After a late night of school and final bike prepping, I hit the sack at 12:30am. I woke at 4.5 hours later, loaded the bike, and hit the highway. The owner of the track (Waylon) had signup at 6:30-7:30am, thus the early start.
I arrived at the track without any trouble. Waylon had taken the trouble to put up professionally made directional signs from the Interstate - nice work. As I pulled in the gate a guy on a 92 KX500 pulled in behind me. Good, some competition ;) After pulling in and getting everything settled with signup I went back and did some last minute bike prep, then walked the course.
The track reminded me of what I used to ride on as a kid on my old XL100. It was just a great big pasture on rolling hills, with yellow caution tape lining the track. Truth be told it looked pretty good, like some of the european tracks I've seen in the magazines. There were a few terraces to hop up or down, but the track was mostly made up of corners and straights. I wondered how some of the other racers who were used to 60' doubles and stadium whoops would react to the track. It would be interesting...
I made my way back to my trailer, watching where I was stepping all the while (there were some pretty nice sized cow patties laying about). George and Wade stopped by to introduce themselves as I was getting ready for practice. They arrived a little before I did. Of course, things were running a little late in the morning... If I had known I would have picked up an extra hour of sleep :) 250/Open practice was first on the schedule of events, so I finished gearing up and headed down to the starting gate. -- continued --
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Mike / 1988 KX500 / www.georgiaoffroad.com
I arrived at the track without any trouble. Waylon had taken the trouble to put up professionally made directional signs from the Interstate - nice work. As I pulled in the gate a guy on a 92 KX500 pulled in behind me. Good, some competition ;) After pulling in and getting everything settled with signup I went back and did some last minute bike prep, then walked the course.
The track reminded me of what I used to ride on as a kid on my old XL100. It was just a great big pasture on rolling hills, with yellow caution tape lining the track. Truth be told it looked pretty good, like some of the european tracks I've seen in the magazines. There were a few terraces to hop up or down, but the track was mostly made up of corners and straights. I wondered how some of the other racers who were used to 60' doubles and stadium whoops would react to the track. It would be interesting...
I made my way back to my trailer, watching where I was stepping all the while (there were some pretty nice sized cow patties laying about). George and Wade stopped by to introduce themselves as I was getting ready for practice. They arrived a little before I did. Of course, things were running a little late in the morning... If I had known I would have picked up an extra hour of sleep :) 250/Open practice was first on the schedule of events, so I finished gearing up and headed down to the starting gate. -- continued --
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Mike / 1988 KX500 / www.georgiaoffroad.com