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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 05 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Welcome to another edition of the be forever.
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  Cool podcast. My name is Rex 45.
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  I'm with TJ from two wheels and coffee.
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  We're here again, man. On, I Believe episode 5 here of
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  race. Life-track life is to beginning
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  stages and get everybody in tune, you know, see what it's
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  like to get on the track. There's good to try it out,
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  telling you. I was told so many years to try
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  it out and I finally did and I'm addicted.
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  So we're on the fifth episode now it's getting you guys ready?
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  Yeah, for sure for sure. So, I mean yeah, this is year
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  three for you. Yeah, you know, I mean we got a
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  few things we want to talk about before we really talk about, if
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  the plans for for 2023 but we, you know, we We have talked
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  about a lot in the last few episodes and episodes come out
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  every Wednesday at midnight. Oh, actually Tuesday night at
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  midnight, which is Wednesday morning, you know what I mean?
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  So definitely definitely keep checking that out.
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  And thanks everyone that's been given us such crazy feedback.
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  I mean, I would we, you know, when we started this thing and,
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  you know, we just like, alright we'll put it out and see what
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  happens and it's been pretty, pretty, pretty crazy so far, but
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  yeah, you know. Definitely check out other
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  episodes in this one. Really going to talk about, you
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  know, how do you know your bike is ready for the track, right?
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  And and and and and how do you get through tech tech is the way
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  to get to the track. Obviously, by this point, you
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  know, you're even if you subtract that, you have to go
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  through tech and and track Day rules are a little bit different
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  then then then race rules. So, you know, you've read the
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  manual, you've got to the section where it tells the Rules
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  book rule book. You've got to the section will
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  tell you you need to you by quiet.
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  I and and talk about your process of when you were getting
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  all your bike was already, why'd I have to worry about that.
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  But we have we you have a friend, we have a friend, Josh
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  and and we had to get his bike Wyatt I and I'll safety why I
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  should say white eyes, not the right word at all.
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  Yeah they get the get the right drills and drove To put some
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  holes into some, some caliper bolts and the oil drain plug.
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  The other on the rear brake. Yeah.
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  Brake caliper brake calipers. Every bike may be a little
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  different because I my KTM rc390 I only have two safety wire.
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  Just one side, just based on how to axle is on a front.
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  So Bike is going to be a little bit different, but the rulebook
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  is going to point that out and, and the folks at Tech Will point
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  that out how many drill bits did you go through?
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  Yeah. Well, I should ask Josh, but,
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  you know, maybe maybe like three packs.
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  Probably. Yeah, you know, I think I went
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  through, at least for the whole bike for the whole bike.
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  I think I went, I went to like 15 that's probably just, you
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  know, too much strength. Yeah.
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  But they're, you know, they're brittle.
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  The one of the smallest bits, you can get you talking about
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  like your drain plug bolt, your caliper bolts, you know, your
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  axle bolt and these are all important things.
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  So, these are all things that can come loose while on the bike
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  and whether it's the, if you should drain, plug is not a good
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  look. It was an axle, not a good look
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  break, not a good look, if you if these things ain't working so
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  they make sure that you know these components are wired
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  safely. So That way they don't turn.
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  So they don't come out, even if they lose they won't they won't.
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  Come on, come off. I must say that.
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  It's so fun to get to the track, but when it comes to this part,
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  it's probably one of the most annoying, tedious things that
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  you gotta get yourself ready for?
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  Yeah. Yeah, find the right person.
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  Also, you will need a vise to hold some bolts in place, you
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  know, and you know, there are companies out there and there.
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  Folks that manufacture bolts are depending on your bike.
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  I mean, if it's an RS6, only the 600's, chances are, you can
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  probably buy the boats already pre-drilled.
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  I did that on my second bike most of the bolts so that way
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  that is, you know, a small money but you're not matching up your
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  knuckles, you know. It's just you know, when you
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  break would you bring you break five bits and you got to build a
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  bit stuck. Two quarters of the way through
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  And you gotta go find a needle, you know, they'll try to bang
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  this thing out, you know. It can be a long day and
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  especially if it's your first time.
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  Oh, yeah, it's gonna be a long day.
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  It was a long day when we was doing it and we just in the
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  backyard with you, and be there for like three, four hours just
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  doing like Justified calipers, I think ya know, it's a learning
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  process and you know, at the end of the day like we have said in
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  previous episodes It's kind of worth going through it and do
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  Yourself even though so you're gonna bust up your knuckles,
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  you're gonna be mad you know you know, grab some ice, grab some
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  something to drink, not too crazy and and just you know have
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  some friends around. I can take turns if possible.
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  Yeah we're good thing. Is I appreciate you when you
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  when you use their like you didn't do it for him.
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  Right right. Yep.
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  Use like this is how it's done. Take this and you do it
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  yourself. So it's a good thing to do to
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  learn for the future and help the new guys coming on, oh, for
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  sure. And and and and I you and I you
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  can Undo it. I mean, I had to I had to do as
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  well. And, you know, it's, it's ugly
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  and, and like I said, for my second build.
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  I yeah, I bought most of my bolts.
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  I'm not going to let it go, but the cool thing is they are folks
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  out there. Now, not now always does machine
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  guys that are doing this stuff for.
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  So if you have, if you have a certain bike, that's not in
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  that, don't fit in the normal category you can reach out to
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  somebody a, you might pay a little bit more for because it's
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  a one-off. But, you know, you don't, you
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  don't have to bust your knuckles up.
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  But if you do, you know anything is like once you figure it out
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  and blend stuff like that, like it gets easier but, you know,
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  and again, if you can be one of these people that just do it
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  right, the first time, God bless you, it'll say that's that.
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  You know, that's not me by any stretch of the imagination.
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  So definitely make sure you know, your bike is safety wire.
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  So you know, you going to drill holes through your bolts and
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  then you're going to get this tool.
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  That that helps you you know, especially spool the wire
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  together and and you'll see there's examples on in these
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  rule books as well and stuff like that and this people that
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  you can ask and stuff like that and you know there's you know
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  certain certain tracks will allow you to use like certain
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  like pins instead of safety wire.
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  So you know, depending on on the pins a great night.
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  Now I suggest instead track depending on whatever Club
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  you're going to, you may not have to use the wire.
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  You can just get you know. Sighs pins and and or pin and
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  wire, and, you know, and, you know, and if you want to spend
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  money, they got these, you know, cool.
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  You know, quick release kits and stuff like that.
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  To take your front wheels off and stuff.
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  So now that's a whole different ballgame, but what I see yall
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  ever all the guys are like, yeah.
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  You need the quick release, this and like man, I'm just I'm just
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  getting my feet wet. Just that's you know that's
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  gonna come. Yeah.
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  Now it's man that's the biggest part 8.
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  Like there's this Is all the stuff to make your life easy
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  costs a lot of money so you end up just doing it the the, the
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  poor persons way cuz you gotta, you know, you gotta you gotta
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  pay for races at the end of the day.
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  Yeah, you know, it's great that you, you know, you got all the
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  latest things on your bike, but if you can't pay for races and
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  you just talking about how great your bike is, so, you know, you
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  got to pick and choose your battles.
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  Yeah, that's, that's tough. So yeah, safety wire is very
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  important and then when you go to Tech, you know, the make sure
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  your brake pads, good. Check your brakes, make sure
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  there's no leaks for sure. Yeah, that's most important and
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  yeah, and you know, that's one of the biggest thing is leaks a
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  lot of folks. I've seen folks forget their,
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  you know, Titan drain plugs the oil drain plug and check for
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  leaks, you know, I I belong time, I just kind of just
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  changed my oil change, you know, brake fluid that, you know,
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  Engine Ice and and that was it for a long time.
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  This last last year, was very challenging.
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  I had a lot of bike issues and a lot of things probably could
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  have been avoided if I just gave my bike to once-over.
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  Yeah, I've noticed that. So try to slowly keep up with
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  the Process keeping the oil changes that, you know, there's
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  some guys that change their oil every time they go to the track
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  for sure and onami Races, they be running but just keeping the
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  bike fresh. And you know, I got a friend,
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  you know, Jim who always clean his parched taking his bike
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  apart. Polishing them down.
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  Yeah, I'm we're gonna, we're gonna try to get Jim on the show
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  because, you know, I was thinking about this earlier
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  today and he's like the perfect person to get on the show
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  because he's very This and I can't explain it like, like he
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  can't and, and it and it just, you know, he made, he made a
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  very good point to me. It's like, you know, you doing
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  all this, you working all this, you're using your time and and
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  and it's like you're gonna travel A Thousand Miles and come
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  to the racetrack and can't race because you didn't look over
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  your bike. Yeah.
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  You know, where's the smart in that essentially, and that
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  figure that out too. Because it's like, yeah, it's
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  like, oh, I can trace on. This is kind of like, you know,
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  you just spent, you know, five, six, seven.
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  Just a hundred dollars depending on where you coming from last
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  year. Gas was crazy.
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  So you know, every trip was was a grip easily speaker of my
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  friend, Josh, excuse me. He hasn't raced in a while and
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  when he went out there after like having a year off, he did a
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  couple laps and then he came back like his belly payments,
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  full of water, I mean oil. Yeah.
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  And we're just like what was going on so the problem was that
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  is oil. Washer was basically bent up
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  ever. Right.
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  And it wasn't like that before. You know, he put the bike away a
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  year ago so it had to be ran to figure that out like really hard
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  but you always got to check bike.
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  Yep. Always, every race you look
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  through it. It's good to clean it.
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  All the parts off that you can so that to.
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  And and, you know, keep in mind after you do all these things to
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  your bike. You're going to go to Tech and
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  Tech is going to find something, not always, but they're gonna
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  be, like, you gotta do this thing right here.
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  Oh, they got me. Did the safety wire?
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  My front brake calipers and it was like not in a straight
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  tight. My name is like a little you.
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  He was like huh? Yeah.
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  You might want to do these over. I'ma let you pass but yeah,
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  change those up. Got to think.
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  Yeah, and keeping my tech is theater.
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  Keep you guys keep us safe. At the end of the day, keep us
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  from harming ourselves and and, and, you know, I've come to
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  just, you know, except you know, you had no choice really either
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  have a good attitude when you go through Tech or you don't and
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  It's just better to have a good attitude because if they don't
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  give you that sticker, you're not going on track.
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  You always walk by tacking is like bikes leaning against the
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  wall. Yeah.
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  They do people that go fix stuff before they go out on the track
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  and again, it was for our own safety.
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  I didn't today us our safety and others and so, you know, there's
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  nothing wrong with tech, you know, it got somebody, send you
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  back, make sure you bring tools with you because you may have to
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  tighten something up or change something depending on, you
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  know, you know what you have. I mean, if you have a friend
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  that that that's good or you have resources of folks that
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  can, you know that I'm sure there's garages or race shops
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  that was, they'll set your bike up for you, probably.
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  I've always say even then give it a once-over.
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  It's your bike, you know what I mean?
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  But, you know, it's all right. There's the, you know, there's
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  enough time generally. There's people there that will
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  help you if you're struggling, you know, if you got to come
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  back and do something to your bike, you know.
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  The rules of are, you know? But I've seen you.
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  I've seen people use like turkey pans for the belly pans.
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  Right? You know, so you know you don't
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  you don't necessarily have to have the latest and greatest.
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  Oh yeah, you do do need the underbelly.
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  Yeah. Like the street bikes, they
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  don't come with that so they do need that.
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  And yeah, it's a, it's fun. You gotta get out there.
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  It is a ball. So yeah.
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  So you know you have your Like safety wire you've gone through
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  Tech and now this is going to be that you got to do this.
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  Regardless if you're doing a track day regardless, if you
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  don't a classroom or you're going racing, he I can see a
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  bike tech and and then you pretty much, you're ready.
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  If you are, if you, you know, if you're a fast guy, you may want,
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  you know, slicks with or you know what dlts we would Tire
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  warmers, if you're slow person, you can run your street tires
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  with no tires. - so on that when I first got to the track I was
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  on street tires. So I didn't know when it was
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  right to go to slicks so this is just as long as you can keep
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  heat in the tires, keep a good pace which I realized my lap
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  times were pretty consistent even when I was running slower
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  times. So then I decided to run the
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  Slicks and may I tell you that once I got used to those my time
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  drop dramatically. So yeah.
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  And then yeah. So I start off with
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  bridgestone's with no one really Rain Bridgestone tires.
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  Not not, not not allowed, in not allowed, not allowed.
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  We don't, we don't have it, there's not a Bridgestone guy of
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  person that Loudon. And that's the biggest problem,
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  but they, they are they held up pretty well.
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  I didn't have really any slippage or anything like that
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  but the following year switch to Pirelli and getting used to
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  those tires. So it's good to try different
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  brands but tires are expensive. So, there's a lot of guys that
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  give away takeoffs first money or, you know, you can find
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  friends who can lend you some tires just to use that your
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  pace, you know, right? Right.
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  Yeah. And when you first starting out,
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  if you go to slicks, definitely it does get expensive when I
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  first started out. Yeah.
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  I ran street tires and I kind of went through into a few
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  different brands and I first started out I was on dunlop's.
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  And then I went to Pirelli, I went to Mitchell in Winter
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  Bridgestone, went back to Mitchell in and you know and I
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  might even go to Pirelli next this year.
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  I'm on the fence, we'll stick with with Mitchell in.
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  Like bridgestone's, the Mitchell ins is similar to the
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  bridgestone's and they gave me a really good feel.
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  And my bridge, my mission is now like you know I know when
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  they're done when they're not done, they work well and and you
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  know you know it's easy to say that you know, right now on the
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  mic about obviously, you know, temperature outside and all that
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  stuff, plays a part in it. But you know, for a rider that,
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  you know, if you can't generate heat in your tires, you know the
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  Michelin works really well. The Bridgestone worked really
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  well. Especially you First starting
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  out. So, yeah, so that's the way.
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  It's good to take a notebook and I didn't, I never realized, I
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  know what it, what it understood to like, keep hitting you tires.
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  Like, yeah, you could drive ride fast or you want, but it also
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  depends on the temperature. I went out there on a, on a
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  colder day and I ran the same temperatures and the tires are
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  usually run. And I came back and my PC.
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  I was a, it was higher. Yeah.
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  Lower. So, you know, I wasn't running
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  enough heat in the tires. I think your PSI, yes, I wasn't
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  running enough heat in the tires.
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  So exactly and that's going to come with what when you're when
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  you're quick, you know what I mean?
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  When you're first out there, you're figuring out body
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  position. You're trying to figure out what
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  a break will be our trigger. Your braking marker is to try
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  and figure out where your line is.
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  So, you know, you know, you first out there for the first
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  Year it's just really learning, you know.
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  So you don't really you don't really have to worry about the
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  tire warmers and and and that kind of thing.
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  Now if you're a fast guy and a gal and if you know if you were
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  if whether it's your first time out there, where you came from,
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  you know Dirt Bike World or whatever the kill street, riding
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  aggressive street, riding or whatever the case may be you may
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  automatically just be fast on the track.
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  Yeah you got to make sure the tires wrong because my first
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  time on the track with the 400 I didn't have time.
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  A industry ties, right? And I fell in turn one day and I
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  asked, everybody what did I do wrong and they said that cold
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  tires. Well, I mean but you think about
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  it, it's right. When you're on the street with
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  street tires, and you go ride and and you guys stop to put gas
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  or the chill out, or whatever and go back and go ripping
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  again, they hold right. Yes, that's the street, right?
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  So, you know. Yeah they do hold, you know what
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  I mean? It a they do hold.
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  I mean I think you know, cold tires can play a part in it but
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  body position you first out there You know what I mean?
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  Yeah. You know.
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  He again, it depends on how much knowledge you have if, for me, I
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  had no knowledge. So everything was new.
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  Every feeling every sensation every gear was was, was was just
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  kind of like what's going on the bike lane to over, you know,
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  wait on on, on, on on on my core and and all that, that, that was
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  all. Relax in my arms and and all
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  that that took a while. I mean, now it's I can just, you
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  know, I just have enough just enough to hold again, bottle
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  full open, and I can relax. But that all that all takes
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  time. Takes a lot of see time, you
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  know. So, you know, definitely -
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  trying to say, don't worry about Taiwan as right now, but we
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  first thought it is so much that you know, when you'll know so
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  much to take in you definitely know.
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  You don't forget to take step. Step and you know, every lap
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  that you go around, you can't like rewind so you have to go
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  around, do it again, right? And there's no way you get it
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  right? Yeah.
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  And and you know, listen you doing the same thing over and
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  over and over. If you're if you're going down
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  the racetrack, if you're on a racetrack and you doing
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  something different every time, yeah you're not you're not
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  riding a bike the right way. You're not riding the right way.
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  It's all about, you know, just you break-in at the same point.
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  Trying to take the same lines. Obviously if there's bike on the
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  tracks in front of you you can't ride you align that so you make
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  you make those adjustments for sure.
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  But you know at the end of the day you know you're you're
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  trying to be consistent and the more consistent you are the
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  faster you're going to become If they just fall asleep, all your
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  friends. I got a couple guys that always
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  follow Sam and Mike couple of the other guys out there that I
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  would try to run the same Pace. They're faster than me, but I
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  learned a lot. Yes always.
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  Go out there and watching the corners for all of us.
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  People used to Gary's with break.
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  Yeah. And even if you don't have a
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  friend, someone to see you out there, I was in NC bike and and
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  and I was out, I was like, only two bikes out and I wanted to
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  guys out Competing within the in the as our series.
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  You know, you know he's tapped on the back of the bike back of
• 20:26
  his tail and tell me to follow them for a couple of laps and
• 20:29
  just to kind of show me how much more cloudmom much quicker.
• 20:31
  I can go. So even if you don't have a
• 20:33
  friend, there's it's you going to somebody's going to friend.
• 20:36
  You are gonna adopt you and be like, yeah, come on, let me come
• 20:40
  on. I can show you how much cooker
• 20:42
  you can go and that's the cool part about the track, right?
• 20:45
  It is like, you know, people will help you become better.
• 20:50
  And go compete against you. They're not gonna wish you any
• 20:52
  ill will or not to my knowledge. I haven't had that experience.
• 20:55
  I mean I've had some some stuff that I I wonder you know, what
• 21:01
  people were doing, but you know, that's that, you know, when when
• 21:05
  it's when it's the end of the season and and you know, some
• 21:08
  people might be more competitive in our lives and writers, help
• 21:10
  out other writers and I'll just leave it there in season two
• 21:15
  double points. Come around, gets colder and
• 21:18
  right. Yeah, so I you know say yes it
• 21:21
  is those folks out there that will help us get better.
• 21:26
  There's a lot of stuff on the track to think about when you're
• 21:29
  out there and you know which, which just got to have the bike,
• 21:35
  right? Yeah.
• 21:37
  Now the bike right? And you have the fun out there
• 21:42
  so once you get through Tech is Game Boy.
• 21:45
  Yeah, pretty much pretty much get your mind right?
• 21:48
  And, you know, it chip. Case, you'll find someone out
• 21:51
  there that you can follow me to paste.
• 21:54
  But it's all your and breaking markers and that's at every
• 21:59
  corner. It's like, you gotta have
• 22:02
  something that, you know, when you're about to break like that,
• 22:04
  you know, and, and can you talk a little bit about breaking
• 22:07
  markers a little bit more because it's sometimes, it's not
• 22:10
  as obvious, right? Yeah.
• 22:11
  So, I'm still new in the game, you know?
• 22:13
  So I'm not talking like a man, no profession or anything like
• 22:17
  that, but I realized you break it, markets change.
• 22:20
  You go faster you know so like when you get out there you you
• 22:24
  might find you might break a life for three, right, right.
• 22:27
  Yeah. And when he says for three, you
• 22:29
  know, like tracks, you'll see like a full Board.
• 22:33
  Number three, border-to-border, one board type of thing like
• 22:35
  that. Sometimes there's cracks on the
• 22:37
  ground, sometimes it's the paint changing.
• 22:41
  Sometimes it's the bleachers. It's whatever.
• 22:43
  You're breaking markers is whatever works for you, so that
• 22:47
  way you break and hit the Apex, and come off.
• 22:49
  It works. It's all about hitting a pack.
• 22:51
  So you got to have something to look at your, you stay focussed
• 22:55
  on the track. Now I'll test.
• 22:57
  Yeah. Solid, but yeah, it's very
• 23:00
  important to get your break and Marcus down and and these are
• 23:03
  in. That's what you do in practice,
• 23:04
  right? When you go out there for the
• 23:05
  practice sessions, I mean, you know, like I did a lot of new
• 23:07
  tracks in 2021 and so you know that's that's no excuse at the
• 23:13
  end the day you just go out there and try to, you know, You
• 23:18
  just try to find your point and you look and you push and you
• 23:22
  know as they have to add has this told me in school and
• 23:26
  probably you as well you know it's I lost my my train of
• 23:33
  thought oh man I had something is it was it was it, you know
• 23:38
  well I mean when you go around the track you know you got to
• 23:41
  get your break markets down because you go if you're flexing
• 23:44
  the bike, right? You want to stop, you don't want
• 23:46
  to crash so. Breaking is very important and
• 23:50
  then your body position. I think comes after then once
• 23:54
  you get those two down and then you can start moving a little
• 23:57
  faster and then your markets change again.
• 24:00
  But you gotta keep going around to to get that muscle memory of
• 24:04
  where you're shifting over. You got to try to stay it,
• 24:07
  softer front handlebars as possible.
• 24:10
  Right? So no Brian put yeah, so yeah.
• 24:14
  So and you know, so lots of classes, lots of practice
• 24:17
  sessions. Ins and I got so far as far as I
• 24:20
  am, is an immature. Yeah.
• 24:22
  Same here. You know, but, you know, you
• 24:25
  have to take classes, you know what I mean?
• 24:27
  It's, you know, we're I've taken a few of the penguin School
• 24:31
  classes and I'm planning to do some more stuff and I've done
• 24:34
  some online stuff. You know, a lot of people put a
• 24:37
  lot of, a lot of hours into training a lot of hours in the
• 24:40
  classroom time as well. So if you wanted these riders
• 24:44
  that can just you know, jump out there and just be automatically
• 24:47
  fast. Awesome.
• 24:49
  But, you know, there's a lot of, you know, it's like any other
• 24:51
  sport if you playing basketball and you're not the shooting jump
• 24:55
  shots, you're not practicing your dribble, you're not
• 24:56
  passing, you're practicing your past and you know, it is what it
• 25:00
  is and and kind of the same thing, the beautiful thing.
• 25:04
  If we, if you Street ride, you can do some practice on the
• 25:07
  street, you know what I mean? And for me like I do like the
• 25:11
  shifting all my bikes except for the dirt bike is GP chef and and
• 25:16
  and and so I do a lot of my Practice riding my street bikes
• 25:19
  just shifting because you know it that that's important.
• 25:23
  You know, if some people go into dirt and and practice there and
• 25:28
  you know, they got their little mini bikes and practice and all
• 25:30
  that. But it's gonna be very hard to
• 25:33
  take a whole winter off and it just just go ride and expect to,
• 25:39
  you know, have the cobwebs off that weekend.
• 25:42
  If you're somebody been doing for a while.
• 25:44
  Yeah, you probably can do it. I can't, when I get You know
• 25:48
  what, I get on the bike in the street when we like in March,
• 25:53
  when it starts to cool down, right?
• 25:55
  April, when I get on, I'm like, oh wobbling, like I was a little
• 25:59
  slow a little shaky. Sigh.
• 26:00
  Yeah, you got to get the cobwebs out and then you got to
• 26:02
  calibrate yourself. Go to serve speed.
• 26:05
  You got to get used to actually being on a bike and using all
• 26:08
  those muscles. Oh yeah.
• 26:09
  You gotta, you gotta work out and that's a couple goals.
• 26:13
  I have this year is that getting more shape?
• 26:16
  And definitely try To take some advanced classes so there you
• 26:20
  go. Yeah.
• 26:21
  And as a good way to kind of get into the last last segment of
• 26:26
  the show here, get my name is Rex 45.
• 26:29
  This is the be forever. Cool podcast with TJ with the
• 26:34
  tools and coffee for sure. And definitely check us out
• 26:37
  where everywhere on on these platforms Spotify YouTube
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  everywhere. But yeah.
• 26:45
  So let's let's talk about, you know, We've been riding for a
• 26:49
  little bit. Now it when I went out New
• 26:51
  Riders and and you know, we're going to be talking a lot about
• 26:55
  still new ride and stuff like that.
• 26:57
  But, you know, since the new year just begun and and you know
• 27:02
  you know you talked about work and not you talk about the
• 27:04
  advanced classes. You know what?
• 27:07
  What you know because you know most of us already kind of
• 27:11
  already I starting getting all goals like, you know, from the
• 27:15
  last round the next season. Arts.
• 27:19
  And and so you will have already been planning and doing stuff.
• 27:22
  So you know, what's your overall goal for 2023?
• 27:29
  Well, you know, I'm a try to compete or more races and see
• 27:34
  how far I can take it. One of my last year goes was to
• 27:40
  out of the seven rounds that were there were there in Loudon
• 27:43
  to make at least four or five of them.
• 27:45
  And I made all seven Just a kid. Yes, you do.
• 27:50
  Yeah. Daddy.
• 27:51
  So now it's like, how many races can I do in a weekend out?
• 27:54
  So you know, and I feel confident and what I'm doing out
• 27:59
  there and it's really fun. So I I mean you're being kind,
• 28:05
  you know, this guy is on his third year racing.
• 28:08
  He's already moved up to a mature and he's probably been on
• 28:12
  the top five guys fast as people did.
• 28:18
  A lot of guys that top date people, mostly, I mean, you got
• 28:21
  some, you got some Plastics, don't you?
• 28:23
  Okay, you know. And and and, and you have videos
• 28:26
  showing you pass the people on the street and not one bike, not
• 28:29
  to bite and i'ii waik, you know, I'm saying?
• 28:33
  So I mean, so, you know, so I had to go over again the teens
• 28:38
  and I did that last year. Yes, you my best was, you know,
• 28:41
  a little bit bad and sees 18. Nice.
• 28:43
  So I want to be consistent in the teams this year and I want
• 28:49
  to hopefully win a couple races if I can you know just be on the
• 28:52
  podium but I do want to compete in a more races than I did this
• 28:56
  year so difficult to get my money or and also want to
• 29:00
  participate other tracks and do some advanced classes.
• 29:04
  So got a fun year ahead of me. So it's going to be a good one.
• 29:09
  Nice, nice. Yeah, I know you got a lot of
• 29:14
  going on with this KTM. Love you guys.
• 29:17
  Yeah. I don't know about if it's love
• 29:19
  but yet, but it's very is interesting, you know, so I
• 29:24
  guess in 2021 season. I started, you know, racing are
• 29:31
  six and a KTM rc390. So middle weight light weight.
• 29:38
  This year, I'm not racing to R6 at all.
• 29:41
  I think, I think just going to focus.
• 29:43
  I have a 2022 rc390 that I'm pretty We'll race bike and I'm
• 29:50
  hoping, you know, I wasn't sure what I was going to do is crazy
• 29:53
  because I got a lot going on this year and I wasn't sure like
• 29:56
  last year I was pushed for the as your National Title in the
• 30:02
  middleweight class and kind of jumped into the 400 class later
• 30:06
  on and and and which was a lot of driving that attracts.
• 30:11
  I went to his well over 20 hours where I'm in Boston.
• 30:14
  So well over 20 hours and and and so this year, Year I wasn't,
• 30:19
  I was just going to kind of. So I've also joined some other
• 30:21
  clubs this year and so in the beginning that I was just kind
• 30:25
  of like, okay I'm just going to raise these clubs.
• 30:27
  I'm gonna raise some new tracks like Talladega, I like Barbara
• 30:31
  like Mid-Ohio. I think I'm saying that right,
• 30:35
  you know. But then after just, looking how
• 30:37
  life is moving for me I think I'm going to try to run back as
• 30:40
  ER again this year. So my goal is to run the
• 30:45
  national Series. This year, I was No, in 2021, I
• 30:49
  ran the regional series. I did 20 races between Loudon
• 30:56
  that all arounds. Just pretty much all around.
• 30:58
  So I think I might have missed a couple rounds just because race
• 31:01
  is overlapped. I was fortunate enough to get
• 31:03
  some Regional class trophies and and whatnot.
• 31:09
  Not, I didn't had no plans of that when I started just kind of
• 31:12
  worked out that way. So I'm trying to tell, you know,
• 31:15
  I wasn't going to chase anything but this year I think I'm going
• 31:18
  to, you know, run the KTM and try to chase the national title.
• 31:23
  I finished fourth last year in the middleweight.
• 31:25
  I finished sixth in the, in the, in the 400.
• 31:29
  So, you know, I feel like, you know, I left something on the
• 31:32
  table, but I'm not going to run to the R6 next year.
• 31:37
  I'm just going to focus on RC and and and then the races that
• 31:42
  are are as rare events. I will raise, you know, CCS
• 31:45
  races next month. Probably race wera down in
• 31:52
  Talladega. I'm going to try to get some new
• 31:55
  tracks and so I'll probably do that.
• 31:58
  I was going to also erase another club besides loud.
• 32:01
  And so I plan to raise Loudon, I plan to raise ccs azra, and
• 32:05
  we're running this year and and see what happens.
• 32:09
  So, it's kind of crazy because I'm waiting on parts.
• 32:13
  My bike is that one place race plastic is not a place waiting
• 32:17
  on parts. Arts and, you know, I go racing
• 32:19
  in and like, I guess open like 40 days or something like that.
• 32:24
  Hopefully, that's, that's very soon.
• 32:27
  But, yeah, guys, you gotta get your braces gear ready.
• 32:31
  So once you get on the track, there's so many opportunities.
• 32:33
  See this guy can't even keep up with him.
• 32:35
  He's all over the place. There's so many places you can
• 32:38
  go long as you got the equipment to travel.
• 32:40
  I'm almost there. Oh listen.
• 32:42
  They said it's going to take some years which guy gets feet
• 32:44
  wet. Yeah yeah you know and it's
• 32:46
  crazy. Right.
• 32:47
  We're good. Right.
• 32:48
  And you know, I I've been at this thing for a while and I
• 32:52
  didn't even think about it. So you you're going to cover a
• 32:55
  lot more places that I'm going to cover it because you know,
• 32:58
  about a lot sooner than that. I didn't even think to race up
• 33:01
  and down the east coast and stuff like that or go out to,
• 33:06
  you know, Blackhawk at Chicago and raised.
• 33:09
  But now, you know, now, you know, my overall goal is to
• 33:13
  raise as many race tracks as I can in the US as my overall goal
• 33:17
  at this point. Point.
• 33:18
  I'm not really trying to win Regional titles or anything like
• 33:21
  that, you know. It's, you know, I'm an
• 33:26
  Enthusiast. I like the new tracks.
• 33:28
  I like the challenge of it and trying to get up to speed as
• 33:31
  quickly as possible. And this is also just a new
• 33:34
  track and it's fun, you know? So that's kind of where, my, my
• 33:38
  goal is that could change in a few years but I, you know, you
• 33:43
  know, I'm an Enthusiast at this point.
• 33:45
  You know what I mean? I'm not, I'm not.
• 33:48
  I was never really trying to make a living from it, but I had
• 33:50
  aspirations, you know, once upon a time to probably do it one or
• 33:54
  two races, you know, and motor America.
• 33:59
  But you know, you know, we'll see how it goes, you know, at
• 34:02
  this point like I said, it's this more just you doing a new
• 34:06
  race tracks. And this is a lot of tracks in
• 34:08
  the u.s. I did not know that either and
• 34:11
  having a racing license to, you know, have the opportunity to
• 34:14
  get around. Yeah.
• 34:15
  And, you know and and who knows, you know, who knows what With
• 34:18
  motor America, you know, I can probably still race the twin
• 34:20
  class, you know, one day I should say one day because this
• 34:24
  time is limited. You know what I'm saying?
• 34:27
  I'll probably run out of, I probably age out before I get in
• 34:29
  there. But, you know, anything is
• 34:31
  possible. If I can, if I can run times
• 34:32
  that are competitive, you know, that take a chance.
• 34:36
  Yeah. Well, we'll see and, and, and
• 34:38
  that's that's the goal for this year as well, you know, just to,
• 34:41
  you know, get the times up, be more consistent, you know, just
• 34:46
  ride a bike, you know? Head injuries in, you know, in
• 34:49
  2018 and craziness in 2017. So, you know, coming back from
• 34:54
  that and, and getting my body, right?
• 34:56
  And all that, it's been a journey.
• 34:58
  But, you know, the last couple of years I've been able to find
• 35:01
  some speed and so, you know that this year is, is kind of like,
• 35:05
  that's the mindset, you know. Yeah, the crazy thing is, you
• 35:10
  find speed and then you slip up and then you gotta go.
• 35:18
  How do I find that again? You know, it's interesting
• 35:24
  because it's, it's mental, you know?
• 35:28
  I mean, obviously, you have to have the physicality obviously,
• 35:31
  you gotta train. I don't, you know, when you're
• 35:33
  young, you could probably get away with little to no training,
• 35:36
  but if you're going to be, you know, doing the drive-in doing,
• 35:40
  doing all that you like you got, you got to be in some shade.
• 35:43
  It's not like you athletic and go on the court and always cross
• 35:45
  people up. Exactly.
• 35:46
  Exactly. You know, so you got you got to
• 35:50
  be in shape to do the thing but you know, when you, you know,
• 35:55
  when you go out there and and, and have a good race and you may
• 35:58
  not even have a good weekend, you may just have one race.
• 36:00
  That's just like yo and you know and you know, you might have a
• 36:02
  good weekend like, you know, the ride going home.
• 36:06
  It's amazing how it's amazing. He's so tired though, but it's
• 36:11
  like, it's so amazing. So amazing, you know.
• 36:13
  And and so and and and that's the thing.
• 36:16
  Now I'm, you know, like full, Those are like I've you know,
• 36:20
  like when I switch from is vsv to the RS6 to the R6 and and all
• 36:25
  my experiences on twins up until that point like my first year as
• 36:30
  an amateur was, you know, it was at the back of the line until I
• 36:34
  can understand how to ride the bike you know what I mean.
• 36:37
  And and then you know but then you find your feet and you find
• 36:40
  pace and you find like oh not you know you're not at the back
• 36:44
  you're in the middle of the pack now.
• 36:45
  And and and now you can kind You know, get up into, you know,
• 36:49
  third or second or, you know, be leader race for, you know, some
• 36:53
  Labs or whatever the case may be, you know, it's amazing
• 36:56
  feeling - leaving race is also another crazy feelings.
• 37:01
  I have never done it but you know, but I cannot imagine like
• 37:05
  the paste. You gotta set.
• 37:06
  You just don't lose focus as a novice but Marc Marquez.
• 37:11
  Yeah sure as a novice and I mean I might have got a whole shot
• 37:15
  here and there but no I do you know the second is the is is the
• 37:20
  best I've gotten you know as I say I'm the first loser but you
• 37:26
  know, it is You know it is what it is.
• 37:29
  You you work at trying to just get better you know.
• 37:35
  And when the guys are the women that a kicking your butt that's
• 37:39
  kind of good because it you know I remember in 22 in 2021 you
• 37:45
  know like when I first started going up going up and down the
• 37:48
  East Coast. You know I was 12 seconds you
• 37:54
  know and by half of the season I was like force Cancel the fast
• 37:59
  guys. You know, I even had one of the
• 38:00
  one of the guys is just like he was just like I looked over and
• 38:03
  I saw you did. He's like, what are you?
• 38:05
  What is he doing here? You know.
• 38:07
  That's the, you know, and it's like he's like, you get, you get
• 38:10
  sick of being in the back and if you're competitive, you're gonna
• 38:14
  push, you know what I mean? You're gonna, you're gonna
• 38:16
  continue to get better and, and, and, and that type of thing and
• 38:19
  by the end of the season. Yeah, I was right there.
• 38:22
  So, and, you know, and, and get some got some regionals, you
• 38:26
  know, some plastics for it. And stuff, and it's kind of
• 38:29
  like, so, you know, starting off and people continue button all
• 38:33
  that that no worry, you know, you just keep working.
• 38:36
  It's working. Keep figuring out yourself.
• 38:38
  Figuring out your bike. Sometimes it's you sometimes.
• 38:41
  It's the bike. You sometimes, you don't have
• 38:43
  enough knowledge, you know, which one it is
• 38:56
  going to go home, you feeling good.
• 38:58
  You know, you don't know, but the ones that you that you, you
• 39:02
  know, it worked out, you didn't give up, you know, you finished
• 39:05
  on the podium or you Babble some people and you held your own and
• 39:09
  you know, but no, when you do that those rides that that like
• 39:13
  those are Priceless. Yeah, just make it look like
• 39:16
  when's the next round. See if he can make it.
• 39:20
  Yeah, exactly. So we say all that to say, you
• 39:25
  know, you know, we keep riding I think, you know, the show is
• 39:29
  coming to an end for this episode.
• 39:32
  You know, I will keep talking about the RC is still you know
• 39:37
  nothing is a part yet just putting on Parts.
• 39:40
  There's a big it is a box in the background back there that, you
• 39:43
  know, exhaust is back there. I got Parts just just waiting to
• 39:47
  come in to build this thing out. Everything has to happen
• 39:51
  relatively quickly because I'm hoping to hopefully be down in
• 39:56
  Excuse me and Roebling in February.
• 40:01
  Well, Talladega and February. We'll see you both.
• 40:04
  That's kind of the plan and, you know, just, you know, working
• 40:08
  out keeping the body in shape and trying to, you know, I rode
• 40:11
  the street bike the last couple of days.
• 40:13
  I mean, Boston, you know, throw the heater gear on and got to go
• 40:17
  ride and you know, this guy's at these guys and gals up here that
• 40:20
  go ice Racin. So I haven't done that yet and
• 40:23
  whole nothing but you That trained all year round, you have
• 40:30
  to kind of train all year round. You know, the guys, the guys and
• 40:32
  women down down south and down in the warmer places.
• 40:35
  The training all year round. It's, you know, it's not just
• 40:39
  like, oh, they just show up and they race, you know, like seven
• 40:43
  months out of the year, no, they're doing stuff to go into
• 40:46
  go-kart tracks, you know, they're riding many bikes, you
• 40:49
  know, they're just writing street bikes the plane different
• 40:52
  sports and, and the keeping in mind.
• 40:56
  And the eyes, everything sharp. So that way when the season come
• 41:00
  You know, it's all that. If you're gonna do some go-kart
• 41:03
  makeups. Yeah, I can't wait man.
• 41:06
  I can't wait. I'm definitely looking forward
• 41:07
  to the to the meetups because it is you know, when you when you
• 41:12
  hit it really doesn't matter. Me riding a bicycle.
• 41:15
  You're riding, you know, go-kart whatever.
• 41:17
  All these things are going to kind of just keep your mind,
• 41:19
  right? Oh yeah, sure my name is x45 is
• 41:24
  go ahead. Sorry good.
• 41:26
  My name is Rex. 45 is the be forever.
• 41:28
  Cool podcast with With TJ. And this is two rows and coffee.
• 41:33
  Alright, peace out. Peace out.
• 41:30
  With TJ. And this is two rows and coffee.
• 41:33
  Alright, peace out. Peace out.