Hola. Today's racing went all right for me. Not really good but not really bad either. We got to the track on time with out any problems. I also found out that we had two rounds of practice. So that meant 4 practices that morning for me, all of them like 5 laps! That's a pretty good amount of riding right there! During one of them, I scrubbed a jump too much and landed sideways. Yeah... I crashed. Usually you're supposed to bring the bike ack straight when you scrub.. Fun. There went my confidence for scrubbing for the day.
Anyway, right after practice I found out that I was in the second race. 8 laps! Suddenly all that practice didn't look so good. But what to do, right?
250 B Moto 1: I got a kind of bad start. I was toward the back somewhere I think. I only had one tear-off, so I was pretty much blind towards the end of the race. Darn. I ended up getting like 18th place. I think 27 started. Ehh.
450 B Moto 1: During this race the track was really rough. Whyyyyyy. This super roughness caused me to get some pretty intense arm pump. Like so bad that I wanted to let my hands go on the finish line triple. I was pretty happy when that was over.
12th.
2-stroke: I signed up for the 2-stroke class expecting to get some experience for Loretta's qualifiers, since that's a new class this year. But I was the only one that signed up for it! Wow. So I had a moto with the 450 A and all. So I got to ride with some of the back of the pack A riders. Oh well. 1st place! :P
And I just watched New Year No Limits. Crazy!
Last day in Florida tomorrow..
-Greg
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza: Friday
Today was practice at Gatorback. I didn't really want to wake up in the morning again. I mean who does? After a good breakfast we were pretty much ready to go. Practice went fine for me. You know, just a normal practice day pretty much.
BREAKING NEWS: the sign-up people at Gatorback believed I was 18. Yay! :P
While I was watching other practices I saw one guy crash pretty hard. I also saw another guy with a shattered lower leg being taken away. Ouch. The track was pretty rough...
When practice was over, pretty much everything we did was to get ready for the racing tomorrow. Apart from a little bit of trials riding, of course. After we were all done, I saw some little kids riding their pit bikes around everywhere. One of them was just wide open in the pits! Crazy kids..
That's it for the day! -Greg
BREAKING NEWS: the sign-up people at Gatorback believed I was 18. Yay! :P
While I was watching other practices I saw one guy crash pretty hard. I also saw another guy with a shattered lower leg being taken away. Ouch. The track was pretty rough...
When practice was over, pretty much everything we did was to get ready for the racing tomorrow. Apart from a little bit of trials riding, of course. After we were all done, I saw some little kids riding their pit bikes around everywhere. One of them was just wide open in the pits! Crazy kids..
That's it for the day! -Greg
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza: Thursday
Yooooo. Today's Thursday, otherwise known as ride at Southern Raceway day! We woke up groggily this morning, just wanting to sleep some more. But we had to be at the track, you know, to ride. So we hit the road with Shane "corn on the" Cobb. Got there right on time and went riding.
First up: Loretta's turn track. Sandy, tilled. Pretty much a perfect turn track. Cobb had that down pretty good. It felt good to go through those turns good. It just didn't feel as good when the turns went bad.. Oh well. The track was surprisingly deepish. I mean, it must be pretty good if you can be pinned on a 250 a bunch, right?
After a brief lecture about not being allowed to ride on the grass, we hit the hill track. This track is in the woods on the side of a big hill. That track was so cool. First you go up a big hill, turn around, do some turns going down a huge hill, turn back around, jump into the whoops, then just go. It's pretty sick.
After calling it quits for the day, I couldn't quite call it quits. I took off all the bulky gear I have and got on my trials bike! :D I went looking for steep stuff to ride up on the hill we rode on earlier. Oh boy, were there some stuff to ride up. I felt pretty accomplished after going up some of the wallish ground. There was also a lot that I didn't do. Still learning, you know? ;)
So we hurried off from the track and went to lunch at Jimano's Pizzaria. This Pizzaria is owned by Dan "father of corn on the" Cobb. Actually that's why we went there. It's a nice place in Cairo, Georgia.
Boom, after that was done/eaten, we went back to the Cobb household to transfer some dirt from our bikes to the ground. I even washed the trials bike. :). Gotta keep that baby clean!
Bri also helped me! She's 3 years old, but wants to help a lot. Yay!
All righty, have a nice day. We're living the high life, actually going to a, wait for it, HOTEL. See ya. -Greg
First up: Loretta's turn track. Sandy, tilled. Pretty much a perfect turn track. Cobb had that down pretty good. It felt good to go through those turns good. It just didn't feel as good when the turns went bad.. Oh well. The track was surprisingly deepish. I mean, it must be pretty good if you can be pinned on a 250 a bunch, right?
After a brief lecture about not being allowed to ride on the grass, we hit the hill track. This track is in the woods on the side of a big hill. That track was so cool. First you go up a big hill, turn around, do some turns going down a huge hill, turn back around, jump into the whoops, then just go. It's pretty sick.
After calling it quits for the day, I couldn't quite call it quits. I took off all the bulky gear I have and got on my trials bike! :D I went looking for steep stuff to ride up on the hill we rode on earlier. Oh boy, were there some stuff to ride up. I felt pretty accomplished after going up some of the wallish ground. There was also a lot that I didn't do. Still learning, you know? ;)
So we hurried off from the track and went to lunch at Jimano's Pizzaria. This Pizzaria is owned by Dan "father of corn on the" Cobb. Actually that's why we went there. It's a nice place in Cairo, Georgia.
Boom, after that was done/eaten, we went back to the Cobb household to transfer some dirt from our bikes to the ground. I even washed the trials bike. :). Gotta keep that baby clean!
Bri also helped me! She's 3 years old, but wants to help a lot. Yay!
All righty, have a nice day. We're living the high life, actually going to a, wait for it, HOTEL. See ya. -Greg
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza: Wednesday
On the road again. Just like last night. Last night actually went by pretty easily for me. I only had to drive sometime between 2 and 3 AM and then got to go to sleep. It was pretty cold..
I woke up to the warmer weather of Alabama. All the reddish dirt with green grass on top. Christmas colors! There are a lot of run down houses down here, though. Like 3/4 of the houses we passed were trailers with garbage everywhere. Every once in a while there was some really nice house. And all the roads are all perfect down here, so I guess the bad is almost balanced by the good.
Soon we got to Monster Mountain. From the entrance we still had to drive quite a bit. So the place is big!
At sign up the guy wouldn't believe I was 18! So I hurried back to get my dad as if I were 17 again. Darn these handsomely good looks of mine. At least I'll look like I'm 18 when I'm 28. *cough* ;)
There were 20 minute sessions followed by 20 minutes of rest on the main track. That's a lot of riding.. But it's all good. I did like 5 sessions like that. Tiring.
After the first session I thought that Murphy's law was in full effect. There was some clanking sound in my engine. Wooowwww. My dad, being the professional mechanic that he is, quickly deduced that the flywheel weight we added was loose. It's not supposed to come loose.. Luckily we got that bad boy fixed, minus a fly wheel weight.
The only not so good thing about having such frequent riding sessions is that there isn't much time to explore the rest of the place. Luckily I found some time and checked out what Monster Mountain has to offer! At the end I went into the woods and did some trail riding. Now that was some good trail riding. So awesome!
So now we're on the road again. Going another 4 hours south to Cairo, GA. Let's see how it goes there!
-Greg
DMXS radio tonight!!
I woke up to the warmer weather of Alabama. All the reddish dirt with green grass on top. Christmas colors! There are a lot of run down houses down here, though. Like 3/4 of the houses we passed were trailers with garbage everywhere. Every once in a while there was some really nice house. And all the roads are all perfect down here, so I guess the bad is almost balanced by the good.
Soon we got to Monster Mountain. From the entrance we still had to drive quite a bit. So the place is big!
At sign up the guy wouldn't believe I was 18! So I hurried back to get my dad as if I were 17 again. Darn these handsomely good looks of mine. At least I'll look like I'm 18 when I'm 28. *cough* ;)
There were 20 minute sessions followed by 20 minutes of rest on the main track. That's a lot of riding.. But it's all good. I did like 5 sessions like that. Tiring.
After the first session I thought that Murphy's law was in full effect. There was some clanking sound in my engine. Wooowwww. My dad, being the professional mechanic that he is, quickly deduced that the flywheel weight we added was loose. It's not supposed to come loose.. Luckily we got that bad boy fixed, minus a fly wheel weight.
The only not so good thing about having such frequent riding sessions is that there isn't much time to explore the rest of the place. Luckily I found some time and checked out what Monster Mountain has to offer! At the end I went into the woods and did some trail riding. Now that was some good trail riding. So awesome!
So now we're on the road again. Going another 4 hours south to Cairo, GA. Let's see how it goes there!
-Greg
DMXS radio tonight!!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza: Night 1
So here I am, in the van on the way down south once again. It's winter break, but it doesn't seem like winter at all. Sure, it's pretty cold, but there was only a hint of snow a couple weeks ago. For the past couple of winters my dad and I have gone down south to escape the snow and cold weather of Illinois for a week. This year seems weird because there's not really anything to get away from. I could just go ride somewhere in Illinois! But what's the fun in that, right?
Today we had a plan to leave right after the work day. I'm sure we were both hoping for a quick work day so we could actually get some sleep tonight. That didn't seem to work out that well, because we ended up leaving from work at the same time, if not later, than a normal day. What to do, right?
We weren't really in that much of a hurry when we got home. Sure, absolutely nothing was packed. And sure, we did have to leave soon if we wanted to be able to ride the next day (tomorrow). Ok, I change my mind. We were in a hurry. I threw in my gear, loaded up the 250 and trials bike, and got pretty much ready to go. Of course bring paranoid, my dad wanted to bring another bike with just in case the 2-stroke decides to stop working again. So boom boom boom, we slid that into the little space left in the back. After all, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It's Murphy's Law, man.
So off we were. Since my dad is the primary driver (I merely secondary), I had some time to kill. Well, I still do, but whatever. I got out "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne. I have been reading that for a week now. I felt like finishing it.. Anyway, that book is a perfect example of Murphy's Law. It seems like a bunch of events hinder his journey around the world. But somehow he overcomes everything. So moral of the story: we need that extra bike with. Duh. :P
Oh boy, we still have about 9 hours to go until we get to Monster Mountain (!!!) and the dark flatness everywhere seems to be making us tired. At least those blinking red lights of the giant wind thingies are kind of cool. Wheeeeeeee.
Oh, almost forgot, check out this semi-awesome video I made of myself riding some trials in my yard. Don't criticize me too much; I'm still learning. :D
Have a great day. This has been night 1 of the Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza. Boom.
-Greg
Now time for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?" Yes.
Today we had a plan to leave right after the work day. I'm sure we were both hoping for a quick work day so we could actually get some sleep tonight. That didn't seem to work out that well, because we ended up leaving from work at the same time, if not later, than a normal day. What to do, right?
We weren't really in that much of a hurry when we got home. Sure, absolutely nothing was packed. And sure, we did have to leave soon if we wanted to be able to ride the next day (tomorrow). Ok, I change my mind. We were in a hurry. I threw in my gear, loaded up the 250 and trials bike, and got pretty much ready to go. Of course bring paranoid, my dad wanted to bring another bike with just in case the 2-stroke decides to stop working again. So boom boom boom, we slid that into the little space left in the back. After all, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It's Murphy's Law, man.
So off we were. Since my dad is the primary driver (I merely secondary), I had some time to kill. Well, I still do, but whatever. I got out "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne. I have been reading that for a week now. I felt like finishing it.. Anyway, that book is a perfect example of Murphy's Law. It seems like a bunch of events hinder his journey around the world. But somehow he overcomes everything. So moral of the story: we need that extra bike with. Duh. :P
Oh boy, we still have about 9 hours to go until we get to Monster Mountain (!!!) and the dark flatness everywhere seems to be making us tired. At least those blinking red lights of the giant wind thingies are kind of cool. Wheeeeeeee.
Oh, almost forgot, check out this semi-awesome video I made of myself riding some trials in my yard. Don't criticize me too much; I'm still learning. :D
Have a great day. This has been night 1 of the Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza. Boom.
-Greg
Now time for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?" Yes.
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