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Its been interesting, to say the least. I'll start off with a few things that has happened in my normal (HA!) private life. As I've posted in bulletins and blogs here before I was an owner of the Amp extrememotocross park here in Live Oak. That went south, really south back in February and culminated here in the last few days by my previous business partners removing from the officer list of the corporation....and then we found out that Suwannee County is in the process of revoking the permit to operate the track, gettin boned twice over that. Its pretty screwed up, the way everything has been going with that. I really liked the track and spent thousands of hours working on building it and keeping it up. I didn't get much time to hang out or talk with the riders that came out because I was always doing stuff and I do really regret not making time to do that now. I guess the whole thing will just have to be chocked up to one of those life lessons.

So anyways...back to me racin'. The SFTL went through some re-structuring and combined with Brady from Thunderbowl and is now the "Southern Dirt Track Association". We've had one race of the season already at Cross roads motorplex over in Jasper. It went really well. I started building a "new" flat track trike back in December and was just getting it finished up in March in time for that race. Infact I was up till about 4AM the morning of that race in my shop still wrenching on it. Since everything was so new and un tested I just took it easy on the track, didn't have any major issues other then an exhaust mount broke and I had to wire it to the frame for the main event. It ran very very strong and considering I hadn't even got the carb dialed in right and I pretty much chopped the frame in half to do my mods I was very happy with it.

Theres a race coming up this weekend, the 17th at Ocala Speedway on the 3/8 mile stock car track. I'm plannin on going ahead and really opening this thing up there. I'm gonna give myself a fighting chance and run in the knobbie class, hehe. I got some 18inch turf tamers I put on it and I lowered the suspension on down a little bit more. I'm running 15/36 gearing and am expecting to reach speeds in excess of 85mph on the straights at this track since its so big. The ole 500 motor I slid in my flat tracker should help with that.  I did most all the fab work myself. Mike @ WRC here in town did the bottom frame rail bends for me but I welded and put everything else together.  Came out pretty factory looking, needs some paint on it though. Someone hook me up with a powder coating sponsorship, eh? Heres a couple pics of it...