I’m a Racer

I started racing the NEOC harescramble series that Dan has been racing for years. All my friends that ride with me also partake in this activity and Hell, I guess peer pressure finally got to me. Actually there are many contributing factors that led me to try my skills against fellow old dudes. Now that Dan is older and I have numerous friends also attending the event the thought of being taken away in the wambulance and having a child there by himself no longer exists.


So it’s off the races I go. This is my second race this year and I must say it really was a hoot. I can say “HOOT” Because I race the over forty class and stupid sayings are your right of passage. We are all happy with the times we achieved. All happy but for different reasons.

First there is Joe  just coming off a Career ending injury (The ribs breaking and a lung collapsing) usually pushes other wives to the breaking point leaving the injured rider having to swear off such dangerous activities. Its not that a man has no more desire to ride it’s because he can’t even get up and get something out of the fridge and having to rely on his wife for even the most simple task. It’s basically comes down to you have to swear to give this crap up or mend your own ass back to health. So Joe is basically happy to finish and to come home in one piece..

Then there is Keith happy to take ownership of one of the day’s fastest laps. Contributing to his new found health in quiting those menthol stink sticks he’s so fond of.

Matt  who also has ownership of a fastest lap. Matt is just happy that his bike makes it though the whole race and he doesn’t have to spend more money then the bikes net worth replacing parts that get ripped off from the trees he’s so accustomed to bouncing into.

Rod  is happy in dominating all of his friends taking home the best results for the day. He thinks because he gets the best result that we will forget that he’s in the Crap I’m Forty Club.

Dan  continues to race in the main event against people that are actually good. His results are impressive to everyone else but himself. I guess he’s his toughest critic. He’s happy, I’m not sure at what but he’s happy.

Me  I'm happy cause it was freaking fun.

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     Friday night was spent in the garage Matt and myself installed an auto-decompression in Dan's YZ250F. With Matt's knowledge this went off without a hitch. This is really going to help Dan in his starts during the races.  Then we drank Matt and I seem to be doing that a lot latley.

     Saturday night everyone in the family went to the Lacey elks to attend a ceremony to see Jeanmarie become the exalted ruler. It was a good time we danced and a good time was had by all.

Click here for the pictures of the Elks event

      Now the day we all been waiting for was yes you guessed it.  (SUNDAY RIDE DAY). We had eight guys out this time and we had a great time. Keith's Son went out with us and was a little slow in the beginning but quickly got up to a comfortable speed and will be a welcome addition to the ride crew. There was really nothing that really is worthy of a story but hell isn't that a good thing. Just men out on their machines having a great time. Lots of us had a get off or two and in some cases four or five not saying any names Matt but we all fared well and all returned on our own machines in one piece.

From left to right
Erik, Matt, Jay, Dan, Joe, Keith , Tony, Rod

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CCFG Jay races

This weekend was all about the races NEOC. Saturday was spent tweaking and fine tuning then test riding the awesome Husqvarna 250 two stroke WR woods weapon. After that Dan and I moseyed over to Matt's garage under the false pretense of chilling out and watching Supercross. Well looky here!!! Matt's bike is in total crap hole status. "But never fear friendly neighbors are here” Matt states. Showing us a large box of assorted new plastic and metal to give the old RMZ a face lift. So off we went with wrenches spinning converting the old washed up sand scrapper into a fine modern, gleaming, yellow, woods winning racing machine.

Sunday was race day so off to Millville and we rolled early A.M. Matt, Kenny, Rods, and my race was first up. All was in attendance for the first race of the year. Sherrie, Jessica with two of her friends Kerry and Sara. Joe was present as pit crew and as a ever reminder with his freshly broken ribs to ride smart out there.

The race got off with Kenny crashing in the first 100 yards taking him out of the race early on. Other then Kenny everyone did OK. The lap times with the positions are in the table below. We were all in different classes starting a minute apart for each other.

 Pos/Jay/time    Pos/Matt/time        Pos/Rod/time

11th 20:23       25th 18:57               8th 18:44

16th 20:17       24th 19:34               7th 17:49

18th 20:47       23rd 20:23               7th 17:52

19th 21:48       23rd 19:18               7th 17:41

21st 24:12       22nd 19:49               8th 18:32

I didn't post Dan's times because he's too fast to race in our "C" class and elected to race the main event. Where the track is longer so we would be comparing apples to oranges so his times are not present. Besides that his race was unbelievable. This is his first race in the main class and he did great. He got off to a bad start and was in last place going into the woods. Then he battled back to a respectable 11th place passing at least 13 A/B riders in doing so.
      I was happy with my performance other then I wished I didn't slow down and allow people to pass on the last two laps. I kept thinking the fast guys where lapping me and getting out of their way was the correct thing to do. Next race "NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY"   Wow after analyzing the numbers here for a few minutes Rod's old Irish ass kicked some butt this race. Good Job

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Friday Ride :)

Took the day off and did a little riding. Dan was riding the new 2002 YZF250 to see if he feels comfortable on this four stroke instead of the husky. He likes this bike better then the Husqvarna WR250 two stroke which makes the Husky my ride till further notice.

We really had a good time. I haven't rode a 250 two stroke in many years. I have to say it felt like I was home again. The power is a blast and just the light nimbleness of the machine was a forgotten enjoyment. I was playing in the soft sand doing donuts and drifting around in circles for a while. What a fine machine the WR is.

New Bike

Check out the new machine me and Dan picked up today. 2002 YZF250 Dan has to decide what bike he's going to race and me the old man gets what ever is left. I hope he picks the YZF I really like the WR.

Who looks better on the YZF?  Dan does right?

Another One Bites The Dust

Went out for a ride this weekend I was on the 1989 YZ125 because the Husky 510 is now officially a basket case. It was Kenny, Dan, Rod,Matt, and a new guy Joe Kline. Joe crashed out broke 6 ribs and a collapsed lung. Yea not the best day out riding but I have the feeling he'll ride with us again. He just seems like one of the few people who never really learns to do more constuctive things with his time. Yea he's one of us (dirt biker trash) LOL. He gets the Man Award for riding his bike out of the forest with such bad injuries though. The rest of the ride was a blast Dan is getting quite fast on the new WR250 Husqvarna. New bike to come soon a brother can't ride the YZ for too long. Stayed tuned.

My long awaited ride

Went out riding today with Matt, Rod, Dan and myself. We had a great pace and I really felt good all day long. I really think it's because the weight I lost and the exercize I have been doing lately. Everthing was just going great till my bike had a catastophic failure.

Here's a few more pictures on Flikr

The Garage

This weekend and last weekend for that matter was spent building a loft for the garage. In the picture is Matt and Dan who with myself built the great loft of 2011. The main reason for this was to to give a brother heat you see this is going to provide a lower ceiling so I'll be able to have heat in the garage. I'm so glad it's almost done I can't take another weekend drinking beer with my cheep labor from up the road. (MATT)

My Mom came over last weekend so I'll put a picture of her in here too. She didn't help me build the garage loft but we still all love her so she gets a picture just because this is my Blog and I can do what I want.

MOM and my wonderful children.

Good Weekend. NYC motorcycle show

This weekend was the NYC Motorcycle show. Matt, Tony, Rod. and Dan and I all drove up in one car to Weehawkin to catch the NY Waterways Ferry over to Pier 39 which is right behind the Jacob Javits Center. We had a good time at the show taking turns sitting on all the new models that we want.





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and looked at all there is to see at the show

After the crowd got to much for us we strolled around NYC went out for lunch and pretty much had a good time.

Then for some reason we had to get on the road sooner then we wanted to.

I have fun going there every year with all my buddies who ride with me though out the year.  I always enjoy checking out the new line of bikes out there for my future purchases.

Sunday was a mellow day as Jessica and me took the dogs out for a run

Then in the after noon it was time to paint Dan's room. It was suppose to be a fast easy job it didn't help that right before we left to go get paint me and Dan were horsing around and his butt went through the wall. Yea Yea, Yea, get a 4' by 8' of sheet rock while I'm at Home Depot.

You can check out all the pics of the weekend on flickr at this LINK

End of the year

      I made a video of some of my pictures through out the year. Thanks everyone who hung out with me this year. It's also on you tube

Blizzard

That's Jessica's car. The little dark spot you see is the rear view mirror

We got some snow here in NJ. I bet we got about 3 feet. Had a few days off because of it so that's OK with me. Pretty much made the best of it. Had fun digging out and had fun going sleigh riding. Our sleighing hill is getting worn down by the weather I think we need to find a new one. Here are the pictures of day one and day two of the storm.

Christmas 2010

I been off since Friday and today is Tuesday. Yea!!!  First Christmas fell on a Saturday this year so I got Friday off then there was a serious Blizzard on Sunday that was so bad I'm still off on Tuesday giggle giggle. Christmas was very nice this year. We had no major WOW presents like last year with Jessica's car but it was still very fun. After we opened up our presents my Mom came over then the Bopps and all the Homeys from next door. We all had a nice mellow Christmas. Then the snow came and it was really coming down hard I bet we got 2 feet I don't think I'm exaggerating it was quite a lot of snow. You can see all the picture at these three links
                Christmas and some snow photo's / video

               The dig out and some fun pics

               Tuesdays surprise day off

Popped up out of dated place

Saturday morning me and Jessica took out the dogs for a walk. I think taking the dogs for a walk is like therapy for me. I just enjoy wasting a few hours of just making Heidi happy and not worry about anything that is on my schedule.
Sunday was a early morning dirt bike ride. We planned to go out at 8am and look around for a different loop which eight being a little early for everyone but it seemed to work out good. When we returned at 11:30-12:00 you still felt like the day was not over and you could still take advantage of the many hours of daylight left. Took some fun pictures

FIRE

        Jack and Patty's house burnt up on the early morning hours of Tueday 12 /7/ 2010. It's a sad time I'm not sure how the fire started so I won't speculate but it appeared to of travel into the attic where it waited until it had a arsenal of oxygen and fuel. When it was fully loaded is when it attached and almost took three loved family members one being the youngest away from us. That is about all I know other then it was a accidental fire and everyone got out alive. Except the two little dogs. 

        

       Jack was air lifted to Temple university where he was treated for smoke inhalation. He was released the next day and when I talked to him he sounded well and ready to tackle the long road ahead.  I can tell you one thing I learned. When the smoke detectors goes off that is not the start of the fire. When you are awaken by that screech you run for your lives because you might only have seconds or it might be to late. Click here for the pictues that Shawn took and some I took off the the news article.

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Turkey Day at the Boyle House

     Another successful Turkey day. Thank you to my wife and all the Turkey elves that helped cook a wonderful dinner once again. This is easily my favorite holiday of all.  Let's just say this is the one day a year that men get to be men in my pathetic house where my wife rules the roost. The high lite in my book was when Matt challenged Johnathan to a pool game and they bet shirts. Matt won and I thought the two drunk dudes were going to go to blows when Johnathan reneged on giving Matt his seriously bright ass orange shirt.

That's the world famous orange shirt

Six in Six out



My Riding Buddies
Keith, Tony, Dan, Myself, Matt, Kenny

 Had a really good ride today. Everyone arrived on time and we had the kick stands up at 12:00 noon just as we planned on. (I was just wondering) I'm not saying this is the reason we got off on time I'm just saying. Do you think it could of been that the forever late Irish man was not present. Nahh That's not the reason......  So we head out and the pace is aggressive right off the bat. Dan comes up along side of me and  not to be out done I grab a handful of throttle. I was looking fit, fast and ready to not let the young one past me on his new bike. Through the puddle side by side we go. That's when something happened to the Old Fat Guy. A major bounce sent me flying up over the handle bars. I was admiring my clean plastic of the front fender when I bounced some how back on the seat. Like a pissed off neutered bull the Husky bucks again and sent me for a second look at the front fender. Thinking with lightning reflexes I headed for the smaller sapling pine trees. Banging into them for a few dozen yards I got spit out on to the soft sand of the pine barren trail. Thinking that was one hell of a long crash the guys behind me must of enjoyed those antics. Then I hear the sound of a fast approaching two stroke. Oh no this is usually the part of the story where I get my butt run over by the guy behind me. As I brace for impact I see Matt and a yellow RMZ250 go flying over me and it doesn't look pretty as bike and Matt crash to the ground missing me by inches.
    The rest of the ride was fun as we passed each other all day with less dramatics results then the first 10 minutes. Great ride Matt, Dan, Keith, Tony, Kenny and myself. Here's the pictures from the days ride look at how screwed up Matt's bike got avoiding some fat ass laying in the middle of the trail.
Thanks Dude I appreciate the wreck you took avoiding me.

New Bike

Dan got himself a Husqvarna WR250

It's a lot of bike but he should be fine on it.

Rally Cross 11-07-2010

        Out of no where a good weekend arises. Saturday I was up early to go watch the sunrise. Yea I know I been doing that on a regular basis but hell I’m doing so little drinking anymore I'm a wake like a old grandfather dude anymore. So that was cool then I did a little stuff on the (To Do List). Then me and Dan went out to look at a few dozen motorcycles that I have my eye on as his next steed.

       Sunday I had plans to take Dan, James, Rod and Dan’s friend Mike to go watch the rally car races at the new Millville track NJMP. Not expecting to much excitement so I wouldn’t be let down considering it is just car racing.  Man was that a fun day. We got a bunch of swag (Free Shit) and the racing was really exciting. At the end of the race Dan sneaked into the winner circle to hob knob with the drivers. I’m starting to expect that type of shenanigans from him anymore. It was a fun day and I’m really happy we attended this event. The pictures from the day are here

Halloween 2010

This weekend was the town Halloween parade. So I wasn’t really looking forward to sitting in the cold watching the parade but a brother does what a brother has to do. Then Joe price called me and asked if I would like to ride in the back of his army truck that he just recently purchased. Hell yea, reprieve from the boring. So I gathered some kids Dan, Annemarie, James, Mike, and we also invited Rod. We all wore camouflage and I put on an Obame masked and I went as the Commander and Chief of the free world. What a blast I had being Obama while driving on top of the duce and half military truck. Slideshow

Prior to that in the morning Sherrie and I walked around town to look at the PICTURES the kids from High School Toms River South painted on the local establishments down town. Jessica did one the painting this year so it was a special treat.

Of course I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t manage to get a ride in. Sunday morning was ride day so we awoke early and went out to get our fix in before the tricker treater’s starting arriving around 3pm. The ride was not the best. I crashed in the slick mud behind the airpark then the bike wouldn’t re-start so we bumped it and I limped home with a bike that was unable to restart and a fork that was leaking fork oil all over the place. . Danny came home shortly after I arrived home complaining his bike is also running terrible. Not good I see money signs.