Wow, that sucks when things like that happen...and they do happen. Still have the 929, I also road raced for a few years...so I also have a race preped 2005 GSXR600. I also trail ride on my XR250 and I have an XR100 just for fun. I need to sell the race bike and XR100 since I don't use them much anymore, not to mention that the one car garage is hard to navigate some times.
This is me exactly. I may just jump on a bike I had been working on for a friend or family and my wife will be out of the house trying to stop me right away. The way I grew up on two wheels was, you go as fast as you can from point A to point B. Period! I havent raced since my knee injury. Thats was for a Lorreta Lynn qualifier. I was just starting to ride 125-A class. You know, when you race and you are in school, it really doesnt matter if you get hurt, you can still show up. It doesnt work that way with work, which really sucks. haha. I still have a friend that is in the industry. Last year he worked on the machinic team for RV. Man I really miss those Long Weekends with the trailer in tow.
Doing what I am now, self employed milk hauler. Other then my daughter being born In July of 2007, nothing has changed.
just grad college but had one yr of ball left, getting ready to sit down read about who ran what and how many 225lb reps guys in my position did at the combine. working three jobs (KidsStop, work study and the bar at night) making good money and beggin my sister to trasfer to a diff school!
I really miss street riding, man !! I never got into road racing, but, the super-bike thing really has my attention; I could see getting involved in the near future. Sounds like you stopped at the "deciding time" in a racers career, as did I. Racing, now, is just for fun. I take racing seriously, but, not like I used to. I'm not looking for a factory ride, or to place at a National, just going out to compete against friends and riders from bordering districts. We do a fair amount of traveling, in the winter, to Southern States. I miss race weekends, as well. It was like a huge camping-party, but, we raced during the day...Some great memories, of multiple nature , we're made in the pits, at the races. Haha.
was a sophmore in college, my best partying year. kept good grades but partied my ass off!!! played a little football. started bow hunting probably a year prior.
I was a junior in high school:D Easy times for sure. Getting ready to start my internship at PennDOT.
My wife and I had been married for about a year, we were getting ready to have our first child, Jess our oldest boy in April. I was 31, my wife was 28. I was at my 3rd teaching job and had got my wife on with the same school, it was her second year there, (we are both still there now). We had recently moved back to Northern Idaho thanks to that teaching jobs.. We had a nice little ranch, 50 acre place. Beautiful property. That was my second home I had owned. I was also logging in the summers. Very busy but the logging industry was good money back in those summers. I was shed hunting that time of the year and burning a lot of firewood I was probably getting ready for spring bear and turkey seasons. My wife was NOT liking the weight she had put on from the pregnancy but she was very excited about becoming a mother. We were both excited about becoming parents. We were commuting to work 82 miles each way! That was nuts! Looking back now I can't believe we did that drive for 4 years. I had just gained access to one of my best hunting properties that I still hunt today.
I thought I remember you saying recently you own around 20 acres now? Did you move from the 50 acre place? Sorry for the hijack:D
Sold the 50 acre place.. bought a 12 acre place a lot closer to work out above Lake CDA and then I care-take the 80 acres next to mine for the people that originally owned my place. They live in Arizona. Nice little set up.
10 yrs ago...23 yrs old...I was 2 yrs out of college...had my own small house...was engaged - spent a lot of time planning my next hunting campout with buddies...and had no idea what stress was. 2 block walk to work everyday - Jeep sat in garage with top permanently off from April thru Oct. Drank gobs of Captain Morgan. Today - Great Wife, 4th kid due next month...life is great...but I could write book on stress - pretty sure I'll never stop worrying about my kids, so better just learn to deal with it
