Miles traveled: 5800
Days spent: 14
Hours ridden: 13
Races entered: 4
Top-ten finishes: 2






"Y'all c'n sit wherever y'like," beamed the charming, southern-belle waitress. Her slow accent only added drool to the pile of jaws we had just dropped on the floor. We all looked at each other, and everyone had the same expression: We're not...

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Friday it was finally dry, allowing me to put in some much-needed hot laps on the R6, on the WERA track configuration. I swapped tires and got ready early so that I could make the most of the few sessions I'd get - Friday was also the first day of the Sportsman championship - and went out to do some business. WERA ran a track configuration that differed from the Schwantz School in one section, adding a short chicane at the beginning of the esses. The difference was challenging enough that I couldn't...

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An hour later, Brandon Bones was standing over me in the dark, trying to get my attention. "Get up," he repeated.
"Hunh?"
"Do you want an AMA bike tomorrow or not?"
I paused, trying to wrap my head around what he was saying.
"I suppose I should put on some pants, then."


Fast forward to 7 am, Sunday morning: I was wide awake and had been for half an hour, eagerly anticipating the truck that was just then pulling...

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Well, this was supposed to be a cheap weekend. With the WERA Grand National Finals only two weeks away, nearly every dime I had was spoken for. However, with my friend Duane's prodding and some not-so-subtle jabs and challenges to my Fuzimoto-built GSXR-750's masculine prowess, I went to Portland like an addict to his dealer.

In order to save money, Duane trailered my bike down and I decided to skip on both the Cascade trackdays and the practice sessions, opting to rely solely on...

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Due to my finishes in the WERA National Challenge series, I qualified for and will be receiving an invitation to the WERA Grand National Finals invitational at Road Atlanta this October! Road Atlanta is a world-class racetrack that plays host to such events as the Petit Le Mans, the Ferrari Challenge, and of course the AMA Suzuki Superbike Showdown. The WERA Grand National Finals are the culmination of the WERA National Challenge and the various WERA regional series, and are invite-only to the top...

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NINTH!!!

June 27, 28 and 29 marked the fifth round of the WERA National Challenge series, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. For this weekend I'd built a brand-new Yamaha R6 racebike with the help of Mike Castro of Fuzimoto Performance and Mike McClaine of RideStream Racing, and I was extremely excited to see how it'd perform. I traveled down as usual with Will Grenier and Corey Baum of ClimaCover Racing, Brandon Bones of Studio819 Photography, and Doug Kreckow and...

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After last weekend, today seemed almost like a vacation. I can't imagine what I'm going to think when I finally race Pacific again.. all this beautiful buttery-smooth pavement at Portland, Miller and Vegas is definitely spoiling me!

For June, there was an unavoidable conflict in the WMRRA and OMRRA schedules - both organizations landed on the same dates for their race weekend, and neither was able to change its commitment. This left the many riders who compete in both series with...

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Whoa



June 6, 7 and 8 was the 4th round of the WERA Bridgestone National Endurance and Michelin National Challenge series, at Miller Motorsports Park down in Utah. Just one week prior, WSBK and AMA both had their races at the very same track. I would be racing with AMA professionals, WERA semi-professionals, and top riders from all over the country. To top it all off, I'd never been at...

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Sunday - Sprints

On Sunday, I awoke pretty relaxed, and surprisingly limber considering what I'd put myself through the previous day. After discovering and sorting out some registration hiccups (I was registered to race in a class with 100hp less than my bike), I spent some time going over the bike and double-checking everything, still a little wary of the lockup that had caused Damon to crash earlier. I ended up actually skipping the first practice session for this, but it didn't...

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I suppose I'll kick off my race blog with a short listing of our sponsors this year. These are companies and organizations in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere that have chosen to support the team and its riders, so give them your support in return and show that you appreciate what they do!





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