Things went well at race city Wednesday night….The first Wed King of the Hill went off without a hitch. There was a good car count and the weather was perfect and the track was in good shape. There is a noticeable bump in the right lane but it is not a problem for everyone except the fastest cars. The car worked well with no problems….just need some runs to get the hang of the tranny brake. We plan on going down to secret street tonight…..have to put on street slicks and maybe thro on a license plate. The track won’t be prepped but I will just practice cutting lights and shifting with the new reverse pattern.

I must say that I am a little pissed over race city lack of communication with its supporters. We showed up on Friday night for Secret Street and were told that we could not run with slicks….I have no problem with this policy for Friday night but I wish they would have mentioned this somewhere. If it was on their site I missed it because I looked before we went down. I would have put on my street tires and maybe got a couple of shake down runs. Hopefully the weather will be alright for Medicine Hat this weekend. I will just go over the car and hope that everything is good. I hate doing shake down runs 3.5 hrs from home. I’m sure the King of the Hill is canceled for tonight at race city…..it has been raining hard all morning.    

I’m sitting here at Calgary Harley….8:00 in the morning, waiting for them to open. They have this “ride up” option that you don’t have to book your bike in advance. I try to get here by 7:30 to be first in line but today I got here at 7:45 and was still first up….by about 5 minutes ill the next bike got here. They usually open around 8:30 with the mechanics starting around nine. You have to sit for a while but you do get your bike done before noon. To book in your bike it takes 1-3 weeks wait and I have no idea how much riding I will get done in those 3 weeks……either you are way under or over on oil changes and tires….either taking off good rubber or running on chords.

Got some really good riding in this weekend….finally some riding weather and on the May long weekend to boot…Went up to the Kananaskis on Saturday. The gate is still closed for the pass but I rode up to the upper lake and there was no wind and fairly warm. There were surprisingly few people and no other bikes…that is the advantage of going early in the morning….you beat the hoards of people and packs of bikes. I was home by 1:00.

I took a ride out on the prairies on Sunday…..went out thru Drumheller and over the Munson ferries and out the number 9 till I got to Oyen and then cut back thru the back roads (570) back to Drum. I wanted to go on out to Empress and then back on the south side of the river but there as a nasty north wind from Hanna on so I cut the run short and stayed on the north side of the Red Deere river. From Drum to home the wind dropped off and it was a very good run…..especially when it’s the May long weekend. Again there was not a lot of traffic…..the semies were not out and the tourist/campers were not out of bed yet so it was a great ride.

Sheriffs on motorcycles????  I just hauled a load to the dump and on my way home I saw 2 Sheriffs on Harley’s…..They looked just like city cops but had the Sheriff logo on their bikes and uniforms. Looked kind of cool.

This is going to be some kind of weekend…..the forecast is for no snow….I will believe it when I see it. Hope that it is true. I got some much needed yard work done yesterday. It was just a beautiful day and the forecast is for another nice day today. I am going to take a run up Highway 40 and see if the gate is open…..I don’t think they open it till later in the year but I want to check it out. I need to go to work for a while but hope to get out of there by noon and make a run and then back to yard work for late afternoon. That is the problem with this late spring is that when the weather does turn nice you have to do the yard work that you normally have done in April. So it is “crunch” time…..working on the car, doing the yard and trying to get some riding in. Oh yah….and I have to show up at work…..at least for some of the time.