I just wanted to say thanks to all the people that helped me have the best weekend I have had in a long time.
When I decided to ride my bike to the races, I knew I would be going without a lot of things but everybody helped me out and it couldn't have turned out better - LSR has some really great people.
Thanks to Noonan for helping me through tech, Vince, APE, and Scott Horner for help with the bike, Willie and Sheri for feeding me and giving me a place to sleep that wasn't hard dirt. Mike Hutton for offering to help me out everywhere. Dave Consalvos for offering me a place to stay. Scott and Paula for letting me ski the Busa back to the pits behind your bar car (and Paula for borrowing a car last minute to help me rob the bank hehehe).
Because of everybody else chipping in, I was able to ride 875 miles round trip from Sacramento to Mojave, run the same bike 196MPH in the dirt, and cruise home loaded with gear getting 43 miles per gallon.
Having lived in California all my life, I really enjoy early morning on the road in the central valley. I sure did get my fill of it this weekend. When I got home I was beaming from all the fun things I'd done.
Great LSR friends make it possible - thanks everyone!
ps. Somewhere between Bakersfield and Tulare my backpack opened up and I lost my AC/DC shirt and my *ahem* unmentionables. If you come across the unmentionables, I would leave them alone but I'm really interested in getting my AC/DC shirt back. Let me know if you see it.