World Superbike At Miller

The World Superbike series has been the most exciting series out there for the last couple of years, although Moto Gp is starting to good again, Rossi and Lorenzo have been fun to watch. But despite the premiere class' recent excitment, Bayliss and the others have kept it exciting. It was fun to watch the race in person.

I started the weekend on Friday by meeting Manny and Lex in SLC. I met Manny like a lot of my other biker buddies, online. Manny and Lex both have Speed Triples also, although Manny recently bought a Triumph Sprint ST. Much like the S3, but more comfortable, a touring bike. I can't blame Manny for riding it out instead of the Triple. Randy and I rode down and met them at Squatters, Manny sells friggin lazers for a living and Randy and I are cops, cops really don't have to be on time for anything, Manny is a very punctual person. Randy and I were a bit late getting there and Manny sure let us know.

After lunch, Randy and I took Manny and Lex up to the summit of East Canyon then up to Park City to see some of the sights.

East Canyon

Manny is a bit of a sports nut so he wanted to see the Bee's. We went to the game and had a good time up to the 9th inning. The people sitting next to us got a bit too drunk and picked a fight with Lex the franch guy. They ended up leaving.

Manny "foot long" eating a big ol hot dog.

Randy and his dog.

We called it a night after that, Randy and I headed home and LEx and Manny back to their hotel room.

For saturday I planned a longer ride. Wolf Creek Pass. It had been open about a month or so, but there was still a ton of snow at the summit. The road itself was nice and clean though. Again I was late meeting up with Manny and Lex, I got to the hotel where they were waiting and took them to the meeting place to meet Kevin. We met at Coffe Break on 4th south. Kevin was there and waiting patiently. We got some coffee and headed out up immigration canyon. Kevin of course broke out the wheelies and stoppies. From there it was up Parleys till the summit when I leaned over to open the vents on my boots and accidentally turned up the volume on my i-pod. Ouch.

Kevin then did this nice wheelie I was able to capture on video. I need to remember to get real close when i do video.

On the way to Wolf Creek Pass I caught a couple of pics of the guys riding.

Then after rolling through Francis, we made it to UT-35, Wolf Creek Pass. We headed out and rode into Hanna wherewe got a burger and fries. It turned out to be a good thing we were late, there was a Harley ride that left about an hour before we got there and there were still quite a few stragglers. Apparently, Ausitn got a hold of our camera and touched the lens. Anything he touches is covered in some type of sugary, slobbery subtance, so the lens was a little foggy looking for most of these pictures.

At lunch I realized that Austin had been handling the camera and got the lense cleand.

Obviously Manny and Lex arn't quite as good of friends as Kevin and I.

And that was pretty much it for the day. I went home and Manny and Lex went to Typhoon for dinner where they claim to have seen Troy Bayliss.

On sunday I met Manny and Lex at their hotel again, on time for once. We got some breakfast at Einsteins and headed out to MMP. The place was full of vendors, we took the opportunity to look at a few things there. Here again is the ugliest bike i've ever seen.

Ashley made it for the final race and brought Skyla and the kids.

Carlos Checha doing a celabratory burnout, Carlos won both races, his first wins in a long time.

Valentino Rossi's YZR-M1. The coolest thing I saw all weekend. Even cooler than the Ducati girls.

And that was it a fun weekend all in all. It was the same week that I got home from California so it was a busy week on top of working and trying to catch up with my part time job. I finally got this posted up though.