Halloween at Buttonwillow
2 clients today. Jay and Lisa, as in Jay & Lisa from Saturday. Jay races a SV 650 and Lisa races a 250 Ninja. If you have been racing either of them get ready to be bummed.
Another great Edventure day.
Today Dave, Joe, Jay & Lisa blasted around in the sun at Buttonwillow.
Dave left darkies on the track.
Joe made clean passes.
Jay had his mind altered.
Lisa may have learned the most.
I got to ride too.
Tomorrow we ride around in circles again.
Dave, Tony, Rick & I had a great day.
After setting up, signing up, teching & meeting we worked on bike set up for the first half of the day. Sag and damping, de-briefing, make a few changes and go for another ride.
In the afternoon we did lead/follow worked on lines, look farther ahead, keep your head and eyes up, what are you doing with the clutch?
The bikes work better now and the riders are faster and tired.
See you tomorrow.
Getting Ready
I’m busy with shop work and getting ready for next weekends 3 day Halloween Extravaganza at Buttonwillow with The Track Club. So far we have Dave & Rick signed up for Friday. On Saturday we have Dave, another Dave, Joe and maybe Rick again. Sunday has 3 maybes and still counting. We have room for more, sign up now.
We’ll be doing riding coaching and bike set up work. Because of the group rate your fee is much lower than normal.
Buttonwillow is not the best track for racing but it’s great for training because it has a little of everything. The Track Club is highly organized so there is little down time caused by red flags.
Looks like the weather will be great, low 70’s with some cloud cover.
I’ll be set up on your right after you pass the front gate. RV spot 15A.
Costume optional. Leathers required.
Streets WSMC Report
Streets of Willow this weekend.
I’m off to the track today to get set up for a Track Daz track day tomorrow at Streets then the WSMC races on Sat & Sun. See you there!
Squeak Be Gone!
The house door of my RV has been squeaking for years. Some of the noise was coming from the latch. But I could never make it stop completely. This time when I was checking the door I noticed that the window glass could move so I took the frame apart and found that the gasket is worn out. I made a temporary duck tape gasket and the squeak is gone. Driving is so much nicer now.
Team Tuned at Miller
The boys from Bermuda are having fun but the Long Course here is = to about 5 laps of their track so they have some getting use to it, to do. Until the sun comes out it’s a little cold for them too.
I’ve been talking to a few people, you know who you are: 26 psi hot. Other people don’t get to tell you what you can and can’t do. Watch where you step.
Weekend of Lead/Follow
The Track Club is holding 3 days Halloween of fun at Buttonwillow on the last weekend of this month. Fri, Sat & Sun, Oct. 29th – 31st.
I plan to be there because The Track Club lets me ride for free if I bring a client. I have a few people lined up so far. If you join us you can split my travel cost with the others and you all save.
Thunder Hill Report
Bill and the Gang are happy.
Friends from Hawaii visited.
Bill wants smaller changes but likes how his bike works now.
Dave lets me change whatever I want because the bike just keeps feeling better. He always looks surprised that I understand what his bike needs after he answers my questions about the bike.
Mark doesn’t care he just rides. So I took away some damping.
Sebastiao made all the changes to his R-6 just like I told him to and is much happier with the bike now. I even fixed the shock mounts so he can remove the shock with out taking off the tank.
Some guy named Mike stopped by, his rider is faster than these guys. His rider won Daytona Sportbike…
