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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 04 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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Hey, what's up, man? I hope all is well, and the
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Widow and the winter. I just listened to your show the
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be forever. Cool, nice, great show, very
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interesting. Great start on the show to, you
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know, I really enjoyed listening to it.
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I mean, I know you, you know, you touched on a lot of things
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that most races here. You know, that's that's really
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good good show that you do in there so keep it up.
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I was listening to the word racer.
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Something for new people to understand to wear like I've
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been Racing for like over six years now and the word racer to
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a lot of people would think and it's probably is defined as
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getting out there writing as fast as you can.
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Impossibie right? And beat everybody and win races
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and if you don't come home it with trophies and medals, you're
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not actually racing. You know, you got that's the
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Stigmata be hanger, isn't that you gotta win something, you
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gotta leave it plastic at the end of the weekend, and I think
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that you should at some point differentiate what that kind of
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reason because For me, I think it's two kinds erasing.
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This is the one for racing for Plastics and then there's the
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one that goes out there to ride your machine that you've built
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and spend time on and put a part in.
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And did you research and you go there and you get an opportunity
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to experience how that the few dot dot dot dot dot that
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accomplishment of what you the package that you put together?
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I think it does. Another partner is in so that's
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the two types of reason, you know, the one That you go out
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there to win the plastic and the other one, this one that I just
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turned you about. So I don't really have to
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explain much about the plastic. You just gotta go out there and
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beat the portion in front of you finish on the podium and you
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know get your name on the board and that's that's one type.
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The other type. Now is the one.
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Where, as I said you do the research, we have Parts you, you
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put it together a new chain, you know, and new sprocket bike
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looks good. You know, you it's race week.
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You you know you get you go to the dollar store, grab up the
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power. A do you know things that, you
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know, you're going to enjoy during this time that you're
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away from society from your responsibilities?
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You know, as you're doing this reason thing that's that's the
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best part about Racing for me is when I when I get off exit,
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whatever that exit is 15 or whatever, I always stop at
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Walmart, always us, it's such it.
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I do it so much. Now that it's a part of my, it's
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a, it's a visiting stupid stations regime.
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I gotta stop and buy something from Walmart.
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So I usually buy like, the fluids that are going to be
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using for the weekend to hydrate some nice little snack.
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Another part of it. Is.
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Another part of it is getting to the truck finding a spot setting
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up. You know, getting your stuff
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ready? Pulling out your bike, running
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your card extension car, putting your bike on the stand, you
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know, Put The Knife earrings or for me I used to have to do that
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because I would put my bike in a minivan and you know get in that
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thing. Then people start to show up a
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truck. You saying hey how was your week
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or once a month, you know, Do, that's so that's a, such a big
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part of reason, you know, then, you know, after that, what are
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we doing for dinner, as a big part of the reason I enjoy that.
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I spent, as I spent a lot of years, just messing around
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because I was already looking for who wins.
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A championship points and try and get being the fastest
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export. I was just looking for what we
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get when we have there on the weekend, and I think that that's
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what happened to me as well, along the way that I got caught
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up with this fun part of the reason and not so much of, you
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know, hey, we need to run a neither, I gotta run 16th to be
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an expert and I got to, you know, get amateur championship
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at one time, I did that the first time I said, I wanted to
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be on to jump. Try crashed twice.
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Biggest high side ever had in my life?
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Scare the shit out to me so like and that's why I just realize I
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need to start continue reason for fun, you know, and that's
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the best part about racing right now.
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The word Racing for me especially and I can throw the
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guy, a lot of people out there that would find that part about
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the reason the word that fits them.
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And if it's a nice touch, that's I sure for you as well, like you
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and you draw. I knew you liked part of the
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race and I could imagine is when you drive and go into different
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tracks and setting up finding generators, you know, standing
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up talking with new people. Hey, I'm from the Northeast, you
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know? And they it dot dot such a
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different Feeling, he really explain it, but that's
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definitely a type of race in the actual just getting there and
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being set up and and, and then going out there and doing it
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tests and you practice and figuring out the truck, you
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know, that's a big part. That's and solid definition of
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actual reason. So I hope you know, you could
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probably touch on that in the next time or at some point and
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let let people know that racing in.
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Actually coming home with the trophies, but it's actually the
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entire thing about story that defines racing, you know, just
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going on. And then try said something very
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important there. He will say, he said finishing
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the race and not crashing, you know, as you get up into the age
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that we are in responsibilities. Barely got kids, you got wife,
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he got to go home, so you got a job mortgage, you gotta pay for
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the truck but then the credit card bills for the, for the
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races that you Sign up for the biggest part of racing is
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actually just finishing finishing the race and having
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fun. So definitely gotta explain that
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to people. That is not, it's not about
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winning coming over trophies. You're listening to the be
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forever. Cool podcast.
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My name is Rex 45 home along with TJ from two wheels and
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coffee. You know, I couldn't have
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explained it any better than that.
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That's why I literally had to just play that for for folks to
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hear TJ. And I'll also go and say this,
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you know this is our fourth episode in the series and we've
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been getting a lot of love so far.
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I want to shout out Leroy from Guyana.
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He raced in Northeast at loud. And in a Neymar series.
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And you know, after hearing our first episode, he sent me this,
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the, this note and, you know, we chatted and ask them if I can
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play it and he gave me permission to play it because I
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could have explained that as eloquent as he did with the two
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different kinds of racing. I was pretty good, that's pretty
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deep. Yeah, that was that was on the
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money right on the money because and so this It is is going to be
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talking about the two different kinds of racers and and the best
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way to kind of set up, you know, two different titles.
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You know, we got the folks who are professional the ones that
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want to make a living from racing.
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And then we have the enthusiasts, which, you know,
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and enjoy all the same thing to professional enjoys.
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But the goals are different. So the cost is different.
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The risk is different. Yeah, you know you know they're
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the enthusiasts is the love the love for it to keep you out
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there. But the cost is a major effect
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and the people are trying to do a professional.
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Usually, start young, but I don't see this as a
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cost-effective that when you have the chance to take it that
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level. Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly. Yeah, you know, it you know,
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we're we've been blessed because in the next few episodes, we're
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going to have someone on to talk about racing at a very young
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age. You know, we're coming in to
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racing motorcycles. I, you know, I I started racing
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at 40 and and you know, how do you mean start erasing 3333?
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So recovering from it, from a different angle so weird
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enthusiasts in the game, right? We're not the professional.
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We're not looking to go to motor America MotoGP moto2, let me
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world superbike World Supersport BSB the, you know, the
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Australian League, the Kirk Caribbean League, you know,
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this, you know, the Irish lit. This just so many leaks, right?
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There's so many leagues and and, and so, it's generally going to
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be the younger folks and maybe some older folks, as well.
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I'm not, I'm not, I don't want to hear say, yeah, ever, too,
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old to go Racing, moto GP, Valentino Rossi has proven that
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You can be over 40 and race. Granted, you gotta have the same
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skill set as him but you still can be over 40 and and race at a
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high level and beat, you know, two seconds off the fastest guys
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in the world. You know what I mean?
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So we're going to do this episode and just kind of talk
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about that the the racing aspects of it.
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You know, you know, what do you think about what Leroy said
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about, you know, Going to the track and that experience, and
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and and do you find yourself? You know, trying to chase times
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or Plastics or I'll just have the experience that he's talking
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about. Well, you know, it's good when
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he said my first time as new Rider into the track, you know,
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didn't know what to expect. I just want to get out there and
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you know, see, you know, test my limits, see what speed, I can
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build up, listen to all the fast, guys, watch all the fast
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guys, and then I took it from the There.
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And then, once you get the love for it, you realize there's a
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family, you develop a family. So I do have a ritual now.
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So when I get to the track, I do exactly kind of opposite with
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Leroy said. Now, I I show up and I say hello
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to everybody then I unload and did.
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I set up my standards and table and then everyone's like, what
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are you doing for dinner? And I'm like, sorry, I got to go
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to Walmart. And I got a, I got a big pile
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wall, but red, get my fruits and my snack.
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The track and, you know, my juices, right?
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He should all set up and then once I come back and I see
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what's going on, but you know so yeah.
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You know, I really liked what he said that that is really good
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what he said. So I developed a ritual just
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like that, ya know, it's interesting.
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I think we all kind of do regardless male or female who
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you are. Yeah, same thing you know I
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didn't I only drink Red Bull at the track and I only drink Red
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Bullet in the morning. you know, I generally go set up first and
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then hit the Walmart run and and grab all the things I need, you
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know, before when I first started, I used to, you know,
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get there in the morning and try to make registration and all
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that stuff and and just being chaos and by the time you put on
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your suit and it's time to go off our practice, you're a mess
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because you just expanded so much energy.
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So now I like to show up the day before go through Tech day
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before. You know, get my tire warmers on
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everything set up. So that when I wake up in the
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morning all I got is my rituals which is you know, go get my
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cappuccino pull these days. Make my cappuccino Red Bull have
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a half. Sandwich, have some, you know,
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you know, make a smoothie and then, you know, go on a track
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and and and and and and you know, figure out what my day is
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going to be like, right? Yeah, you know you gotta have
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your own ritual and I realized, you know, there's there's a
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certain etiquette for for racing anyway.
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You have to be organized. Yeah you want to make your own
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way in your own way. You want to make sure you set
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up, you have everything you don't want to do it setting up
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at the last minute and you know, forget a piece Or apart we are.
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Yeah. And at that and that's it does
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happen. We have seen people try to go on
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a track and they don't have the boots on.
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We've seen people try to go to track it.
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I have two helmets on, I'm not strapped the gloves, you know
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what I mean. And and and so there is, you
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know, you don't have to be superstitious, but you should
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have a ritual. So that way you, you check all
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the boxes, you know, you got everything you need, you're
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checking your tire warmers. I remember, you know, I remember
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not remember, I've had a few experiences My tire warmers were
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off for one reason or another and and, you know, so now I, um,
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I'm prone to check my one of my warm is at least four times
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before I get out there just to make sure something didn't
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happen because you know, it's like you can set you can check
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your tire pressure. You can put your warmers on and
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and for whatever reason you go back and and something is off,
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you don't want to go out there and risk anything you want to
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make. Sure everything I said isn't
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working order so you want to check it out.
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Warm. It's just walk over to your
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bike. Just put your hand on it and
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make sure you get a little Heat going.
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Yeah, keep the confidence up. So exactly.
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And and you know, and and Leroy's point is, there's you
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know, as we try to do the two categories of professional
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professional again, is someone who's trying to make a living
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from it. Whether you're a privateer or
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you're signed to wanted manufacturers or some team out
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there or your individual who's you know Finance it however you
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find Anson it. The Enthusiast General.
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He's not trying to make a living from it, but they still want to
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go out there and be the best versions of themselves.
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Every lap they can be. So the work ethic is the same
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but the did I think the overall goal is different?
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You still want to get Plastics at the end of the weekend, but
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you're not. If you're an amateur you may not
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be you know in a rush to become an expert in this year.
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An expert, you may not be in a rush to set the lap record, you
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know what I mean and you know the plastic is make you proud
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but You know, you can't be in a rush out here, you got to take
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your time and you you take it, step-by-step corner by corner
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and the more seat time you get, you know, the better you will
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improve, you will make mistakes but you just just keep getting
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that it and keep your focus hi-yah.
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And and let's talk about the the mistakes in the focus for a
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little bit because, you know, we, I guess we have different.
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We have 10 years of experience. Three years of experience.
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What mistakes have you had? Let's talk about some of the
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mistakes you've made. It the shows not long enough so
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we should we start from like, you know, getting to the track
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and I said yeah, just getting to the track, setting up going out,
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you know, talk a little bit about your first experience but
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more, you know, in in the Northeast that the track is such
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a technical track on that. This three different classes
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you'd is a novice is a mature and is an expert.
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So we talked a little bit when you're a novice and get into the
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track and the mistakes and then you know, we'll talk about About
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you being an amateur and then some of the mistakes and I'll
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tell you about mine, it was funny as I made the same mistake
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actually as both classes and all of a sudden an amateur, but I
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can go over the first one as as a novice riding the 400.
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That I rented I was you know just riding the laughs feeling
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comfortable. Getting used to the lines.
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You know, you know you try to follow somebody.
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To see what they're doing and try to keep upright and had a
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few sessions in me. And there's one session that
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there was a think it was a coach or I don't know who I was, but
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they had the same 400cc as I hmm, and they passed me and I
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was like, all the stuff they passed me, I can keep up, right?
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But that's that's a good, you know, you need a, you know, you
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need a tow well that was a mistake that I made right there,
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you know. No, I wasn't focused on myself,
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got you got so yes. So what I try to do is keep up
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with someone who had more experience and actually got some
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footage if you want to check it on my G channel.
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So turn one, he hits the corner really well.
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And I'm just like whole like shocked because I'm that it to
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that level yet. And then I hit turn one a and I
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had too much bar input and just lost fragile.
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Yeah. And I didn't know, like I said,
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I don't know what happened. We're sending cold tires, but as
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learning as you go faster, you can't use.
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Handlebars goes along with the Spanish but right now the first
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mistake. Yeah, I mean, you know, but I
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got up and I was fine with it and it sounds like this kind of,
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you know, the same mistakes I've made as far as on the track.
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I mean, you know, we could talk about, you know, setting up and
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and not picking up, you know, not having the experience to
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know if it rains, which part of the track floods.
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So you probably don't want to camp out which part.
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The track floods. So I've spent a few rounds, you
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know, in a pond because I was I was set up in a place where tend
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to hold the most water if you show up late, like midnight,
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1:00. Yeah, and it's packed and
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response that are open. That's the flat spot.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, did you say that again?
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Say that again. Say that again you show up late,
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you know, the trash over the track like the one in the
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morning. You know, everyone's already set
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up spots that are open usual for lunch but listen.
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You know, I didn't you, you've only been riding for three years
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and you figure that out. I have I'm learning right now
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because you're absolutely right now that I think about it.
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And if you're fortunate enough to friend some people, they
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might be able to save you a good spot.
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So definitely make friends, and, you know what I mean?
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So, you know, not riding, but the same thing, I think the
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biggest mistakes. They're professionals
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enthusiasts makes is losing focus.
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We're and and focus. Starts from when you decide,
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you're going to race in that weekend, you know what I mean?
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Focus doesn't start when you go out on a track for practice.
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Focus starts. When you, when you started to
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plan, when you're packing your trailer or packing, whatever,
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making sure you have everything you need, don't want to forget a
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wrench, don't want to forget to tie warmer, don't want to
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forget, you know, cheer. Because now you're spending more
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money, then then you have to, or, you know, you're dependent
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on someone else's tools or food or whatever, so, Focus really
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starts. From the time you decide that
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okay, I'm going to the racetrack this weekend or whatever we can
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you decide get all your things in order, you know, whatever
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your practice is your practice, you know, if you go off a
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memory, go off and memory. If you write things down on
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paper, on a computer or phone or whatever, whatever it is, have
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your list have your stuff check, make sure you have all the
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things you have. Because once you sit on the
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bike, Actually once you get to the track is too late.
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Well like you said, like Leroy said, once you leave the house,
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you know he like it's like escaping from reality.
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Yeah. You know.
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So you actually got to focus from there to so your mindset is
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all on the track which are going to do.
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We are going to meet what you're going to eat, you know and then
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you go through the ritual. Yeah.
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So so Focus definitely starts before the track, you know and I
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you know, And I that's not something that I created.
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I mean, you know, I've heard the great say it and then that's
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where it is. It starts there.
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And, you know, it's very easy to lose, lose focus and for me and
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competition, you know, it's when somebody passes you or somebody
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makes, you know, in my case, you know, makes a bad move and and
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I'm upset because I didn't think it was a clean pass and I gotta
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pass them. And my goal is now to pass them
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in versus, you know, finishing the I can and Jenna.
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And, and for me, I crashed because I my focus was chasing
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somebody down. Instead of, you know, a ride in
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my ride and at the end of the day, you gotta ride your ride.
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Whatever the bike is given you. Whenever your body or your mind
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is given you. That's the ride.
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You got to do for that day. You know, if you try to do
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something else, you know, and don't get me wrong, you can warm
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yourself up, you know. I'm, you know.
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I'm generally, you know, I warm up and my fastest lap so usually
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my last couple of laps and if you're that kind of right, which
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is not good because, you know, then you're trying to chase
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people down. So I'm not sitting here saying,
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you know, that's the way you should ride.
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I'm just like, you know, for some people you know, we you
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start out slower but you still, you know, you can't lose focus.
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You can't lose focus. So going on my second incident,
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I was chasing someone down thinking that I can.
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Get by them in certain Corners. So that's another thing you
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gotta practice is what you get, you know, fast enough for, you
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know, up to speed where you think you're confident, you got
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to work on other things. Like passing you're getting past
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and stuff like that. So I try to make a move past
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someone but I wasn't on the right racing line and I didn't
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know that at the time and I lost it in turned 12, so I was
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actually chasing him down trying to get past in one and I lost
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Focus. Instead of just trying to see if
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You make a mistake, right? A cleaner, passing.
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Yes. And as far as Focus, you know,
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when you go on a track, what type of focus you want to focus
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on, you know, you gotta find each turn, he there's, there's
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markers where you want to have muscle memory for.
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So, like each turn, you want to know where your RPMs, like,
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where your bike sounds after you.
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Let go of the throttle or when you break in and certain parts,
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there's part certain parts only track.
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Where when you up to speed you can you can memorize your right.
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Yes. And I guess that would be other
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part memory, right? Because you have to focus on
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that and you got to do that consistently until you're off
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the track, right? Yeah.
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And and you know when I'm at we're not going to teach you how
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to ride will. Tell you go to the schools and
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go to the professionals. But what I, you know, I
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regurgitate what they've said to me.
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Probably you as well, you'll take notes, everything is about
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notes, it's, you know, Street ride in.
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I've never raised on the street bikes.
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I don't know what that's like and I won't ever do it.
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I've race cars on the streets and I'm not recommending it, but
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I've done it. But the track is a little
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different. The track is like, you know,
23:32
learning a dance routine or if your Martial Arts learning a
23:35
form or something like that, it's muscle memory, the faster
23:40
you're going to go as muscle memory for the Fast and the
23:42
professional guys show. They're going to learn a track
23:45
faster than we are but they're going to break at the same time
23:48
every corner they're going to gas at the same time if they
23:50
make a mistake then recover from it however best they can.
23:53
Can but it's just how well you can be consistent 48 laps 16
24:00
laps 20 laps or whatever the races.
24:03
There had to be a consistent and that takes a lot of focus got to
24:07
be in shape. And, you know, when you get to
24:10
the track, you have to set your boundaries, you know, you have
24:13
to have your alone time. Yeah, yeah.
24:17
Get your mind, right? It's your mind, right?
24:19
It's not, it's not all fun and games until after, and in the
24:22
beginning, it's different because you don't know right in
24:25
the beginning. You're trying to figure that
24:26
out. If you look young Riders,
24:29
probably easier than if you were older writer.
24:31
I mean, I only know from my perspective, But like the first
24:33
few years I was lost and you know, and it only took a while,
24:39
it took a little bit to for me to get find a routine and and to
24:43
find where a space where I was like, okay, you know, I kind of
24:46
know what's going on now and kind of, you know, I can kind of
24:49
do these things now and you know that, you know what I mean and
24:53
you know, so everyone is going to be different that way, you
24:56
know, there's some people that first time on a racetrack and
24:58
the very competitive there's other people's and make them eat
25:01
people. May take, you know, No, some
25:04
rounds. So, here, when I have my first
25:06
time on a track, I didn't know anything, but it, but a suit.
25:10
And I'll, but I was fortunate to be around a good environment
25:14
that I asked. A lot of questions.
25:15
Yeah, it's got me onto the track, the next season and, and,
25:20
and now I'm trying to, you know, Express that how good it is and
25:24
how they safe, you can be out there.
25:27
So right, right. Right.
25:29
It, which is pretty cool, which is the most important thing is
25:31
how safe you can be. In such a risky environment and
25:36
there's different levels of it, you know what I mean?
25:40
So, you know, so yeah. So you know, shout out to Leroy
25:42
for us and that's that note because, you know, you know,
25:47
we're still very new at this podcast and, you know, we're not
25:52
trying to exclude any part of racing because, you know, for a
25:56
lot of different people with a lot of different reasons why
25:59
they go race. And but one thing is important
26:01
is like, once you get to the We get to the track, you have to be
26:04
focused regardless if you're a professional and you go and Club
26:07
racing just to you know build your skills and compete against
26:10
the the best club riders or your Club rider that's just starting
26:14
out. At the end of the day, focus is
26:17
the main thing planning out your weekend, you know, and this is
26:21
even before like the bike, right?
26:23
Yeah. You want to make sure you're
26:24
comfortable. You want to get it on and be
26:26
doing all this and like 10:00 at night.
26:29
And then it gets cold at the track.
26:31
Yeah, you know and Looking around for some experience.
26:34
So if you're an experienced rider showing up the track at
26:38
five in the morning and setting up, you already know what to
26:40
expect. If you're a new Rider setting up
26:43
a track at 5:00 in the morning, you're going to be useless at
26:45
8:00 in the morning, going to be useless.
26:49
You know what I mean? Because it's new.
26:51
So you know, the universe gives us all type of things, you never
26:55
know what's going to happen. Listen, I've gone race in total,
27:01
my car going racing You know, and still made the race, you
27:06
know? And and and and you know where
27:09
if I just started racing I probably would have just turned
27:12
around and went home. You know, I've been fortunate
27:15
enough to ride with some writers.
27:17
You know? You see folks and their Leathers
27:19
fixing their bikes changing, the attires doing whatever because
27:22
you know, it's not just being on a track, you know, it's the
27:26
whole weekend is how you survive the whole weekend.
27:28
You know what I mean? What, how much you going to push
27:31
yourself to get back out on the track when Nothing bad happened,
27:33
bad happens. You know, your bike is not
27:35
working and you got to, you know, I've seen people do engine
27:38
swaps and two hours and go back out and go racing, you know, so
27:42
it's not and and in the beginning, you know, if the
27:46
temperature wasn't right, I wouldn't race.
27:49
But you know, it's like a It's like a marathon you know to mean
27:55
you want to see What You're Made Of and and and it's not just
27:58
being on a track. It's everything.
28:01
How you how you survived the whole experience.
28:03
You know what you got? You know?
28:05
And as a new writer and you know, we'll have some folks on
28:09
that Italian I could the many ways and I'll say it again as
28:12
many races where I just didn't feel like I wanted to go race
28:15
and and then I've been around some people and I see the level
28:18
of which they the instead of them saying, you know what?
28:21
I do my shit. It was broken on the exhaust is
28:24
came off. I'm done.
28:26
No, they spend 20 minutes wet and getting their bike back
28:29
together to go out and go race again.
28:31
And and that's the part of it, right?
28:33
Because at the end of the day, like Leroy said, when you're
28:37
coming home, you know, you always want to come home.
28:40
You know what I mean? And when you come home, and you
28:42
said, yo, my bike, broke my attitude, your radiator at
28:47
change the string, go mad to change, whatever.
28:49
And my suit had to borrow a suit and then Came home and I got
28:53
Plastics to they do this. It makes you different human
28:58
being and as you know and there's that, that's all I can
29:03
say. It just makes you different
29:04
human being because motorcycle racing.
29:08
You know, the best regardless if your enthusiasts or professional
29:13
the best ones. Don't quit.
29:15
You know you might see Sports where you noticed a second and a
29:18
half and somebody believes they can win the game you know at the
29:21
end of that that's It is it's the best of the best,
29:24
regardless, you know. And and when you see it, it
29:28
actually like when I first saw it, I didn't understand it when
29:32
I started when I experienced it for myself.
29:33
It was just like, yeah. I got to get back out there.
29:37
Like when I went down the first thing someone told me is get
29:41
back out there. Yeah today.
29:42
Yeah and I'm just like I don't think I want to go back out
29:45
there. I don't want to, I don't want to
29:46
go on my last session and I'm like, no, I'm telling you get
29:49
back out there. Yeah, so they forced me to our
29:52
fault. And that was the best thing that
29:54
could ever happen. I mean it will slow you down a
29:56
little bit but you know, you got it.
29:58
Keep getting back, you know, yeah, you got to get up, get
30:01
back out there, don't quit. Yeah, that that that's, that's
30:04
it. Regardless if you were
30:05
professional going through easiest, you know what I'm
30:08
saying? At the end of the day, whatever
30:10
hand you're dealt, you know, it's you can easily just pack up
30:13
and go home and there's nothing wrong with that and I've done
30:15
it. You know what I'm saying?
30:17
And and and and you know I've seen other folks do it too but I
30:21
don't do that anymore. And I think you know when you go
30:24
to school or put our track day it's like a high school or
30:28
college. You find Riders through the
30:31
round the first time and you develop a relationship or
30:34
friendship and you talk and you ride on the track with the same
30:40
time. And when you get off, you
30:42
discuss everything and then when you try to go again and that's
30:46
how you develop a low Bond. So you always have someone
30:49
around to your right? So, you know, and And that's
30:53
just, we are not talking about the bikes.
30:55
Now, as far as the bikes your bike, you know, if you're a new
31:00
Rider, I remember, you know, let's let's have, you talked and
31:06
I have a little more experience than you, what was it?
31:09
Like, you know, your first time out on that 400 and then, let's
31:13
talk about, you know, you bought are built race bike, full
31:16
disclosure, you know, he bought the bike for me, but what was
31:20
your experience like, you know? With that bike and riding with
31:24
the rental bike and then, you know, having a erase built bike,
31:29
Supersport Bill. Well, there was a so much going
31:31
through my head. Like I knew I was renting the
31:33
bike and it wasn't mine so I had to be careful and always riding
31:39
a 600 on my most of my writing career on the street renting a
31:45
400. I knew it was something I can
31:48
handle but when I got to the track I didn't know.
31:52
What was actually needed. So when I rented the bike, it
31:55
didn't have like Tire, warmers, right and DOD tires.
32:00
So when I got out there, I just wrote, you know, just as fast as
32:04
I could, I'm not sure. I like it had rear sets yunos
32:10
Woodcraft like had all the good parts on it but you know, it was
32:15
it wasn't it was very light and It was easy to flick around but
32:21
I didn't really know what I was doing, you know, as far as body
32:24
position goes, I was just figuring out the lines and I got
32:29
pretty used to it, pretty fast but, you know, my speed wasn't
32:33
up there. But what I jumped on the 600, I
32:36
thought I was ready for it and, you know, having a bike that has
32:41
a suspension full suspension setup to my weight standard
32:45
handlebars quick shifter. And again, the 400 didn't have a
32:48
quick shifter. So While shifting every gear
32:52
good straining. Yes very good trade actually
32:58
easy flash. You know stuff like that that
33:00
that will you don't have to focus on a lot of things you can
33:04
focus more on writing, write it very help, my speed improve and
33:09
focus a lot and the 400 was very good bike to practice on because
33:15
all you need to do is a new Riders.
33:16
Is learn to lines and cry. Get your get used to body.
33:19
The Shari position getting used to being passed by Riders and
33:23
not looking over your shoulder just being confident and
33:25
predictable. Right, relax and relax.
33:28
No, but that's the most important part, relax.
33:30
But once you get into it more and want to improve, you do need
33:36
better suspension setup in have a bike that is more race built,
33:40
right? And going into that 600 that had
33:43
was definitely a race-ready bike.
33:46
It's very comfortable. You get used to it pretty fast
33:49
as well. So I'm very fortunate at the
33:51
bike and trying to improve more. Right.
33:53
Right. Yeah.
33:54
And I'll say, you know, my experience is, you know, is 10
33:58
years in the making, I didn't rent a bike, but I bought a,
34:02
someone else's race bike and that was one of the best things
34:06
for me because, you know, it's when the bike is already set up
34:10
and it's a good build, meaning that is not breaking down every
34:14
second on you and stuff like that.
34:15
And everything works. It's a beautiful thing because
34:18
then you just got worried about your Position your break in your
34:21
eyes, you have to worry about the bike at all, you know what I
34:26
mean? And, and so, I had a very good
34:28
experience with my first buying a first race bike.
34:32
Like, you did my second race bike, which is the bike you
34:35
purchased, and I had to build. My experience was a little
34:38
different, you know, I went to, you know, when you first I'll go
34:44
back a little bit because if, you know, I was new to
34:46
motorcycles in general. So I didn't have a lot of Lot of
34:50
connections with, you know, motorcycle mechanics or
34:53
technicians, or whatever you want to call them.
34:55
I didn't know who knew, you know, how to build a good bike.
34:58
I know, I can tell you who can build a good race car, but I
35:01
couldn't tell you how to go to build it.
35:02
So I had to learn that, you know, and I had some people
35:05
connect with some people and for the most part it went okay.
35:10
You know, I end up, you know, buying a crashed bike, the 07
35:14
that you have and and and trade in my race bike for bunch of
35:17
parts. Somebody else and Go.
35:20
Well, or could go pretty crappy depend on the person you're
35:24
buying for. And and let's just say at the
35:26
end of the at the end of the conversation with guy I wanted
35:29
nothing to do with them because it you know some people some
35:35
people mean well in motorcycle racing but not everyone means
35:38
well and sometimes you may get a bad hand and and you have to
35:42
recover from that because not every person in motorcycle race
35:46
in all motorcycle mechanic or anything do it, most Cycles,
35:50
bad. Most of them are pretty good.
35:51
I would say. But there are few bad apples out
35:54
there that that that will, you know, sell you parts that aren't
35:58
as good as they should be or they claim to be, you know, I'm
36:01
saying that kind of happened to me building that bike.
36:05
And, you know, I have parts that I couldn't use because, you
36:07
know, they did, they just sold me crappy parts, but if you
36:11
don't know, you don't know. And so and and, you know, you
36:15
know. So I'm sure there's somebody out
36:17
there that can learn everything about motorcycles, are not
36:19
guests. Rude.
36:20
But all of us is going to have a bath at least one or two.
36:22
Bad experience with some modified motorcycle folks,
36:27
brother rate riding on the streets or or on the track, you
36:31
know, there's some dealers that are just, you know, they just do
36:34
some horrible things and and and and and not all of them are like
36:37
that, but there's some out there like that.
36:40
So yeah, before I bought your bike, when I was asking a lot of
36:45
questions, like how do you guys afford all this?
36:47
You know? I had a bike already at 600 and
36:52
I wanted to turn it into a track bike.
36:54
A little like, no, no, no, no, no.
36:56
Get a race bike is don't build, don't build your bike into a
37:01
race bike is it's cheaper. So, it's definitely cheaper, I
37:04
built to race, but I don't know where to find a race bike at the
37:08
time. I'm like, they were like, oh,
37:09
check this website, check this website.
37:12
So I didn't know like what to really look for.
37:14
So like as you're right, so you can find a bike that might be a
37:18
reasonable price for you. Self at the time.
37:20
But you don't know what the writers done to the bike.
37:23
He could just not have taken care of it.
37:25
And everything is failing and just want to sell it and Rio
37:28
you. And, you know, if you have the
37:31
luxury, you know, and I always say this even when people are
37:34
buying cars, you know, finally, if you already have a good
37:37
mechanic that you know, see what they charge for now or schedule
37:41
an hour have them, check the bike out on the car out before
37:44
you buy, pay for it because it can save you, a lot of headaches
37:47
down the road. If the deal is the iso, I had a
37:51
bad experience with a second bike.
37:53
I built. I bought that was built, but I
37:57
was just too eager. I didn't I didn't look closely.
37:59
I wasn't paying that, you know, it's like it's like, you know,
38:02
sometimes you see the bike and I'm like a car, you just, you
38:05
see, just see the good things. And, and I bought a race bike
38:09
that I probably shouldn't have bought.
38:11
And, and it cost me more money than it needed to do fix, and it
38:14
does happen. And again, for the second time
38:17
now, I've a so I bought Bought two bikes that were built to
38:21
race, and I built to race by. I'm on my second race bike,
38:24
build right now for my 2022 bike for next season.
38:28
You know, there's, there's there's something to be said,
38:32
when you when you, you know, if there's someone out there that
38:34
that's a good deal, that they built the bike and it has like a
38:36
few hundred miles on it, and it's relatively new that's
38:40
great. If you know, if there's someone
38:42
that, you know, there's someone that, you know, that recommend
38:44
you to somebody, you know, and you can generally tell, but it's
38:48
very important to get the Checked out if you don't have
38:51
the skill sets to evaluate the bike for yourself and pay
38:54
somebody to do that, because it'll save you a lot of money in
38:57
the long run and race bikes usually crashed, you know?
39:00
So, you know, you want to make sure everything's right like the
39:03
forks, you know, straight make sure that the frame is good.
39:08
No cracks. Yeah.
39:10
But you always want to make sure there's like rear sets where
39:13
they're replaceable binds. They're replaceable.
39:16
So right key Things that you need on the race.
39:21
Bye guys. I was I seen to notice no doubt,
39:24
so you're listening to the be forever.
39:26
Cool podcast. My name is Rex, 45mm along with
39:29
TJ from two wheels and coffee and we talked about racing and
39:34
then and in the US of a right, you know?
39:38
And you know, so that's a lot of information that's been packed
39:41
into this last show last show. It even should definitely check
39:43
out the two previous shows and we're going to continue to just
39:47
talk about our experience with Send in and trying to provide as
39:50
much information as possible because that's the biggest
39:54
thing. When you decide to go racing
39:57
finding it information and and and getting it, you know what I
40:02
mean? And you know, all the
40:03
professional stuff. We will leave to the
40:05
professionals. If you look at your suspension,
40:07
you gotta find somebody who knows about suspension.
40:10
If you doing engine work, you got to find somebody who's good
40:12
at that framework. You gotta find somebody who's
40:14
good at that everything else I think, you know, you can bolt on
40:18
and built off. Self.
40:19
I will say, I wrenched my bike more now than I ever did before.
40:25
I found even would pay in some people, some people still make
40:28
mistakes on your bike, you know, some of the guys, I raced with,
40:31
they only reached their own bike because it just cuts down on the
40:35
mistakes and also just cost because you know you may have a
40:38
friend that will help you out and race weekend but if you're
40:42
not going to have somebody help you out every race weekend.
40:44
So you're either paying someone. Or you got to start learning,
40:49
you know, the beautiful thing about it.
40:50
There's a lot of information online that you can learn and
40:53
and, and do, and, and figure out.
40:57
So don't be scared to learn or ask questions.
41:01
And the beautiful thing about this is, well, is this is a race
41:04
weekend event, so you could just bring your bike and not race and
41:06
just work on it. That is true.
41:08
And there's also, where can you find all these people to fix
41:13
your bike? Like you want to go to a whole
41:14
bunch of different shots? 50/50 chance that there's
41:17
someone you may know at the track that has something to do
41:20
with each part you're looking for?
41:22
Yeah, exactly. So it's a whole family
41:25
environment as I figured out so far.
41:28
And it's a good place to be to fix on your bikes, then race to
41:31
get information, all that good stuff.
41:35
No doubt. Yeah, I think that's it.
41:38
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41:42
Instagram to Wales and coffee to where else.
41:45
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