August long weekend at Bogie
Leaning into the uphill right hander of corner 6
We spent the August long weekend at Bogie, could there be a better way to spend time off work? Johnny got to go up early again, I made my way up Friday night, rode Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Riding a track 4 days in a row, that was a first. It wasn’t quite as tiring as I had thought, I guess after a while you start getting used to this.
Making a straight line out of 12B and 13
First time back at Calabogie with my new suit. Being able to actually move freely on the bike made such a difference. I was still having some issues with the plastic shoulder details hitting my helmet and preventing my head from turning as far into the turns as I would want to. I found that dropping my inside shoulder would help with that.
One of my favorite corners rightly named Temptation
Johnny had his new GPS Starlane lap timer so I got to use his hand-me-down AIM timer. Here I was all happy that I would finally start getting an idea of what sort of lap times I do and we couldn’t get that damn thing to work. We tried propping it up on the bike all sorts of ways, and eventually gave up. I ended up using Sandy’s unit (thank you Sandy for letting me borrow it!) so I did end up getting my lap times after all. My times were consistent at around 2:30 and dropped below that a few times. My best time of the weekend was a 2:28 which I was very happy with.
Photos from the weekend, taken by 303 Imaging
Calabogie, oh how I’ve missed thee!
Jun 5 and 6 Turn2 and ARC
Jun 7 Pro6
Made some big revelations about my suit.
Track weekend extravaganza!
We spent the Saturday riding the RDT with Turn2. At the end of the day we packed up and hit the road. Oh what a road trip that was.. We eventually made it out to Renfrew in the Ottawa area early Sunday morning. We bummed out and chilled for the day with George and Michelle and took the trailers and bikes over to Calabogie some half hour away. We came back to the track early the next morning and spent Monday and Tuesday riding. Once again I was on a Turn2 GSXR 600 and the event was organized by Pro6.
Long weekend at Calabogie
This almost felt like a mini vacation. I took Monday off work and with Tuesday being Canada day this turned into a 4 day weekend. We drove up to Calabogie on Sunday and spent Monday and Tuesday riding the track, returning home very tired late Tuesday night.
Once again I got to ride a GSXR 600 from the Turn2 rental fleet. The track day was put on by Pro6.
