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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 11 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Pigsty. Damn big.
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  You left them in the car by soldiers.
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  Welcome back to another edition of the be forever.
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  Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45. My name is t.j. to you to wasn't
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  coffee. It's going on man.
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  How much just getting through this freeze that, we just Frost
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  still going through ice. Walk situation outside types of
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  weather and, you know, the span of three, four days like 50
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  degrees. Now, it's like feeling - 30 like
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  last night. Yeah.
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  How are you self the same? Trying to warm up, man.
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  It's been a cold one and I can't wait for it to, you know, you
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  know, we're getting, you know, some folks, are you you know,
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  riding and stuff like that. But up here in Boston is pretty
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  cold and I can't wait for it to just be above 50.
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  Yeah man, can't thank you guys enough.
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  For tuning in each week. I appreciate all the listeners
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  and shout out to penguin riding school.
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  You got me going. So yeah, just getting through
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  the winter. Appreciate you guys, no doubt.
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  No doubt. So man, so this is fun, you
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  know, that my little jump right into it, you know, as the
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  weather is as cold as it is outside right now.
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  You know, it had me thinking about, you know, the track and
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  and, and what happens when this Bad weather.
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  And and you know, how do you plan for that as a new Rider as
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  a new person going to the track, you know?
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  You know it's not something I thought about a lot, you know.
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  And I think even on other episodes of, you know, I've
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  already said that you know, when the weather was bad, I wasn't
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  even even racing, you know. But you know, it's something to
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  think about and to plan for man and, you know, you got all your
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  gear for for when it rains, are you prepared?
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  You are now you're like thinking about it this year?
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  I mean yeah I've been through it so I think I'm a little be a
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  little more prepared. I still don't know exactly what
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  is needed. I got rain tires, you know, and
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  umbrellas got you. Yeah I mean I'm Brothers nice.
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  You know I you know I think you know I got I got rain boots you
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  know especially you know a lot of these other tracks if you're
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  on the grass it gets swamp like so you know, rain boots.
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  I got your rain coat. Code, I got snow pants, you know
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  I mean I got Somethin for my for because we actually out there
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  when it's raining to some of these places especially if
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  you're like right now even you know, Roblin I mean I when I was
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  in wrote Roblin and 2021 is like 45 degrees.
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  So yeah, the past ever. So when I explained my tent got
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  beat down by the way, you know, right, one of my friends are
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  right with that. Me actually in jumped in the
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  water with me, so I appreciate that.
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  But I went in with, I had no choice because in the tent was
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  all my stuff with the computer, everything sleeping bag,
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  everything that I had with, you know, with electronics inside of
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  10, it started raining. I didn't think my time was going
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  to go down the flood, right? But it was pretty much under
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  water and it collapsed. And I had to jump in with my
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  shoes. So, my shoes got wet.
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  I didn't have no rain. Boots for that.
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  So so yeah, I might have to get some rain boots and ponchos and
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  some from Umbrellas and, you know, if you plan on riding to
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  you it's got heavy rain tires and there's like rain suit cover
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  to. Yeah.
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  Do you know, you can, there's a, there's a whole bunch of
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  different ones you can. You can find them online, you
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  know, if Iraq Dainese Alpine Star, they sell them.
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  But if you have other breed is generic brands for lack of a
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  better word. That you can get.
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  So if you are racing in the rain, you're not you're not
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  completely wet. Yeah, my shoes took like a maybe
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  a week to dry. All right, so you need some
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  extra socks, you know, and yet always, you know, when you know,
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  put the if you had a canopy up you got to be like, you know
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  why? I'm on my like, my fourth or
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  fifth canopy or something like that.
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  I've invested in more expensive canopies as the ones that I can
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  replace the parts on and so that way, if a leg is broken, I can
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  replace it. Leg versus tossing, the whole
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  canopy away, which is what I was doing for the first few that got
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  destroyed. But now, you know or you know,
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  if you buy one you can buy one with warranty on it and so that
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  way, if something happens, you can get it replaced.
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  So, you know, I'm not a big fan of warranty things but things
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  like tense because the boil is gonna be.
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  Bad isn't? There's no question about that.
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  It is in this. Whether you are at the track
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  when it happens or you're woken up by it by your tents laminate.
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  Thank you Trail. It always finds the track for
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  some reason. Yeah, for sure.
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  So you know it's always good to maybe look at warranty for your
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  tents and you know and you know Finding good ways to secure your
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  tent so it doesn't it doesn't even if you I mean if you had it
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  cemented and just the wind alone will just destroy the frame you
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  know. So I still don't know how to
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  really prepare for it. I mean I think I got the worst
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  already as far as going to sleep you know.
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  Got to have that part, right? Like he said you gotta pull that
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  10 down, know the rains come in bring some extra shoes exercise
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  Ox just rice, no have some shelter no seriously and even
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  like you know be mindful of your toolbox because you don't want
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  it you don't want to come out and your tool box is full of
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  water cuz that's happened because my tent knocked bike
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  over toolbox over. You know, them saying it was
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  ridiculous and it's always having when you're like on the
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  track. No, everyone around.
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  You is on the track as well, because you guys didn't same
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  session, right? Come back and everything's down.
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  Yeah. And also, for sure you just got
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  help with, you know, can keep it secure for a little bit.
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  But, you know, because they even allowed and I had a tent.
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  I cannot be destroyed. Just went, it was just so windy.
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  I thought it was secured pretty well and it just rocked back and
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  forth and, you know, I had to replace a like once a leg is
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  gone, this guy's done. So, you know, it's, you know,
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  whether something to think about And you know Walmart or any of
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  these places you know get something that just keeps you
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  dry because there's nothing like we do being around a track and
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  being soaked in the rain. You know, they still haven't
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  been on the track riding in the rain wearing ties, yet, that's
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  still a goal. It well, you know, you you'll
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  have that for 2023. I suspect that this point, you
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  know, you just going to change tires and go out there and I
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  need to be bike for that like everyone else.
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  Well, you know, hey, you can have whatever you want, you
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  know, if you don't have the, you know, even if don't have be
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  bike, do you know? It's it's tough because I lie
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  You know, I had back-to-back races last year and I didn't
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  have time to change tires, fun of my races, and the weather was
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  too, I can even do a lap on slicks so you know, it's tough
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  when you don't have a bike for sure.
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  It happened to be bike help but, you know, having a blue bike is
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  twice the money as one bike and, you know, you know how that go.
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  So but it is nice. And this year, I will have a
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  beer bike so I'm excited about that.
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  I will say that since I don't have a bike and I do have rain
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  ties, but like I said, I didn't have time to change and I
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  haven't written in the rain. I had to Forfeit a few races
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  because it rained. Yeah, it's tough, man.
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  It's a gamble. I mean, I think, you know, it's
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  hard, especially when the rain is inconsistent, you know, it's
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  one thing. If you just know, it's raining
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  or, you know, obviously, and so when it's not, you know, you
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  just gotta get good at doing a quick tire change, you know, you
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  know, maybe you put your reins on and you have your slicks on
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  time. Warm is just in case you go back
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  and forth, you know, maybe you you you do a rain front and a
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  slick, but rare, you know, it all, you know, you know, there's
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  when it's when you when, when the conditions are tricky is
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  that's but that's part of it. But, you know, that's the worst.
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  So it's nice when you have a be bike and, you know, even even
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  you know, if it's not full Reign and you don't have intermediates
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  on and you need intermediates, it's really, it's still like,
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  you know, even if you You ever be by you still be in a
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  situation where you may not have the right tire set up you know,
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  based on just unsure condition so it is a gambling and some
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  folks take a Gamble and just run rains and if it dries out the
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  strip terrains, some people go out there and slicks just wasn't
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  ready to pull out. I felt so bad, I just like, I
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  couldn't get my money back. You know, could chase the
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  raised. It just gotta figure out a way
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  to get out there. It's Gotta Be, gotta gotta be
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  prepared for all situations. Yeah.
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  That's why you have another set of rims.
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  Yeah. But you get those some rains on
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  there that's that's but that's the you know the weather thing
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  part of it man. So that's crazy.
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  So, you know, along with going to the track, it's, you know, I
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  we were talking beforehand and, you know, your gas situation.
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  You want to talk about that? I mean, yeah.
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  Is a new Rider, you know? I was like, yeah, I'm just bring
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  a little gas tank and number fill up my bikes.
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  So when I'm there and prepared fully gassed and And you know,
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  full tank. So having a full load of fuel,
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  definitely plays A Part as you realize that you start writing
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  more trying to get used to to see how much gas, you really
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  need to like complete a race and not right on a full tank.
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  You're right. The all start my practice is out
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  on a full tank and then and go from there basically, right?
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  And but I suspect this year, you're not going to do that.
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  Oh yeah. You know, I feel like this show.
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  I'm gonna try to be a little bit more competitive.
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  I'ma keep the bike as light as possible.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Because you know a full tank changes the weight of the bike
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  and you know these days unless you don't like an Enduro race
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  generally you know you're probably having a gallon, maybe
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  a gallon and a half. If you're doing a lab or a so it
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  depend on the track. Everybody has different.
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  How much gas? You know, everything differ is
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  different but you know, getting to the point where you can
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  measure how much gas you put in, I got a buddy.
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  He he just has a, he has it marked on a jug and he just
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  pulls the gas into that level and then pours it in.
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  So he stays consistent with with how much gas he puts in at the
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  track and it feels different. I mean, you know, it's gonna be
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  interesting. We'll talk about it after you
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  try it because, you know, your practice sessions, you're
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  running full tank. So really by the end of the
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  first day, you might not even be at half a tank here.
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  No, I'm just, I really don't need gas until I actually, you
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  know, I'll do a practice session, they win the race.
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  Before the Race, you got the practice before the race and
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  then I may need just a little bit but at the same time, I
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  don't haven't really tested how much gas I need for the race.
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  Even is eight laps right by the when I come back my lights not
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  on or anything. So I had maybe one race where my
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  light came on and I was praying that I made it to the end, you
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  know that was just me thinking I wouldn't make it it's not what
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  is the one point four miles or something like that around the
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  track. Like that.
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  Yeah, I think it's 1.6 or six. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Little on the 1.7 and then, for gas, you know, I'm just like, am
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  I going to make it? And I never really seen anyone
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  run out of gas. I've seen one person actually
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  brought need, he made it to the finish line, but he actually
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  really matches got ya. So now, they know more
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  interested into that field since I'm get more comfortable and I
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  feel like I know the bike more and just ready to try it out.
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  Yeah. No definitely gas plays a part
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  in. For the faster Rider is, you
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  know, the top guys. You know, they want a bike as
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  light as possible and so you know, they are definitely
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  measuring fuel differently. You know, you'll see folks, they
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  got a fuel stick, they can see where the levels and stuff like
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  that, is that it does play a part when Evie, you know, weight
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  matters. You know, it definitely plays a
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  part and you see the MotoGP guys do it and world superbike at
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  that level. You know, these guys, they got
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  it down to a science and you see people finish the race and run
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  out of gas? Oh yeah.
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  They also measuring because at that point, some of those guys
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  are using that Mr. 12, so we gotta know how much they put in
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  it in its correct. Exactly.
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  You know, the MR2 tall and, you know, we can talk about that.
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  Yeah, yeah. We, you know, race fuel
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  definitely because they measure it in and they take it out at
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  the end of the day because the fuel is bad for the gas tank and
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  left in overnight. Oh, I'll just left in.
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  So it that's a whole different Ballgame.
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  And, you know, I know I 93 is generally what I've ran, I
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  haven't ran, you know, my I think both bikes can go.
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  I know the KTM can go raise fuel or gas pump, regular gas and and
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  so I've done that, but I think this year on, especially on a
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  smaller bikes, the race fuel matters because it gives it a
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  little bit more. And I saw that last year, you
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  know, racing against two guys. And And you know, it, I didn't
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  know what it was, but I was just like I couldn't gain on these
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  guys that I was able to beat before and then after the race
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  he's like, yeah, I had to put rice field and to be able to get
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  in front of you, you know. So, you know it that's it is a
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  whole process. And and so I at this point I
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  don't know if I'm, you know, I feel like I mean there's enough
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  Contraptions and stuff out there that it makes me pretty easy.
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  So I'm not going to sit here and say it's But it's just one more
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  thing you add and you just got to be conscious of because, you
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  know, you don't want to destroy your gas tank but you also want
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  to win races. Yeah.
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  So this year I'm definitely going out with more organized.
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  I would say. So try to keep tabs on a lot
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  more things. Such as tire, pressures and
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  temperatures outside and gas levels, and try to write them
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  down and try to stay more consistent and just improve from
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  there. So, that's all you can do taking
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  notes as a big part of Of this thing.
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  And and haven't really, you know, it's more like mental
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  notes. I'll take small little notes
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  and, you know, on a book to remind me of stuff.
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  But right. Oh, however it works, whether
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  it's an on paper or up in your head as long as you know you
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  have access to it. I for one I don't write.
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  I barely write stuff down so but you know, through repetition and
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  through, you know, like we've talked about from, you know, you
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  know, your focus, right? Your routines and stuff like
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  that, you that all helps you you know, To, you know locked in for
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  for when you go out there and the lights go out, okay wait
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  wait can't can't wait at all so you know all the tests are out,
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  you know, like spikes is starting don't no doubt.
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  So now, but with fuel and, you know, and and rain gear.
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  And now, you know, as a new ride, I was a new racer, you
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  know, you brought this up actually, you know, you know,
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  developing a ride in style. You know, you know?
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  Yeah, you're going through it, I've gone through it people,
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  Everyone goes through it. Let's talk a little bit about,
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  you know, your method and and what do you think?
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  You know where you think your writing style should be?
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  And how do you look at it at this point?
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  And how do you remember will probably touch on to the
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  cameras? Because you know, how do you how
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  do you judge when you, how do you, how do you look at yourself
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  and kind of fix or a door or whatever to your riding style?
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  I mean, I I really didn't really have a ride in style.
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  I thought I was just you know, just lean off the bike and you
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  know looked at some Pro Racers, I always wanted to drag my knee.
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  That was like a thing and once I did it just you know it's
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  whatever it was more of just keeping the bike in line.
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  So realize you had to develop a you know style.
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  That's the most fits you on Corners at your pace.
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  So you know I try to like hang off will, you know keep my
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  elbow. Goes out or tucked in on the
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  straightaway and keep my feet in the right position.
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  I try to look at experts and you know, writers, we actually can
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  get good times and see what they're doing with their with
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  their position and how they switching over and try to
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  incorporate that. How my body can Flex, how
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  flexible I am right away. And then as far as the cameras
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  goes, I always have Cameras on my bike, even on the street.
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  So it's just something I've come through with and it's have been
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  helping me with my lines in and my body position as well.
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  So I think cameras play a little a good part in that.
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  But yeah, how about yourself at? Yeah, I mean, I think for me,
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  was watching, you know, braces. So you know, where the MotoGP
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  world superbike a as soon as I got into racing in 13.
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  I started, you know, signed up to MotoGP and started watching
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  watching the series and you know, doing all that and you
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  know, for in the beginning and you know, I had like what right
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  in position. You know, I was sitting upright
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  going down the straightaway on the SV, you know, I was I wasn't
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  that I didn't know anything about like really tuck in and so
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  on forth. So by like I think like 2015 you
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  know, that's like I always more aware of like okay well I need
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  to be doing these things. At this point and one of the big
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  things for me was I wasn't in the shape.
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  I was into to maintain that writing style to get off the
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  bike and use your abs to, to hold yourself up and taking
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  weight off the bars and stuff like that.
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  And, you know, all that came with but but learning, I guess,
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  because, you know, I, you know, I had to pull out a races
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  because of I wasn't in shape and stuff like that.
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  And so, in 2015, they about, I started working out more.
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  Oh, you're really working out. And and so my I started
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  developing a ride in style but a nice which bikes so it for 2016.
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  So and I went for my in line to I went from Dryden twins from
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  like 2012 to 2016 essentially twin line for.
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  So all that took was a little bit different, getting used to
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  you know revving the engine at at fourteen thousand RPMs 15,000
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  RPMs versus what I was doing on the SV and stuff like that and
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  just the bike was wider. You know, so my body position
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  again changed because of that, you know, then you know
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  following year I broke my hand and, you know, and and so forth.
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  So it lost my spleen and and so I had to recover from all that.
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  So my body position changed again because of injury in in a
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  bad way, you know? So but I think by the end of
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  2019, I was probably fully recovered but my body posers
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  phones. Just way off because I was
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  compensating for my left hand and so I had to take all of, you
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  know, 29 2020 and pandemic. So I really couldn't ride in the
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  beginning. So we didn't start ride until
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  like June. So I really didn't fix my riding
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  position to like halfway through 2021 I guess.
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  And and again from working out and doing all these things and
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  you know, an understanding, you know, where I am, how flexible I
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  am, and what I can do, and stuff like that.
• 21:15
  It's still a work in progress. I'm still working on stuff.
• 21:17
  There's still things I'm trying to work out.
• 21:20
  You know, I'm pretty good with moving my legs around now and
• 21:24
  doing all the right thing my head.
• 21:25
  You know, might, you know, looking ahead and keep in my
• 21:28
  eyes moving and stuff like that. The biggest thing.
• 21:31
  And we talked about this off a little bit is going right and
• 21:34
  getting used to now, you know, being off the bike and still be
• 21:37
  comfortable enough to still get on the throttle and pick the
• 21:40
  bike up and kind of sort that out but and also a lot of
• 21:45
  training. Right?
• 21:45
  And you know we're not writing is I consume a A lot of videos
• 21:51
  and a lot of stuff and if you know information and I say stuff
• 21:55
  like the eating food and consuming all that.
• 21:57
  But you know I mean so I keep learning and and and making sure
• 22:03
  you know like the like 2023 I feel pretty good about it.
• 22:06
  I feel like you know, my mind and my body and everything you
• 22:11
  know, is working as one and so I can't wait to get out on the
• 22:14
  track and and kind of see if it all lines up.
• 22:18
  But you know, training is a big Part of it and just you know
• 22:21
  understanding you know your body position is always changing.
• 22:25
  It's not like it's not a fixed position and so it depends on
• 22:29
  what you're doing. You're always dependent on the
• 22:31
  bike and everything is a feel so it's really like a lot of seat
• 22:35
  time and just also you know and understanding like yeah you know
• 22:39
  it does it's not to fix its what works and you know depending on
• 22:44
  your weight, you know, depending on if you want traction you just
• 22:48
  you just have to be one with your machine.
• 22:50
  No more seat time to figure all that out.
• 22:52
  Like I mentioned, I had to throw my street riding routine out the
• 22:57
  window when I got to the track. Like I tried tried to bring that
• 23:02
  to the track and, you know, learn through the, the Penguins
• 23:06
  School of how like, my style of riding and learning the track on
• 23:11
  like how they teach it and with the pictures that they put out,
• 23:15
  they just see my my hands just pushing the handle bars and, you
• 23:18
  know, I paid the price for that. So figuring out that you can't
• 23:23
  have bar input and realize you gotta lead off the bike, a
• 23:26
  little more corners and use your foot to push down and on
• 23:30
  straightaways like put your butt all the way in the back of try
• 23:34
  not to sit down as much as right.
• 23:36
  So many things to work on and I had throw my riding style the
• 23:38
  window. So still like you said, it's a
• 23:40
  work in progress. But look at all the fast guys
• 23:43
  and the people who can drag elbows and stuff like that and
• 23:47
  see how they getting down there and What are they doing to move
• 23:51
  the machine as fast as they're going?
• 23:53
  And try to you know, change my style to it shows that matter.
• 23:57
  But right training training training training does help is
• 24:01
  every time you lean over from left to right.
• 24:03
  It's like a mini squat, no doubt.
• 24:05
  And I was always still feel the same way.
• 24:07
  Like I mentioned, I was feel like Marquez, like I feel like
• 24:10
  the left hand is, like, how I like my best way of hanging off
• 24:15
  the bike, right? Right.
• 24:16
  We're not. Fortunate Loudon.
• 24:17
  Have that many right turn? So, When I, when I look at my
• 24:21
  pictures when I'm leaning to the right, I just feel like I'm
• 24:25
  frozen up and I just feel like I'm not coming off.
• 24:27
  Not looking ahead. No.
• 24:29
  So that's something that is just trying to work on and write and
• 24:32
  and I felt the same way. You know.
• 24:35
  The the Loudoun has a lot of left turns and not too many
• 24:38
  right turns. So you know, for I think for me,
• 24:42
  I when I started going to new tracks, I realized like I suck
• 24:45
  at, right turns and I have to work on on figuring out all that
• 24:49
  out. Out along the way, but it is,
• 24:52
  you know, that's the beautiful thing about if you can get two
• 24:55
  new tracks and different tracks, so that way you can kind of work
• 24:58
  on little work on, you know, different position riding
• 25:02
  positions and you know, so yeah. So for me, long time I still
• 25:07
  feel good left icz going. Right?
• 25:10
  I'm still, you know, still struggling with right turns.
• 25:14
  But I'm a lot better than I was a few years ago because of that.
• 25:19
  So I, you know, That is. But, you know, you know, one is
• 25:22
  going to be perfect going out there.
• 25:24
  And, you know, as you said, as you mentioned earlier, the seat
• 25:27
  time is is most important. If you can get cameras on your
• 25:30
  bike and you can face the cameras on you, then you can,
• 25:34
  you know, get get videos and then you can critique yourself
• 25:36
  and you can look at your riding position or just, you know, just
• 25:39
  looking at you mentioned, you know, looking at the lines, you
• 25:42
  know what I mean? They're so it is good to
• 25:44
  videotape yourself, even if you don't post it anywhere, just for
• 25:48
  training, not to mention that. The two right turns or I'll be
• 25:51
  right turns the main two. Right turns out allowing is
• 25:54
  one's going into a wall. That's all you got to like break
• 25:57
  really well and turn turn pretty well and then the next one is
• 26:02
  going up what they call as high side Hill.
• 26:04
  So it's got you. What does that turn for turn?
• 26:08
  Oh yeah that is yeah it's the right term but it's it's it's
• 26:13
  like a kink it's, you know, it's not like Turned three or, you
• 26:17
  know, you know or bold. All the left turns that you can
• 26:21
  make at it aloud. I'd only seen hides on that.
• 26:26
  Well yeah well you know yeah yeah I've had five right.
• 26:30
  You know when I when I was older Pirellis, I was running I would
• 26:34
  always get movement on the going up there with the bridgestone's
• 26:39
  not didn't assign at the Bridgestone well even the
• 26:42
  birthstones were good. Then I had no issues with
• 26:43
  bridgestone's in the Midlands but you know it is a that that's
• 26:48
  one place where you For sure. You'll, yeah, that's it.
• 26:51
  And I don't think about one. Hey, that's another line, right?
• 26:56
  Yeah. It's the right turns out loud.
• 26:59
  I'm still trying to learn as turn, right?
• 27:02
  And none of them are easy. Yeah, I've almost high-sided.
• 27:06
  It hit 182. I went down there.
• 27:10
  Hey, it's hard to go fast and not fall because they say so,
• 27:15
  yes, I definitely cameras if you can get them on your bike and,
• 27:18
  you know, face. On your sometimes, as you can
• 27:21
  see what you're doing and so forth and just, you know, being
• 27:25
  in shape. So that way, you know, the in
• 27:26
  the race is, you know, fatigued I've remember, you know, you
• 27:30
  know, going into into turn three and you know my arms were just
• 27:35
  done and I'm falling on the tank at a bike because I don't have
• 27:37
  any more strength and stuff like that.
• 27:40
  We'll just pull it out a races because you know, okay, I did
• 27:43
  three races and the fourth one is just like, yeah, I don't have
• 27:46
  it in me, you know. Now you know I'm in.
• 27:49
  A place where I can feel like I can do six races or indoor right
• 27:52
  now endure like GT use and stuff like that and and finished
• 27:56
  around and you know that's a good place to be because at
• 27:58
  least then you know it's taoyuan the machine.
• 28:02
  It's not you the machine and you physicality I had to potteries
• 28:07
  for their confidence. And yeah, that's really talk a
• 28:11
  little bit about that, you know, because that's, you know, I
• 28:14
  think we've all been there. Well yeah.
• 28:17
  I mean, Still trying to be conservative throughout the
• 28:21
  rounds. You know, can't afford a lot of
• 28:24
  this stuff I try to still participate, so still writing on
• 28:28
  tires that, you know, been running for a few rounds.
• 28:31
  So when I went down and one round, the best thing they say
• 28:36
  is to get back out there. So I tried to get back out
• 28:39
  there. I didn't change the set of tires
• 28:41
  and I think it was confidence but I got left from the pack
• 28:46
  that I run with. So, and Is drain me.
• 28:50
  And then who is running with experts to?
• 28:52
  So by like, lap two or three experts will catch a me.
• 28:55
  And I just didn't know if the tires had life or if I just my
• 28:58
  confidence was shot. So, the best thing for me at the
• 29:01
  time, was just the pull off the track and that was the first
• 29:04
  time I've done that and yeah, just I just my confidence
• 29:08
  sunshine. I just didn't know what to do at
• 29:11
  the time. So I went back and had to put my
• 29:13
  head down and think about what just happened and try to figure
• 29:17
  out how I can get back out there.
• 29:18
  Strong Yeah, I got some advice from a few riders that
• 29:21
  encouraged me which is really good and I think it should be
• 29:24
  given to everybody. So keep everyone, you know
• 29:28
  confidence high or build their confidence back up.
• 29:32
  That's you know we are all there.
• 29:34
  I mean I've had to do the same thing.
• 29:35
  I've done the same thing, you know.
• 29:36
  So, you know, getting out on a motorcycle in, especially
• 29:40
  having, you know, if you crashed it's hard to get back out
• 29:44
  sometimes and you know, some folks doing some folks don't and
• 29:47
  everybody is different. And whatever decision you make
• 29:51
  is that it is what it is, you know?
• 29:52
  It's like, yeah, I used to feel bad, but it's kind of like, you
• 29:55
  know, if you don't, if you're not in the right mind and then
• 29:59
  you're going out there racing other people and you don't have
• 30:01
  your focus. You're endangering yourself.
• 30:03
  And you can put others at risk. So it's like it's like, hey, if
• 30:07
  you don't feel you got it, you put it in and it is what it is
• 30:11
  because you are, you know, you know, when you have it, you
• 30:13
  know, and you don't and you know, some days is easy to jump
• 30:17
  out there and and Do you know, you know, five six races and
• 30:21
  other times you're like, you know, the bike don't feel right
• 30:24
  this don't feel right, you know you know all these things
• 30:27
  sometimes has to go right to for you to feel a certain way and
• 30:30
  sometimes you know especially starting out I mean you know I
• 30:33
  think my last few years is the most where I've like okay I'm
• 30:36
  fixing my bike and going back out there.
• 30:38
  You know all like I said before in other episodes, all of the
• 30:42
  first few years you know, up until 2019 2020.
• 30:46
  Like I said, if the whether it was raining not going If it was
• 30:49
  too cold, I wasn't racing. All these things had to be right
• 30:52
  where now it's kind of like hey we racing I'm going, you know,
• 30:57
  but that that took that getting that mindset, you know, took
• 31:00
  time I mean, you know, I was thinking Daytona I really didn't
• 31:04
  want, I still pulled out of a couple of races, but I did raise
• 31:07
  two races and I finished second in one of my races and I felt
• 31:11
  like crap, you know what I mean? But it was like, you know, just
• 31:15
  like, hey, I didn't think I didn't, you know, I just went
• 31:18
  out there and just said, hey, let me Just see what happens and
• 31:20
  then you know, having done that and it was like okay I can push
• 31:23
  a little bit so you know the it all takes time to get the
• 31:27
  confidence and to get to the point where you're going out
• 31:30
  there by any means. And you know and for the reason
• 31:32
  I think if you don't feel like it it is what it is.
• 31:34
  At the end of the day, you know, it is a cost to go in there, but
• 31:40
  if you're not in the right mind, it's better to be off the track
• 31:43
  and and be safe. It took me like the next round
• 31:48
  have to come up and talk. Like practice or a couple races
• 31:52
  to get my confidence. How do you save is fully back
• 31:54
  but at least back to a level where I know I can you know,
• 31:58
  keep up with the pack but yeah, it does hurt your confidence
• 32:01
  when you fall you gotta be mentally prepared for that Rider
• 32:05
  and you have to build it back up.
• 32:06
  You do not try to get back on the track and then you got to
• 32:09
  know when it's time to pull off to write yourself, safe and
• 32:12
  others and it's one thing to just, you know, fall and get
• 32:16
  back up. It's nothing when you jack
• 32:17
  yourself up, you know, and And and, and, and you take in a year
• 32:21
  off to recover or however, long to recover and then you gotta
• 32:24
  jump on that bike for the first time I got a, for me, you know,
• 32:29
  late I came back. My hand wasn't fully healed and
• 32:33
  I was and I was racing and it was painful to get a glove like,
• 32:37
  to get my glove off. Well, I can leave, I had to get
• 32:39
  help because we just so, you know, there's a lot going
• 32:43
  through, you know, your mind, you know, should I for me,
• 32:46
  extract extract. Go back out.
• 32:49
  But I had to learn how to ride without feeling pain and and I
• 32:54
  figured it out and yeah you know so the and at the build it took
• 32:58
  time to build a confidence up to build a confidence.
• 33:00
  Stop it took, you know I guess I started running in the middle of
• 33:06
  the pack probably in 2020 and 2024 know what I mean and my
• 33:12
  accident was in 2018 and I started riding in 2019.
• 33:15
  So you know it for everyone is Different.
• 33:19
  But it does take, it could take some time and is and it is what
• 33:22
  it is. So I the confidence part man is
• 33:24
  is huge, but it's baby steps and you know, and you get there and
• 33:30
  I can tell you on the other side of it now it's like, oh wow, you
• 33:34
  know, so when you know and these are experiences sometimes you
• 33:37
  know some people might come out to the track and and they run
• 33:39
  well they're running up front and and do really well but then
• 33:44
  you know you have an injury and then you really look, you know,
• 33:48
  you start to reflect Little differently.
• 33:50
  Yeah. Like this, like the first time
• 33:52
  it really hit me. I mean, like I fell before and
• 33:55
  won a and you know, I was like, okay I got back up and I just
• 33:59
  brushed it off and it was running pretty well.
• 34:03
  Did a good season did the next season and then now it's like
• 34:06
  more confident and when I felt this time mostly gets kind of
• 34:11
  really, I don't know what it was.
• 34:13
  Just it just shook me. It was like, wow, I don't know
• 34:15
  how I felt right, you know and now I hit That corner really
• 34:20
  slow. Now, you know, and it's oh yeah,
• 34:22
  it's just this confidence building and I didn't know I was
• 34:26
  hitting that corner so after the crash until I get feedback from
• 34:30
  friends, right. Exactly.
• 34:32
  And and that's the end, that's the beautiful part about it.
• 34:34
  Getting feedback and you know, getting back out there if it's
• 34:39
  for you not everyone. I mean, you know, like if you
• 34:42
  know, everyone is entitled to do whatever they want, but you
• 34:44
  know, if you want to get back out there, Yeah, you just take
• 34:50
  it one day at a time. And now you know you get to come
• 34:54
  out and feel good about 20-23 confidence is high.
• 34:57
  You finish the year well and you know can't wait, can't wait to
• 35:01
  get back out. So MotoGP testing is happening
• 35:07
  Supreme test, then excited about that because MotoGP is back next
• 35:13
  next month, right? So I think at Oz the first
• 35:15
  round, I got it. I got to double-check but I
• 35:17
  think so excited about that. Car clutch low is, is the top
• 35:24
  top Yamaha guy, pretty cool to see him still ride.
• 35:28
  And I wish she was still racing because he's a he's a he's a
• 35:31
  test rider for Yamaha and but he's a colorful colorful human
• 35:35
  being. So he's always, you know, he
• 35:37
  should be behind the mic somewhere and he'll be fun to
• 35:41
  listen to In other, in other news, Annika, Rosco had words
• 35:49
  for Alvaro Bautista, because they would test in, in her as
• 35:55
  and he crashed because he felt that, you know, she should have
• 36:01
  been Ridin with his words as with the amateurs, and because
• 36:06
  she was on our six, and he was on a V4, kind of golly.
• 36:10
  And, you know, She came back at him with saying well it's
• 36:17
  because I'm a woman while he's saying I should be with the
• 36:20
  amateur. What do you think about that?
• 36:25
  Yeah, like I said I think it was just the wrong word of choice
• 36:28
  but yeah, I don't, I think she should be out there.
• 36:30
  She's she's, I mean, she's on the right bike to be out there
• 36:36
  when it doing the testing, right?
• 36:38
  Like I was reading up on the story.
• 36:39
  I guess she's on our 60. Yeah.
• 36:41
  She's I mean, I don't know, I think she should be out there.
• 36:45
  I mean, I've been the track days, I've or the practice that
• 36:48
  I've been to. I've been riding with riders
• 36:50
  that are way faster than me and I'm sure they have no problem
• 36:54
  with it. So you think the mistake was
• 36:56
  more on him for not seeing her soon enough?
• 37:00
  Because I mean, you know, and I don't know like what pay she was
• 37:04
  running or I don't know if it'd explain that.
• 37:06
  Right? But yeah, like it could have
• 37:09
  been. It could have been a guy that
• 37:11
  crashed too, right? Yeah, no.
• 37:14
  My I guess I might take on it is probably she shouldn't have been
• 37:19
  on a track with him because it's a six hundred versus a thousand.
• 37:24
  And, you know, we have had incidents at Loudon with with
• 37:28
  small, you know, skillful guys on on, you know, on slower
• 37:32
  bikes, you know, you know, you have a faster bike coming up on
• 37:36
  somebody quick because it's just a difference in Horsepower.
• 37:39
  And, and I think that's the situation there.
• 37:41
  I think, for Alberta Say she should be with the amateurs,
• 37:45
  might just be a wrong choice of word because maybe they should
• 37:48
  be like a 600 group, you know, like, like, like at Loudon,
• 37:51
  right? I mean, well, allowing the six
• 37:53
  hundred and thousands run together, right?
• 37:55
  So, that's whoever set up the classes within the run, right.
• 37:58
  Exactly. So I'm not her fault right out
• 38:00
  there. Exactly.
• 38:01
  Exactly. You know what I mean?
• 38:02
  At the end of the day you're supposed to, you know you know,
• 38:05
  you you're supposed to see this, see all this stuff so I don't I
• 38:08
  think it's wrong tries to word. I don't think she's an amateur.
• 38:11
  I mean, she's a she won the world, the 300 soup.
• 38:13
  What 300 Supersport title in 2018, she's racing the MotoGP
• 38:20
  moto2, three. And she rates used while she
• 38:23
  reached the moto3 back in 2015. And now she's back in moto3 for
• 38:27
  the last couple of years and went to world superbike.
• 38:29
  So she got skills but I think not having the same size by I
• 38:35
  think like that all of a big bike should have been running
• 38:37
  together. Middleweight bikes we've been
• 38:39
  running together. You know, small bike should be
• 38:41
  running together because but again as a when when we had when
• 38:46
  we were raised and is different classes, the unlimited class and
• 38:49
  there's a super sport classes, you're running that anyway and
• 38:52
  the bigger bikes they got it. They got to recognize that it's
• 38:55
  a smaller bike but today they got to recognize what's in front
• 38:58
  of them and and and making take precautions.
• 39:00
  So so I think it is coming like it could have just been the
• 39:03
  session could have been pressed for time.
• 39:05
  So French says, I know we're different with the club racing
• 39:08
  but there's a I don't know what day it is but there's usually
• 39:12
  I'm a group 14. You're right.
• 39:15
  And then group 2 is expert. Correct.
• 39:17
  So sometimes there's Group, 1 &, 2, combined your rival track.
• 39:22
  Exactly. So the you guys experts and
• 39:24
  amateurs running in some have thousands and some have 600,
• 39:27
  right? And we're running out of
• 39:28
  practice. So if I have an incident with
• 39:30
  the expert, and that's like him saying that you should be just
• 39:33
  running with the amateurs. Right?
• 39:34
  That's exactly. No, I think it's just, it
• 39:38
  probably was that type of situation where they just had
• 39:40
  the combined, probably the timing.
• 39:43
  I don't know. No, right.
• 39:44
  Exactly. Yeah I think wrong choice of
• 39:46
  word hopefully he apologizes and and I don't think he's thinking
• 39:51
  that she's like an amateur Rider.
• 39:53
  Doesn't have the skills. I hope not.
• 39:55
  I hope maybe it's not I'm but I want to give the benefit of the
• 39:58
  dude benefit of the doubt until I hear him say otherwise because
• 40:02
  from what I can tell from you know all his years of racing in
• 40:06
  MotoGP and now world superbike. He's Ivan he's been one of his
• 40:12
  been, a classy do We want females in the sport.
• 40:15
  Also, shined our right to be out there.
• 40:17
  And I mean, she's part of the class of me.
• 40:19
  There was other 600 out there. I'm sure, you know, they just
• 40:22
  happened to be in the wrong wrong Spate.
• 40:24
  Right. Exactly.
• 40:25
  So yeah, he might have just been pissed in that moment, but
• 40:28
  definitely wrong choice because there's a lot of fast women.
• 40:32
  They keep kicking my butt, just too damn fast minutes, just to
• 40:35
  test this. If you do another lap, it's just
• 40:37
  a test. It is and that's another thing.
• 40:41
  Yeah. Yeah, it wrong.
• 40:42
  You know. And you know, I like racing for
• 40:44
  points that they needed for like, you know, two rounds left
• 40:47
  and, you know, it's like yeah, exactly.
• 40:51
  So yeah, man, so that's what's going on on the be forever.
• 40:54
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• 40:57
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• 41:01
  Peace. I like racing for points that
• 40:45
  they needed for like, you know, two rounds left and, you know,
• 40:48
  it's like yeah, exactly. So yeah, man, so that's what's
• 40:53
  going on on the be forever. Cool podcast.
• 40:55
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• 40:59
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