My Monica

I felt nostalgic the other day at work after looking at this picture again:


As much as I couldn't believe back in February of 2008 that I actually owned that bike - the only bike I've always dreamt of - I can't believe I lost it. Six months after I bought it, I finally took it out to the track, and after that, I knew right then that it was really the only bike I needed to have. I had immediately put my then track bike up for sale. I was the guy that always had at least two bikes in his garage, but here I was more than willing and wanting to just have the Aprilia.

It really sucks to have lost it. It's not even just losing any 2000 Aprilia RSV Mille, it was losing that 2000 Aprilia RSV Mille. That bike and having lost it is a large reason I never went out and bought another one to replace it. It sounds cheesy writing it about a motorcycle, but that one really couldn't be replaced.

Mostly when I think about the bike, I wonder terribly what it would be like to ride it now a year and many trackdays and improvements as a rider later...



It's usually better to leave things to the imagination, but a part of me feels very strongly that if reality now meant having the bike still, it would be better than what I could possibly imagine.

This.Organized Fun

Some spliced footage of a couple of sessions I turned the camera on during yesterday's trackday, once in A Group, and once in B Group when I followed a newfound friend.



Ronald Jenkees rocks.

November's Off to a Good Start

The morning the day before my most recent trackday (Nov. 2nd) I get a message from a moderator over at the R1 Forums. He tells me that my bike was chosen to be their November 2009 Bike of the Month.

Those are some pretty amazing machines that my bike's now a company of. I was genuinely surprised. I think they just like that I actually ride the hell out of my bike!






Was at Thunderhill yesterday, 2nd full (and successful!) trackday on the R1. I'm getting more and more comfortable riding a literbike and adapting a different kind of riding style to be able to ride at a relatively full clip. It's actually fun again to be riding on the track! However, I'll be damned if it isn't hard work. It physically takes a lot to ride a literbike, and seems like my body's still getting used to it, cause ever day after a full trackday, I feel sore at focus parts of my body.

Maybe I oughta up my mountain and road biking. Perhaps start working out too.