Velocity Racing's 'Honey Badger' Blog

After the 6 th round of the season, I headed in that following Tuesday to have all the hardware removed from my leg that had been installed back in December 2016. I had scheduled surgery for that time for a couple reasons – 1) if things went well, then I’d have 3 ½ weeks to recover, which should be enough time for the bones to be relatively healed from the swiss cheese and 2) if things didn’t go well and there was more infection or it looked like it had done more damage, then I’d only be missing one more round instead of several. Surgery seemed to go well, and I was sent home with a bag full of titanium that we removed. I had four zippers on my leg, and about 100 staples holding it all together, but was released with “weight bearing as tolerated” with a warning to be very careful of a fall or hard hit, but told that “normal” activities shouldn’t cause a problem. Thankfully recovery seemed to be going well, so I signed up for the last round of the season. By the time t...

This weekend was one where I came into it with high expectations. You see, I was close – so close – to getting down to my “old” times at Sonoma, I was convinced I could accomplish it at Thunderhill. Thanks to Jim at Catalyst Reaction Suspension, I was finally getting the bike dialed in and my confidence was going up incrementally. I knew that would continue through this weekend, but was putting a lot of pressure on myself to perform up to *my* standards. I failed in that regard. Success was still gained. Friday there was a trackday that I bought a pass to knowing I could really use the time to work on setting the bike up. On Jim’s suggestion, I had dropped the forks a bit, and I knew we’d be playing around with getting everything dialed in for this fast track. I arrived on Thursday evening, unloaded, then headed off for some sleep before the weekend kicked off. I arrived bright and early to get the weekend started, determined to meet my own expectations. Fa...