I dragged my first knee!

Sep 292008

After many months of planning, a big group from CharlotteSportBikes.com and CarolinaSportBikes.com finally had our track day at CMP this past weekend. It was a big day as Nick, Jesse, and I all got our knees down for the first time at the track. We all anticipated this track day for so long and the payoff was better than I could have ever expected. No one wrecked or got hurt and we all had an awesome time. I can’t wait for the next one folks!

Thanks to Perry for all of the garage planning and Fran for snacks and to Claudia for helping with sandwiches too. We had a lot of great creature comforts out at the track. Thanks to our crew chief Chris for keeping things running smoothly despite me being a bad driver / rider and always parking on the wrong side of the garage. Thanks to Kendrick Kirk with DviantImage.com for hooking us up with a great deal on photos. I’ll definitely have to post up the professional photos when I get them. Kendrick said he got a pic of my first knee down!

This is just a proof. I can’t wait to get the rest from Kendrick!

The caravan down in the pouring rain was a little daunting but then the weather was awesome for rest of the day. It was a little overcast but that kept the heat down. We had a few sprinkles in the last few laps of the last session but otherwise, no rain. Thanks to my caravan crew of Nick and Golf for the team work to get our bikes down there. Golf learned what a "dirt ball" was as all three of us were definite dirt balls at the end of the day.

Back row: NIck, Jesse, Chris, Golf, James, Perry, Fran, Claudia, Lee, Jason
Front row: Rebecca, Dwayne, me, Nick

Thanks to Claudia for this super cool pic of me about to go out on the track.

This is right after my first knee down on the track in the third session. After that, I got my knee down on both sides in the rest of the sessions for the day.

Thanks to Chris for this cool pic of me. It’s very tiny but if you look closely, you might be able to see my knee down.

Good healthy eating at our first stop at Boj’s.	CaRRavan	Jesse’s ride
Fueling the Hummer	Three bikes in one bed!	Early… very early!
No jugs!	The Fran-mobile	Unloading
Police bike	Toot toot!	me, Fran, Claudia
Unloading the SVS	Riding 2up on the pit bike	me and Jason
Banana time	Look at Jesse’s ears	Kendrick Kirk with DviantImage.com
Class clowns	The Novice Crew	Part 1
Part 2 — Fran says ewwww	Crew chief Chris	Let’s race
The garage	Getting ready	Perry’s nuts
Getting schooled	Matching helmets	Matching leathers
Stacked up
Rolling slowly	Great pic by Claudia!
	Take a closer look	Take a closer look again
and again	I dragged my first knee!	Funny ha ha
Perry and Fran on the pit bike	My control rider Mark	Jason’s and Nick’s pit area
Nick and his well dressed extension cord	Jason and his big tent	Hanging out in the tent
Chris and Dwayne	Nick and Perry	Jason and Fran
Golf and me	Nice Underarmor shirts	The girls of garage 22
Part 1 – Hauling bikes	Part 2 – Hauling bikes	Dwayne and his bike
Two garages to pull through	The front of the garage	Novice crew again
Gleaming white leathers	My group number 5	Our teacher Bill
Rebecca matches Jason’s bike	Lee	James
Check it out!	Alfredo and his Desmosidici
	My new ride	Now Rebecca’s turn
Vroom vroom!		MV Agusta 1000
Fran and Golf	Loading up	Dave with the Asian Crew
Zzzzzzzz…	The whole CREW	My control rider in uniform
Matching shirts	Matching bikes to go with the matching shirts	This happened after he passed me before turn 1
Whoa!	Carolina Motorsports Park	Lee and James
Murry		Decker
Decker’s first knee down!	Hanging out before leaving	Squidilicious!
Getting caught with his pants down	Sergio and Alfredo	Loading up
Fran, me, and Claudia	Loading the truck	15% Gasoline like me!