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T and I had a fantastic trip to ECR yesterday.  The track was very slippery the first two sessions, but started to come in by session three.  DLSGAP was also there on his bad ass ZX10.  Fortunately we were all three in different levels, and that kept the ego induced shenanigans to a minimum  [laugh]

The day was a Ride Smart event, and was very well organized.  There was not any squid-like behavior, and the entire day ran smoothly.  While Japanese bikes were the majority, there were at least 10 Ducs, several Aprilias, a handful of Triumphs, and a dramatic showing of BMWs.

My day went very well.  I learned a lot about the 1098, and am even more in love with it.  The only kink was the stock rearsets.  They suck.  Period.  They are low and very slippery.  I will not be returning to the track until they are replaced.

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Smile for the camera !

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Very cool write-up and some great pix  [thumbsup]

I've not been to Eagles Canyon with my bike so pardon me while I ask some lame questions  ;D

  How was the run-off area?

  Any corner workers?

  Was there any shade were you paddock?

  How was their lunch situation?

  And last but not least,

 
  Was there toilet paper in the rest rooms?  ;D  [laugh]


Glad it was a great day out there, guys.  I hope to make it out there soon (been saving my TDE money so I can run a lot more track days this year).

Lisa

P.S.  Whassup with the yellow shirt and green shirt biznit?

I am still fired up  [moto] [laugh] [bacon]

Glad to see ya'll had a great day out there!  [moto]

 [thumbsup] on the pics too!

-R

Looks like a great time was had.  [thumbsup]

Fired up is good  [thumbsup]

Slag, good to put a face with the name. Thanks for not showing me what was under the kilt...

Tommy, glad you had fun. We'll hook up on the camera mount, or i can ship it to you if you'd like.

Slag...that pic of me you posted is the first one i've seen of me in which my body position isn't completely off. The photos on Hart photography's site that i've seen of me.... My form SUCKS! I'm honestly wondering if i'm going to bother with it anymore. The rare chances i get to make it to the track are so few and far between, and so much of a hassle, that i'm going to sit back and reflect for a while. There's a good chance my bike will be for sale afterwards :(

another thing... how the hell do i look big on a liter bike? am I really that much of a fat ass??

No big deal......  :oHad a great time, It wore me out! And I am already looking into my next one!
No worries on the camera mount, we'll get it figured out.  [thumbsup]

all I can say is.....WTF?

No, but I am :P

Target fixation?  [moto]

Ha... yeah.. I admit, I would glance of that direction from time to time to see if anyone i knew was along the wall snapping pics.

if i got on it hard out of that corner, my front wheel would come up every time about 1/4 of the way down the straight... a couple of reformed stunt riders I know were along the wall and I noticed them one lap... next time around just before i got to them I whacked it to WOT and the front wheel just soared at around 100mph... I thought it was kinda funny...they were giving me a hard time afterwards though. Every other lap though.. it would come up 4 or 5 inches accelerating out of that corner EVERY lap it seemed... and that was only at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle

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here are a few others of me... 

sorry T&Z the photog was only takin pics of a few of us... and he left early on before i could tell him to snap you guys too..

that is.. IF they can keep up with you :)

Looks like some good fun at the track [thumbsup]