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Ok,

It’s Round #5 of the CCS/SW road racing series this weekend.   To tell the truth I am looking forward to the forced summer vacation.

See I have been racing most every month for the past 9 months.  9 rounds, 11 race days, a number of Track Days, Track Schools, Working Out, Going to Two Wheel Tuesday and much more.    It just has been a ton of motorcycling racing and its time to go street riding and enjoy just hanging out.

Last race weekend my buddy got a bit aggressive and low sided behind me.  That gave me the opportunity to have my first high side.  3 seconds later, I was up running to my bike.  I don’t know what has changed in me, but I wanted to get back on the bike and get back into the race.   That is the first time that has ever happened to me.  The last crash, I just got up and walked away, but this time it was different.  My crash was not my fault, but something external to me.  Lucky for me the bike was damaged and I could not continue that race.

In the pits we put the bike back together again.  Even though it was a bit tweaked and I was hurting a bit, I went out on my next race thinking “Don’t let it slow you down”.  I went out and ran within a second of my best lap times with a bike that was not 100%.   My next race I went and pushed harder though the corners to catch another racer and matched my best times of the weekend, on a bike that the front end was not 100%.

The next Monday, after seeing the doctor to make sure my foot was not broken.  I tore the whole bike apart and arranged for everything to get repaired.  In 3 weeks, I had all my bodywork repaired and primed up, forks taken off and checked (They were 100% straight, just tweaked in the triples).  New rear sets, Tire warmers off for repair (don’t even ask why!!!), new controls ordered, new gearing put in, the bike prepped for the next weekend.

Thursday I will finish some last things and load the bike on the trailer for my last race weekend.  It should be a fun 100+ degree day in the heat.  I will be racing on the fastest track, which is not my best track, attempting to shave 2 to 3 seconds off my best lap times.

…. I don’t know why I put all this effort into racing… but I will look forward to the summer off… That way I can spend the summer obsessing over the next 9 months of racing… I think I need a shrink.