Pikes Peak Hill Climb 2001 - Gary Lee Kanawyer / 1981 Wells Coyote Overa...

I love watching these and going back in my head to every corner. Around 9:10 is where the first corners I ever learned how to slide a motorcycle are. In practice I would think I was pushing hard near the edge and Joe Prusiano would come around me on the outside in a full bar lock slide looking over at me. I ended up finishing 2nd to him 3 times. I just love closing my eyes and going back, replaying this the most perfect race course ever in my mind. What a treat it was to have raced there.

Keeping busy

 Life is a song. I try to understand it, Sometimes it takes a few decades of it before it soaks in. Sometimes I write it, dance it. Dig it.  I just follow along best I can.

I really to try to get the most out of everything.

Plenty to work on these days. Some customer bikes too.

Slowly getting the home feeling in this shop. 

So many adventures out there waiting. Border Collie- Tennis balls; Chase them all

This race car is creeping towards my front burner.

This race car should be....

Shredding the gnar!

The 2006 450 is ready for Glen Helen. However it's rider...?

The Dyno is up and running. Needs a few things but mostly just time from me.

The real reason I am busy. Trying my best to keep the beat and just hum along, appreciating every damn bit of it.

風を抜け！ / Kaze wo Nuke! (1988) / MADHOUSE / Laserdisc / MJL-1032 / Domesda...

I Don't have to understand the words to get it.

From Ok to LA

Peekaboo

Simone should have used the kill switch long before this 

JB weld?

 How the hell did I get signed up to race the Vet MX World Champioships at Glen Helen?!  How did the Beverly Hill Billies end up in LA also? It’s been more than a couple years since I made it out to the Oklahoma Gold Rush Grand Prix. The last time I overalled, thank you thank you, enough about me let’s talk about me some more. I asked Pussy Feet if he was going this year and somehow me and Lord Mick got talked into racing some serious motocross instead which is great because I haven’t raced a modern motocross in ummm 7 years. Then I looked around my stable at all my stead’s…. I sold the Lil Goose factory Honda Team CR125 a few years back…. My 95 CR250 has been completely transformed into a pumpkin smashing trail bike, A few XR650Rs- nope, not doing that again, a couple CRF450X that would do the job just fine to my abilities but what is a challenge without some stupid hard challenges! Let’s build a CRF450R from bits I have laying around! An 06 frame, 07 cases, some 250R forks, about 116 trips out to my dark 40’ conex storage container for a bracket, vent hose, correct bolt, and a whole bunch of warm fuzzy red Honda love and here I am… 

I started putting the chassis together last weekend and it sure is nice being a Honda bolt horder. The engine was a bit more challenging and I started building it a few months ago after being talked into this whole brilliant idea of racing the fastest motocrosser with grey whiskers in California. What I thought was a good bottom end with just a stuck crank turned out to be an exploded connecting rod that managed to torpedo through the transmission and all. So I found some 07 cases for cheap and pieced together the rest from my milk crates, coffee cans, and rubber made tubs. 

I have a couple weeks left before Mick and I go pillage the west coast like the crazed coloradian hill Billy scary van punks we are!

2024 Hill Climbs Wrapped Up

 Two days after getting home from the Hill Climb at PPIR last weekend it was decided to cancel the final round. Something about lack of interest. Come next April I bet those lacking interest now would chop off a toe to get an extra race in. But that does mean that the season is wrapped up. I met my goal getting the Motorcycle class championship. The Homebrew car finished out the season strong to give me hope for next season. Will I be able to hang up my leathers and focus on the car? I don't know... probably not :)

I delivered a transmission to get built for the Coyote. I know it should be for the bug but when there is a fresh new tennis ball around I just can't help but slobber on it. 

Oh and a day after I got home the Wilwood hand brake master cylinder stopped workin again. I only used it 3 or 4 times the whole weekend. HAHAHAHAHA!