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Erik changed my life
Hey all,
I've been lurking around the trackdays and Racer section for the last couple months and have started to feel the urge to post. The forum description for newbies says post here first so, here it is.
I got into bikes in the mid-nineties because of the mystique I felt in the Buell S2 Thunderbolt. I learned how to ride on my brother's 883, then jumped right to the S2. After 3 years, I actually began improving as a rider when I blew up my Buell and had to ride a Buell Blast loaner for 5 months.
After 5 years/50k on the Buell, traveling to Sturgis, South Dakota twice, North Carolina via Indianapolis and various tomfoolery in Central and Southern Califonia, I bought a 2002 V-Strom and haven't left the state since. Well, Reno, but does that really count?
I worked part-time at Modesto Buell, now Modesto Ducati while going to school to earn a mechanical engineering degree from the University of the Pacific (go Tigers!). I still moonlight there 1 day a week or so and that's how I found my smokin' deal on my ST4s that I purchased in December '07.
I help out when I can with Modesto Ducati's AFM racing program. I'm the long-haired guy that shows up Saturday night to help drink all the beer. Sometimes I even bring a part from inventory that someone needs to race on Sunday.
I've done 3.5 trackdays (Laguna in the rain shouldn't count for a full day) all but one with Zoom Zoom. Not that I have anything against the others, it's just Vik and I are Buell buddies from way back.
The few posts I will make will be in the aforementioned trackdays and racer sections, but I've been lurking in other sections as I've found more free time. So, who knows?
I've been lurking around the trackdays and Racer section for the last couple months and have started to feel the urge to post. The forum description for newbies says post here first so, here it is.
I got into bikes in the mid-nineties because of the mystique I felt in the Buell S2 Thunderbolt. I learned how to ride on my brother's 883, then jumped right to the S2. After 3 years, I actually began improving as a rider when I blew up my Buell and had to ride a Buell Blast loaner for 5 months.
After 5 years/50k on the Buell, traveling to Sturgis, South Dakota twice, North Carolina via Indianapolis and various tomfoolery in Central and Southern Califonia, I bought a 2002 V-Strom and haven't left the state since. Well, Reno, but does that really count?
I worked part-time at Modesto Buell, now Modesto Ducati while going to school to earn a mechanical engineering degree from the University of the Pacific (go Tigers!). I still moonlight there 1 day a week or so and that's how I found my smokin' deal on my ST4s that I purchased in December '07.
I help out when I can with Modesto Ducati's AFM racing program. I'm the long-haired guy that shows up Saturday night to help drink all the beer. Sometimes I even bring a part from inventory that someone needs to race on Sunday.
I've done 3.5 trackdays (Laguna in the rain shouldn't count for a full day) all but one with Zoom Zoom. Not that I have anything against the others, it's just Vik and I are Buell buddies from way back.
The few posts I will make will be in the aforementioned trackdays and racer sections, but I've been lurking in other sections as I've found more free time. So, who knows?
