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For those I'm not friends with on FB I figured I would put something on here for all that knew Ryan Hill. Last year after he passed I decided to buy his 750 and run the endurance race on it, it's something he wanted to do. We kept the group to close friends and just wanted to have fun and bring the bike home. We had myself, @RonStopable, @RVTPilot, and Bill riding with @TimTheAzn, @J_Copeland and Ron's brother helping with pit stops. I spent the better part of 2 months going through this bike trying to make sure it would survive the 4 hours. Ron and I haven't had a ton of suspension setup time and we made some poor choices when we were able to ride it. Friday came and we had no choice but to get it sorted. It's by no means perfect but it's very rideable by the end of Friday. We make one small change for the race Saturday and ride through any other issues that still persist. Things are going great until about the 3 hour mark when Bill comes in and says the clutch is starring to slip. We were determined to finish for Ryan epically since his mom came out to watch. The last stint I put is was probably the hardest I have had to do. Nursing the clutch on shifts and the bike only ruining about 120-125mph before it would slip made for very slow straights. Tim throws me a 10 min to go sign and I start taking to Ryan, asking him to help make sure the bike makes it. What feels like 40 min goes by and I see the checkered. I have never been so excited to see a checked in my life. Crossing the finish I started to cry and almost blew turn 1 lol. While none of us were setting the world on fire with the lap times it was a great adventure with a great group of guys. @Jester_ and @TRMN8TR were a huge help since they have ran these before and gave us a lot of pointers. Thank you everyone for the help. The shirts were also a huge success. I'll have more pics once I get them from @Photos by Marty and maybe Ron can post up what video he has from the gopro.

Update from the Family --- John took a great step today. He is now breathing on his own. They've removed the ventilator and I believe they are starting to remove the sedation. They are not allowing visitors at this time as he needs a ton of rest. This is incredible step from when I was there on Saturday! He truly is a fighter! Keep fighting John!

Thanks for the input gents. I'll probably just go with the KTM Super Duke R anyhow. They've made some substantial improvements this year & I've had a hankering for one since they 1st came out.

So I had to do a conference call with State Farm last night. The rep I got was Jake. He was not appreciative of my jokes.

Here's some pictures that I took, there may be a couple more on my Instgram account. There's a video on Instagram as well...

Negative rep for posting about rep.

The correct term is post whore.

OK, I finally learned this! Final answer: Choose your own GD bike! Yeah? ^_^

great job guys. i'm sure ryan was smiling as the clutch starting fucking around and asking "let's see you bishes deal with this"

If you drive down to Columbus Wednesday I'll come hold your hand at Iron Pony so you don't get scared. Offer is out there.

It's all part of the ritual. This track day has been foretold for a thousand years.

Yeah, I've learned to just move along and get as far away from them as possible, especially when riding alone. But every once in awhile, they get to me.

Any bike I suggest would potentially be something that I need to try to keep up with in SEO or WV...so, Grom.

Rookies

Yes. Predictcablity and holding your line are absolutely more important in I and A than speed alone.

How very... nouveau riche of you

Don't forget your back protectors...

Set your bike as you would for a fast group ride and put painters tape over lights and remove mirrors. Be at track at 7am. Lower paddock by garages. Follow the lines to registration and tech. You will be completely directed from there.

I'm going to change your geometry on the zx while you are sleeping next track day.

By "show me the ropes" do you mean showing you how to pose on a Ducati in front of the garages???

I had the Grom on track there last season when I was working. It did not set any records but it was faster than several novice times if I make this I'll be on the KTM.

Pony has some old man bars for ya.

I am in for this. Approved for the time off. Will be my first ever track day. Hopefully someone will help show me the ropes. @TimTheAzn

Come on Tinder

I usually just tell myself "Maybe they're having a bad day, let's give them a pass". This works for most cases except people on their cell phones.

I get the desire, but doing that may turn your run-of-the-mill asshat into a homicidal road rager.

That's it. @Tonik is getting invited to every single ride or trip. He will then be haggled to no end if he doesn't join. How many times did I ask him about the Ozark trip?

at least he didn't swerve into you, had few of those, scary crap. After few of those i always try to pass all the way to the right edge of the lane and as fast as i can go so that the whole ordeal is faster than the guy can think and fathom and revenge plot etc.

Found this picture of John hanging with us at the Epic Ride. That was a great day!

i'll try to go out there to watch a track day. hopefully they don't charge me a fist in the bum to spectate.

I never stood up. Same height either way so I don't waste the energy

Rep rules everything around me RREAM, get internet money, dolla dolla billz yallllllll

Are you keeping the Ninja? I'll chase that 1290 with my 500.

vacation approved woooooooooooooooo wait to see how weather is doing and then booom am in have a month to convince @Al Z. Heimer to check this off his bucket list. Cant get a better opportunity than this. Heck sonik bought a bike for this.

Derek your coach will take good care of you. I went there last week solo and had a great time. The first time on the track they have you ride far left and pit in. Then they take you far right and on the 3rd lap they show you race line. My coach was a cool guy and after mentioning I found myself wanting to go faster, he definitely picked up the pace on the 2nd session.

I was at pony today, they have some closeout Roadsmart2s, didn't look at your size but had a 180/120 set for $170 Also had some closeout continental's with a 2009 date code on them..lol

What new tires?

Rode West Branch MTB yesterday. Let me just say Quarry trail has way more rocks than my skill level can handle. I got through the first 1/3 and was thinking I was doing good, then I hit the "real" rocks. Much walking, ensued. This little guy was guarding the trail. It took considerable arguing to convince him to let me pass

True. I'm probably lucky this dooshnozzle didn't try to make contact. He definitely looked like he was "chemically modified". Who was it that was selling a 9mm on here recently??

I'd rather have a person like that in front of me instead of behind me where he could run into me. I wouldn't see him coming the way my mirrors are.

I've ran into this a few times as well. I like to go out of my way to piss people off once they start acting like an asshat. We had a guy follow us for several miles after I waved at him...

Hard to keep track of who has had what on here.

S1000RR and put some risers on it Nancy boy.

I might be in for this.

I'll be up north this weekend, but with a trailer... May go out Sunday though if saturday is the trip north.

Happening Right Now!!

Even though I have a green bike and some green on my jacket, I was thinking of going with an orange helmet. (The jacket should be replaced soon anyway. Maybe next year. And I don't care about matching the bike.)

Thinking assured clear distance deals with following another vehicle traveling the same direction as you. The van pulled onto the road and into oncoming traffic. Not sure about speed but those damn Harley speedometers are notoriously inaccurate

I love waving at people on scooters. People on scooters always seem happy. Maybe I need to get a scooter.