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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Episode 23 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Let me tell you what story about something I learn.
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  Y'all. The fast and the fury Make your
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  mouth drop Like Jordan and Julie stepping on the court dog on
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  No done store in your world like Marvin Marshawn.
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  see Like miss our wild Lod. We can't believe me.
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  Eyes won't stop rocking till the boat capsize in the holy water,
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  washing off the disguise. Always go back to your dirty big
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  style. Damn big you left them in the
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  ties. Welcome back to the Be Forever
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  Cool podcast. My Name Is Rex 45.
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  My name is TJ and two wheels and coffee.
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  What's going on, man? We're finally back.
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  It's been a while, We've been moving around and you've had a
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  whole lot on your player. I don't even wanna know how
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  you've been going through this, but you're still in the game,
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  you know? Yes.
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  Got the love for the sport, so you know.
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  So yeah, I guess we got to get people caught up, man.
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  I mean it's been, it's probably been about it's.
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  I think the last show we did was after the Classic, yeah, shout
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  out to all the viewers, appreciate it, keep us going.
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  And I was mentioning to the other day how it keep running to
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  people who like the show. So appreciate you guys for
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  watching, no doubt. Get that out the way and shout
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  out to the Neymar series for continuing and putting on good
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  racing and you know, just just happy.
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  Just happy. So yeah, so it's been a while
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  and so lots been happening. I mean, we just raced this past
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  weekend, so it's kind of like our summer break, like Motor GP,
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  I guess. Yeah, we're around 3:00, you
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  know, ended in June, June class, June the class 18th or something
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  like that. And then after that we had five
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  weeks off, almost 6. Yeah, almost 6.
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  And that was our summer break, you know?
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  Yeah. And and and that.
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  So, So what have you done between, you know, you know the
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  the, the classic and now you know.
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  So I don't want to like jump ahead too far, but like you know
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  after after the classic, two weeks after that I did do a
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  track day and and a safety track again.
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  So you know it was my second time there.
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  It was a little more familiar. So it's a little comfortable and
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  then? So, so, so let's talk about you
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  know, the the experience and and and go into details and well you
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  know, it felt good because I got another rider, you know my one
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  of my friends, Josh, who you know got to experience the track
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  too. So it's all about, you know
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  getting people to new tracks. So that was a good
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  accomplishment, you know, to get his feet wet.
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  And he enjoyed his time. Yeah, it's I think it's nice.
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  I didn't it took me a while to go to a new track and I did one
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  track for a long time where you guys you know you've been you've
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  been racing for three years now, right?
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  Three years, three years and and and now you you know you you you
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  hit another track and same thing with Josh and I.
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  And I think that's important because you get to learn
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  different things. Yeah, it is obviously a
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  different environment, but you know, you get to, like you said,
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  learning new things. The corners, I mean just like
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  basic is a lot smoother. Yeah, like this basic corner.
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  And it's just a different track. You know what I'm saying?
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  And you and you just, you're going to turn different.
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  You're going to, you're going to do things differently.
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  Your body's going to move differently than just at Loudon.
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  You know what I mean? I mean of course, see time at
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  Loudon is always great, but you know, it's always to stretch out
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  and see other things and it's perfect to see what other tracks
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  have to offer. And you know, going for my
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  second time was a little more comfortable and it was great to
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  run. You know, it wasn't a, it wasn't
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  a crowded group, but you know it, it was a lot of riders out
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  there where you can keep pace with and you know, have fun out
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  there. But it it was fun and the
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  journey has been been amazing too, because like I said before,
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  I was always throwing my bike back on the pickup.
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  That was one of my first goals, OK, because I couldn't get to
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  the track and I finally got a truck and then I was able to
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  explore, you know, and then finally got a little open
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  trailer so it's easy to transport and carry more things
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  and. So you're adding, yeah, you
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  know, you're changing up. What's going on as far as Okay?
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  Now I was just towing in my pickup and that and cramming
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  everything into the into the back of the car or around the
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  bike. Now you've given yourself a
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  little more space and well, what is it like towing?
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  I mean I think you told before, so yeah I told before but this
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  time I didn't tell I was with the Josh.
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  So we we brought our bikes together which which it made it
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  work out because you know otherwise we have to take two
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  trucks and right want to waste money like that.
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  So, so now you have more space in the back seat.
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  Now you got your the back of the bed has space for the stuff that
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  used to go in the back seat. Yeah, you got to start small.
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  You know, you go through these tracks and see people with these
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  big campers and you just want to jump jump into, you want to just
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  jump to that. You know it's you.
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  The end of the day, you want to get out there and have fun.
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  So no matter how you can get there, it's just whatever you
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  can do, right, Right, Right. We're progressing.
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  You know, next thing will probably be a close trailer, but
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  got to get to more tracks it. It is, It is.
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  That's that's how it is. I mean that's how it was.
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  That's how it is for a lot of people, including myself and and
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  you guys are experiencing that and then you know you guys are
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  doing it together, which is cool because it's nice to have
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  somebody that you can cut some of the cost with too.
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  And and and go out there and ride so that's cool.
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  So now how did Josh like New York safety track and and in the
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  track day right because I think that outside allowed and getting
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  the license and stuff like that that's his first like track day.
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  Yeah. So it was it was good because I
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  don't know if they do this at every safety track but this
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  particular group had a beginner well rookie basically.
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  Well they they literally walking around the track at A at A at a
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  controlled speed and then you have a novice group and
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  intermediate and expert. So you know he hasn't been on
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  track at all this year so that was good to start out with.
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  You know obviously he just bumped up quick but you know
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  just to learn the lines and stuff like that and finally to
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  see feels what it feel like to you know twist the throttle.
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  Yeah, because now that you know New York safely got nice
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  straight, nice long long corners and camber turns.
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  And there's a lot of trees around too, so you gotta stay
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  focused. Yeah, yeah.
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  You know, I mean, that all tracks you do too.
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  I mean, there's walls that are the tracks.
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  Right. It's different when you see your
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  first time experience than like trees, right?
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  And we're not, you know, we're going to the tree house and loud
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  it. Right.
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  But you don't really. You don't really.
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  I mean, you know. A few people have ended up over
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  there, but generally it's one of those rare spots you have to be
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  going so fast to get that far over there.
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  So you got to be like one of the fast people to to really get
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  over there. But for the most part you don't.
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  It's not like in your peripheral, you know you you
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  probably see the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the flag
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  stand more than anything else, but you don't really see it.
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  But like other places where it's like.
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  Like it's in front of you. So yeah, there's gotta get in
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  that beginner group first, You know, process everything, see
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  what it's about, and then test your skills, you know?
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  And I mean, there's a turn, obviously, But, you know, it's
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  like the first time you see it, you have to process that.
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  Like, it's trees. Right.
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  But yeah, he enjoyed his time. Like he really wants to go back
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  whenever we can go back. He's all in so.
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  Nice, nice. That's that's awesome.
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  I mean, it's nice to, it's nice to, you know, it's nice to bring
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  more people in. Yeah, I was brought in by shout
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  out to my friend Nick. You know, he's always inviting
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  me out there and that's how I scheduled time and trying to
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  drag more people along. So hopefully next year we can go
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  with a bigger crew and you know it all helps the track day, you
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  know, just like you know loud and you know the more people we
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  bring it helps us serious so. Yeah, definitely.
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  And and just getting more time on the bike and getting some
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  time to practice where, you know, as we were saying off
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  camera before the show, you know, it's you know you're
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  practicing in the race and that's not that's not what you
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  should be practicing. Yeah, you know, we get time to
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  do practice before the track, our races, but you know.
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  You know, where you can spend a whole day, you know, working on
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  something, you know, I mean like we get 2 professionals in the
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  morning, but you know, we don't get enough time, you know, to
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  you. Know not not track days and and
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  direct time to you know get that out the way right.
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  We're working on anybody like you said while we're racing.
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  Yeah, you know what I mean? So it's definitely nice to do
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  that. So that's good.
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  And then that it, that's that. What else?
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  What else is? Well, you know our, I would call
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  that our summer break from riding.
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  That was our low winter project. We you know fixed the bikes up
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  low, did low maintenance on the bikes and you know fixed the
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  trailer up because when we got the trailer it was just the mesh
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  deck. So we put some wood down and and
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  the chalks and yeah that was our little project Carpenter hat.
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  Yeah, I've got our he has dirty, you know, cutting wood, so.
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  Nice. Nice.
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  I know. That's what we wanted to get
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  into. Like, you know the working out
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  part, you know? Yeah, yeah.
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  No, it's it's, it's nice when you, you know, you know where
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  you want to get to and and then you get these little, you know,
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  success, right. Cuz yeah, I got my trailer now
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  and now I got more space now a little bit more comfortable and
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  and you know, the goal is to, you know, get as comfortable as
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  you can get. Although, you know, I was, you
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  know, jumping ahead a little bit at the track, I did see some
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  older guys camping out and I wondered like.
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  I don't. I'm I'm looking for like a nice
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  mattress. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like I I can't. You know, I used to camp as a
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  kid and and and you know, I loved it.
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  But now I'm like, I think it's something you just have to love,
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  right? Or you get used to just camping.
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  Because I I don't. I mean I know their stories, but
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  I assume it's a choice because you know they they got a van so
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  they could probably sleep in the van but they popped the tent and
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  and sleep in that. So I'm just like, you know, for
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  some people. That outdoor feeling probably
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  doesn't go away. I think the weather has to play
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  a big part of it because we want to get so much time.
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  I know when it gets to September, the tents are gonna
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  start disappearing a little more.
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  We might see a few, right? But as it gets colder, you know,
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  and I don't know, I think it's probably the weather.
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  But yeah, so I think for some people it's a financial thing,
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  but for for, I think outdoors folks that love doing that
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  anyway, I think for them, they're going to do it
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  regardless. Hey, I'll sacrifice 10 Life just
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  to get a race in, you know? Oh, you know, yes, I hope I
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  don't have to. But you know, you know, it's
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  it's interesting to see the different folks.
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  That how they camp out and and how they, you know, they they
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  spend their time at the track, you know.
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  So it's a beautiful thing all around.
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  Well, that's another beautiful thing is when you get to the
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  track is you've been there enough where you know your
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  friends and their setup but everyone has a unique setup.
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  Yeah. So it's always fun how people
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  face their bikes and the canopies they use or the tools
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  like holding it with rims or buckets.
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  And you know, it's cool to see everyone set up and they got
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  their bicycles outside or scooters, you know, their little
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  transportation to get around the tracks.
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  I will say, you know, I think I was one of the first people to
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  have a scooter kicking around. But the the the scooter life,
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  the kick scooter, battery operated scooter is is is, you
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  know, a pretty pretty soon we're going to need our own lane
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  because it's just everybody has them.
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  It's crazy to see my my first time at the track I was walking.
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  Oh yeah, me too. Me too.
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  The next time I went, I forgot to get something.
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  But I had like a little mini scooter.
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  Yep, and I was riding around that little thing, like had to
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  hunch over. There was looking every like,
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  what the hell, Like whatever gets around.
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  Whatever gets around. And then one of my friend's sons
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  came in. He was just having a blast on
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  that thing, so he took it home. So I had to upgrade.
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  No, that's not the crazy part. You know, You talk about the
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  camping setup, but bikes, you know.
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  Everyone like some unique pick bikes, regardless is battery
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  operated or any scooters. You know, foot operated or
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  whatever gas. It's crazy to see people set up,
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  you know, so. So yeah, so you know, this five
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  weeks, you know, missing Moto GP.
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  Moto GP was gone for five weeks too.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know a little bit of World
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  Super Bike happened but you know a lot's happening.
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  So for me where unfortunately I I haven't been riding as much
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  because you know, I'm, I'm relocating down South.
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  So I've been doing more a lot of moving and haven't been working
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  out, haven't been riding. So you know this this past
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  weekend? You know, it was, it reminded me
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  like, yeah, you gotta still work out, no matter how busy you are,
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  no matter how you don't know what's going on, if if, if
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  you're not in, you know, I still had the mindset of when I got
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  off the bike last two months ago thinking like, oh, I'm just
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  going to hop on and do these things.
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  And then my body was like, hey, you know, we haven't done this
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  in a while. Yeah, I think I felt the same
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  thing. My pace was much slower than it
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  was the last round and then I'm satisfied with my riding anyway,
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  but my pace was a little off. But now to come to think about
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  it, we had such a long break and the things I was doing, I wasn't
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  really, you know, getting that workout in and staying fit.
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  And also, I didn't practice that Friday, which took another toll
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  because the forecast said 100% chance of rain pretty much
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  rained all day and then it just kept slimming down getting
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  pushed back by hour. And yeah they say yo just just
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  sign up you know just just crossing fingers and go do it.
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  I should have just done that and and about the about the.
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  No, I I I agree. It's, you know, I used to take
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  the racer practice sessions for granted, you know, thinking I
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  can just come in on Saturday morning and do a couple of
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  sessions and get to whatever my my personal best was before.
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  That you you you just got it doesn't work like that because
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  you know everything is different and and you need that see time
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  So it does help you know to to get in you know practice on
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  Fridays so that way when we went for a Saturday you know usually
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  your fastest time. I don't want to speak for
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  everybody but I tend to get faster as the weekend goes on.
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  So you know if I if I get enough riding in on Friday, race on
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  Saturday, usually on Sunday my last race is my fastest time
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  usually, yeah. So I'm have to check my stats.
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  I know my practice times is not that good, right?
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  Usually later during the day I will get better, right?
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  Instead of getting fatigued. I feel like that.
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  But I don't know if like the next day.
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  Yeah, you this weekend didn't prove that right.
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  You got the initial warm up that your muscles got it do right.
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  So you gonna feel that and I think once you get past that
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  that point then you feel fine. I think for me that was it.
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  What happened on Saturday, like you know, I like once I got past
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  that that point like, OK now I like Sunday, I didn't feel any
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  pain at all. But, but, you know, it was a
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  point where just like, yeah, you know, I'm not quite warmed up
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  yet. Yeah, I mean you gotta warm the
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  muscles up. I mean, you know the track by
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  heart. You can close your eyes and you
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  know, humming out or where you're at, but you still gotta
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  calibrate yourself. When you stretch your muscles
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  out like on the bike, you know you gotta do that warm up lap,
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  so. So yeah, so so yeah.
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  So how was your weekend how overall and.
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  You know I I know I know we're talking off here about your
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  times and you brought up a little bit now you know do you
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  think that you know your weekend overall is you know have you
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  like usually I process like driving home on on on on back
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  from I I figure out I look I usually think about things I did
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  wrong mostly and then think about things I did right and and
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  and then I know what I got to do but you know so how you know
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  have you have you have you. Come to terms with that yet.
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  Well now that I'm thinking about it this is the first time like,
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  I mean everyone hits a wall but I'm trying to figure out like
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  why was I off. I mean I now that I think about
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  it I really didn't come in the weekend with a plan.
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  Like I I didn't come in to say, hey I want to do this, do that.
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  It's it's kind of like the natural things you know.
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  But I I usually come in and try to set a goal just just a small
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  goal. But I I don't I can't think of
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  setting one so also had some family in attendance and stuff
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  like that so. That keeps you a little
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  distracted for sure. I don't know if that maybe write
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  a little more cautious, but you know, yeah, I know that I gotta
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  try to set more goals and start working out a little bit more
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  just to keep the blood flowing and the muscle memory so.
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  Yeah, yeah. No, I hate you there.
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  You know this. I wrote my R6.
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  This round which I this is my second time riding the bike for
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  the whole year. So you know it it it's I had you
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  know and even at the classic I did I felt really comfortable on
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  the bike. So in my mind I I had a much you
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  know different idea of what was going to happen.
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  But then like I said, like not working out that that part of it
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  definitely was just kind of like, OK, like, you know, I feel
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  good here. I feel good here, but now you
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  know my my body's hurting and. And that which doesn't make you
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  comfortable when you start to feel pain.
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  Yeah, you definitely got to stretch too.
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  I try to stretch a lot before I get on the bike.
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  I remember you was talking after your first race.
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  You was like, man, yeah, my legs are aching.
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  Yeah, yeah, I can't do it. I'm like sure you just just lay
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  down a little few minutes. He's like no.
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  No, no, no, no. I literally was like stretched
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  out. I had cramps and again it's we
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  have a not a huge age gap but we have about 10 years on each
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  other and not using that as an excuse but.
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  In the past taking two months off would have been no big deal
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  I I in my mind and but then it's just kind of like I was I was
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  reminded of of the the age of my body.
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  So I was just like okay yeah maybe I I just got to you know
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  always keep it going because it's easier to fall fall off.
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  It's a lot older you get it's easier to get out of shape than
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  than when you're younger you know what I mean?
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  So. Have to keep them.
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  Yeah. No, seriously.
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  And and and and and that's the reality of it.
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  So it's just like you know even though it which is you know
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  you're always gonna take time off from working out.
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  So it's it's it's just the ebb and flow.
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  But it was one of those and I didn't have the.
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  I really didn't have the time to work out because I've been
• 20:31
  driving back and forth moving stuff and doing all that.
• 20:34
  So I I could have found some time but really didn't have the
• 20:38
  time. But it is what it is so.
• 20:40
  You know, I can't. I couldn't beat myself up too
• 20:41
  much about the weekend because, you know, I wasn't the best
• 20:44
  version of myself, you know, going into it.
• 20:48
  So it is what it is. You can't bring stuff out, you
• 20:50
  gotta balance a little bit, so. Yeah, you know and and that's
• 20:54
  the reality of it. You know when you when you think
• 20:55
  about racing, yet you have to look at the whole thing because
• 20:59
  you know you can't just, you know if you have a bad weekend,
• 21:02
  you know you can't just, you know, just you know, just.
• 21:05
  Be kicking rocks. You know what I'm saying?
• 21:07
  You got to really think about it because you know you can if you
• 21:10
  go back a month, you can look at what you were doing and stuff
• 21:12
  like that and you can kind of say, OK, I can see why I'm not
• 21:16
  in the same space versus the month or two months before.
• 21:19
  You know, cuz it like the offseason I work out a lot too.
• 21:22
  And my I don't work as much while racing and so your body's
• 21:26
  going to be deteriorating, you know what I mean?
• 21:29
  But I try to. I mean, I work around between
• 21:30
  travel and stuff like that, but it's not the same thing.
• 21:33
  So you know, it is, you know, understanding that, okay, you
• 21:37
  know, you have to look at the whole.
• 21:39
  You have to evaluate the whole, whole, the whole time before you
• 21:43
  can sit here and just be kicking rocks or just, you know, just be
• 21:45
  flipping your bike over. Yeah, So definitely we got a
• 21:50
  short turn around. So we just completed around
• 21:54
  4:00, which we had a whole month and a half off 5 weeks.
• 21:59
  Off 5 weeks off now we're hitting round four.
• 22:03
  Just completed that, so. But you will hit round four, cuz
• 22:07
  around 5 around 5:00. I will be on the road heading
• 22:10
  South in a couple of days, you know, which is I'm gonna miss
• 22:14
  Loudon for sure. It, you know, it's the track I
• 22:17
  started on and you know I've had 10 years of of of racing at
• 22:22
  Loudon and you know the last year in this year they had that
• 22:26
  ginormous purse and you know they announced that they going
• 22:29
  to do it again next year. So I probably will try to come
• 22:31
  for the classic. I mean, I'm not racing in the
• 22:34
  classic, but you know, I'll come and race and and and and enjoy
• 22:37
  it because, you know, like they said in the writers meeting.
• 22:41
  It was an awesome time. If Mother Nature held up, it
• 22:44
  would have been, you know, even more amazing.
• 22:47
  But even in the rain, it was still pretty amazing.
• 22:50
  Yeah. And just go back to that.
• 22:52
  It was amazing to see, you know, for me, starting just watching
• 22:57
  all these fast guys, the local guys, just like, wow, someone
• 23:00
  did a 13. Wow.
• 23:01
  Someone did a 12. Like, oh, they touched an 11.
• 23:04
  And then the these factory teams come in, never seen the track
• 23:08
  before and they do a 10. Yeah, they're professionals,
• 23:12
  professionals, but you know. TJ they're professionals.
• 23:14
  This is, this is what we, you know, we we got other things we
• 23:17
  got to do. This is all they do to eat,
• 23:20
  sleep breathe, racing. And it's amazing to see and you
• 23:24
  know, and again, I think you know, I saw this clip of Kobe
• 23:28
  Bryant, you know, talking about, you know, if you work out three
• 23:32
  hours a day, every day for one year.
• 23:36
  You're going to be better than somebody that works out one hour
• 23:38
  a day or one hour a day, 2 * a week, which is what the average
• 23:43
  person does. You know, and he's talking about
• 23:46
  basketball as an example, but this could be using anything in
• 23:49
  life. Like, you know, so it's one of
• 23:52
  those things where you know, you know we have other things going
• 23:56
  on so we don't have the opportunity to be on the bike.
• 23:58
  Once you're on the bike every day, you know everything's going
• 24:01
  to come so natural. So you know the the the the
• 24:06
  riders or the the basketball players or whoever that's at the
• 24:09
  top is because you know they've had the for whatever reason.
• 24:13
  You know, there's lots of reasons, but motivation and
• 24:15
  disciplines and all that thing that you know that that you need
• 24:19
  and also you're not financial. No financial responsibility
• 24:23
  because you don't have time like that.
• 24:25
  You know you'll get there. So it is that, you know, it's
• 24:27
  like is if we can get on the bike, you know, every day, then
• 24:32
  we get to loudness. It's you're going to be like, Oh
• 24:35
  yeah, I tried too, but the street riding is a little
• 24:37
  different. Can't really practice how I
• 24:39
  want. Yeah, but it will.
• 24:41
  It will. You know you can use your eyes
• 24:42
  riding. You know you can get, you can
• 24:44
  shift, you can still be shifting smooth.
• 24:47
  You know what I'm saying? You can still work on your body
• 24:48
  position. You don't have to go 100 miles
• 24:50
  an hour, you don't have to drag your knee, but you can still
• 24:52
  work on your body position when when the turns or whatever you
• 24:56
  know give you that. So you can ride with that.
• 24:58
  You can ride with looking at find on the line and trying to
• 25:01
  ride that. So you know you can and and and
• 25:03
  and that's the that's the biggest part.
• 25:05
  Like I think when I the, the the.
• 25:09
  The loud, the classic round I was.
• 25:11
  That's what I realized. Like, you know, my hands weren't
• 25:13
  reacting as quickly, you know, I realized like, Oh yeah, OK, I
• 25:18
  gotta work on that, cuz now I can see it.
• 25:20
  You know what I mean? Where?
• 25:21
  I mean cuz I've been writing the KTM which.
• 25:23
  Everything is slower on that bike.
• 25:25
  So it's like, you know, I now have to move faster and get my
• 25:29
  timing up and stuff like that. So, you know, these are, these
• 25:31
  are things that you can practice it, especially shifting, like
• 25:34
  just just just shifting and and and all that.
• 25:36
  That that keeps you in rhythm when it's when you get on the
• 25:38
  track, you have a good bottle feel, you got a good brake feel.
• 25:41
  You know what I mean? Yeah, I can tell my timing was
• 25:43
  off a little bit. I mean I wasn't snappy like
• 25:46
  that. I was just getting to the
• 25:47
  corners and then in making the move I wasn't, you know, quick
• 25:50
  with it, you know. So we'll have some goals for
• 25:53
  next round, hopefully improve a little bit, but yeah, if you
• 25:57
  gotta keep the fitness up. Yeah, yeah, Fitness up takes
• 26:01
  some notes. It helps.
• 26:05
  And I was gonna say as far as that, the Classic, like you
• 26:10
  said, they're running it again next year, so it should just be
• 26:12
  that more exciting to and you'll see these guys do some fast
• 26:16
  laughs. No, I think so.
• 26:18
  Well, yes, for sure. It's gonna be very exciting.
• 26:20
  But just if this happens, if this continues that purse in
• 26:29
  four years, you're gonna see. You know, a lot of riders or I
• 26:35
  don't want to say, yeah, for real, like, you know what I
• 26:37
  mean? It's just kind of like Tech Peco
• 26:39
  going to try to get it tasted. I don't know he's going to come,
• 26:41
  but some retirees might show up. You might, you know, you might
• 26:44
  see Davis, you know, producer. You know, I'm saying I don't
• 26:48
  think they need the money. Not to say they need, but you
• 26:50
  know, I'm saying it's you're definitely going to see more
• 26:54
  folks come around as come Robert Camaraderie.
• 26:57
  Yeah, as as it gets out because you got it's like the it's like
• 26:59
  the Daytona 200. And and you and you see the
• 27:02
  writers that that come in and this person is a lot bigger than
• 27:05
  that so you know and and this is New Hampshire loud in New
• 27:09
  Hampshire which is which is really dope honestly.
• 27:12
  So I do hope it continues but you know yeah it's it's it would
• 27:17
  be amazing if the weather holds up next year that's all we
• 27:22
  needed. You know I think everything else
• 27:24
  was was perfect. It's just the weather.
• 27:27
  Yeah, so we just had that one one day.
• 27:30
  It was perfect for us. It was perfect for us.
• 27:33
  We had our Friday and Sunday. Nice hot, dry, but that Saturday
• 27:38
  rain all. Day, Yeah.
• 27:39
  Yeah. So, so that that's the downside
• 27:42
  there. So, so you have to quick turn
• 27:44
  around. So what does that mean?
• 27:45
  What do you do? And you know, in a quick turn
• 27:47
  around, as far as you know, keep everything in the truck, in the
• 27:51
  trailer, don't move it. Laundry.
• 27:59
  Everything right back. Yeah.
• 28:00
  Ready to go? Just yeah.
• 28:04
  But you know what I mean? Just keep everything close,
• 28:07
  yeah. I mean, if you don't need to
• 28:08
  repair your bike and you don't need to change any fluids, then
• 28:12
  that's kind of really all it is. You know and like I said laundry
• 28:17
  and and you know, that's it. You know, I I do like the quick
• 28:20
  turnarounds because it's nice to get back on the bike there
• 28:22
  quickly, you know, because. Yeah, because the chances are
• 28:28
  you're going to get back to your times next in two weeks.
• 28:32
  You know, just because of how the season started in the first
• 28:34
  three weeks and the time difference, you know, you were I
• 28:37
  think we're like 3 weeks apart or something like that the most,
• 28:41
  I think from when it when it first started.
• 28:42
  So you know. I I think you know the next show
• 28:45
  we do and we talk about your times.
• 28:48
  I think you'd be happy. Hope so.
• 28:50
  Like I'm back, baby. That's it.
• 28:53
  But yeah, there's it was a it was a good weekend.
• 28:56
  You know I had fun. I'm I'm so used to just staying
• 29:00
  on the track now. Like I remember before we like
• 29:03
  when I had a lot of friends we would do Airbnb and you know had
• 29:05
  to wake up and drive. Like I'm just so used to just
• 29:08
  waking up at the track. Yeah.
• 29:10
  And that's just such a gift to have, you know, racing or at a
• 29:14
  track day but want to shout out and beam for winning his first
• 29:19
  dash for cash. He's always in the top nine or
• 29:24
  top five, but I think this was his first one to shout out to
• 29:28
  him for that because that guy always gives me good knowledge
• 29:32
  and support and tires, whatever. It's always helpful to everybody
• 29:37
  for sure. It's just good to see you pay
• 29:39
  off. For definitely shout out to Ian,
• 29:40
  for sure. Saint John?
• 29:44
  Yeah, Saint John, for sure. It was a fun race to watch, too.
• 29:50
  It's the fast, folks. It's.
• 29:55
  You know, in your case it's, it's it's probably like, you
• 29:59
  know, 5 seconds, but it it's a big 5 seconds, right?
• 30:03
  You always be like how did they get that?
• 30:05
  Where where are they doing this? Yeah.
• 30:07
  Yeah, you know, salute them. Yeah, for sure.
• 30:10
  And so shout out to all the risers and you know the series,
• 30:13
  because it's the first series I came to and I got here.
• 30:16
  When I got there, it they made me feel right at home.
• 30:20
  And I've I've felt that way you know ever since and even going
• 30:22
  to other tracks I I feel right at home in in in other tracks as
• 30:26
  well because you know most you know you know thankfully I
• 30:30
  haven't needed a lot of help but when I have folks were were
• 30:34
  there to help me and and sometimes we pay back because
• 30:37
  you know we you know the other night one of your buddies here
• 30:41
  crashed up his bike and you know you know we helped him out and
• 30:44
  you know we do what we can Oh yeah and the he got back out and
• 30:51
  riding too so. Yeah, exactly.
• 30:53
  So the next day. But yeah, we all try to you know
• 30:56
  see what we can do to help. Didn't want to be too much in
• 30:59
  the way but if you needed something like you know needed a
• 31:03
  light or started to get dark, so needed some lights, we ran, got
• 31:06
  some lights and you know food, whatever.
• 31:09
  So we got some stuff to help him cook and and you know whatever
• 31:13
  we can do to get back on and it worked out.
• 31:15
  So and it's good to to see that togetherness the family we have
• 31:21
  because before this round you know we were all in question
• 31:25
  about the how the series is going to continue because you
• 31:28
  know John Gross who runs the series is stepping down and
• 31:34
  prays to him. Hopefully he's doing well.
• 31:35
  By the way Shell had sent to the the hospital so hopefully he's
• 31:40
  recovering well. But we got good news that the
• 31:44
  series is going to be continuing next year.
• 31:46
  So you know it's a good family we have is going to continue to
• 31:50
  grow, especially that feeling you know you don't, we don't
• 31:53
  want that to happen and disappear.
• 31:55
  No you you don't I mean you know like I said I'm I'm like I
• 31:59
  mentioned earlier you know I'm relocating and and a lot a lot
• 32:03
  of race tracks down South. You know Loudon is the closest
• 32:07
  thing as far as if you wanted to race competitively in a in a
• 32:12
  motorcycle to Jersey. Next track is Jersey.
• 32:15
  So the folks that live in Vermont, Maine.
• 32:18
  Canada, New Hampshire, Boston or Mass, You know, that'd be fair.
• 32:22
  Rhode Island, Connecticut, even New York, you know what I mean?
• 32:25
  They they can come up and have and have and have fun.
• 32:29
  And this is, this has been going on for over 100 years.
• 32:31
  Yeah, we just had the 100. You know what I mean so you know
• 32:36
  I'm I'm I'm I'm ecstatic that it that it's going to continue and
• 32:41
  and all the series you know what I mean because it's not you know
• 32:44
  for. Or, you know, I don't mean to
• 32:46
  get on the soapbox, but you know for a lot of these series, you
• 32:49
  know, I don't know how many people are.
• 32:51
  I don't think people are making money from it.
• 32:53
  It's just the love of the sport and trying to organize it and
• 32:56
  get people to come out and race. I don't think these people that
• 32:58
  that own these places are driving.
• 33:00
  I don't know what their financial situation is, but I.
• 33:04
  When I when I see people looking around, they're not looking like
• 33:06
  they're sitting here raking in cash.
• 33:08
  You know what I'm saying? It's it's it's a series.
• 33:10
  They're different series and and and there's a lot of people that
• 33:14
  come and volunteer their time and and effort and and and make
• 33:18
  these things going so we can go out there and you know try to be
• 33:21
  the best versions of ourselves on the racetrack.
• 33:24
  Oh yeah. So I'm taking advantage of it
• 33:27
  so. No doubt.
• 33:28
  So electricity, you know, the campgrounds, all that stuff.
• 33:31
  So, yeah, yeah, so. You know, so yeah, so you know,
• 33:34
  so I do hope you know all these series do continue and you know,
• 33:37
  for, you know, riders, you know, you know, come out and ride.
• 33:42
  You know, more people need to come out and ride or should come
• 33:44
  out and ride. I saw this thing on on
• 33:48
  Instagram. I think it's bespoke.
• 33:51
  They they they their brand. I think they do helmets and
• 33:55
  stuff and they mostly St. ride and dirt bikes and and four
• 33:58
  Wheelers and stuff like that. But I saw that they posted on
• 34:01
  the on the on the page or I don't know if it's there or or
• 34:04
  or repost or whatever the case may be.
• 34:06
  But you know there's a bunch of folks that ride usually ride on
• 34:09
  the street doing wheelies and and having that that lifestyle
• 34:13
  they were they were able to go track and do that, you know, and
• 34:15
  they're in tshirts and tank tops doing wheelies, you know, the
• 34:20
  same. They have helmets on them
• 34:22
  willies. But you know it's one of those
• 34:24
  things like yeah but there's no cars so they just get to go have
• 34:28
  fun. I mean that's the thing I would
• 34:29
  prefer I would prefer Leathers that's just me.
• 34:32
  But you know at least there's no cars so regardless if if if
• 34:36
  you're you know I don't know what I don't know what that that
• 34:40
  that culture is called because it's not like stunt riding
• 34:42
  right. It's it's a little it's a little
• 34:44
  different because the stunt riders they.
• 34:46
  They they go to these shows and do these things.
• 34:49
  These guys are just it's a lifestyle you know what I mean?
• 34:51
  And and they just riding because they want to ride.
• 34:54
  So you know it. It's nice when you know you know
• 34:56
  there there tracks available for for the lovers of motorcycle
• 35:00
  regardless if you're on a Harley or or a dirt bike or whatever
• 35:05
  you you can you can go out and and and and and enjoy that.
• 35:08
  So the folks that put it together, you know, are kudos to
• 35:11
  them because it takes a lot of money to run and a lot of
• 35:14
  insurance. And my problem is I used to St.
• 35:16
  ride a lot and used to ride in packs of, you know, of, you
• 35:21
  know, different street bikes. And there there was, there was a
• 35:24
  different crew, you know, that would run.
• 35:28
  And with the four Wheelers and the dirt bikes, you know, that
• 35:31
  wouldn't run with street bikes exactly, exactly.
• 35:34
  But it's hard to get the message out now.
• 35:36
  I wish I can go out there and find them like hey, try this
• 35:39
  out. You know cuz track I sent suits.
• 35:42
  You can rent everything. I think we're getting the
• 35:44
  message out and trying to, and I think other people are getting
• 35:46
  the message out. Let me kill my phone.
• 35:49
  I think other people are getting the message out as well.
• 35:51
  I, you know, I think it's. It's early, right?
• 35:55
  And and like even this show, the quota show is to just, you know,
• 35:59
  you know, bring awareness to writing and and and and and
• 36:03
  getting out and getting become part of the culture and stuff
• 36:05
  like that. So, you know, I do think it's
• 36:08
  going to grow because there's people like you and people like
• 36:11
  me and there's other folks out there that are conscious of this
• 36:14
  and and you know, it's not an effort where it's like AAU but
• 36:19
  in I think there's pockets of this that's already happening.
• 36:22
  So I think years from now, you know, and I think all, and I've
• 36:25
  talked about this before, I think you know, all cities need
• 36:28
  to have like, you know, dirt bike parks.
• 36:30
  You know what I'm saying and and that type of thing.
• 36:32
  So in the city kids or kids close to the city, you don't
• 36:35
  have to be in the city kids because this kids, you know
• 36:37
  there's there's riders that are outside of the city that they
• 36:41
  they don't have any place. The places they used to be able
• 36:43
  to go ride, they can't ride anymore like warehouses and
• 36:45
  stuff like that and now being turned into apartment buildings
• 36:48
  and stuff like that. So they can't ride in places
• 36:50
  that they were able to ride before.
• 36:52
  So I think in general you know. We do need spaces in, in, in,
• 36:58
  in, in, you know, within a certain proximity that folks can
• 37:00
  go ride their bikes say yeah, instead of, you know, going
• 37:03
  through red lights at the street.
• 37:04
  Exactly off. But you know, there's good to
• 37:07
  have these guys on the tracks. I mean, yeah, they're doing
• 37:10
  wheelies, but like you said, there's no cars.
• 37:12
  Now if that can happen more often, I'm sure they'll come to
• 37:15
  love and grow, like to go to the track and.
• 37:17
  Try to find more time and it could.
• 37:20
  And once it grows, it can be more controlled.
• 37:22
  Like, all right, only these groups go out and this, but you
• 37:25
  know, it's just. Listen, once you strap some
• 37:27
  Leathers on these guys and gals and go, let's see how fast you
• 37:30
  can go on that bike and give them some slicks.
• 37:34
  They're still gonna probably do what they do, but they're gonna,
• 37:37
  some of them are probably gonna start racing because they
• 37:40
  already have the feel of their bikes by what they're doing now.
• 37:44
  So for them, it's just learning the technique, you know what I'm
• 37:48
  saying? They already know what they're
• 37:49
  they're like. When a bike pop up for them
• 37:52
  racing, they're going to be able to handle that, you know what
• 37:54
  I'm saying? For a lot of folks, they're
• 37:55
  going to cut throttle. These folks will ride through it
• 37:57
  and then come down, you know, so I, you know, I, I, you know, I
• 38:01
  can't wait to see it. So quick story like back in the
• 38:04
  day when my parents is from Baltimore, MD.
• 38:08
  I used to go down there with a bicycle and my cousin used to
• 38:11
  ride me around the town and they had little woods with trails,
• 38:14
  but they have sections in the woods where it had jumps.
• 38:17
  I'm just like we don't have none of this up up north, you know,
• 38:21
  if. If if you do it was make, it was
• 38:23
  makeshift. If you, if you had one, it was a
• 38:24
  makeshift because this was like, you know jet and yeah, you know,
• 38:27
  anyone could jump on it. And I'm just like if if we can
• 38:31
  choose just as a rider to pay tax dollars just to have a park
• 38:34
  for us, like I'll put money. Yeah, I mean, some people are
• 38:37
  not for it, but if if you're riding, I would, I would pay.
• 38:40
  I don't think they even think about it.
• 38:42
  I don't know if they're not for it because you know.
• 38:45
  There's a lot of kids like, you look at all.
• 38:47
  You look at, yeah, they're all over the city these.
• 38:49
  It's not that they want to be hooligans, and I'm not calling
• 38:54
  them hooligans. And just like, I think people
• 38:56
  look at them like they're causing the problem.
• 38:58
  These are just kids wanting to have fun.
• 39:00
  That's nowhere else to go. Nowhere else to go.
• 39:02
  No trailer, no truck. No, none of that.
• 39:05
  You know what I'm saying? And that costs money and no
• 39:07
  information or no get to, you know, the track or you know they
• 39:11
  got to find a friend of a friend you know.
• 39:13
  Exactly. Exactly.
• 39:14
  You know, I didn't like, I like. I wasn't even conscious that I
• 39:16
  could go race a motorcycle until my buddy told me about it and I
• 39:20
  didn't. I didn't think about it.
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  So I think a lot of people just don't know.
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  I didn't think about it until I met you.
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  And if I didn't meet you, I probably would still be on the
• 39:29
  street. Yeah.
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  So it's definitely, you know, bringing that awareness.
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  To folks that you know you can go to the track and and also you
• 39:38
  know city leaders to say hey you know, listen all you need is you
• 39:42
  got plenty of pickup trucks with all the city stuff and y'all got
• 39:44
  plenty of trailers. So it's it's not a.
• 39:47
  It's not a hard task, it's just to.
• 39:49
  You know, just to put it together and make it happen.
• 39:51
  You know what I mean? And and and and get these kids
• 39:54
  off. Get these kids riding.
• 39:55
  I mean, it's still going to ride on the streets.
• 39:57
  But I think some of most of them are right less because if they
• 39:59
  got a place that they can actually hone their skills and
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  and and and and and have that exactly, you know, it's just
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  like, you know, like kids that decide to want to try to make it
• 40:08
  to the NBA or whatever. You know, they make that
• 40:11
  decision that they're going to do all these right things.
• 40:14
  Like going hard at the track when I get home, Like, look at
• 40:17
  the street bike. I'm like, yeah, not today.
• 40:19
  Not today. I would take it to track
• 40:20
  tomorrow. I got really fixed.
• 40:21
  Yeah, no, no, seriously. And that's how I feel now
• 40:24
  because it's like my, you know, I ride, I ride, you know, I'm
• 40:28
  just cruising on my bike on the street.
• 40:29
  Not that I was, I was I was wiring out before but I'll see
• 40:32
  corners in before and be trying to hit him and do stuff like
• 40:35
  that, but. You know, now it's just kind of
• 40:37
  like I'm I, you know, I'm, you know, I'm going to the track 14
• 40:40
  * a year, week, 14 weekends a year, you know, the year before,
• 40:44
  21 weekend of the year. So you know it's like I'm
• 40:47
  getting my fix. So before that we were, we were
• 40:49
  put in well I was put in at least 6000 miles on on the
• 40:53
  street the street bike before. So like the the opportunity I
• 40:57
  got I was I was riding so I was I was everywhere.
• 41:00
  I mean, I could probably put a lot more than that, but you
• 41:03
  know, that's that's for a minimum of 6000 miles with with
• 41:07
  the time we got to ride, you know, I was always on the bike.
• 41:10
  Yeah, yeah. And that's cut down more than
• 41:13
  half since I've been commuting to the track.
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  But you know. But you don't.
• 41:18
  You know, you don't feel like you're missing anything exactly
• 41:21
  and and I feel like I need to attract more people here and and
• 41:26
  you know get get, get them the feeling.
• 41:29
  Yeah, and they don't even have to ride.
• 41:31
  They just want to bring them to the event just to hear the
• 41:33
  bikes. See the bikes.
• 41:33
  Cuz you know, I got my nieces and nephews loving it now, you
• 41:36
  know, It's just like they just want to show up.
• 41:37
  They don't even know what's going on.
• 41:38
  Really. Yeah.
• 41:39
  It's a family environment, so it's not one of those things
• 41:42
  like you have to work, you know, you bring your girl, you bring
• 41:44
  your wife or your girl, you bring your partner, whomever you
• 41:47
  show up and and just experience it.
• 41:49
  Because once you do and see it like that, culture the, the bike
• 41:53
  community, I think regardless of where you are in the world, I
• 41:56
  mean, I'm sure there's a lot of, there's some exception.
• 41:57
  Exceptions. It's a beautiful thing and we
• 42:01
  look out for one another. I've said this in the past, if
• 42:05
  everybody rode motorcycles, the world will be a better place
• 42:08
  because we understand the freedom that the feeling we get
• 42:13
  from riding, but we understand the risk as well.
• 42:17
  And and and and so there's a there's a mutual respect always
• 42:20
  because everybody know what we're giving, what we're putting
• 42:23
  on the line to get this feeling. Yeah wanna make sure each
• 42:26
  other's safe. And then you also gotta go
• 42:29
  through text that make sure the bike safe too.
• 42:30
  So, I mean, it's a double check. And like, I I woke up and one of
• 42:35
  my friends, Kyle right across was like, hey, do you have a
• 42:39
  brake caliper bolt for the front tire?
• 42:41
  I'm just like, damn. No, I need to start stacking up
• 42:45
  on parts, no bolts. But I don't.
• 42:47
  I looked around, I was like, hey, my my friend Sean might got
• 42:49
  one. He came out of his camper
• 42:52
  stretching and he came out, went back in, came out with a bag
• 42:55
  full of like 5 of. Yeah.
• 42:57
  No, that that's what ended up happening.
• 42:58
  He went in, got the fix with the tech and he said we get on the
• 43:01
  track and I was just like this beautiful, yeah.
• 43:03
  That that is that you know you don't see that you know you know
• 43:06
  we can go on on on about motorcycle life but you know as
• 43:09
  I say it's the I think it's probably time to to say a
• 43:12
  goodbye until next time man it's to be forever cool podcast.
• 43:16
  My name is Rex 45. My name is TJ See you guys.
• 43:19
  Soon we'll. See you some coffee.
• 43:21
  Exactly. Peace.
• 43:22
  Peace.