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Sucks that the car guys at Thunderhill apparently drove on the new paved runoff area so much that thunderhill have gone and put tire walls and orange barrels back in them.

Wo0t! 30 minutes to go and I can watch MotoGP live on my rabbit ears!

I haven't seen a Keigwin's day *not* sell out in a long time.

Every item of stolen gear I replace this week makes me as depressed as when I discovered the theft :( At least I got $100 off the helmet at Cycle Gear's one-day sale.

When I last compared helmets about four years ago, I found that the XXL Arai Quantum or Corsair/RX7 were the only helmets that fit my big fish head. Any of you other big fisheads found alternatives that you like? Maybe some of the other mfrs have come out with new shapes in the last couple of...

goddamn punk-assed kids. I never should have let them slide when they barely moved their party out of the middle of the street so I could get through last night; should have called the cops. Somebody stole my trackday suitcase out of my car overnight. Had my Arai, Daytona Evo Sports, Helimot...

So, I *just* got back from a couple of days at Miller, and wanted to ask those of you who were there recently ... did you notice anything different about your engine braking? Particularly you twins riders? It seemed to me that engine braking due to roll-off and/or hitting the limiter was a lot...

I'm trying to get an idea of what good track riders are looking at when they're at particular points in various turns. What I'm looking for is good video that shows a rider's head movements as well as enough of the track so that I can tell what they're looking at, when. That could be from a...

don't want to hijack the other thread... I'm looking for a motel near the track at Miller. Reviews/Suggestions from last weekend? Thanks. [ Sorry, I see some of the replies in the original thread now ... but still interested in additional feedback, here in this thread. ]

...the narrower my field of vision gets; ...the less I'm able to put my bike where it needs to be (like down on the apex) while looking ahead at where it needs to be next. Annoying. And unsafe. Not sure how to fix it. I wonder if decades of wearing eyeglasses have trained my eyes to stay...

Had my first little two-wheel slide on some oil/oilsweep in turn 3 at Thunderhill today. Two quick slips of a few inches and it was over before I could react (fortunately). I really should figure out how to do some more dirt riding, but I don't have room for another bike.

I've got a kit of Galfer universal line segments and fittings to put together a custom front line set for my track bike. The fittings are all brass. No docs came with the parts, but their catalog says 1.10 ft-lbs torque max on the connections. That seems really, incredibly low even for the...

[ nevermind ... found a solution that required no custom connector installation, and got the parts ordered through the original vendor. ]

I'll be there all three days. Who else? (I hope I can walk at the end of the third day.)

OK, this one bugs the hell out of me, but I don't know what the answer is. Down in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, where I learned to drive and grew up, the procedure for getting on the freeway was basically to keep looking over your shoulder as you mashed the throttle to match the flow of...

SV riders, especially those of you with performance mods: how much time do you spend at full throttle at Infineon? Monday was my first day with a TPS input to my data logger and it revealed that I spend almost *no* time at full throttle on that track yet. (No, I don't need a datalogger to tell...

Why would somebody offer this video to a vendor as a demo of their product??? (note: 25 mb file) http://www.cpdserver.com/chasecam/video/crash-med.wmv This has to be the worst case of target fixation I've ever seen on video, and I wonder what AFM would do if they saw this from one of their...

I'm not the hiring manager, but there are a handful of openings for unix/windows admins in my department. $3bn hardware mfr in Sunnyvale. PM me for contact info and detailed job descriptions.

Anybody want to car/truck/trailer-pool to MMP for April 30/May 1? I just signed up. I'm a little apprehensive about driving that far alone, though, cause if I crash it'll be a hell of a drive home if I'm injured at all. I have a two-rail Kendon folding trailer, and hope to find a new...

OK, those of you who have been using Stomp Pads for a couple of years ... if you're still wearing the same leathers as when you started using Stomp pads, how is the wear turning out? I've got a sheet of Tech Spec that I haven't tried yet, but after sitting on a couple of bikes with Stomp Pads...