I am.

I don’t know why. The last time I took an advanced rider’s course, a big girl scared me and I fell down.

My husband (RC51) and his BFF (some super KTM) are doing a track day, intermediate level. I was going to do a quick track orientation session for fifty bucks, but no. I’m taking the full day class. Luckily a friend is teaching and another friend is attending. I really need to get over fixating and staying on the throttle coming into turns. I’ll be on the 91 Hawk instead of the Duc, which really makes no sense since the Duc is already battered enough, but I can’t seem to muscle the steering as easily as I can on the Hawk. Plus, people might feel sorry for me and not pass me if I only have 50 HP. Hmmm, maybe I’ll bring the Duc for backup.

Hopefully we’ll have a whole new front end by Sunday: brand new CBR forks (thank you, DA!), clip-ons, new rim and brake and just waiting for a master cyclinder and some Water Wetter, Whatever that is.

See you there!

Queensry(umlaut)che (who?) is coming to town on Saturday and they’re going to be riding Buells (ahem, HARLEY-DAVIDSONS). I agreed to join him. (Here comes that feeling.) I’ll be riding about 4 hours behind them. First, because I don’t want to be a part of this and second, because I’ll catch up with them in about 8 seconds.

They’re playing at The Myth nightclub. This will be my second visit there this summer. The bathroom sinks have hot and cold running Red Bull.

Please G-d, don’t let me die on this ride and if I do, cover for me and say I was somewhere else.

P.S. What *is* a Queensryche anyways?

Which might be a good reason to avoid the women’s only class.

I went back to do a story about Steve Bauman, the dreamy instructor. Took lots of pictures, especially of Scott, who did really well.

I know I’ll go again. I just need to schedule it in accordance with the moon or my horoscope or something. I need a hysterectomy if I want to continue riding.

This is a very cool site! Mark C sent it to me. I hope he doesn’t think I stole his idea! Think of us as sibling sites, but I know I’ll be keeping up with them and checking out their upcoming rides.

Mark also plans to give us some videos to post, so keep an eye out for great twistie footage. See if you can figure out what kind of bike the camera is on. I’m guessing a Ducati, but I haven’t check with Mark yet.