6-4-08 Update: With May 31st being my birthday, what better way to celebrate than going racing? Or though I thought!!! For story, click HERE

4-27-08 Update: With the Fremont, IA and Leaf River, IL enduros both postponed/canceled due to flooding, it was off to a Dist 16 HS at Aztalan MX track. For complete story, click HERE

3-14-08 Update: Well the Roselawn Enduro is in the books. Had fun but also had some troubles. For complete story, click HERE

3-1-08 Update: Last weekend was the first "race" of the year. Teamed up with Joe "Eggshell" Barr for a 2 hour endurance ice race to support the Steel Toe Fund for injured riders. The day was perfect with temps in the 30's and plenty of sun. Thanks to Da Pope and Speedy Pete, I had ice tires on the KTM. Since the track was pretty rough, it was decided to split the time on the bike into 30 min sections. This would also allow both of us seat time incase something went wrong. I was up first and the organizers decided to have the riders run to their bikes and start them to get everyone spread out. Well I had a good start and could have lead, but that isn't where I wanted to be with plenty of fast ice riders (this was for fun after all!). We did well running in the top 5 of our class until in the final 30 min when the rear axle nut decided it didn't want to stick around causing the rear fender to come off. I limped the bike back to the pits and took 2 more laps to find a axle nut and fix the fender. Joe rode the last 15 mins trying to make up lost time. Overall, we lost about 3 laps, dropping us from a top 5 in our class to 8th. Team "Cheese Don't Freeze" had a great time for a good cause.

For Speedy Pete's race story, click HERE

1-23-08 Update: Well last weekend was the 1st ride of 2008. What do we do when the temp outside is -4 (YES...that is 4 degrees below 0 for a high!) and the wind chill is hovering around -24 degrees? Why we load up the bikes with studded ice racing tires and head to the frozen lake! There was suppose to be a 3 hour endurance ice race last Sunday, but it was cancelled because it was too warm!  OK...it was cancelled 2 weeks ago when the temps were in the 50's, but that wouldn't make for a good story now would it!

BIG thanks to Brian (Da Pope) Mullane and Andrew (Halo Boy) Jensen for supplying the rides. Hopefully, Brian will send me some photos of the outing and I will add them soon.