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Well we used to have one but just thought might be good for those looking to pick up a passenger/look for a ride.

For me right now this is my anticipated schedule I'm only 100% on the July 12-13th. I would firm up my dates if I have a confirmed passenger, so let me know:
Okay Here's a Legend:
TCK is Confirmed Need Passenger
TCK is Confirmed Has Passenger
TCK is Tentatively Scheduled
Someone Else Is Going to The Track!

The 2008 Schedule:
June 30 & July 1 : Thunderhill - Keigwins (Mattv & Gaurawa)
July 12-13th : Reno-Fernley - ZoomZoom (Sidm Confirmed Passenger for Out but not Back *UPDATE-Tentatively have passenger for return trip*)
July 13th : Thunderhill - Keigwins (Mattv)
July 20th : Thunder Hill - ZoomZoom - (Waitlist Success!!!! There are more spots open now so sign up!!!!)(Passenger For The Return Trip Home)
July 26th-27th : Buttonwillow - Pacific Track Time (Since august is so light)

August 9th-10th : Reno-Fernley - Pacific Track Time
August 12th : Thunder Hill - (Mattv)

September 1st-2nd : Fast Way Around Thunder Hill (track will be freshly re-paved) - Pacific Track Time (special school)
September 20th-21st : Reno-Fernley - Keigwins
September 25th : Infineon - Pacific Track Time - (Now I just need to get the day off work)

October 11th-12th : Thunder Hill - Keigwins (I've paid but on wait list)

November 9th-10th : Thunderhill - Keigwins
November 28th : Infineon - Keigwins
November 29th-30th : Thunderhill - ZoomZoom (Might do NRS on Sat)

December 6th-7th : Infineon - ZoomZoom

Oh, glorious powers that be, can we get a sticky?  [thumbsup]

So far I'm signed up for:

June 30 & July 1 K@TT at T-hill
July 13 K@TT at T-hill

TCK! I may take you up for a ride on july 20th.  I need to check my bank account first.   I need a Rich Uncle Skeleton!    Opps.   Forgot that I've got other plans.   [moto]

I am scheduled for jun 30 - july 1st at THill with Keigins

No more days scheduled yet, I was hoping the 10-day pack from Keigwins will last longer, but I am done :)

Okay my bosses just approved my my requested days off so I bought my PTT Trackday pack and confirmed some of my dates. I also bought a few discounted VIP passes from people on BARF that are on the Keigwin days.

Don't forget that the 20th is GP @ Laguna. [moto]

Yeah I'm not going to watch, they just signed a 5 year deal with MotoGP from what I've heard so I'll catch it another time. I've also got a wedding to attend on the 19th that's close to T-Hill so I'll probably go to the wedding with my bike in the back of the truck :D

Black leathers, white boots... Well, at least you won't be over dressed. [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

Since I'm on a plane I'll bump this to the top!

Might as well throw a NRS in there somewhere. We'll start making some room for you. ;D

lol... not yet... who knows maybe once I get on the fast tracks I'll get all scared and start selling off my track days :D

Updated... I have a potential passenger for return trip from RFR on July 12-13th.

I'm also on the wait list for T-Hill on the 20th. (I'm number 1 on the list), I know they have open novice spots on the 19th if you're all interested.

Oh, I know we're all interested.... You buyin? [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

haha I wish... :D

Yeah most people are doing the Road Rider course so that's why the 19th is open but I've got a wedding so I can't go.

Update, I'm a confirm on the Wait List for July 20th.
ZoomZoom added a RoadRider 2.0 course to Sunday's schedule so everyone dropped from C group to RR2 group so now there are lots of openings in C group.. Sign up ladies and gents.

(Side Note Completely Unrelated - I saw Tigre in a TrackDay video the other day, made by the guy Ookie, at T-Hill, It was your bike, your helmet, but the Leathers seemed different, do you have separate instructor leathers? They seemed very white, it was a quick shot.)

A guy on BARF is selling a ticket for this weekends trackday at T-Hill: http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4152836&postcount=110

I just signed up for Aug.12 at t-hill.

Let's sticky this, yo!

Speaking of T-Hill how was Monday?

Look at these tickets for K@TT for September!

Super Super Super Discounted! Someone buy them and lets race around with DATV and TIGRE!

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233564

T-Hill on sunday was fantastic, as always.  A little smokey from the fires still, but not too bad.  I'm still a super slowpoke but getting better everytime I go.

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Okay pregnant doges.... More then half way through the 2008 schedule...

Got to hit the track with non-other than Mr. Tigre himself this past weekend. The wind at T-Hill was OUT OF CONTROL!

I'll do a bit more of a write up later... But had a great time and dropped my PB by about 4.5 seconds consistently, to put me into slow A pace. :)

*EDIT*
A couple pictures I like, meant to buy the special from GBM but forgot in the heat of packing up:
Turn 11 - The school SUPER helped me get an awesome drive through this section onto the back straight away
(http://i33.tinypic.com/2r77zw6.jpg)

Turn 3 -  Worked with Corey Call in the morning (he was on a borrowed Twin) really changed my line through this area, dropped my speed a bit through T3 but helped set me up to get WOT power through 4 and up the hill to 5. This is a corner I need to work on a good amount
(http://i33.tinypic.com/2cdtj7a.jpg)

My timer batteries died before I could get my later sessions downloaded, but here is a comparison between my fastest lap on Monday and my third session on Tuesday (Yellow is obviously the second day).  Not bad for my second time at T-Hill :D (Just FYI I dropped almost all my time between the top of 5 to the top of 9.)

(http://i35.tinypic.com/161axpl.jpg)

Just some FYI for all the LADIES out there, ZoomZoom is having a Ladies weekend October 11-12th: http://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=263815

Don't worry I'm trying to get a spot at T-Hill so you won't have to worry about me creeping around your pits :)

Okay guys and gals I'm currently a go for T-Hill on October 12th, I'm on waiting list for the 11th. But there are plenty of spots in the B- group if anyone is interested.

I'm going to t-hill sept.14 and got an open spot in my truck if anyone needs a ride.   I'll be at buttonwillow oct 4&5 as well.

I'm in for Oct. 11, and would like to ride up with someone. My kid's truck smells like stale cigarettes.  [puke]

Well I had my first K@TT weekend at RFR... One thing comes to mind after the weekend, wow are we lucky to have so many close tracks and so many good trackday providers.

I was kind of nervous going into it cause all the people saying, "If you like PTT you won't like K@TT and vice verse" All I could think was how much different could they really be? But let your worries be put to bed, whomever came up with you can't like both is probably a grammer Nazi on some My Little Pony forum for fun.

I'm not as eloquent as our own Mostrobelle, I write more caveman style. Me ride bike. Bike go vrooommm. What I will say is I look forward to my next K@TT weekend. I had a great weekend even though my weekend started like this:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/2ms0dnl.jpg)

Not because I was taking a two up ride, I was there for the other reason. At least there are a bunch of cool stills of my bike:
(http://i33.tinypic.com/30uzfj4.jpg)

But some encouragement from Mike (I believe, man I'm horrible with names) to try and fix it and 1 package of JB Weld later:
(http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v334/2/40/6407682/n6407682_36289157_1272.jpg)

I was back out attacking the track:
(http://i35.tinypic.com/xqg7cz.jpg)

Overall good weekend, dropped my personal best down to a 2:51, Things I've now learned the hard way, when you're sleeping in the back of your truck and the temp drops into the 30's-40's the tires are going to be much colder and are going to take longer to warm up. You'd think that would be common sense but it evaded me Saturday.

See you guys on October 11-12th.

*EDIT*

Oh yeah I'm signing up for T-Hill on the 6th of October need to use my last PTT track pack day.

So what's the scoop on that T-Hill day you had to skip? M's really itchin' to get out on the track again.

PM'd you, thanks for the reminder :D

Well another trackday completed. It was the season finally for PTT and it couldn't have been much better of a day then it was at T-Hill yesterday.

I came hoping to really set in place the teachings from the Fast Way Around Thunder Hill school put on by Micheal Earnest and the PTT staff. I was on the cusp of riding A group but with the PTT 2:06 A group pace I wasn't ready to be a lamb amongst the wolves. My corner of special interest was going to be T3 the off camber and debatable line choices really have me feeling it out. But I wasn't getting WOT between 3 and 4 which was hurting my drive up the hill into 5, not a make or brake it section of the track but every bit helps.

Well starting out I didn't need a recurrence of the last trackday cold tire incident so I came out and parade lapped it and left the timer off :) It was good ran around lots of traffic but I didn't do many passes. Turn 3 was still giving me issues:
(http://i38.tinypic.com/2je5kwm.jpg)

As the day progressed there was still a fair amount of traffic so I got to work on my passes. Started getting a lot of people on the brakes and still feeling comfortable in the turn. The Spies throttle grip really helped me keep positive throttle through the turns but made trail braking a bit interesting:
(http://i38.tinypic.com/6fxme0.jpg)

I was turning in consistent times, 2:13/2:14 but needing to make lots of passes and wasn't getting wide or turning late enough to make any gains. I was sacrificing a bit of corner speed in 12 to get a hard drive out of T13 which gave me a few passes:
(http://i33.tinypic.com/2l97ebm.jpg)

But things didn't start gelling until the last two sessions, when the herd thinned out a bit. I started to really nail T3 and had some space to work with in 6-7-8-9 to keep the pace I would like to normally. I got a 2:12 and was pretty stoked and thought the day a success but was going out for the last session. This round was pretty empty consisting mostly of people taking their NRS and A groupers looking for some more seat time. Well everything just sort of fell into place I was able to take the lines I wanted, paint to paint, got to bomb over T5 lofting the front a bit which was nice to have the room to execute that turn with some speed... I pull in a lap early, I was a bit tired, check the timer... 2:08 nice. More then a successful day broke the 10s mark which wasn't even part of the goals for the day and was purely icing on the cake.

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Well look forward to seeing you guys and gals this weekend should be another fun one for sure.

Nice TCK  [thumbsup]
You'll be setting track records before you know it  ;D  ;D

for us lay people what is the Spies throttle grip ?

Well I guess its not really his but from what I hear he uses it. Its just a dirt style so you kind of grip the throttle from the end so the throttle is more rolling your forearm then turning your wrist.

I looked for a picture and came up with this one:
(http://www.motorcycle.com/images/content/Event/08_may_kawi_showdown_01.jpg)

Notice the angle of his knuckles in relation to front brake lever and then compared to the other hand.

Now look at Mladin his counter part:
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03HNblV3eofT6/610x.jpg)

But really who knows. The thought of doing it makes it easier to keep the top of the chain tight so who knows how much I'm actually doing it as long as its working for me :D

Ok, I just signed up for  October 28th @ T-Hill.  Should be fun. Mebe see some of youse there. [moto]

If anyone wants those forks I have, Just say so & i'll bring them to the track.