Most of my race reports are a chronological explanation of my weekend, but I think I need to vary from that a bit this time around, and approach it from a different angle. Ever since moving to the “big bike” aka my Roseville Motorsports Kawasaki ZX10R, I’ve heard/been told/imagined/etc that it was a big bike: hard to ride, required muscling it around, point and shoot, hard on the brakes, hard on the gas, try to tame “the beast.” Between hearing all of those things for years regarding riding a liter bike, and my own preconceptions, I had myself thoroughly convinced that riding this bike was going to be hard work, and my 2017 season did nothing to alleviate those notions. Hence why, at the start of the 2018 season, I enlisted the help of a coach, Tyler O’Hara. I not only wanted someone who interpreted things the way I needed to hear them, but also knew the bike, and especially who could help me get my “head space” back where it needed to be. We had worked together a total of