WOW what a fast couple of weeks we have had.  We have complete 4 more rounds of racing bring the latest rnd to 11, so what have we been up to?  For starters rnd 8 and 9 went well just hard racing learning as he went, 10 and 11 went super!  Over the past month he has been down hard and gotten up and never was lapped!  He has beaten 85cc riders in the open class and has gotten so much faster and confident!!  J and I took a motor cross school with Ron tiechner in georgia 2 weeks ago, it was held at Nico Izzies practice track!  We meet hid dad Narrio and he is cool and anything.  The track was huge and took 2 to 3 min to get around.  The 2 day course was very well put together i was the water boy as it was 100 degrees or better everyday we were riding!   J put 4 hrs on the bike while there then i drove back that sat evening when clas was over to stay at the track for sunday's race on fathers day!  the class has seemed to help he does have some extra confidence so time will tell.  We have started practicing braking like we learned then we do the figure 8 track, then starts and start all over again.   I am looking forward to the 2 week break i need to get stuff done around here and he needs a break to be a kid! 
Thanks for reading my ramblings
Mike (papa) #169!!

Hello all we have had a heck of a time here in North Carolina, we started out the month of May with having my bike a KTM 250 and Joshua's Bikes stolen from our garage (locked).  We made round 6 with the help of a racer in same class by letting j use his practice bike (great!!).  rnd 6 was in tuskarora and he does real well there when it is not a rain out.  That day started out great he got first in his 10-11 class then while waiitng for the open class the clouds came in.  You guessed it as soon as we got on the gate waitng for the moto on the track the light rain started, then when the gate dropped it all came down (i have posted pictures).  He had a great time racing in that stuff and when the moto behind our finished the rain stopped, but by then they canceled the 2nd motos.
This past weekend started out with my getting his new 2007 ktm done going thru so we could practice before RND 7 on sunday.  Well the clutch was dragging when it was fired up which was bad because when i test rode the bike it did not do this!  So i figured just go and ride it it will loosen up (it did), but about 2hrs into practice he started jumping on the pegs and slowing down dramaticly like he was tired or something was wrong.  I was standing on a table top i was getting him to clear when he came up to the top the rear shock spring came out the bottom of the bike!!!!!!!!!   I was fortunate that josh wasn't in mid air when this happend and he pays attention the the bike like we talk about, he new enough to slow down and stop.  I was able to borrow a shock and race rnd 7 which he had a blow from the sand monster a couple of times.  He finished 3rd for both classes and was upset at him self, so we will see if he tries harder next rnd to improve himself.
Thanks to everyone who reads these ramblings
mike for josh #169
(maybe next time i will have him write everyone)