Lot of people race on this site !!! and I tthought I was an old bugger ...made me feel heaps better !
Anyway I always wanted to race, have been the spannerman at a few meetings Raced a few Enduros , one on a flouroresent green XL500 , then came over to Japan and a couple of years back a friend and I were stiiting round watching crusty demons and decided that would be the thing , buy a couple of cheap MX bikes , give the sport ago and if we didnt like it, well we havent lost much
He didnt like it, I was hooked ( again?)
Its been every weekend and sometimes during the week days for the last 2 years
Crashes , 2 big ones, one where the throttle stuck open powering up the face of the jump , result mashed ring finger , the other I cant remember , I went for the jump , someone squared the corner in front of me and there was a big thump and the lights went out ,,,No damage to body but the top of the forks were missing.
So I have decided that untill my fitness improves .theres no point in going for the holeshot , I prefer enduro , much more civilised !!
Looking at the planner on the wall this year, the first race is the end of march , with a race every month till August ( if I can cope with the japanese summer )
2 races in NZ in september , if the boss swings for the time off work, havent taken my holidays in 3 years so he should!
Then back to japan
Highlights
2 in the 4 hour iron man enduro , and the middle of last year I stopped getting lapped by that pesky 12 yr old on that new fangled briggs and scrap iron ( I untied the knot on the pull start rope, that slowed him down a bit )
I have come to realise what I like doing and have spent a LOT of time ( As in A LOT ) of time mucking around with the suspension and finding out what makes it tick , found it to be a facinating subject , so next year I will do some more natural terrain MX ( the supercross track they use here is to much for me ) and Enduro , and try to lift the bar in terms of presentation and proffesionalism
See my signiture , ( I had a crack at Html in order to publish a web page to keep people informed ,,,all learning )
Anyway If you do see a clapped out old Honda with a little tubby rider asleep infront of the bike , dont move me. just carry on round the track and tell the track marshal that the Honda rider has fallen off again , he will know what to do
Stephen
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
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