1 plates as well. Three of my Hawaii plates were earned on the same ‘93 TZ 250 that Rich used to earn one of his five AMA Pro 250GP #1 plates. He also has WERA and F-USA championships for a total of seven #1 plates. But Tony puts both of us in our places by earning his two #1 plates at the ages of 72 and 74 years young.

Lindemann Engineering is proud to be a sponsor of both The Mystery School and of Tony Serra.

Yesterday was just another day test riding motorcycles in the sunshine for “Roadracing World.”  We were at CVR with Rickdickulous Racing.  Be sure to read what my office days are like in this Middleweight Shootout.

Lindemann Engineering is the official 2017 Suspension Vendor for 2WheelsTrackDays. http://www.2wheelstrackdays.com/ We joined 2WTD at Willow Springs this past weekend and enjoyed their event. I like things to be well organized and I’m pleased with the job they did.

Our next 2WTD event will be Friday, April 7th at CVR. Check out the LE Calendar page for all our events.

This photo shows the LE set up at Willow.

Eric opened a Snack Pack near me. I stole one of his crackers thereby unbalancing the cheese/sausage/cracker ratio. I’m sorry Eric, here is a make up cracker. Also a reminder for everyone to charge and store your transponders after the race weekend is over.