Mutterings

A race track just opened up in San Marcos, just 30 minutes south of Austin and they are going to allow motorcycles! I can now ride to the track and not have to worry about using a trailer!!! This should allow me to do a lot more track days.

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I did another track day on Friday at TWS. Fastest lap was a 2:18 which is slower than I’ve done in the past. The weather was perfect but the day was very crowded and so it was impossible to get a clean lap without hitting traffic. I think someone might have stolen [...]

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Most interesting place to find a floppy drive?

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For those who aren’t up on their current motorcycle racers, these two knuckleheads are the Bostrom brothers, the top racers for Yamaha in the US. The last 10% is marketing fluff, but the other 90% is pretty dang funny.
1-2-3 Best Kitten!

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That’s me in front. My friend David, who took the footage, is definitely faster than me so he just cruised behind me for two laps at TWS.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7246414153648201256&pr=goog-sl

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I had an awesome time at TWS last Friday. The weather was near perfect and the 675 ran flawlessly. I was up to speed almost immediately and by the end of the day I had bested my best lap time on the old SV by a second (2:14.5). No knee down but [...]

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I finally sold my Speed Triple tonight to a rather sketchy fellow who bought it with almost no fuss at all. I was planning on looking for another bike rather quickly but due to an unexpected IRS bill over some stock I forgot to report (please don’t throw me in jail, Uncle Sam!), that’ll [...]

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Signed up for my first track day (4/13) in almost a year! I’m so excited! This will be my first track day with the Daytona. A fellow named Dave from cycleforums is giving me a ride to TWS in return for gas money. I’ve got a camcorder mount and would like [...]

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A fellow motorcycle board user, Dan, posted a message asking for those with late model sportbikes to stop by his place so he could take measurements in order to sell custom parts for those models on his website. Those guinea pigs would get to keep the prototypes, gratis. So I went up to [...]

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I’ve started modifying the Daytona 675. The first day I had it I removed the decent horn from the Speed Triple and exchanged it for the stock little girlie horn (with apologies to all little girlies out there). On Friday I got a set of GSG frame sliders, which are really nice in [...]

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