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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 13 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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Let me feel you one story about something, I'll let me tell you
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a story. Something, I like you're gonna
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hit you hard with the Fast and the Furious making mouth Drop
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Like Jordan and Julie stepping on the court.
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Doggone things. Rust get in the store, like
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Bobby DeNiro, don't approach us like nobody liro.
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Leave you looking like a teen or done straw, in your world.
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Like all the launch on wanna know why the gods sent me by
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your belly full on your mind, empty, all sound alike, all bet.
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How many naked girls do you see? I miss her a lot.
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We can't believe. My eyes won't stop rocking to
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The Boat capsized in the holy water.
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Why chunk of his guys? Always go by feel dirty pig sty
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damn big 11 hypnotized soldiers. Welcome back to another edition
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of the be Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45 tonight.
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We have Sergio with this. It's going on man, I'm good man,
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thanks for coming on the show, much appreciative, you know,
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let's try. This is a motorcycle racing
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podcast and we try to you know, bring information to new writers
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and even some folks who have been in for a while but we don't
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claim to can train people how to ride but one of the cool things
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with you, you actually get to Coach people and and train Folks
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up. So let's talk a little bit about
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your motorcycle racing. When did you get into it and
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what kind of race in you're doing and stuff like that?
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And then we'll talk about the coaching aspects of it and and
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training. Yeah, first of all, I started
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riding motorcycles when I was 11.
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Wow, in Italy. Because I live In there and
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obviously I didn't know much about racing.
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I watched racing because in Italy they used to give Racing
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moto GP and everything on regular TV.
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Yeah yeah. So I said watching I always told
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myself I wanted to do that one day, but I didn't think I was
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going to do it anyway. So when I moved to the United
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States, I bought a motorcycle Goal, first thing I did borrow
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more psycho. Then I bought a car and I had a
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friend that said that I asked him to.
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Hey, What Can I Do Track? Huh.
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There's a track in Loudon. You should go try it.
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So I was a friend. Yeah, he's still my friend now
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it's still closed. Yeah, and yeah, I said, I should
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go to loud and there's a, I'm always been a Ducati guy, so, Is
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that this is the kind of event. You should go check it out and I
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did I sign up. Mmm, shut up.
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It was 2007, the first track day that I did and I was with
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penguin racing school. Yeah, so I got in there.
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Remember is everything? You know?
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It is. Everything's new.
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Yeah, I went by myself. Yep.
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And I started doing track days and thanks to penguin racing
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school and the irony is that I became a penguin racing.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Let's go coach. Yeah, yeah.
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So so now did you do like you know years of track days because
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when I like I tell folks I went to technically like Jim
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correcting me cuz I did the penguin school but then I
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started racing. So in theory, I did one track
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day but I just went straight into full-blown.
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On race and and, and that's kind of where, you know, I've gone
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back to getting like a 390 KTM and all this, just to kind of
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fix the things that I learned the wrong way because I didn't
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do track days, like most folks. So, how many years of track
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writing did you do before you started racing?
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Yeah, it was 6 years. I track days.
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Wow, okay. Sadness or 2013, was the first
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year that I started racing. I did a bunch of track days but
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all over North Yep. Green jersey.
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You know? And I liked it but I got to a
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point that was boring, right? Because you can't pass anybody.
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There's no rewards, not trophy, wise more like personal reward,
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right? You just ride it around and I
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remember talking to penguin races School coaches and they
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said yeah you should do it just erasing and 2013.
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I started. So this is my Year.
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Wow, same here, I started in 2013 to on the SV, only did a
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couple of rounds like in June and July and that was it.
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But like 2015, I was like every round and and so, but you had
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all that six years of experience in doing track day.
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So your first race weekend, I guess you can kind of not
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worried about the writing aspect where somebody like myself who
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is trying to still figure out right?
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And because I was worried, I started riding in 2012 and
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started racing in 2013. I mean, I did like 11,000 miles
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on my bike, so I did put a lot of miles in one year, but still
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it like my first lap around. I was kind of like what the hell
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is going on, you know what I'm saying?
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So, you know, how was it like your first time going out and
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erasing, I showed up on two different motorcycles, so I show
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up on a multi-part. Wow, the CRF 450?
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Uh-huh. Clapped-out dirt bike.
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With street tires, basically. Lee and 1991.
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Ducati Supersport 750. Oh wow.
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Okay. No idea.
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You could even race boat and he showed up and everything was
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new. I picked myself outside the
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garage is there infield? Yeah, myself Don't know what to
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do. I just pay attention to the
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announcements and jumped on, but I did good.
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Like you said the writing aspect to me.
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I already I already know how to write, not that.
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I was a professional, but I know I would ride right and
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comfortable changing gears on the under speed, right?
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As me and one other guy that we went back For like first second
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first. I'm so cool.
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And that got me going. Gotcha.
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I was, you know, cuz you going. You going back to personal
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rewards? I didn't race for the trophy.
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It's office was great, right? Race.
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Like I want to get better. Yeah, yep.
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That's what I did. So I like that I got hooked, you
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know, we do at this point is once you start again, but it's,
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yeah, it's it is, it's beyond its, it's like A way of life.
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So in and so in I assume you must have moved up to a mature
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after. So, you know for those that
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don't know at New Hampshire Speedway, the Neymar Ciro's rll
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rll RS series. You start out as a novice where
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a lot of other series you start out as an amateur and then come
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move to an expert. It's just the more technical
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track and it's just safer. Yeah.
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So now did you jump up right away to a mature and And I
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waited, okay, you know, because I wanted to make sure that was
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me. I know it was offer mmm because
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I wanted to make sure that I knew.
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I knew I knew. I did not know how to ride like
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those guys in the expert. Yep.
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Does it go one and two? Take it easy and get better
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before I moved in and the year after happened, I moved by, I
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had happened that in the middle of the season.
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I say, you know what? Let's because, you know, it is
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Loudon. When you start as a novice.
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You get to a point that you you absorb so much knowledge that
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you realize I'm going too fast for these guys.
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I need to go where faster, right?
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Yeah, when you're going up. Gone up there to 324 you look
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over and you see that trailer truck between you and the next
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person. Yeah, it's time to bump.
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So I realized it and I say, all right I'm gonna move up and it
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was a great move, you know. I'm happy that I did that and I
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stay in the amateur for like a year or so before about.you is
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still riding both bikes. Yeah yeah I did the first five
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six years bride in the more tired and the light.
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Lightweight now, GP chiffon on the super sport or regular
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shift. So I had to carry out his GP.
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So that was like, I remember the last year that I decided as I
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can. No, I'm not gonna do this
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anymore. Yeah, it was mostly because I
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used to go out And think that I'm on a motor impairment have
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350 pounds bike, instead of a 200 pounds by and turn one.
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You push it. Try to hit the one board on a
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more tired but you can't do that on a Surface 17 this board.
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So it was it was a decision that I made and what I did is I
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stopped doing Mozart. I'm sorry I stopped doing
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Supersport Loudon and I focus on water.
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I took super sport during the winter down in South.
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Got you like a raise two ccs, right?
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And and so for me, I think 2221 is my first year, right race in
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two separate bikes, the same year, and I had the same issue,
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you know, raising the KTM, I can go and go into a break later.
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Go into a corner later and on our six, yeah, it took me at
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least a half a lap to like alright different bike,
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different breaking Walkers and and sort it out.
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Now 2022, like we have talking off camera.
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I'm probably only going to ride the KTM and maybe do certain
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things with the R6 because it you know in races when you're
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doing the wrong thing you know? It's a difference between a few
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places. Yeah, you did this.
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Hi this. See this year, I decided to do
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the opposite. You're going back.
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Yeah, give up more tired. Yeah.
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Racing at Loudon and I picked up a 848 evil, which is a
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middleweight. So, I'm going to bump into
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Middleweight and try to that Adventure.
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That okay took me 10 years to a middle eight, right?
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And I know it's going to get more childish.
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Yeah I think you kind of I think you'd need it to you do need it
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because like I like my job, I probably should have started out
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on a ninja 400 or 300 instead of even the SV and then I went up,
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you know, 3 Years in, I went up to the the R6 and I've been
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riding. I was riding twins, you know,
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from 2012 up until 2016. So it took me a whole season,
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just to, you know, hit the rev limiter, consistently with on
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the R6, just getting used to, you know, 15,000 RPMs, instead
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of you know, 10,000 11,000 RPMs on the twins.
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Always recommend you start with a small bike.
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You know what Shirley The law of the streets.
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Does not allow you right everybody in the streets once I
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have 1000 so yeah. Just go buy a thousand, maybe
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600 I go. I'm faster on a lightweight
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bike, right? Didn't your 1000 correct?
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Yeah, and so let's let's talk about your shirt, your teaching
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and a penguin because I think I was I did a penguin class.
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I don't maybe it was 2016 or 15, but You know it is you know guys
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you know middle-aged come out on 1002 taking a class in turn one
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you know they break your collarbone and and so you know
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so let's talk about like when you got into racing and maybe
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some of the things you see that that people shouldn't do and
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then you know, things that people should do while you know
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starting out. Yeah.
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I mean you said it first thing is to realize that 1000cc on a
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1.6 mile track. With 12 turns, a one straight
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away might be too much but obviously you can force people
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to buy lightweight for you know, the beginning.
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But our our idea, penguin racing school is to have, have you come
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over look at the track experience the way that you ride
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a track and then hopefully you Turn around and buy a race bike.
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Ride it. Yeah.
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Shut up on the street bike, I show up on that.
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It was an IP Motorhead 1100 are cool.
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I think it was too much for me, that bike is so much.
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And then the next weekend, I went and bought the 750 by was a
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track bike, okay. You know, I knew I was, I didn't
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have to worry about like crash in there.
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So that's really what I would suggest if you, No, you maybe,
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you want to try first and then you into it, just go look for
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track bike. This tons of track bikes there.
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There have to be super, super bikes.
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Because spent 3 Grand 2800, my first bike was twenty hundred
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bucks and just need a tire warmers.
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So you want to go there with your thousand perfectly fine.
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There's nothing wrong. But you did to learn your body
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position you learn how to look forward, you know, looking back
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at cars, you know, looking around you looking forward, any
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writing on correct body position.
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And and learn how to break properly.
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Look at it, move on your motorcycle properly.
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And when I tell every student that I have, I said, listen,
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whatever you learn today. Go back out there in the street
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and apply it, do not stop riding the way that we teach you here.
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You know, the body position applies in the street fighting,
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you're not leaning. I dragging your knees on the
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street by, you still needed that time.
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Upper body position to relax and have the motorcycle under
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control, right. Right, what not to do.
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I will say, it's mostly think that, you know how to ride fast
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on a track. That's repeated.
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That is number one. Definitely we think, hey man,
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I'm the king of the streets. And I show up on a track like I
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said turn one. Yeah, she can control the bike.
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Going down to 30 miles an hour. Yeah, don't do that in the
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streets. Nobody Does it not for long
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periods of time? It's mostly straight up, right?
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You know riding there's not enough turns, you know, I
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remember like when I used to do track these and I go back in the
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streets, I want. Go in and out from the highway.
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Mmm, entrance to practice the practice seconds.
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Yes, guilty guilty. Yes, I saw this, I still ride
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streets. It's not his coming as before,
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right? Yep.
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Same here because I have a street bike, why not?
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But I don't ride the same way that I heard him on the track it
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will be crazy but yeah what not to do is think I'm the King of
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the streets show up. And, you know, the day, it's a
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progressive day. You start learning about a
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position, actually, you started learning how to get into the
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track. Yeah, yes.
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Go to right, way the right way, right directions.
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And then, you know, they learn how to ride the track, you learn
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where the turns are and then you get comfortable with your bike
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on that particular surface, right?
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And, and then you'll learn body position.
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How do I look up and know some people already are skilled.
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They come in. I have seen guys like oh wow,
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you write pretty good, you know, there's always people natural at
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it. Yeah, actually, yeah.
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Well they may have done previous track these in a different
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track. Yep.
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So you know the rules apply but most of the time is gone be ego
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to one of the jump in front of everybody.
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After the second session when we tell you, okay, Three laps you
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follow us and then go and that's what bad things bad.
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You know, bad things happened and and but I luckily you know,
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doing the school events. We never had Billy issues.
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Everybody date the eagle to not to listen to you.
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Never had people ignoring us, you know, they obviously I
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consider myself an expert on that.
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So when Newbies come in. They know what this guy knows
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what he's talking, right? Yeah, better listen.
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Yeah, we have well, we have guys and girls.
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That's the beauty of the sport. I love that a lot of women
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coming over. They ride in the past, I love
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it. Yeah, the the sport is so
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Diversified, you know, you got kids?
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Yes, you can be 1213 start on a track and then girls and boys.
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Sighs man and women. It's finds I love it any.
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Anybody can go racing go race and ride.
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So but I will I will say that. That was the only bad thing.
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Other stuff is have your bike sound safe and sound or it
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mechanically sound? Yeah, most important go through
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your bikes. Yeah, a lot of people really
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Tire pressure all the time. Well, I noticed, yeah, I'd
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friends at the first. It's like, hey man.
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Did you check your tire pressure?
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What you go look at. It's 18, PSI supposed to be 43,
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right? Yeah.
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Not good. That was good.
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They tell you. It feels like hard and it's
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amazing just getting your tire pressure, right?
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It changes how your bike ride and, and If you're a newbie
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first I didn't like car tire pressures.
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I rarely check. I mean, what is it with a set?
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Maybe next summer? I'll check it again.
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Or forms weapon switch switch into tires.
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If I'm doing winter and summer type of thing, but the first
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first year, I didn't check my tire pressure after I had to
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bike and the bike was running weird.
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Another thing is I didn't get the bike setup for my weight.
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Didn't you know? And you know so I was wondering
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why the bike was hitting corners and just running wide on the
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streets and stuff like that. I got the bike setup tire.
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Pressure is It and all of a sudden, the bike is moving like
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a supposed to so, and this tire pressure, ya know, basic.
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Basic maintenance, you know, Libya chain and chink Doyle
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change on your engine. You can do your own oil change.
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You save money because I've seen a lot of things go wrong right
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from Tech. Got you got you penguin school,
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we checked the bikes before we allow him to go on the track.
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During the day, a lot of times you have leaked on fork seal.
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Yep. Yeah, leaks.
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On a bike on a soil filter or you got a chain that is roster
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and tight or you know, both. So those are things that
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important so I was I will suggest you know check your bike
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up and you're tired thread. Don't people do a lot of
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burnouts on the street, you don't want to go to the track
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missing work, you need You need your tires to grip, they do
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definitely. And, you know, let's talk about
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penguin school a little bit because iíve to my knowledge is
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one of the oldest schools for teaching motorcycle racing.
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And, you know, if you up in the Northeast, it's the Friday
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before every round, essentially it's a really good school.
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I mean, you know, the top writers and modem trt kathi hog
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Hobbs. He came out of the school, you
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got other Riders, been glad he came out of school.
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So, it is a, it's an amazing program and very affordable,
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right? I don't want to call out any of
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the other schools out there, but there's some schools out there
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that you, look at the price difference and then you look at
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writers that at making it a motor America, it is it more
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about the instructors and what they give or, you know, you guys
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are just giving a really good big discount at all the prices
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and stuff are all. On the website, everything is
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out there and tracking motorcycle is expensive.
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But like you said, Couple hundred dollars to go on track
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is not that much. No, I will say penguin has been
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great to me since day one when I show up and then you know I
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remember like being like listening to do instructors
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talking to me and I'm thinking I'm in one day want to be one of
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them. Nice.
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I like to teach. Yeah I like I'm that guy that
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will even at work. I like I'm the one who
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volunteers to To teach and somehow good Mentor.
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I think got you management. So I like that penguin the way
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they structure is pretty simple. I mean, it has to be both ways.
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I think Teague ban all these guys.
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They came to from penguin to Modern America.
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They listen, they're not kids at their into this board, so they
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live It's important that you listen and you do what the
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teachers are the coaches. I telling you Talent, 100%, that
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is something that you need and these kids feel less.
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Yeah, I like it. I met.
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I met the both when they were little and all these kids that
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came out of there. They are sponges absorb nice.
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Nice. Hey you have to listen to what
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the coaches said. Apply.
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But really didn't amount of knowledge that not only me as a
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coach like even the class coaches because they have
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individual, they have their own, you know, beginners and
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intermediate rack the coaches. They know a lot, right?
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They experienced AMA Superbike right, right?
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It's a lot of tracks so they know what the bike will do if
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you're in certain situations. And I will say, if you are a
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newbie to show up ask questions, ask a lot of questions might be
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a stupid question, but it could be that question, that triggers
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your brain to be like, oh, okay, putting it all together and
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apart of it together. I'm doing all this and I'm still
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learning doesn't matter. Like you still wanted to go fast
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on the bikes on the I learned like just teeny tiny move on
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your bike. Because your hand is like this
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instead of this. Yeah, the throttle that makes a
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huge difference. And when they remember when I
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was told in the beginning, like, okay.
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And I tried and it clicked. Yep.
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Right there. I was at all and now I can ride
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without my having my arms, like and it the right way, the right
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way. Yeah, even in the street, again,
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we go back when I told my students go back in the street,
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right? The same way that I told you.
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That's how you going to practice.
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Okay. And get better because you know
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one thing with the Northeast it's harder to ride in the
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winter, you know. So let's talk about like
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offseason training and and what does that look like?
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What does that look like for you and what do you suggest a new
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Riders getting into getting into sport?
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I know I we talked about like ice racing with you or ride in
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which you've done so talk a little bit about that.
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And, you know, do you know, do you play other sports or
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recommend folks? You gotta stay active.
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You gotta do something. So, awful.
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Reason I ride the bike. Mainly I do lot of dirt bike.
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Riding weather is Woods or Motocross.
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All right, the bike I do some gym exercise.
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I'm not really big got to go to going to the gym every day to
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get fit, right, right? You prefer just the right,
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right? Yeah.
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Which is those do squads and everything you do everything on
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a motorcycle, especially on the dirt bike is gonna need the full
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body. Mmm.
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So I'm a big writer, you know. Obviously you need to do a lot
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of cardio so I may be bicycle. It could be just simple as
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riding your bicycle around the area.
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I know in the city it's hotter, maybe.
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But I live West from here so it's a lot of space.
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Nice. Yeah.
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Off-road bicycle. That's fine.
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Ice racing is one thing that I do during the winter.
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Obviously, we need to have Ice. So the temperature needs to
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cooperate with us, right? The whether that's a great way
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to learn how to handle the bike and sliding situations, which
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mostly happens when you write in a wet, right?
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But even in the dry at, I will lose some of the terms.
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You lose a tire and if it does step out a little bit, you
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already prepared, you know what the reaction is?
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Of that bike. So you stay in control.
28:10
So, again, it's not only, the riding is just the type of
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writing that you do. So, if you do dirt bike, Lou,
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learn how to stay up. You're standing up a lot, right?
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You're not using the legs a lot. That's what we're racing using
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our legs to control the bike. And Do that a lot.
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Stay active diet, relatively. Okay, I will suggest, but I'm a
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guy that likes to eat pretty much everything, but there's
28:46
certain things that I stay away from Allah, I don't starve
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myself to death, got you but you know, I don't want to eat fried
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stuff very day, I guess. Yeah, I think it does help once
29:03
you've been doing it for a little while.
29:05
Cuz now you know what it takes for your body to kind of get
29:08
through whatever season, you're trying to get through.
29:10
Because I remember I think 2015 like I was pulling out of races
29:13
because I wasn't fit and and that was the after that season
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was like, okay I need to train like I'm running a marathon or
29:20
something and once you get once you can get your body to a
29:23
certain point. Obviously once you start racing
29:25
that kind of deplete because you don't have the same time off as
29:29
if the offseason, so, you know, so for long for people who have
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been riding for a little bit longer, it's easier to get
29:35
Regimen. But you do need some type of
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regiment. Absolutely.
29:38
I've gone to a supermarket by walking just because, you know
29:43
me. It's just a, just, an exercise
29:45
in two miles. All right, let's walk man.
29:48
It might sound stupid. But like, instead of using a car
29:52
and get some motion, some kind of exercise in you and stay fit.
29:58
You, you mention of all, if you do any other sport I used to
30:01
play soccer a lot. Okay.
30:03
Yeah. And But I think I got more hurt
30:08
playing soccer than motorcycle racing, so I kind of stopped.
30:12
Yeah, that was a great. Great witness would probably
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stay in shape. Yeah, she's running all the time
30:17
using my cardio is like the best.
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Yeah, I used to play basketball, too, and I had to put a like, I
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think it's 2017, not every time, I'm like, I'm gonna hurt myself
30:26
doing this, and I can't go racing.
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And, and so, I stopped II cycle a lot and then just do do
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workouts and stuff like that. Um, I don't get to ride as much
30:37
as I like in the winter but hopefully, that'll change next
30:39
year. The last thing I do is
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snowboarding. Okay, great.
30:44
Great legs. Yep.
30:46
Workout little bit of everything but mostly your legs.
30:50
So but again, don't go too fast because you can get really hurt
30:54
and snowboarding. Look at you catchy.
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That's true. I always, I'm always cautious
31:01
but I think I'm snowboarding fight.
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Can I do this jump? Stay away from that.
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Yeah, it's gonna you thinking I had this.
31:10
Like, if you get hurt, you gotta be kind of smart.
31:14
I love it. Yeah, you know, this year,
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whether up here has been little bit, not so wintry, but we had
31:23
enough snow that I know, but every two weeks, I'll go
31:27
snowboard every week. Depends, got you now.
31:31
And now a new ride is any goals. They What kind of goals should
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New Riders set for themselves as they say?
31:39
Okay, I did one season I did to season, this is something I want
31:42
to do, what kind of goals would you recommend to set when they
31:46
start to get out whether at that point if they still novice or an
31:49
amateur goals racing wise? You always I set goals not only
31:58
on the lap time, right? We go.
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You know, if you did it that's a minute 40, the first Time, you
32:05
want to do it, 38, you know, but the goals are asked to be like
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body position. Hmm.
32:18
Maybe goals, also on, I'm going to commit to do certain track
32:23
days or certain events that will help me improve because
32:28
motorcycle racing or writing if you're not riding, you know,
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practice it right? You need seat.
32:35
Time. And so the goal should be to
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ride. Now, it should be a first goal,
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I want to do, so check the schedule.
32:43
So whether it's you know, any tracks, you know, try to write
32:48
as much as possible and apply those rules to the street as
32:52
well. If you keep writing as well, say
32:54
Goals will be how many times you gotta write this here and a
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specific thing that you working on.
33:02
So I remember when I started, I wanted to learn by body position
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so good bad because go to bed, what happens because It's I
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think that's the fundamental. You can ride a motorcycle unless
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you sitting on the proper way. Correct.
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I agree. And I knew it's easy to do this
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on a straightaway, but it's hard to do this on a turn, if you're
33:26
not properly sitting on a bike. So I will set goals like body
33:31
position. Or when I learned that practice
33:34
practice, practice, that's huge, and other goals.
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I mean, if Yuan I usually raised against me all the time.
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Okay. I want to beat me dad.
33:51
You 10 minutes ago? Yeah.
33:54
Because you go to a track and I'll always look at the previous
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races. What did I do for time?
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Right? Shave.
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Even half second tent of us and we're, you know what?
34:06
I did great that's to me and then if the podium comes, it
34:10
comes by itself because Was you why didn't you doing everything
34:15
everything? Right, right.
34:17
That's what I will say nice, nice.
34:19
Now, I didn't, I didn't. So one of the things I want to
34:22
talk about which all are how size.
34:24
The first time I saw this was with you, I think it's down and
34:27
CMP it to me. It's like I never quit attitude
34:32
because I think you either back-to-back races and those are
34:35
a red flag. Neither you exhaustive kind of
34:37
come apart or your shift. They had broken and your sweat
34:40
and gear on and your and you're doing everything to get the bike
34:44
to get back out and race and me out of my bike in the trailer
34:49
and drove back to Boston. I like how does that?
34:52
And I feel like I developed a little bit after seeing that and
34:54
seeing other people that do it because at times you're not just
34:57
fighting yourself trying to be the better.
34:59
You, your fight in whatever situation and not letting that
35:03
like mess up your mood if up your mood, right?
35:06
Absolutely. So, going back when I started, I
35:11
did have That attitude that it's broken.
35:16
That say I'm done. Yeah, and I developed that by
35:21
looking at others but also myself, I kept saying why give
35:24
up the first thing is it don't give up.
35:28
You've seen, if you go on YouTube, you watch every race.
35:31
This race is when the guy on the first turn goes down his last.
35:36
He wins that the race? Yes, yes.
35:39
You never give up, and we know this in life, that's how we
35:44
should think. So, I have the same mentality.
35:46
Positive mentality, never give up and try your best to do it,
35:52
right? And no matter how uncomfortable
35:54
you are, because you are sweating bricks.
35:57
I was in a suit, on a 180 degrees.
36:00
Yeah. And and I had a back-to-back
36:03
race in my shift. Lever fell like, broke in half.
36:07
So, I was scrambling looking for the ship.
36:09
Clever. And then finally install it man.
36:13
I remember making it right at the last call and showed up and
36:21
my have got Podium because that weekend I had quite a few
36:24
Podium. Yeah.
36:25
So I remember was first second and third but I had a and to me
36:30
that goes back. What I said you race against
36:32
yourself? Yeah, no doubt it.
36:34
Like, oh my God, I did everything that I could, I never
36:38
give up in this. Is why even if I would have
36:41
finished 10th, I'll be like finish that.
36:43
Yeah, because if you don't show up, you would have finished
36:46
last. And I'll say that in Daytona.
36:50
I was sick as a dog and I wasn't going to raise and I went out
36:53
and say let me just see what happens and I finished second in
36:56
the race and, and I'm just, and it was, I was debating.
36:59
Not even racing because how bad I felt.
37:01
So you just learn that. And now, it seems like I'm going
37:04
out any condition I'm going out. It is, you know, if you can get
37:07
the bike back on now, like I'm changing radio.
37:09
A tourism doing things that once upon a time, I'll just put the
37:12
bike back in the trailer and call it.
37:15
Absolutely, I have that mentality and do not give up.
37:21
I tell newbies, I tell other Racers, we help but you know how
37:27
we are at the track. We all like, friends family
37:30
Brothers. Yes, altogether.
37:33
I live. I like that.
37:35
We help each other. You know, I've seen My
37:41
situation. I had, you know, crashes that
37:48
put my bike glitter twisted, and I had to straighten it out in
37:52
between races, to go to be able to go out there and race and win
37:58
podiums know. So yeah, never give up.
38:02
The sport is a mental sport. We know this is like if you're
38:08
good with your Mind your race better that if you start
38:12
thinking about a lot of things, oh my God.
38:14
Something's going to go wrong, right?
38:17
So it's very mental. I train my brain a lot, I like
38:22
that. Okay, I like that.
38:24
That was part of the training, I didn't mention before, but
38:27
that's, that's, you need to be positive thinking.
38:31
Positive, there's no negativity. Negativity will hurt you.
38:36
Yeah. You won't start or plotted a
38:38
race or because It starts to creep in.
38:40
Once it starts to Bubble Up pile up pylon.
38:43
It's like, all right. I'm putting early.
38:45
Yeah. Like so, yeah, definitely
38:48
positivity is the way to go. I had just have you for a little
38:51
bit. I do want to talk about a couple
38:53
of things. We talk about the classic at the
38:55
end, but I want to talk about this series that you have, let's
38:58
tell folks the name of the series, how they can connect
39:00
with it. Like while you're doing it
39:02
because it seems like there's a lot of young kids, which it's
39:05
awesome because it's good for the community.
39:08
So let's talk about you. Mini series that you have going
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on. Yeah, so they series is called
39:13
them racing stands for New England minamoto, it's a series
39:19
that goes from five classes from kids as young as three years old
39:27
to adults on full, super motorbike.
39:33
Wherever doesn't know what Supermoto is.
39:35
Basically a dirt bike with street tires and we do to Says,
39:39
we do asphalt only race and we do asphalt and dirt.
39:44
So you do a crossover from a spot to the dirt section which
39:48
is mostly like a Motocross jumps.
39:51
Okay. Tabletops, whoops, sometimes and
39:56
the Slicks, no heart, no problem on dirt.
39:58
Yeah, no problem. You have to have a slicks.
40:00
So I took over about two years ago, this series, I loved it
40:04
because I was in a serious and also I have kids at a race and
40:09
they I started three year three and a half years old.
40:13
They love it too. So I had a chance to take over
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and I did it's most of the races are located in Maine.
40:25
Okay, small village called Parson field mean, but every
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information is on our website www.omf.co.nz emm racing.com
40:39
Facebook, Instagram. Same name name, name racing, so
40:45
you can see, even pictures videos.
40:49
What, what is about? Right?
40:51
Community family-oriented. Nice mostly my goal is an
40:59
advocate of the sport and I what I mean is like if I can get kids
41:04
involved from the young age to motorcycle racing, I know
41:09
there's a lot. A lot of families that they do
41:13
Motocross. Yeah, but there's not a lot of
41:16
Supermoto around in the Supermoto is like a crossover
41:19
between Motocross and road racing, right?
41:23
So it so be great for eventually kids that wanted to do road
41:28
racing and Further forward will be a more America.
41:34
I know. Hmm.
41:36
So I decided to take over have kids between the age of 13 and
41:42
12, okay? And, and they have their own
41:46
class, obviously, if the meaning Moto a doll, okay?
41:54
But they have to be at that level skill level, and maybe a
41:57
Georgia skill level, believe me, this kids that are fast.
42:01
That's a grown up. You know what their kids that
42:04
they help each other, okay. So if Mike is they'll help them.
42:09
Teach him how to get into the track.
42:11
Get out of the track, do a turn. You know, I've seen that that
42:15
happened because they're too young to sit on a table, right
42:20
into an adult. Would say that's true.
42:22
You need to do this and I still much too much.
42:25
So I let them ride mostly and no, I don't, I do not charge for
42:29
kids. Okay.
42:30
Wow, that's Pretty cool membership fee they would have
42:33
to pay, but once you enter membership it's 53 dollars for
42:40
the year. Oh, that's not bad at all.
42:42
Yeah that's not bad. And and camping is available so
42:45
it does at a two-day event. It's usually a two day event and
42:49
you can bring your family, a camper, there's enough space for
42:53
campers, bring your own generator, okay?
42:57
And usually we do I said we don't charge kids so the pay or
43:05
the cost for the race will go from The Young Guns.
43:11
We use a faster kids on a big bikes.
43:13
Okay, bikes me 150. Okay, yep.
43:17
And then there's a mini model for adults and then there's a
43:22
mature cost for big bikes. Okay, to 50 or 51 super?
43:27
Super motorbikes? Yeah, and then we have a pro
43:29
class, which is a tooth 50 light and a 450 or open class open
43:35
bro. Nice fun.
43:38
Nothing crazy. As far as like rules or
43:41
regulations. And what I mean is you know you
43:44
have to have a name a membership to be able to raise, right our
43:49
membership and then you pay for the race and then usually get a
43:53
practice sometimes, I do to practice depending on the time,
43:58
the practice that heat race and animated.
44:00
Event. I mean, it takes the whole day.
44:03
Wow, sounds like quick. Right, right.
44:06
But I think sold a and you could raise two races to classes for
44:12
$100, okay.