Fred Bud Helmet Cam

Last weekend I ventured out to an awesome sand track in Illinois for some practice.  I also wanted to do a helmet cam of it after my last attempt failed with the camera crashing to the sand following an incident with a tree branch.  The track at Fred Bud is roughhhhh.  Believe it or not, it was actually groomed a week before this ride.  Check it out!  There's a little bit of trail riding on the track as well. :D



-Greg

Fred Bud... 3 hours

Hey everybody! Today I'm just getting to posting about my riding at Fred Bud on Saturday. It may be because of two things: I'm just lazy, or I just got done recovering from it.

I went to the sand track and kind of just started riding around, checking out the track and everything. After about 10 minutes I was like, all right, let's recuperate a little before doing some Motos. But no, that was not the case.

I ended up going out right away again, not knowing what I was getting into. Somehow I ended up going on a 3 hour moto...

During the first hour I was just kind of focusing on riding, getting the lines good, flowing. After the first fill up I was still feeling good, pushing pretty good. I started feeling some numbness in my feet from the vibration of the bike.

Almost 2 hours in I ran out of gas! I thought I blew the bike up because it was making weird noises and was starting to bog like a blown up bike does. So I started pushing the bike back to the van. My dad ran over with a gas can, though, so I got back riding pretty much right away.

The last hour seemed the longest. There's a lot of thinking going on during a 3 hour ride compared to a 15 minute ride. I guess one of the benefits of all that thinking was that I started thinking about my riding technique more. I was gripping more with my knees, putting my hands in a tennis style grip to reduce blisters, and looking ahead more. I was even trying out a technique of kind of tilting my head to the inside in turns to turn sharper. I think they all helped.

At the end of the ride I was pretty fricken tired. But somehow not as tired as I thought I would be. Maybe I saved some energy by trying to just ride smoothly. Sounds like a positive to me!

As for video, there isn't really anything. In the early part of my ride the clip broke off... (dang tree branches). My dad tried taking some video, but I'm just not gonna use it. Yep, just not gonna use it yet.

See ya! It's almost time for some riding again tomorrow! -Greg

Racine GoPro Fun

Hey everybody!  Here's another video I made.  Looking back, the last video I made was way too monotonous.  So to add some flavor, I got video from a bunch of different angles!  I think this one came out well.  That's probably because I did this instead of my lab report. 



I think that's enough video from Racine... The great outdoors are just around the corner.

See ya! -Greg

What I do on Wednesday nights

Hey everybody! I now finished my first GoPro video after a half a year off! This is about what I do on Wednesdays. No, not the boring stuff, like eat lunch. I'm talking about the more exciting stuff! More exciting stuff can only mean one thing: dirtbiking. So check out this video!

I spent pretty much my whole time at home Thursday making it... So I guess from this you can deduce what I do on Thursdays as well.

This was shot entirely with a GoPro HD Hero 2 camera. I wasn't sure what video quality I should've used, so I just used the default 960p 30 fps. I think it came out awesome!

Watch in HD if you want some HDness.



See ya! -Greg

Upcoming videos

Hola! 
Notice I'm mixing it up a bit with that spanish intro.  There's obviously a reason for that.  Coming in the beginning of this year you'll be seeing some more of my awesome-super-fantastic GoPro videos!  As one might remember,  in the midst of the July heat last year I crashed hard at the Red Bud amateur race following the pro day.  A byproduct of that crash was the loss of my beautiful GoPro.  Sadly, it was never to be seen again...

But I couldn't let all of my millions of followers down.  I bought a new GoPro!  Get ready for some sort-of-high-speed, sort-of-awesomely edited masterpieces coming sometime within the next couple months!  Braaaaap.  My windows movie maker was getting lonely..

-Greg :D

Start of CB 200 project

Hey everybody! All of January was mostly just school for me, but a few things started happening as well. Supercross started and is as crazy as ever. Equally as exciting, my dad and I finally started our CB 200 project!

I have this 1974 CB200T. It's pretty low on power, has pretty much the worst front brake ever, and has a frame as straight as something that's not very straight. Before this so called "winter" started, we said that we would customize this bike over the cold season.

Up until last weekend, we had done nothing. Lazy, I know. But we finally took it all apart. First step: straighten the frame or just get a new frame. I hope it comes out all right.

I've also been riding every Wednesday at the friendly neighborhood indoor motocross track. When my back brake is working normally, it's awesome to ride there. I mean, I gotta work on my scrub somewhere! *cough*

Later. -Greg

Super Duper New Years MX Bonanza: Sunday

Well, this is the end of the super duper new years Mx bonanza. The weather was perfect everyday, including Sunday. Only now when we're driving home did it start raining a little.

I thought I would be tired this morning from staying up past midnight to watch new Year No Limits. Well, I was, but I kind of willed myself to get up. Ok ok... It might've been half an hour after the alarm. But whatever. The night before we actually had a weird adventure trying to figure out how we were going to do laundry. My gear was just a tad super dirty..

First there was no detergent at the hotel. Then the laundromat and supermarket that we drove to just closed. Eventually we got what we needed, so it was all good. If you consider white gear still looking like it got pelted by mud and rocks good..

We got to the track on time this morning. Wheeee. The fog was really bad, too. I had the second moto again, and it was still foggy at that time. Oh well. So here are some results:

250 B moto 2: pretty bad start again. I got past some people, though. Some of the battles were pretty cool. This was the race where me and Shane kind of had a friendly rivalry. He's been living and riding down south now, so our speeds are pretty even now. He may be a little faster, but race conditions were I guess a little more beneficial for me. So I got 17th. That's 18-17 for 17th overall.

450 B moto 2: in this one I tried to start wayyyyy on the outside. I was hoping to just keep it pinned and get around everyone. It didn't quite work out that way.. I almost crashed all by myself in the first turn. Oh, and everybody was already there. Oh well. I then battled a little bit with some guys. I was putting some good pressure on them, so on the second to last lap two guys just pretty much let me by. They must've gotten tired. So I started pushing some more to get away from them. But then I crashed after a step-up leading into a turn. I was pretty surprised by that. My effort was lost.. So I got back up and attempted to ride good again. For some reason my front end was pushing like crazy, though. I found out on the last lap that my front tire was flat. Great. One more crash, cruise to the finish. 12-18 for 16th.

2-stroke moto 2: I win! (by default of being the only guy. Whatever, I still get to say #1). Even though I won, I still had to battle with the guys in the other class on the same gate drop. That didn't end up well because I got stuck behind some guy again. I feel like I should've just stopped and let him go so I could just ride by myself. No bueno.

So that's all folks. This was a pretty good trip. Now we just have to endure the 15 hour drive back home. Hopefully it won't be snowy at home. It's nice not having any snow.

Have a happy 2012! See ya. -Greg