DC Skills Day - May 4, 2008

[Tyler]

On Sunday, DC hosted a skills day with our wonderful coach, Robert Haas from Trackcrafters. What a great day we had! Who knew practicing slow speed skills could be so exhausting yet rewarding as well! We had a great showing – 13 riders and a little bit of every kind of bike – dual sport, cruiser, sport bike, and touring!

But first, we had to start the day properly with some caffeination… that many women riders sure caused quite a stir. And Mary/Motomalia’s exuberance at having ridden on the freeway “ALL BY MYSELF!!!!” while she bounced all over the place like a rabid bunny was well worth the price of admission.

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Robert and Ehsan joined us to meet their victims, um, I mean students, for the day.


Robert discusses the day’s events and what we’ll get out of it


Eager students listening raptly

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C’mon let’s get this party started!!


Holly’s license plate – we had to explain to some of the younger kids and the CA residents from out of state what an E-ticket used to mean!!


Creating a scene


Kharon wants to know “Are we there yet??”


Arriving at our practice lot for the day

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Mark joined us for the day’s practice on his new FZ6 and we let him be an honorary girl for the day


Holly reminisced and recreated her modeling debut from last weekend


Gathering round for our first exercise


Answering questions

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Erin


Thank goodness for that big a** trunk on her bike so we could bring water over for everyone!


Kharon


Holly

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Alison


Nancy getting input/feedback




Lisa


You want me to do what?!?

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Mark


Dez




Iris


Rowena

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Donna and Mary bee bonding


Waiting, watching, and enjoying the day

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Yours truly

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Ehsan tries Holly’s HD on for size


Robert walks the course for the next exercise to show where to be looking for entry/exit into and out of the turns – the ladies assumed the position and created their own little parade






And lucky for me, my Canon takes video footage (no sound unfortunately but I think it makes a little funnier!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQ46vEQQIU

[Tyler]

Finally, we were all getting low blood sugar from lack of sustenance (next time we’re ordering pizza!!), so it was time to break for the day and have some well earned lunch!


Many, many thanks to Robert and Ehsan for giving up their riding time to help school us on ours. I was amazed at all the riders and the progress they made!


FIN