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Originally Posted by smileyman
I did some mentor/tutoring with Sam MacDonald, Tylers dad, out at Hallett. Quite humbling to say the least. Got some good schooling at the Pridmore 2 day from Danny Eslick. He's a real hoot and by the time we did our second session together it wasn't student teacher we were actually racing each other. Quite humbling as well. Never got to ride with Pridmore but I learned a great deal at his school. Also found it reassuring and ironic that some of the old lessions I had learned the hard way over the years came up and were discussed. Had I only gone and taken his class sooner  |
We took a ride to Hallett once just to see what was happening west of the Mississippi River and double points. Very nice track, well half of it anyway. They were working on repaving it at the time and half was done, the other half was um, interesting. They even made a special place for me to start, a new row in the rear! I asked them how a rider that was #1 in points (it was a National event) got the special last place start and they (Sam's Dad) just shrugged and said he didn't have the points list but if I wanted to race that was my grid position. The bike owner was hopping mad, I laughed and told him not to worry about it, it was just inspiration. Hell, I'd never seen the track before and never ridden with any of the riders before anyway and I was 16 hours from home so I wasn't about to be crazy. It turned out ok. When the flag dropped I passed 7 rows of riders and went into the first turn in 4th. I didn't win but I really enjoyed the track, and the people there were all good folks.
Oh, I ended up with 3rd in both races.