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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast S2 Ep. 15 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  You're listening to the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My Name Is Rex 45. My name is TJ with two wheels
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  and copy. How's it going, man?
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  I'm all right, you know, I've been under the weather for the
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  past couple days, but feel better now.
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  Yeah, that's the that's the worst part, man, about being
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  under the weather. It's I don't like it.
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  It usually happen once a year for me and it's beyond it's
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  behind me and I hope I don't see I hope I don't see it ever
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  again. But that's impossible.
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  So you know, you know it's it's it's awful.
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  So how you making out over there?
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  You you doing everything you're supposed to get in the Tussin
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  and everything in order? Oh yeah.
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  I mean, the good thing is I was still very active like that.
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  It didn't like slump me over where it just was bedridden two
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  turbos main like head congestion but you know much better and the
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  the weather's fine here too so trying to stay warm and keep
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  hydrated. Right, right, right.
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  You know, yeah, I've been, I've been, I'm, I'm trying to stop
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  looking at the Boston weather, but I still look at it, you know
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  what I mean? I still look at it and yeah, you
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  know, warmer is, is, is is always relative, you know, But
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  it is, it is, it is December in New England, so Oh yeah.
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  Win Winter is about a couple days away, about two weeks.
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  OK, I'm running from. I'm about to look forward to but
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  the warm weather. So, got you.
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  Yeah, I'm going to be up there in a in a in a couple of weeks
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  with the truck and trailer to grab the rest of my stuff and
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  and and so forth. So I'll be up there, you know,
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  unfortunately it's it's in the cold, but it is what it is.
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  I can't, I can't imagine that I don't know how to deal with the
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  cold after just, you know, four months of living, living
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  somewhere else. They're.
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  Moving stuff down there. A little bit, little bit.
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  You know a few things left for some bike parts and and and and
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  you know parts that I it's stuff that I probably won't use but
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  want to have. I got a you know I have AI have
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  a bigger toolbox up there so I got a bunch of tools in there
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  still that I want to take out. I don't think I'm going to bring
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  the toolbox down I may either sell it or donate it to my my
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  neighbor see if he if he still wants it and stuff like that
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  because it's it's it's big you know you know it's you know it's
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  it's more for somebody who's working on cars and and and buy
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  I mean bikes full time we are but I feel on a bike and I'm not
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  I'm not you know for hire I I work on my own stuff what what I
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  can do like buy my my 11 draw toolbox has enough tools in it
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  So I may you know I may regret it you know for 4/4 or five
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  months or a year from now but I'm I'm pretty you know I may
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  bring it down but at the moment I think I'm I'm going to leave
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  it and just take the tools out Facebook marketplace right.
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  I probably should. I mean I think it's nice man.
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  And you know it's it's, it's it's it's a Craftsman.
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  It's huge, you know, So you know it's a two piece.
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  I I don't even know what the width is so I'd have to look it
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  up. But I've had it for a bit and
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  it's it's it's worked well. So yeah, and that's one thing I
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  got to do is I do have a toolbox, but I don't have like a
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  huge one because I when I travel, I don't have a trailer
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  right now. So I just have I have an open
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  trailer. So I either strap it down on the
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  open trailer or fit it in the truck bed so I don't have like
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  space in a big open trail where they where they can roll in a
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  big toolbox. So me, I just got to organize
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  all my tools. I have like 1 medium sized one
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  and one small one, just the stuff that I need for the track.
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  But yeah, it's time to get that stuff together.
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  No, for sure. And and it's that time of the
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  year, you know even though CCS Azure series just finished over
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  the weekend for the for the 2024 season, you know for most of us
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  we're still getting stuff together.
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  So I mean now is the time to you know to get the tools that you
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  need if you if you didn't have all the tools or you know parts
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  that you need for your bike, that type of thing.
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  You know what I mean For me I've been kind of doing that all
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  along this year. You know I had I had you know
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  different tool boxes as well and then you know I decided to get
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  something that that made more sense to me that like I had like
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  A5 draw toolbox for a little bit and it just wasn't carrying
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  enough tools. It had compartments at the
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  compartment at the bottom. But it it there was no real way
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  to like there was no drawers or anything to close.
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  So I end up going I forget the brand.
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  I don't feel, I I can't remember the brand off the top of my
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  head, but it's a nice toolbox. I'm really happy with it. 11
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  draw toolbox got all my stuff in there and and that works great
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  and you know, so I've been doing, you know so I kind of did
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  that earlier this year. So I don't, I don't think for me
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  there's any tools that that I need to get my hands on right
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  now. But you know it's more like, you
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  know replacing batteries probably got to do some spark
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  plugs on at least a couple of the bikes.
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  I need to order oil to do some oil changes and stuff like that
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  you know. But the I finally got the dirt
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  bikes out of storage and of course they don't start.
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  So I got to deal with service and getting the things started.
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  One of the bikes the batteries is is is completely dead on it.
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  So I got to deal with that. So it's really for me.
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  It's like I get my daughters dirt bike squared away, get my
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  dirt bike squared away. I'm still waiting for my street
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  helmet to come from Reese at I was at REB Graphics so I'm still
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  looking waiting for that. So yeah, I've been doing St.
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  riding on my old showy helmet race helmet.
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  So I can't wait, wait, wait, wait to get that.
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  You know what I mean? So go ahead.
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  Quicker. Things are going to move a
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  little quicker now because if you was up here you would have
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  time to get the battery replaced and get the dirt bikes ready by
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  April and May, right? But now you can get them started
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  now so. Exactly.
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  And and for me, you know it's a little bit different down here
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  for sure and we're going to talk about the off seasons, these
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  season stuff in a little bit. But you know let's continue to
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  talk about you know just getting ourselves ready for next season
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  and and and what we need to do. You know, you know for me my
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  trailer, I got some work I have to do on it and you know it it
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  like servicing your trailer, servicing your vehicle, your tow
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  vehicle regardless if it's just a car, a truck or or or whatever
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  you have is, is most important. So, you know, I tend to try to
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  keep an eye on my tires just to make sure I figure out when I
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  have to change them because that's one of the biggest things
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  you don't want to get. You don't get a flat on the
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  road, you know what I mean? So I I got, I got to deal with
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  some with changing with one tire on the trailer.
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  I got some you know, I live in my not live in my trailer full
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  time. I can't be my trailer.
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  So you know, I I got to like my my Jack isn't my my electric
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  Jack isn't working. So I got to go sort that out and
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  fix that and figure out what the heck is going on with with it.
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  You know, you know, I got to service my my vent because
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  that's not working. I got bulbs that I need to
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  replace it. It's tedious stuff, but you know
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  what I mean? It's the kind of thing like you
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  don't want to go back to the racetrack and and these things
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  aren't working, you know what I'm saying?
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  Because I had like I had I had to crank the Jack to to get it
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  off the the tow hitch. It wasn't bad.
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  But in days like, the whole reason I got electric Jack is to
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  not do this because trust me, you pull up somewhere late at
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  night, the last thing you want to be is trying to crank a Jack.
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  You know, to get it, to get it, get your get your trailer
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  unhooked and all this stuff, man, it's it's it's not fun at
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  any time in the morning. Say again, you.
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  Don't have no energy for that after you know you're probably
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  coming back from a long weekend you got time for.
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  All that. No, no, no, no time.
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  So, so yeah, so I I got to get service done on the trailer and
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  and pick some stuff and chase down, figure out what what's not
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  working, you know? You know, it's not that bad
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  because there's nothing major. At some point I do want to swap
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  the engine on the R6, so I guess that's going to be major.
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  I do have a super sport engine that's built.
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  That's just I just got to install it.
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  But then I got to get the bike dynoed and all that fun stuff
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  after doing that. So I got to figure out when I'm
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  going to do that. You know, I've had this, the
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  motor that's in the in the R6 right now.
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  I've been using it for a few years and I'd like to send it
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  out and get it refreshed. So before you know, I, you know,
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  you hear stories of people blowing their engines and stuff
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  like that. I don't.
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  I don't. I I'd rather get it refreshed
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  before it blows. You know what I'm saying?
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  But. We probably have to do that soon
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  too. I know I definitely got to
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  change my spark plugs and as far as my trailer, my open trailer
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  goes, we got a spare tire. I might have to switch that out
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  because one of the tires are bad.
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  Do have to re register it because.
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  Every year. So.
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  Not just the trailer. The bikes too, right?
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  A street bike. Yeah, St.
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  Bike. I can wait till May.
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  OK. I don't have to do it right now
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  like you you would have. To no listen, the beautiful One
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  of the beautiful things about being down here is I can get I
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  have my bike and my trailers, my trailers, my bikes and my
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  trailer registered until the end of 2025.
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  Oh, yes. Yeah, they do.
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  They don't do one year with bikes and trailers down here,
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  bro. It's so it was just like, how
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  long can I go out? Let's do it.
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  I don't have to see you in a few years.
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  I don't worry about registration A.
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  Little different. Say again?
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  Massachusetts is always a little different, you know, difficult.
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  Yeah. No, no, no, no doubt there.
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  I mean you know it's the systems are different but that's one of
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  the worst things in in mass like and and I you know when I was
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  there I try to ride all year round even if I can just get out
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  a couple of times in January and February I still try to get out.
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  So I kept my bikes insured all year round and registered all
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  year round. You know I mean some people
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  would would put a you know after Labor Day weekend you know that
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  their bikes are put up until next till next year I'm still
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  out there. So you you know what I mean.
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  So that that that doing it every year and remembering to do it,
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  you know it's what it is, you got to do it.
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  But you you, you know, you do forget.
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  Yeah, so I I did get the letter in the mail where I can just,
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  you know, pay for it and they'll send me the sticker and I'll
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  have it ready before 2024. But I just tossed to the side.
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  Yeah, I'll get it. When?
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  Whenever it's time to go back out on the street, right.
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  I haven't put my bike away yet so I can still can ride if the
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  weather is OK, but. Listen man, I got some heated
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  gloves I can probably send you. Well, you know, we'll see.
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  It's it's almost winter so I'm going to play by my rules and
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  put it away. Got.
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  Come on, man. The bruise got evolved a little
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  bit. Come on, come on.
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  In January. It's nothing like it.
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  I'll go around the block in my neighborhood.
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  I do 80 down the highway man and and 20° weather.
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  It's nothing better. You still see it, though, Like,
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  I saw a couple of bikes the other day.
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  The other day, it was like it was dark.
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  So, I mean, it wasn't that late, but it was like six, 7:00 at
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  night, right? And it was in the, it was in the
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  40s, felt like 30s. And, you know, saw a sport bike.
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  Oh, by me whipping down the street.
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  Yeah. What the.
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  What do you do? Yeah, I can see that.
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  But it's nice. It's nice.
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  You know, I know a lot of folks, you know, you know, try to stay
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  away from the cold weather, but when you have the gear and
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  you're warm, you know, ties are good.
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  The ties are holding. You know, I'm not trying to drag
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  knee or nothing like that. I'm riding like I'm just going
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  somewhere. I'm not riding, you know,
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  ridiculous. Obviously you got to look out
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  for black ice and that type of thing, regardless if it's two
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  wheels walking or or driving. So, you know, there's no excuse
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  regardless of what you're on. You know, you got to look out
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  for that. But like, there's not, you know,
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  that feeling of of of, you know, you know, if if I had like a
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  month I haven't ridden and I jumped on the bike in January,
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  there's nothing like it. After, after a few miles, man,
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  it's just like you. You, you 'cause you know, you're
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  riding. You know what I'm saying?
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  Yeah, you're plugged in and you got all the seated gear on you
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  and stuff like that, but at the end of the day, you don't mind,
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  'cause you know you get to put some miles in.
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  The one disadvantage I would say is if you if you are average
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  rider like myself if you don't take.
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  If you don't own offseason, try to stay within that type of
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  environment. Like like I try to do go Kart
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  racing or you know, if you take a bicycle somewhere try to stay
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  on two wheels or or the you know, craft of of a track right
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  when it comes time to like it, when it when it comes time to
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  like April or May. When you get on the bike, it
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  takes you a little while to get used to you.
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  Know. Yeah.
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  Oh yeah, You know how to. Focus on getting a lot more
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  practice in or you actually put your skills out there opposed to
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  someone who can just, you know, just get out there and go right.
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  Yeah, that's one thing that I I got to this winter.
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  Prepare myself to work out and get muscle memory and and not
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  get off pace. Right.
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  No, I I completely agree. I rode my 1198 As for the first
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  time, not the first time. I've written it two times.
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  It's my second time writing it. But I wrote it over the weekend
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  and it yeah, it took a little bit to get acclimated to that
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  which was, which was kind of weird, right?
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  But it is such a aggressive write in position, you know what
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  I mean? Like the KTMS don't really feel
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  like it. The R6 is is not as aggressive
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  as they you know, the the old, you know, eleven 98848, that
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  body style, I mean the the 99 nines was even worse.
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  But you know you kind of stretched out, not stretched
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  out. But you're not weights on your
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  wrist, ridiculous your legs. You know your knees are at your
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  chest. You know what I'm saying?
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  Not quite. But you know, it's definitely a
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  race bike stance, right. So it took, it took a little bit
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  to get used to that, you know, which is weird.
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  And I was like, all right, I just got to ride more of the,
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  the, the, the 1198 because yeah, I definitely, you know, it took,
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  it took about, I guess I probably did about 100 miles on
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  it and definitely like the 1st, 10/15/20 miles.
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  This is kind of like and now all of a sudden came back and it's
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  just kind of like I really haven't put a lot of miles in on
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  that bike. And you know, this is like, OK,
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  like I got to, I got to feel it, I got to treat it like it's my
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  Sunday, right, you know, you know, 911, right.
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  I got to bring it out on Sunday and just and just go cruising
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  and I'm not going to go to a cafe or anything like that, but
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  no puts the miles in. That's a that's a big bike.
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  That's a big bike. So I have a question for you
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  since you, you know we're on top of this bike.
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  So when you're on your 1198, like what is your your best
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  moment like do you go out for a ride for like an hour?
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  Like what are you? What part of the ride do you
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  join the most? No traffic, you know what I
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  mean? And I don't like riding on the
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  highway. So because it's just not fun.
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  It's just straight and you know, you just, I mean, there's no, I
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  like, I like twisties, right. So, but one of the best parts is
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  the things I smell. Believe it or not, regardless of
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  whatever bike I'm on, people are cooking.
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  Regardless if you're riding through a neighborhood or place
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  where there's a restaurants and stuff like that or people are
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  burning firewood or whatever the case may be, that's like the
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  best part because you're more you you you like your sensors
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  are right out there versus when you're in a car.
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  You don't get to, you don't get any of that, you know what I'm
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  saying? So that's really the best part.
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  And like the ride on Sunday, like certain sections is just
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  like, you know, just a different, you know the
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  different, you know trees and and I guess mulch or whatever.
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  I was smelling it like you just, you know, that's that's the one
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  of the things like you know it for me, it's the kind of like,
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  you know, and especially like even in New England or in
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  Boston, right when I used to like ride around now because you
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  know there's places where people are burning firewood in the
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  winter time. And so you get to, you know
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  you're you're smelling all that riding through neighborhoods and
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  it's and it's just kind of like you don't get that in the car.
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  Well, well, for me, for my my $1000 ride, I I like like the
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  second and third gear pulls. You know I don't.
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  I try. I don't go like too fast or I'm
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  high, but I like hitting the blue hills and and especially
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  around this time of year when the leaves are in the road, I
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  like you know, nice clean Rd. no traffic and I 100% agree with
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  you say like you smell everything.
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  So I definitely love the smell of like, you know, the fall
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  season, people cooking out restaurants and all that good
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  stuff, so. Yeah, definitely.
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  I mean, don't get me wrong, I love, listen, there's no part of
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  the 1198 from a Powers perspective that I don't like.
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  I do a lot of, you know, you know, I do.
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  Practice starts at the last, you know what I'm saying?
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  Well. I mean, you know, it's a big
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  bike, you know, we can't take. We don't have them on the track,
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  you know, That's where we find out Most fun.
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  You know so I will say this after coming back on Sunday
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  sorry sorry not to cut you off but after coming back on Sunday
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  I'm like I'm taking this bike to the track like it's it's it's
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  going to be one of my it's going to be my track bike because that
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  would that that's the whole that was the whole thing it's kind of
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  like you know even I was there was I was you know riding and
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  some I think he was in a vet or somebody pulled up you know and
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  you know and Rev the engine a couple of times you you know
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  what I mean And then I it was gone you know and Ducati.
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  Huh. You had to let him hand to
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  Ducati? Oh, well, I had Full disclosure.
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  I have a stock exhaust on the 1198, so there's nothing here.
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  But as far as like the power, he was like, yeah, you're not
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  you're you're not going to catch me.
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  But, you know, so I I do like that aspect.
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  But that's the thing. It's kind of like at this point
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  in time in my life and like I'm never going to be, you know,
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  trying to get the fastest on the streets.
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  Like that's not going to happen. I'm not trying to push triple
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  digits on the street. You know, I might get up there
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  every once in a while, but that's not something that, you
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  know what I mean? I find I, you know if the risk
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  is not worth the reward when I can go to a track you know what
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  I'm saying and and and if I wasn't going to a track yeah I
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  probably would be out there trying to look for canyons to
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  cover up and stuff like that. And when we were when I was up
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  that way you know I used to go out riding with it with Jess and
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  those guys and you know we'll be gone all day.
• 18:52
  You know what I mean. And we you know we'll be in New
• 18:54
  Hampshire, Vermont you know parts of New York and stuff like
• 18:57
  that. You know all these B roads and
• 18:58
  stuff like that. You know and and you know this,
• 19:01
  you know the sections, you know you know what it is.
• 19:03
  You can you can get up there and stuff, which in the moment is
• 19:08
  awesome, but like you know one, you know how it is out there.
• 19:13
  So for me, I don't like I did it and the track gives me the
• 19:20
  opportunity to really have fun and push what I want to push.
• 19:24
  And if I didn't have the track, yeah, for sure, I probably would
• 19:26
  be out on the streets doing that.
• 19:28
  But I try not to get too crazy. So like the 1198 S, it is like,
• 19:33
  it's like I can ride it, but I'm going to enjoy it more at the
• 19:35
  track because that's what I want to do.
• 19:37
  I'm looking for corners, you know what I mean?
• 19:38
  I'm looking for turns looking for stuff to to hit and and and
• 19:41
  try to drive out of and stuff like that.
• 19:44
  So yeah, that's what I mean by knowing, knowing we can't take
• 19:48
  full advantage of the bike on the street, like what else do we
• 19:52
  enjoy for our our ride out. And yeah, that's that's that's
• 19:57
  good examples like all the nature and the smells and all
• 20:00
  that stuff. Yeah, that'll be a good bite to
• 20:02
  take to the for track day, knowing that you got track days
• 20:06
  all the time now, so. Yeah, for sure.
• 20:08
  I do have to get it set up because I'm a little light and I
• 20:16
  do have to get the rear set up for sure if I'm going to do
• 20:19
  track day with it. If I'm riding on the streets and
• 20:21
  stuff like that. It's one thing, but the
• 20:23
  suspension wouldn't work the same way on the track.
• 20:27
  You know, it's just parts I have to change.
• 20:28
  It's it, that's that's pretty much it.
• 20:30
  But you know yeah you know I'll change the oil and probably I'm
• 20:34
  going to probably put an exhaust on it get get race plastics for
• 20:38
  it and stuff like that and then just start doing track days with
• 20:41
  it because it it you know you know it's a fun bike I I I you
• 20:46
  know I can't you haven't gotten a chance to ride it but
• 20:48
  hopefully you will or ride one but it I I you know I can't it's
• 20:53
  just to me it's the bike that feels like an extension of me if
• 20:57
  I think it it does it and you know not not to say the Yamaha
• 21:02
  or the KTMS it's not the same like like that thing is just you
• 21:06
  know if I if I if to my limit right and I can't speak for
• 21:10
  other anyone else but to my limit whatever I wanted it did
• 21:14
  and and that's all you can ask for from a machine.
• 21:17
  Yeah. That's the one machine I haven't
• 21:20
  read in yet at Ducati. I missed my opportunity.
• 21:24
  I know you kept telling me to ride it, but you know, we was
• 21:26
  always busy on the track. But let's see, you don't get
• 21:31
  down here, man. Get down here or you know,
• 21:34
  there's there's there's going, you know, Ducati does a lot of
• 21:36
  these things that they do, they allow test rides and stuff like
• 21:38
  that. So you Ducati, if you're
• 21:40
  listening, hit us up. TJ needs a test ride.
• 21:43
  Need to touch around Ducati? ASAP I don't know if you.
• 21:46
  Do that on the the bike weekend Loudon or you know what do they
• 21:50
  test place I don't know if Ducati.
• 21:52
  I I don't believe Ducati shows up at loudness, but it's usually
• 21:55
  BMW, you know, Yamaha and Harley Davis and Indian maybe even
• 22:02
  holiday. I don't know if Harley shows up
• 22:05
  so which this year, Who knows, right?
• 22:08
  Because who knows about this year, right?
• 22:10
  Because you know, with that purse all the all the brands may
• 22:15
  show up. Oh yeah, it's going to be a
• 22:18
  good, good classic this year. I can't wait to prepare for this
• 22:22
  upcoming year, so I know the schedule is out.
• 22:25
  I forget the dates, but got to get all your calendars right and
• 22:30
  set your days off and all that good stuff.
• 22:32
  Yeah, I believe it's the weekend of the 8th.
• 22:34
  In June, it's the week before, it's the weekend before Father's
• 22:37
  Day usually. The Classic was always on
• 22:39
  Father's Day from the time I was going.
• 22:43
  So it's weird that it's a week early.
• 22:45
  But yeah, this this year it's it's going to be a week before
• 22:48
  Father's Day, so I'm it's already on my schedule.
• 22:55
  There's a reason behind it. I forgot they said it in one of
• 22:58
  the riders meetings. OK, had.
• 23:01
  To be so early. So it's actually going to be in
• 23:04
  the beginning of the Bike Week instead of the.
• 23:07
  End oh, got you. That makes sense.
• 23:09
  Kind of does because there's, you know, more people probably
• 23:13
  there. It depends.
• 23:14
  I can't say that because some people show up at the beginning
• 23:16
  track. Or something like that.
• 23:18
  I don't. Know.
• 23:18
  Say again? I think something's going on at
• 23:22
  the track. I think they were like
• 23:23
  resurfacing something. I have no something along those.
• 23:26
  Lines nice, yeah. And the Neymar schedule is out
• 23:30
  for 2024, so definitely check it out.
• 23:32
  I believe CCS and Azure scheduled.
• 23:34
  I not believe CCS and Azure schedule is also out for 2024.
• 23:38
  And so it's, you know, it's a perfect time to start, you know,
• 23:42
  figuring out which club or clubs you're going to race with for
• 23:44
  next year, you know, the renewals of license and saving
• 23:48
  your number. All that stuff makes you do all
• 23:51
  that stuff ahead of time because you don't want to lose a number.
• 23:55
  You know what I'm saying? If you've been riding for a
• 23:56
  while, you don't want to lose the number because you know you
• 24:00
  can't. It's possible.
• 24:02
  Yeah, I don't want to lose my 2:13.
• 24:04
  It's like a sentimental to me. I can't believe I got the
• 24:08
  number, but you know, remember that.
• 24:11
  Exactly, exactly. I had to rock the the 145 for a
• 24:14
  while, you know what I mean? Until I can drop that one.
• 24:18
  But yeah, you you want it, you want your number.
• 24:20
  You know it's it's a moment in time and you know, it's very
• 24:24
  special. You know, this motorcycle racing
• 24:26
  thing is a very cool community and you know you, you, you want
• 24:31
  to, you want to keep that Because you know when you're
• 24:33
  telling your grandkids or whoever, you're telling you.
• 24:36
  Other time I used to raise bikes, right?
• 24:41
  They don't. They don't know what they were
• 24:42
  missing. They gotta get that in June.
• 24:43
  Yeah, No, for real. Nieces and nephews into, you
• 24:47
  know, the scene they like going. Right.
• 24:50
  I'm gonna get get on the bike or try a little bicycle.
• 24:53
  They're like no. Not give him time though.
• 24:55
  You know what I mean that that that's the thing about it.
• 24:57
  Like they keep showing showing up.
• 24:59
  You know you think about like you know you look at Nathan
• 25:02
  right when he first started coming up there to you know look
• 25:05
  at him now and and you know he was over in in Valencia in the
• 25:09
  mini Cup right. And and and so Nathan Betancourt
• 25:13
  for those that don't know he's a Motor America Junior Cup writer
• 25:18
  fast kid out of the New England area out of Massachusetts.
• 25:23
  It's a beautiful thing to see what what his family's doing and
• 25:25
  and and where he's going. You know currently and and who
• 25:28
  knows what the future hold, because if you're already doing
• 25:31
  that at that stage, say again. This beach is bright for sure.
• 25:35
  I mean, got the plugs already. Yeah, oh for sure.
• 25:39
  Sure. So yeah, so you never know when
• 25:42
  you just got to bring the kids up and let them get exposed to
• 25:44
  it. And you know, they may be scared
• 25:47
  of the bike this weekend. And then, you know, next season
• 25:50
  they're sitting on and trying to twist, twist the swaddle.
• 25:53
  It's the Internet that messes everything up.
• 25:56
  You see all these three-year olds and five year olds dragging
• 25:59
  in knees and helmets and stuff and you know you're like, what?
• 26:04
  That yeah I mean that's the thing you know what I mean
• 26:08
  getting the kids in young so I can see that.
• 26:10
  But you know you just got to you just got to everyone moves a
• 26:13
  little differently and you have to keep in mind that you know
• 26:16
  for like I didn't know about motorcycle racing really or the
• 26:19
  option of myself going until you know Jesse told told me about it
• 26:24
  and and it was just like yeah come to the track and and and do
• 26:27
  this thing. Like I didn't even think that
• 26:28
  was a thing I could do. So, you know, for us and our
• 26:31
  community, yeah, they had a lot of black people that ride bikes.
• 26:35
  But, you know, a lot of folks will know that that you can take
• 26:37
  your bike on a track and and go and go race, you know what I
• 26:40
  mean? Or you can do a track day or
• 26:42
  anything like that. So, you know, for for these kids
• 26:45
  to come up to the track with you or with myself or whomever.
• 26:49
  And we're just getting into it now as older adults.
• 26:52
  Well, I'm older adult. I can't speak for you.
• 26:55
  You know what? I mean?
• 26:56
  It it it's like yeah it's going to take more time for them but
• 26:59
  you know when they come they see it and and you know it could be
• 27:02
  3-4 five years from now they're going to have a memory of that
• 27:04
  and like Oh my uncle you know what I'm saying?
• 27:07
  Did this and now I'm starting to like it let me hit them up.
• 27:09
  You know what I mean? And and that's kind of what the
• 27:11
  beautiful thing about what we're doing is you know is is trying
• 27:15
  to bring that awareness to to to to folks to say hey you know you
• 27:18
  can go do a track day I. Mean like I mean you got me into
• 27:24
  it from my best friend Josh and and I've been addicted since
• 27:31
  also trying to push the same message because I can't believe
• 27:34
  I didn't know about crack riding and it is a lot to get prepared
• 27:38
  for. I mean, it's a lot fairly
• 27:41
  expensive, but I mean the the, the happiness you get out of
• 27:46
  here is. Exactly, exactly.
• 27:49
  And the the safety factor because we you know we all want
• 27:53
  to while out on the streets. You know what I mean.
• 27:56
  And and so to be able to go to the track and do that and do it
• 27:59
  in an environment, you know like I I I saw some videos of I see
• 28:02
  videos of people that cannon ride and I'm just and I and I
• 28:05
  see some people who have come in close to being jacking
• 28:09
  themselves up and having. And I'm sitting here like if
• 28:12
  they actually Jack themselves up how long it's going to take for
• 28:14
  an ambulance to come show up and if they needed to get Med
• 28:17
  lifted. How long would that take You
• 28:19
  know what I mean. When you're at the track, if
• 28:21
  you're like this, you know this, you got like maybe 2 minutes and
• 28:24
  and there's an ambulance there for you, you know what I mean?
• 28:26
  If that long, not even that long.
• 28:29
  It's like legit like a minute generally you know what I'm
• 28:31
  saying? So having that security there,
• 28:36
  medical staff there, you know only bikes on the track when
• 28:40
  somebody goes down, other riders know about it.
• 28:42
  So we're we're we're keeping safe and all that stuff.
• 28:46
  You know, I haven't. I mean, I've ridden like I
• 28:48
  haven't, you know, I've ridden like I said, I've ridden on the
• 28:50
  streets with with folks and stuff like that.
• 28:52
  But I feel more comfortable on the track than I do going fast
• 28:56
  on the street and and that's why I really don't go fast like that
• 28:59
  on the street. Yeah, I mean that that's how I
• 29:04
  feel now back in the day. I mean, like I would find I used
• 29:07
  to like to ride at night because it'd be a lot less traffic, but
• 29:11
  the only time I would go fast would be on an open road.
• 29:14
  Right now I don't feel comfortable at all.
• 29:16
  I just rather wait that a month or two to get that track time.
• 29:21
  Exactly. And there's listen, there's you
• 29:23
  can find a track a weekend somewhere in the world.
• 29:26
  So if you really want to go, go that bad, you know what I'm
• 29:30
  saying? You definitely can can do that.
• 29:32
  So you know, and I don't want to take anything away from the
• 29:35
  folks that ride on the street or anything like that, but, you
• 29:38
  know, it's, you know, it's just safer on the track.
• 29:42
  It's the, you know what I mean? It's it's a controlled
• 29:44
  environment that that's what make it safer.
• 29:46
  It's not any safer, but it's controlled and there's no cars.
• 29:51
  And everybody's there doing the same thing.
• 29:53
  You got to worry about cars, pedestrians, any of.
• 29:56
  That none of that stuff stuff in the on the ground, you know.
• 30:00
  You know, you might have to worry about animals crossing the
• 30:02
  racetrack just like the street, because we have no control over
• 30:04
  that. But that's about it.
• 30:06
  And they're small, usually. Maybe sometimes some debris like
• 30:11
  loud and there was a couple of like beer cans and soda cans
• 30:14
  from a passing bed that was rolling across.
• 30:16
  It was windy, but. Right.
• 30:18
  And and they'll put up a flag and warn you and if it's that
• 30:21
  serious they'll put up a red flag and clean up and then you
• 30:24
  go back out and have fun. So it's it's never you know what
• 30:26
  I'm saying? You don't have to worry about
• 30:28
  all you don't have to worry about sand or debris or anything
• 30:31
  on on the road surface. You just you just got to make
• 30:34
  sure you got you know gas and and and and you know some energy
• 30:38
  and. They put you, put you in a
• 30:41
  mental state where you cannot you you.
• 30:43
  You put your focus on what what you need to.
• 30:46
  Right. About being distracted.
• 30:50
  Exactly. That's the best part, and that's
• 30:53
  what makes it fun. Yeah, for sure.
• 30:56
  Yeah. So you know we'll continue doing
• 30:58
  this thing as long as we can and hopefully bring some awareness
• 31:01
  along the way to folks and get more folks you know coming to
• 31:04
  the track and and keeping this thing going because you know it
• 31:08
  it's a nice environment. I I we can't.
• 31:10
  You know I think the motorcycle community in general regardless
• 31:13
  if your track riding St. riding whatever riding that whole
• 31:16
  community in general is is a beautiful community.
• 31:19
  So it it doesn't really matter it there's, I don't think
• 31:22
  there's any difference with street riders and and and track
• 31:25
  riding as far as how we get along in that barn that's there.
• 31:29
  You know what I mean? Oh.
• 31:31
  Yeah, definitely. When I first started St. riding,
• 31:35
  I didn't know anyone that rode in the city and we used to meet
• 31:38
  up every through Monday and Thursdays at at a certain
• 31:42
  location and have big meet right outs and and we did that for a
• 31:46
  couple years, right? And you know about the track,
• 31:49
  I'll probably still be with the group of guys.
• 31:52
  Yeah, right, Right now, yeah. I just got to get them to come
• 31:53
  out to the track. Right, right.
• 31:57
  Just don't be out on the street as much.
• 31:59
  Yeah, yeah. No, I've I've.
• 32:02
  I got to find them and put out the messages one way best way I
• 32:05
  can. No doubt.
• 32:07
  So let's talk about the offseason.
• 32:09
  You know, we touched on it a little bit in the beginning.
• 32:11
  You know what? What it what are you doing in
• 32:13
  this offseason? You know, what is it?
• 32:16
  What do you think? You know, we already, we could
• 32:18
  talk about some things that other people are doing this
• 32:20
  offseason. You've been doing it for a few
• 32:22
  years now. Do you?
• 32:24
  Did you did you find that you you find yourself in a routine?
• 32:31
  Yeah, you know just house, house workouts and then when I get to
• 32:37
  the gym do my couple of gym workouts but just to stay active
• 32:43
  don't have mean you got a bicycle but you know rather take
• 32:48
  bike rides on one more days right.
• 32:50
  But you know, just staying active like I mentioned before,
• 32:54
  I try to go to the go Kart place I have and have some adrenaline
• 32:58
  rush on the go karts and pretty much just watch old videos and
• 33:04
  racing or or Moto GP or anything.
• 33:07
  And right, right. Fresh in the the racing world,
• 33:10
  basically. Yeah, I yeah, I will say this is
• 33:12
  the first year that I haven't really paid much attention to
• 33:16
  the new bikes that are coming out.
• 33:18
  But that's one of the things I did in the offseason.
• 33:21
  You know, go to the show in New York generally and take out all
• 33:24
  take, yeah. And taking all the new bikes
• 33:27
  that are coming in and do all my research and try to figure out
• 33:30
  what bike I might want next or dream of next, that type of
• 33:33
  thing. I will say this past year is the
• 33:37
  first year that I was like, oh I haven't, I haven't really done
• 33:39
  that. But that's one of the things I
• 33:40
  like to do and the same which you catch up on, you know
• 33:44
  whatever, you know Motor America, BSB, you know,
• 33:48
  Australian, whatever motorcycle races I can catch in offseason
• 33:52
  is, is usually the time that I, you know I try to catch up on
• 33:55
  stuff that that's not Moto GP, that's not, you know, be that's
• 33:58
  not. I kind of follow BSB, World
• 34:01
  Super Bike, Motor America and Moto GP, but everything else I
• 34:05
  kind of, you know, catch, you know, when the season has ended
• 34:08
  or when I can. So that's that's one of the few
• 34:11
  things that is just kind of like, all right that I do like
• 34:15
  you, I'm trying to do more go karting now that I'm down here
• 34:18
  in Florida. I can ride my bikes.
• 34:20
  So you know, now like I said, I went with the dirt bikes.
• 34:23
  I'm trying to get that training in.
• 34:25
  So I I want to I'm going to try to get get the bikes run in and
• 34:28
  then you know try to ride the the bikes more often in and and
• 34:32
  have some fun that way. Training with that I was hoping
• 34:35
  to do ice ice riding, ice racing or riding in in in New England
• 34:40
  but that's the opposite up there right.
• 34:42
  It's it's like you know they they're putting spikes on their
• 34:44
  ties and they hitting the lakes and and and having a good time.
• 34:48
  I don't know if I'm ready for that yet.
• 34:49
  I'll probably just go skiing instead.
• 34:51
  Oh, you're ready, man. Come on.
• 34:52
  You're ready. You got it sticks.
• 34:56
  I I do miss. We used to always have
• 34:59
  motorcycle shows though, in Bayside Center in Boston.
• 35:03
  Right, right. Move to like Framingham area and
• 35:07
  then we don't have motorcycle shows anymore in the winter.
• 35:10
  That was like a little getaway, sorry, where you could see all
• 35:15
  the new stuff that come out. And that's true.
• 35:17
  Yeah, now it's New York. Yeah, you gotta go to New York
• 35:20
  now, you know. Yeah.
• 35:23
  And as far as training, you know, training is still going
• 35:26
  on. And you know it's the best time
• 35:28
  to build up as much endurance and muscle as you can because
• 35:31
  usually for me when the seasons start, I still work out but it's
• 35:36
  not the same level at which, so you know definitely it's the
• 35:39
  time. You know I've been I've been
• 35:41
  I'm, I joined the the the the the Y and I'm, I'm back you know
• 35:45
  banging weights and stuff like that.
• 35:47
  Which is kind of funny 'cause I I haven't really lift weights
• 35:50
  since so long. Mostly it's been cardio cardio
• 35:53
  cardio some stretching push ups pull ups type of thing.
• 35:56
  So it's weird now that I'm I'm, I'm I'm banging weights again
• 35:59
  but it's it's it's it's kind of fun.
• 36:02
  I missed it and I didn't think I would, but I definitely missed
• 36:05
  it. And you know, once you start
• 36:06
  working out at the gym, after a while you know you just want to
• 36:10
  go say again you. Don't want to lose that touch.
• 36:15
  You want to like take a week off and then like feel like where
• 36:19
  you were. Exactly, right, exactly.
• 36:21
  And it just feels good. Like after a while it, you know
• 36:24
  it's it's a it's a drug on itself and you just you just
• 36:27
  want to keep working out. So I'm I'm at that stage now
• 36:30
  where I just like I'm going I'm going five days a week you know
• 36:34
  and and you know I'm back on the treadmill and I I haven't really
• 36:37
  ran since like the marathon in in 2017.
• 36:40
  I saw I ran the marathon in 2017.
• 36:42
  So that was really the last time I was like on a treadmill and
• 36:45
  running outside and stuff like that.
• 36:46
  So, you know, I got on a treadmill like a few weeks ago,
• 36:49
  go for the first, first time, you know, because before that I
• 36:52
  was like, you know, just riding the, the stationary bike.
• 36:55
  And yeah, yeah, for sure. It was just kind of like I kind
• 36:58
  of missed this. So, you know, let me, let me,
• 37:00
  you know, let me, let me start running again.
• 37:02
  I don't think I'm going to run as much as I used to because I'm
• 37:04
  trying to protect the knees. But definitely, you know, it's
• 37:07
  nice to break it out. Yeah, definitely.
• 37:12
  I haven't read on treadmill either, but definitely got, you
• 37:15
  know, take a couple laps around the neighborhood, the running
• 37:18
  shoes on one, can you still see a lot of people running?
• 37:21
  So try to do that and keep the push ups in body phone with the
• 37:28
  stamina and stuff. Nice, nice.
• 37:30
  Yeah. So I mean I think you know as
• 37:32
  far as other offseason stuff, I, you know I everyone is a little
• 37:35
  bit different. I think one of the things we
• 37:37
  didn't really, we didn't touch him, we can't really speak for
• 37:39
  anyone else is, you know, we have to get our money up for
• 37:41
  next season. Yeah, that's why I've been
• 37:45
  delayed on a lot of things. It's almost time to get
• 37:48
  everything ready. I'm almost.
• 37:52
  Yeah I feel you. I feel you I feel you there and
• 37:55
  this year has been ridiculous for me.
• 37:56
  So you know that that we'll see how it goes next year.
• 38:01
  Granted I'm on a limited schedule next sees next year so
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  I, I, I, you know it'll probably still be more races than I've
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  done you know in the past but not as much as I've done in the
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  last couple of years. So you know, but we'll see what
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  2025 look say again. Now, so I hope I can do as many
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  races as I did last year, but it's going to be hard.
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  Yeah. No it definitely, definitely you
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  know life happens and and and you can't be in two places at
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  once and stuff like that And like I said it is it is a little
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  tricky and but you know it's a challenge and you know that's
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  what life is And and I think even from motorcycle racing and
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  and riding you know it it it it teaches you how to get over
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  adversity and it it it forces you and not to say other things
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  don't but like you know I remember talking I think you met
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  Bobby Shakes and I was talking to him before I had a bike and
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  this is kind of like we were just talking like OK I got to do
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  all these things to get a bike and you know we we we both got
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  our issuing order and you know I bought a bike and then the
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  following maybe eight months or whatever he bought his bike or
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  five months or whatever. And this is like back in
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  20/20/12. So this is like 2011.
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  We're talking about this. Right.
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  So we didn't you know it was one of those things and you know so
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  everything takes time and you know but it you know when you
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  when in motives for some reason with maybe other things but with
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  this like you know you you figure out how do I get your
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  money to together for the season you figure out a way to to to to
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  fix your bike or to get the things you need to get and stuff
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  like that and and we got and regardless of its baby steps or
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  however you do it it's kind of like it's it's always a
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  progression and and and we and you have done it I'm doing it
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  you know it's it's you know you just keep progressing
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  progressing and just you know OK I don't have this but I can get
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  this and just keep you know pick picking away at stuff so you
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  know that it is it you know to get just to get on the track you
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  know what I mean So you know it definitely motivates us to to go
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  make some money and and and spend money on spend less money
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  on other things so we can go race.
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  Yeah, I'm saying it Also it it makes you love the motorcycle
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  community that much more. Because now that you got the
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  friends, you know, I might say, hey, I can't, I can only do like
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  3-4 races this year. But I know one of my friends is
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  going to be like, come on, I can help you out or I can give you a
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  ride if you don't have it. Something now will force you to
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  find a way. Exactly so.