Monday – APEX Trackdays. Ted from AZ Trackdays was there and he towed about 7 bikes up from Phoenix for some of the Phoenix riders. Jerry had Ted bring his Honda 600 cc track bike for the event. We even got one of the pit garages on the track to set up our bikes. Ted, of course, brought his two up bike and made over 17 runs, 2 up, for the day. I timed one of his runs, it was 2 minutes 19 seconds, 2 up. Just for a reference, the professional riders, WSB racers were turning in times around 1 minute 4X seconds. Ted rocks, not only that he is very fast.
As for me on my Sportster and how I felt – Well have you ever felt like the guy that shows up to a business meeting with IBM wearing a leisure suite. Well here I am with my little Sportster in the Metric Sandbox. But, not to be denied track time to one of the greatest racing tacks, 3.08 mile, in the USA, I had to endure the embarrassment of riding a Sportster with the metric community looking on. Actually they were very kind to me. I think it was out of sympathy. But, don’t get me wrong, I had a really great time pushing the Sportster to its limits. When I was done, I had tire wear right up to the outer limit of the rear tire and I ground the riding pegs down about an inch. I did carry the camera and made about 6 minutes of movies out of the 60 minutes on the track Click here |
