Red Weekend

Hey everybody! Last weekend was quite eventful for me. Or maybe it wasn't. It depends on how you look at it. But it was very red, indeed! Originally I was supposed to suit up in my red gear and ride on Saturday. But things changed pretty easily. My dad got tickets to The Indianapolis Red Bull Moto GP! It was a whole weekend thing, so we thought about when to leave on Friday night. It ended up being an easy decision... or hard for one of us. We decided to just leave right away at night because we had to be in Indianapolis pretty early. That meant very little sleep for my dad! I always get to enjoy getting to sleep in the van. :D

But we ran into a little problem right when we left... You see, we rented a movie from a Red Box on Thursday. We forgot to return it Friday, of course. So I had an idea to return it right away on the drive. We kind of forgot about it as we drove past a local Red Box in Wauconda. Then we had another brilliant idea to return it to one in a different city on the way.
-The first one: It was in a Jewel and the doors were locked since it was past 1 am.
-The second one: It was in a Wal-Mart and the doors were also locked.
-The third one: We visited a Walgreens, but there was no Red Box at that one!
-The fourth one: Finally, we found an outside Red Box next to a Walgreens. I made sure it returned correctly! I didn't want any more funny business with that. We had a drive to do.

I'm sure my dad saw plenty of red lights on the drive down. Lucky for me, I didn't. Sometime between 8-9 am we arrived at the Red Bull Moto GP! With our tickets, we were supposed to get infield parking. That ended up not working out very well... our van was too tall for the tunnel leading in. But this inconvenience didn't harm our days very much. We just had to walk an extra half mile to get in.

When we did get in it was like a different world in there. Tons of people and something going on all the time. It's crazy how much stuff was in there. Right away we checked into where our tickets took us. That was awesome! There was a big room with seating and tables everywhere. A bar was in the middle with free drinks all weekend. There were two lounging places, along with some motorcycle video game. Not to mention the free breakfast and lunch. And, of course, you could have as much Red Bull that you could possibly want. Yes, I can imagine it being difficult for some people to leave the place. But for my dad and I there were sights to see!

We visited the AGV/Dainese set up multiple times both days. It was one of many cool stores set up in there. We also visited Ducati Island. If you're wondering what that is, just imagine a Ducati factory spanning many years. There were so many red and white Ducati's in there! Ducati related stores were bountiful. It was definitely a heaven for Ducati lovers.

By the end of the first day my dad's forehead was pretty red! That is a product of not having hats or sunscreen. Great, huh? Somehow I didn't get sun burned. Yay! The day wasn't over yet, though, if that's what you were thinking. There was a big biker congregation to go to in downtown Indianapolis! My dad and I got out our bike and rumbled our way over. Ok, think about how I was talking about Ducati Island. Now multiply that by about a thousand. There was a sea of all kinds of different bikes including, yes, red ones! We walked a little bit to find somewhere cool to hand out. But that didn't take very long at all...

We found the Red Bull Energy Station! Free Red Bull, Geoff Aaron doing trials bike stuff, a flat track BMX guy, and three break dancers. That wasn't all, but that's mainly what I saw. All I can say is that Red Bull really takes care of their people! I don't understand how they can continue to pull off these unbelievable events.

The next day we continued our leisurely stay at the Moto GP. For some of the races we wanted to sit in the Turn 9 Stands. It didn't end up working in our favor. We needed red passes to get in. I didn't care very much. It was just a minor setback in our awesome weekend. The racing itself was pretty good, but I enjoyed the atmosphere there quite a bit more.

I'd like to thank Chris Favro for getting us those awesome tickets! We had a very rad time because of him!


Here's a picture of a bike that I liked a lot there. Can you say awesome?! I bet you couldn't before seeing this picture! Check that red out. ;)

As you can see, our weekend was exactly what the title of this blog says: Red. I used the word a total of 18 times in this text. I hope I didn't miscount...

That's it this week from your favorite blog writer (I hope), Greg Sassi. You stay classy, planet Earth.

Red Bud

Hey everybody! This half a week of school this week has been pretty sweet. Not too much homework and everything seems to flow great. That's already too much to write about school today! On Sunday I went to Red Bud with Cody VanBuskirk. It was the first time I had been there since my cut there a few months ago. The track was pretty much exactly how I remembered it: rough! Midway through my third session a blister I got that day popped. Ouch. I rode the rest of the session trying to not put much pressure on my left hand. I got a helmet cam of that practice, too. It should be at the bottom of this blog post if you want to watch it!

So things at Red Bud went pretty smoothly... except for Cody's chain snapping in our last session. Not too good. He didn't crash or go over the handlebars, so that was actually good!

Today I was shredding a little bit at Kody Kamm's house. I needed some practice. There were three of us riding together. The track was disked up, but it was all dry. That made it pretty hard to ride on... We then decided to just do a shorter track in the back which turned out pretty good.

To make up for my boring talk, here's a new video I posted! As the description says put on some music in the background, sit back, and relax. Enjoy! -Greg

School

Hola! This week was my first week of school. I don't know if you can really call it a week since it was only three days... Oh well! These days actually went pretty well for me. My classmates and I seem to get more respect everywhere now since we're juniors. I like it! I also like how we haven't gotten too much homework yet. Everybody always likes that! It's been fun hanging out with my friends at school, too. It's like we never left! Other than that I don't have too many stories from school so far.

On Friday morning before school I was thinking about going on a bike ride to exercise my legs and lungs a little. It seemed like a really good idea on Thursday night! When I tried waking up I couldn't! I did open my eyes, but I couldn't force myself to get up... Oh well. I think I needed that little extra rest anyways. I made up for it by going riding at dan's house in the afternoon. I thought a tornado or some huge storm was going to come through right before I went riding! It was pretty crazy! I think that just makes it funner when I'm riding alone.

Some interesting things are being taught to us in school. 7 ways to die, stupid people, A-drives, alternate meaning of the word sultry, and much more! Ahhhhh, school. Until next time! -Greg

Preparation

Hey everybody! It's been a couple weeks since I last wrote in. That's because I've been busy. Actually I haven't been busy. It's just that I have homework to do for school, which starts in about 4 days! I've been saving my summer homework for the end... ok, that's a lie. Lets just say I'm kind of good at procrastinating. :P At the moment I am done with 1 out of 2 things. I think the second thing should be easier, though.

My moto life has been very similar to the rest of the summer. I've just been riding a little less lately. I went to Dan's house a couple times. It was actually raining the first time when I was there and wet the second time. I think I like it a little better when it's wet. I think I got some pretty good practice in on the 450.

Dang, it's been a couple weeks but I haven't really done much. I did go to Six Flags one day with Matu and Shane. It was an interesting day to say the least. By the time we got there all the lines were huge! And we didn't really want to wait in line. We did find some rides with smaller lines though. 2 of them! Batman and the Iron Wolf. Batman went by really fast! I don't know if that ride was actually enjoyable, though. It was too rough for me. Matu and I felt dizzy afterwards. The Iron Wolf was a different story, though. We were almost to the top of the line when they stopped letting people on. What? After maybe 10 minutes I thought I had it figured out. Someone had thrown up on the ride and they had to clean it up. I guess I should expect that at an amusement park... I just didn't know it took so long to clean it up. That ride was pretty good once we got on!

After that day I decided that I don't really want to go to Six Flags anytime soon again. That's because 2 things are certain there: The lines are huge and the prices are unbelievable.

My mom also had her birthday party a few days ago! That was pretty cool for sure! I think we were preparing for it for at least 2 or 3 days. We made a lot of food for it. I think all together about 30 people came by for at least a little bit. So my mom's 35th birthday party was pretty cool! After that we had to eat the left over food for lunch and dinner for a couple days. So, yes, we made quite a bit of food.

That's it for now! I'm going to keep getting prepared for school. Bye! -Greg :)