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thx Bubba

If anyone is heading down to race at Vintage Days at Mid Ohio and you have a garage with some room to spare, I'd be interested in going in on it with you. Just bringing one bike and some basic gear. Have a trailer and canopy, but you know how it can get when it rains down there. Plan to head down on Thursday, get set up and catch Friday practice. - Andrew

count me in ...

anybody hearing anything regarding track days at Nelson Ledges?

I imagine this has been posted somewhere, but Lean TD has decided to not run the track days etc at Nelson Ledges next year. Sam and Holly want to do a few things. Sounds like some planning may be going on in the background to continue something similar, but no specifics. Megga thanks to Sam and Holly for what they've done for us ... a class act all the way around https://leantd.com/

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the old man running at Nelson Ledges ...

vanity alert ... ran the Lean TD endurance events this year and Team ARC took the win in Pony Express. Always good to team with the young fast guns ...!!! Me, Robbie Noe and Chris Murphy.

Heading out to Nelson Ledges on Sunday for the last Lean TD event ... weather looks good ...

final run for the Lean TD endurance series this weekend .... Craig, you coming out again?

Rider changes for pony express are at the discretion of the team ... we chose 40 minutes as a baseline as that seemed to be where the gas tanks started to display "low." ( and for a 3 rider team ends up being 2 40 minute stints each ) But we also use a white board to signal early changes from the pit. And riders can signal early stops if the need to. The rain and dry out had us making all types of changes.

I too had a great time running the 4 hr pony express at Nelson Ledges last weekend. That rain made for some interesting strategerie. We took 2nd (me, Chris Murphy and Robby Noe) despite all of us running pretty decent times, hard to fight guys that can run lots of 1:07s and 1:08s. couple of shots from the John Martinowski:

Tim, yeah that was an epic battle .... fun to watch!

holee chit Tim ....my old Duc 900 SS was like that, chitty alt connections, but no fire down below ... git er fixed ....

Planning to head out to Nelson Ledges this weekend ... anyone else going?

at the moment thinking just LEAN ...

yeah, plan to run Nelsons (race endurance too) and Mid O (have some certs)_ .. maybe a trip to PIRC as well Would love to do Vintage Days at Mid O if they happen this year

another shot ...

Fellow Gearheads ... wanted to share the results of a local painter who TimtheAzn recommended ... Dave P did an absolutely killer job on the 1199 ... she's a proper bitch now. The old rattler can black was, umm, a bit lacking. The nephews and nieces thought black it was uber cool ... not so much me .... Dave got it exactly right! PM me or TimtheAzn for contact info for Dave P. Before/After Track crack is only a few months away .....

cool beans TimTheAzn .... thx

Anyone got a recommendation for some track day / race day bodywork painting? Somewhere in the Cleveland/Akron metro area ...

As was stated, it was a great day. A few too many people "running out of skill" as Mladin used to say. But thankfully no serious injuries that I heard of.

Anyone headed there, weather be damned ...?

any track updates on this project?

The old man is headed to VMD with the tri-colore Duc 1098. Gotta try to uphold the eurotrash honor and all. I'll be pitted in the lower paddock area under a red tent. Stop by if you get down that way. Andrew Sexton