It all began Saturday April 17th of 2010, it was about 6am when I was awe struck coming over the crest of the hill that drops down into Laguna Seca Raceway, I almost shed a tear. I imagined Fred and I flying past the pits and roaring through the corkscrew. It was a great morning so far for sure, the only problem was that Fred is no where near ready to be driven, so, what the he11 was I doing at Lugana Seca Raceway? LoL!
I signed up for this awesome event held at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey CA called the Sea Otter Classic. It was my first time ever joining a organized event like this and will most definitely do it again next year. Thanks to the help from Craig, we were able to do some fit adjustments and the ride went really smooth. He also gave me some advice on some equipment that needs to be replaced either because it will help with ride comfort or because they just plain need to be replaced.
We started off riding from the regulars auto racing starting line and went backwards on the track going up the corkscrew past the pits out of the track down the hill into Sea Side where we then followed the coast line just short of pacific grove, we then decided to take a 10 mile detour to pebble beach along 17 mile drive, we decided it was time to rejoin the route exactly where we had veered astray and worked our way back up to Laguna Seca. We had gone from being in the middle of the pack at the last rest stop before we went off course, but once we got back on route we were now 10th from the last rider. We decided to turn it up and regained our position due to many having to get off their bikes and walking them back up the hill to the finish on the race track. I hope everyone enjoys some pics from the event.
Somebody did the route on a Unicycle. CRAZY!
In case anyone didnt believe me, because without pics it didnt happen, here I am on the track drinking my Sierra Nevada.
A few shots of the track
I signed up for this awesome event held at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey CA called the Sea Otter Classic. It was my first time ever joining a organized event like this and will most definitely do it again next year. Thanks to the help from Craig, we were able to do some fit adjustments and the ride went really smooth. He also gave me some advice on some equipment that needs to be replaced either because it will help with ride comfort or because they just plain need to be replaced.
We started off riding from the regulars auto racing starting line and went backwards on the track going up the corkscrew past the pits out of the track down the hill into Sea Side where we then followed the coast line just short of pacific grove, we then decided to take a 10 mile detour to pebble beach along 17 mile drive, we decided it was time to rejoin the route exactly where we had veered astray and worked our way back up to Laguna Seca. We had gone from being in the middle of the pack at the last rest stop before we went off course, but once we got back on route we were now 10th from the last rider. We decided to turn it up and regained our position due to many having to get off their bikes and walking them back up the hill to the finish on the race track. I hope everyone enjoys some pics from the event.
Somebody did the route on a Unicycle. CRAZY!
In case anyone didnt believe me, because without pics it didnt happen, here I am on the track drinking my Sierra Nevada.
A few shots of the track
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