Silver State Recap

Just got back home from the NBL Silver State National & Regional Championships. I won the regional series thanks to a clean sweep of 1st during that race I was able to beep the title for another year. The usual long weekend was no exception this year. 13 hours later on Saturday we got back to our room that we left early that morning. Friday was chill with a low rider count for practice. A bunch of Frenchman were in town. My national laps were pretty good with the exception of the main. That sure sucked I won some laps Sunday and then blew up on the big show! Took a 3rd both days. Nothing for a couple weeks until NBL's final state deal for the year. Its going to go be a quick couple months cause NBL has Arizona in January again unless I get some tricky Reno ideas!

Vegas

I am here for my weekly update! Anyone checking the website must have gotten pissed by now since I gave no details for a week. I basically have been dealing with lots of nothing. I got my train on a couple days, worked a couple days and rode gates a day. That leads us right up to now as I pack to leave for Sin City and the NBL National, Regional Championships, Dicks Last Resort, Super Wal Mart, and 3 days of listening to rumors spread about something! Basically the typical package weekend with the added double race championship day on Saturday. I want some good points for 2009 so I need to concentrate on a couple good scores to start the year off. Either way if your coming to Vegas well be at Dicks on Saturday night! I'm out, 3 hour drive!

Rest Weekend

So nothing going on for me this weekend for once. A quick weekend break before the NBL National next weekend in Sin City. I got my legs back as the week moved on this week and I should be all geared up to be a weekend warrior by tomorrow. I figure on having a couple sessions Saturday and maybe Patrick & I will spin the road bikes around the block on Sunday. Last night was a total break for me. I had a pretty fun time being out late, but now its Friday morning so I wont tell! Maybe after the weekend I can finally lay out some drama for you! If it swings the way I am looking then I will just let you know how it went down. If it goes against what I think then I will just have to put it all out there or put them on Blast, as everyone tells me! Is Disney Cup this weekend? I guess I will have to follow up on the racing this weekend. I sure hope they do it next year cause I will make it, this year just flew over my head until it was to late to grab a ticket! Anyhow I guess I have filled you in on my boring week.

Chipotle (Nate's News)

Hardy harr harr laugh it off kids. A guy can't like something? I haven't been up to date on all this Dot net stuff, but after reading it appears I'm being dimed out for my eating habits. Don't hate on the burrito bowl. It's like candy on the lips.. a symphony in your mouth really...

All i can say is don't knock it till you try it baby!

Hollar
3DigitNate

State Champs

I just got home from Prunedale, CA and the State Championship at Manzanita Park. I got home last night but went to bed cause I didn't feel like doing anything. Nate & I drove home but seemed to make a 6 hour drive almost 8 cause we stopped so much. We went for pizza, but stoped a couple more times so it added up quick. He was all busted up so he got restless! No Chipotle! I won class both days, raced pro/money and got a 6th or 7th depending who you talk too. I spent all my winnings already. I did learn to never do a 60 minute plyometric workout and drive 6 hours to state championship to race 2 classes both with mains! My legs hurt all weekend to the point where it was hard to get up! It's pretty chilly at home, my legs are toast and the wind is blowing so training today might get ugly.

Circus Moves on

This past weekend the traveling circus was in Lancaster for hurricancaster national. Everyone tells me it was better on Sunday but I really didn't care to check it out. The track was pretty good but it's just a waste in the wind tunnel. I don't care how much you can tell me it was nice, should have been nice, or is the weekend before but it's been windy every time I have ever gone around them parts of California. The rain was a joke and the track didn't hold up half as well as Washington a few weeks ago. After 3 mains the place was slick. I am not sure how 165 motos took until 4PM to hit mains, but that didn't help considering the rain started as mains did.

Either way it's time to move the circus up to northern California on the coastline for this weekends NBL State Championship. It better not drop water from the sky! I don't have much hope since in June at the National it managed to rain on us! It sure is ironic after a board meeting last year we were told Southern California could never run a race in February cause we would get rained on! Here we are heading to the drizzle coast in October for a race, the same place the same person that told us it rains in February sat in June under an umbrella being an official! Anyway I got some big things spreading around but I can't spread a rumor just yet so maybe soon I can spread some good news and or spread some dirty tactics! I am out to train, to do gates this evening and work the next couple days before our friendly 6+ hour drive to the Monterey Bay area on Friday. Nate is coming with me so maybe we can stop at Chipotle since he eats it everyday. I got a 30 minute conversation I need to take off my blackberry for ya about how great the place is. The funny thing is, he isn't my friend that's sponsored by them.

Thanks Again

After washing my clothes, cleaning mud off my bike & getting mud out from every place in my gear I would like to extend my thanks to ABA for the 2nd mud fest in less than a month! Maybe it wasn't so much the wind that killed today. It was the fact that the wind chilled 30mph winds all day long really made things stupid. Then as mains begin so did the rain. The track didn't even hold out like Seattle a couple weeks ago. This deal turned slicker than ABA's marketing technique's! Of course by the last main of the day when I get the pleasure of riding the track it was hell track and just cause Cru showed up today didn't mean we had to have it. I ended up with a 3rd for the day and another bike dripping mud!

Also if you had not already heard, as I did when I got to the track yesterday morning, the voice we were used to hearing for so many years with NBL lost that more than 2 year battle with cancer. Next weekend I will be at the NBL Champs riding. Just where she would want everyone to be!

Maximum Gust 58 mph

If the Golden State National turns out as the weather shows it there will be a bunch of hate to ABA. Does ABA even care one bit about the riders. I know everyone is just going to blow it off as "weather" and that nobody can predict that far in advance the weather for an area. But I am no weather man, never took a day of education in weather and I said the day the announced the race location the wind was going to suck! Well below is Saturdays weather report!

* High wind occurring on Oct 4. Maximum sustained 30 mph (maximum gust 58 mph). *

That's going to be lame. I am still planning on racing 1 day case I know I would be to pissed to even try on day 2. It's got a 30% chance of rain for Saturday. I just cleaned the mud from Seattle and the great idea of the redline cup west being in there in the rain. Maybe the wind will blow today so I can train with some wind sprints! Either way I will see everyone Saturday with your 6 foot poles in the ground trying to hold down your canopy! I'm out!

October

I just realized this morning it's October. What the heck happen to the season! This weekend is the ABA Golden State national, next weekend is NBL State Championship, then a couple weeks later will be the Regional championships and the first 2009 national. It will be just a few more races after that and I will be calling it a year! Some exciting stuff is about to go down but I cant write about it just yet. It's better than sliced bread so I gotta keep it a secret until all the "I's" are dotted. I got a bunch of exciting things happening with my 2009 plans and sponsors that you will see come November so if you can make it through another month of boring updates I can tell you about 2009. I better get back to training this morning cause Nate is coming over to check on the new training facility here in the desert! He is actually going to have to train if he is a block away from mine!