6 trophies this weekend

Here is my art shot from the Hallet round of the CMRA mini sprints and endurance weekend. The trip was uneventful though long (about 1500 miles with a side trip through Plano to pick up a rider and an unplanned side trip after following Google Map instead my instinct) and hot around 100 degrees. Oklahoma is a very spread out state with long areas between cities, they must be afraid of an attack from Texas. It has been over a decade since I went there and crashed a lot on the then recently installed sealer strips of gooey asphalt which ran in line with the track. They have since repaved the track leaving what looked like a pretty good time for a 250 rip. The races were good with Alan Philips winning the formula 4 race with a fastest lap of a 1:34 on the rentmyninja rented by Zeb Harris and his dad. Zeb was running the brake away pace with Jess Foltz (the eventual winner) until he fell moving JD Mosley up to second place giving him his first trophy of the day. His other trophy came from the third overall in the 3 hour mini endurance. His team mate and father Jimmy came from niceville Florida and ran a steady race to beat 14 of 16 formula 4 entries and 28 entries overall. Zebs earlier crash affected their endurance race with them ending up in 7th overall. Joey Howell got his second trophy in two outings with his 3rd place finish in E superstock. These trophies combined with the 2 that Charles J. won in clubman and E superstock at the WERA cycle jam in Virginia make a rentmyninja.com total of 6 trophies in one weekend, not too shabby!!

GMD Atlanta

Here is Kent at his GMD workshop in Atlanta. I have known him around the track for the grater part of a decade and highly recommend their services. The reason for this visit was a customers 636 which he had crashed and pushed the headstock back to about 6 inches, the wheel was mashes into the radiator and the wheel had to be removed to get the rad. out. Kent and his crew were able to pull it out and saved the guy about $1000 over buying a new frame. The other reason was to discuss the 250 set ups. Ask me about it and I'll be happy to tell you about our conversation. We put the strings on the bikes and have fixed a few alignment issues and will probably add some fork mods in the future. This was the last stop on a long trip, I got a lot done, went far and had a few good rides, see you out there!

Road A. after turn 5

I finally got there late after a number of obstacles prevented my normal early arrival. The changes that were made to the track are interesting and I think detract from the course. I used to ride here in the 90's when the gravity cavity was in place and the "improvements" had not happened. The area surrounding the track used to be forest and field now the developers have had there way stripping the area of much of its beauty. As I headed to my last stop on the trip I drove by a few signs on hwy 53 which expressed that they were not in favor of a new motorsports park near Dawsonville. Perhaps they are against the collateral damage to the view.

Road Atlanta

So after the paint job in Austin was done (Friday afternoon) I headed down to MSR Houston to check out a Texas Trackday and the track. It seems like it will be a good one for the 250's and I look forward to working with them soon. I went home on Saturday afternoon for a quick visit which included a much needed lawn mow and a pick up of a smashed 636 for a drop off at GMD Computrack Atlanta. In the interim I had a trackday at NPR on Sunday. I the guys had a great time and I rode to the point of exhaustion. No really, like heat exhaustion. I was drinking water all day but was unable to cool off in the afternoon. I spent the trip cramping and puking until we got into Alabama.

A beautiful job!

Here we are at the reveal. In 4 days we took the bus from school bus to cool bus. The roof is coated with Kool Seal (thanks Christian), the green is 2008 Kawasaki and the look is great. I'll be putting stickers from my partners and sponsors on the bus so the look will change a bit. The green paint is expensive, call it $200 a gallon but I have enough left for the bikes. I am planning another stop by JD's world for painting before the Hallett CMRA round. Thanks Man!!

NIght Painting

Due to the oppressive Austin summer heat we ended up painting at night. The added degree of difficulty did not affect JD much who laid down a great paint job. The temperatures during the day were around 107. We would work in the morning and then return in the afternoon to work till after morning rush hour. It was a tiring week but worth it!

Here are Jessie Davis and I shaking hands after agreeing to the reasonable terms of the bus painting proect. Notice we are smiling, little did we know what the work would entail, if we had we migh not have been smiling as broadly.