Armadillo Acres Race Report

[FlyinRyan]

Thank you Aaron, that makes me feel a lot better than the sucker Tara gave me to get over it. When I asked you a question I realized you had other things on your mind when Sierra lifted her hands as if to catch your head when it exploded. The last thing I was trying to do was undermine Dan the Man about percentages. I was reacting more on pit talk rather than actual numbers to back it up and you are correct. Anyone can break out on a fluke on a race and so far it's just been one race. I may have been overreacting to pit talk. It sometimes is just discouraging when you show up for a race and know that you are racing for 6th to 10th at best in the class that you should be able to ride in.

Also I need to apologize to Nick Spooner. I did to him what makes me more mad than anything in a race. I had an 800 guy that I have been following and a bike pulled over for him and I passed with him and as I passed I noticed it was 711. After we had gone a little bit I looked back to see if you were right on me and was going to let you pass me back and try to make a race out of it but you were not there. I'm guessing that this is when you had made the switch from race mode to Cruise mode.

Now if all of the drama is over I could do a little bit of the race report. The start was about as bad as it can get for me. Had a great spot so I thought but for some reason the start of the race always sneaks up on me. I'm sitting at the line with my helmet still off and gloves off and the board drops for the start of the 600s. David Johnson was there helping by handing me gear to put on. Board drops as I'm putting on the last glove and then the bike does not fire. I started out completely dead last. Not a problem because I'm kind of used to this because I used to ride a four stroke. I'm in the first quarter mile of the woods trying to make up some time and riding over my head and I caught a tree with my left bar which bounced me into another tree with my right bar which shot me off the front of the bike and had me laying perpendicular in the trail while straggler 700s were passing me. For some reason I can never get myself to lay there so I got back on the bike and started riding and realized that my lower unit was really hurting. That whole ordeal went on for about a lap and a half before everything got readjusted and then I was back into a fairly decent riding mode. Once again I found myself kind of alone. No one really in front of me and not really many people behind me.


Hopefully it's still "All Good" and looking forward to Beer Ranch.