Well... The weather was nice today, but unfortunately we don't ride on Sundays. We got a ton of work done on the 1000 and are almost 100% ready for tomorrows practice. I've gotta give it up to the three main guy's helping Brandon and I out for this event... Garry, Todd and Chris... I'm not sure what we'd do without them. The weather forecast for tomorrow is looking good right now so let's just hope it stays that way. Milky gave me a street bike to go out and do some laps on today and once again I was reminded of why I don't ride on the open roads. I got onto the mountain section of the course where it is now one way and there is no speed limit and started to get on the gas and pick the pace up quite a bit. I came into Guthries Memorial, a 6th gear left hander, and all of a sudden the bike started sliding like crazy. I thought I was about to crash when I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw someone piled up into the fence on the outside of the turn. I thought for sure that I was going to fall and slide directly into the guy, but somehow I was lucky enough that the bike stayed on 2 wheels. Once I made it though the corner I saw a few bikes, a cop, and a car pulled off to the side of the road so I pulled right up to them. I told them that someone had just gone down and the cop just looked at me and said that he already knew that. I was like "No, someone just crashed and there is nobody with him." and at that point he realized what I was saying and took off running down the road towards the crash scene. I then looked at the car that was pulled off on the side of the road and saw a giant puddle of oil under it. It turns out the car had blown it's motor and put oil down all through the turn and he was trying to get the cop to close the mountain road so no one would crash in it. Anyway, it was just a reminder of why I prefer to only ride in places where there are corner marshalls and people to inspect the racing surface and warn you of any potential hazards.

After that incident I continued on my way over the mountain and it was great to be able to use the whole road so I could ride on the racing line I'll be using all week. I was happy that I did it at least once before practice tomorrow so now I feel a bit more prepared. I'll be sure to update everyone on how the first official practice goes!

Cheers!

Jimmy V