Fat Lazy Bastard Racing

I’m in Love…

There are certain things, that once I try it, I must absolutely continue to feed the addiction.
Coffee

Smoking

Track Riding

Etc…

This last weekend at ORP, I got hooked on a new addiction, one, that I must feed.

I am talking about, motards…

Now, I’ve ridden friends motards before, but only on the street.

JD Decided he was going to take his Motard down with us to ORP.  This would be an excellent idea, as ORP is a tight and technical track where these types of shenanigans can take place.

JD went out his first session, came back with a huge smile on his face. It was over, he knew what he liked out there already without taking the CBR out.

The day went on, and every session he’d come back, he’d have a bigger and bigger grin on his face.

Finally… He let me take it out..

And that was it, my weekend was ruined.  He gave me the first dose for free, 1 session out on it the whole weekend.  Every time I went out on my R6 after that, I just kept thinking about the Motard.

Even though it is only a WR250X, I had more fun on it, than I could have on the 600, due to the track configuration.  On top of that, it just was a fricken blast.

I now want one

I now desperately seek one

I now will be in more debt

I now must restrain myself from spending money on one

I now must have one though!

le sigh

ORP ORP ORP!

Well, What a wonderful weekend spent in Oregon!

Myself and my buddy JD, had signed up for the Oregon Raceway Park, two day extravaganza with 2-Fast May 16th and 17th about 2 months prior to the actual date. We had been wanting to ride this track since the first bit of blacktop went down on it.
So what can I say?

Meh…

The track is good, still needs some work, and I am not just talking facilities.

For starters, just for track itself, they really need to get a roller out there on a damned hot day, and re roll the seams.  They can really screw you up going into corners or exiting corners.

Secondly, there is a couple corners going counter clockwise, that just completely and utterly screw you up, and destroy the flow of the track. Throw in the multiple blind rises, and you have yourself some problems.

Clockwise, flows much better, and there is not that break up in the flow as bad. It also does not have the blind rise problem like CCW does.

Personally, I loved Turn 15 in CW (Turn 1, CCW).  It is a pretty high speed slight bend, that you drag knee without much effort.

All in all, with running it cw and ccw, I was able to get my knee down in every corner.

The Half Pipe is awesome, especially in CCW.  It’s just a blast.
I took my buddies Motard out, and all I can say is, that deserves its own post.  I think I found a new love!

New Helmet

I decided to get a new helmet.

After the first Track Day and Race weekend of the year that I attended, I remembered why I hated my helmet so much.
My Standard Race Helmet has been the Scorpion EXO700.  It’s a good crash worthy helmet that I have seen personally take the impart of a head first dive bomb into the tarmac, so I don’t question its ability to protect the noggin.

However, I have problems with it over 130mph in the straight.  I would get a blast of wind straight into my eyes, causing me to tear up, and have blurry vision going into turn 1 and 2.

So although I can hit just over 150 down the front straight, I was keeping it throttled back during the race due to this issue. Something that probably effected my lap times just a tad (probably not a whole lot).

So comes in my new helmet.  I took the feedback that Tony gave me of his new helmet, one that we both tried on last year, and really thought fit extremely well. That helmet is the Bell Star.
This helmet, is the lightest I have picked up. Not only that, it fit so dang well.  After the feedback from Tony, I jumped on a good deal and got mine for 250 bucks (he got his for 200, but they were out of that style in my size).

My first time using it was at ORP, in the hot desert heat. I must say the few things I really love about this helmet.

I love how the shield locks in place

I love the ventilation

I especially love the face shield and the fit.
Time will tell if it really works well at Pacific in the straight.  ORP doesn’t have a long enough straight for me to get up to 130mph or better to try it out for that. So this next Track Day I do at PR will definitely be a good day for testing.

Hears hoping it works out well!
Right now though? 2 thumbs up. This helmet rocks.  I’ll get a photo up when I have time to take a peeksure.