We're all very serious about racing here in Napa. Sometimes it means we don't get to see as many of our friends as we'd like to. Nico and Donnie and dR are at the Worlds in Addelaide. Robbie, Will and Wyatt are in Canada. Lake is on a well deserved vacation in NJ with his family and Kelly, Scott, maybe Ryan are in MN at the national there. I think Tyler is at the Truckee SCR with a bunch of other kids on our Crush team. We're watching our pennies this year, like so many of our friends. I feel really lucky that Parker came, although we had to race separate classes today. He was awesome. Parker is not only my best friend, but he's kind of an inspiration to work hard all the time. He manuals really great and his skills are getting better. He looks like Landon when he's manualing. I like having to keep up with his love of riding. It is so fun for me. Parker and I can talk about anything and we have a blast jumping and bunny hoppin' and manualing. Heck, we have a blast doing everything from homework to shooting BB guns to just about anything. Today we missed all of our friends out there chasing NAG points and championships. But we were real happy that we have such an awesome track that helps us go faster, learn more and get stronger. I hope everyone is doing great this weekend. You are all missed and you're all pretty cool. Good luck to everyone racing, this weekend. 

Today we went to the Redline Cup qualifier at the Santa Clara PAL track. I really like it here. It's a really fast track and unlike lots of other tracks around the outside gates seem to give you a real advantage in the first straight. Well, that's the way I feel anyway. In moto1 I had gate 8 and got out with Brian Jarrett who's just racing super fast this year. I was able to stay right with him through turn 1 and then passed him in the second straight. It was really cool. Anyway, Brian won the next two motos but it was really a lot of fun. He's a cool kid and a great racer. Maybe I'll get him next time. I also got to finally race Scott Huffager. I'm not sure how to spell his last name but I've been hearing about him all summer. He's from Denver and really fast. We traded spots in the other motos. Nice kid and good racer. It's awesome to have friends that help each other go faster and work harder. Napa Valley Crush really did great this weekend and it was really fun. I'm going to try and make the Manzanita NBL national, next. Hope to see you all there. Oh yeah, thanks to Santa Clara PAL for doing an awesome job. I had a really great time.  

 I went to Manzanita this Saturday to race the NBL state qualifier and it was an entirely new track. Tom Ritz re-did this track in between work on our track in Napa. This track is the new toughest track in northern California. The obstacles are bigger and more difficult and you definitely will need time to get used to it if you're planning on racing here. i could use a few more practices to sort out my lines and technique. I still had a blast, though. Parker had a tough time. We both crashed during practice which was okay. In Parker's first moto when the gate dropped he pulled up on his bars and snapped one side completely off! Everybody came over to see it after his moto. It was good it didn't happen over a jump or something. So, if you are getting to be about 75-80 lbs and you're using Bombsgell Carbon Experts or Mini's you have to switch them out. They won't hold. Pee Wee and Mr. Linder had me switch out my cruiser bars last week. It was good to see Bubba Gonzalez back on the track unless you were in his moto! He was blazing again. All in all, the NBL and Manzanita staff did an awesome job with the motos, the snack bar, everything. It is always great to race there. They make it smooth and fast and fun and treat everybody great. If you can get by to start practicing before the national, you'd better go. It's even tougher than our track. The great thing is that if you can go fast on this track and ours than you can go fast anywhere. This is the next generation of BMX track. We'll all get better. See you soon.