So when I walked into work this morning, Gaz handed me two DVD-Rs with 350 high rez tiff pictures from last Monday’s CLASS Course… Needless to say I was completely blown away. Nothing makes you feel like a big time rider more than having someone shoot trackday photos almost exclusively of you all day long. Especially when they nail three or four shot action sequences! I honestly can’t thank him enough and I feel extremely fortunate to have a friend like him…

Here are a few of my favorite shots of …

Now that I’ve had a few days to reflect on my trackday experience I find that all kinds of widely divergent thoughts keep crossing my mind. I signed MotorMilt and myself up for our most recent motorcycle adventure several months back. Perhaps as far back as last September. The idea of getting the Ducs out on a track seemed like a great idea. Perhaps even the next logical step in our increasingly sporty outlook on life. Of course since there was a tremendous amount of lead time between when I …

My first Trackday on a Ducati has to rank right up there with some of the greatest experiences in my life. It was truly an awe-inspiring adventure in so many ways and on so many levels, some of which I’m just now getting a handle on twenty four hours after we wrapped up at the track. Reg, Gigi & the rest of the CLASS Riding School folks were fantastic. If there is a more mellow, low key, no-pressure, highly educational and instructional track environment I’d be amazed. These folks are …

Its amazing, I feel like I’m a five year old on the night before Christmas. I’m genuinely so excited right now it’s a bit scary. I can’t say that I’ve been this stoked about something that’s this personal to me for quite awhile. As MotorMilt & I get closer and closer to hitting the road in order to get to the track, I find that a lot of my concerns about being out on the track have been replaced by this slightly out of body focus on the event. Not …

By my math MotorMilt & I are just under seventy some-odd hours away from our first Ducati track experience. As each hour chips away, I find it harder and harder to contain my growing enthusiasm. It seems like so long ago that we signed up and first started talking about a track day on the Ducs. To finally be on the verge of getting out there is slightly mind blowing. I simply can’t wait to get to Willow Springs and ride these amazing machines in their natural environment for the …

MotorMilt & I aren’t exactly the most holiday oriented people out there, but I guess everyone eventually gets caught up in the gift giving season. Actually I don’t mean to speak for ‘ol MotorMilt, he can do that for himself. But I’m definitely one of those folks who seldom remembers any important dates, anniversaries or birthdays. Usually it simply goes in one ear and out the other. Of course on the off chance that I actually do in fact write something down - like say, someone’s birthday - it usually …

Once again I’ve got the itch… The itch do another track day.
Perhaps it’s just that time of year or maybe it was reading all about Cecilie’s Motorcycle Adventures and how she went from a beginner rider to taming the track. Or perhaps it’s just what happens when one goes out and gets themselves a street legal race bike like a Ducati. I don’t know…
What I do know is that I spent most of yesterday daydreaming about heading into the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca and not doing anything productive… …

During the past few days, I’ve been thinking more and more about what my blog has become - perhaps that’s my way of saying I’m in a bit of a self reflective moment right now, which all in all I think is a realatively healthy thing - its been a pretty good length of time since I started blogging and as I look back at what has come out so far, I’m left with the realization that what simply started off as a rambling creative outlet, has in many ways …