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AFM Round 4, 2018 - Progress, not Perfection

With only a few short weeks in between the third and fourth rounds of the AFM season, I was feeling the pressure. To make things worse, I ended up crashing a week before the fourth round while feeling a little too good and not accounting for weather factors (that I knew were present). Thanks to RiderzLaw I was able to afford to rush fix the bike, and DareDevil Motorsports more than earned their keep doing all the heavy lifting on getting the bike back together, fixed, and where it needed to go in the 5 days available. Since the bike was rideable, I headed to the track on Friday evening to set up my pit and hang out with my friends. My bike wouldn’t arrive until the next morning, so it was an evening of hanging out and chatting with everyone until bedtime. Saturday dawned warm and pleasant, and while it was supposed to warm up as the day went on, for Thunderhill Raceway, it wasn’t looking too bad at all. There was a threat of some wind, however, which ended up living...

AFM Round 3, 2018 – Those “Ah-ha!” Moments

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 ...