Author: Jim Harriger

My rid­ing com­pan­ion for the final two days of my trip was feel­ing under the weath­er on mon­day, so we got a late start on tues­day. Not many pic­tures here, we came back via the Inter­states. We did get off … 

Spent two entire days sur­round­ed by rac­ing machines, rac­ing peo­ple, and rac­ing. I could­n’t take decent pic­tures of the rac­ing (I did­n’t have a long enough lens with me), so i tried to take some machin­ery and peo­ple pics. only … 

Kin­da of a laid back day at the track. We walked around a lot, went on the pit walk, and watched prac­tice.  I did man­age to find the hel­met ser­vice guys and get the vents on my Hel­met fixed: yay … 

Met three of my bud­dies here in SLC, in about 15 min­utes we’re head­ed out break­fast and thence to Miller Motor­sports Park, for the US Round on the World Super­bike Race series. Pic­tures and com­men­tary for the next three days may … 

Got a slow start this morn­ing, kind of on pur­pose, only have to make a cou­ple hun­dred miles today. spent a few min­utes decid­ing which way around the uin­ta moun­tains, north­ern route, throug Flam­ing Gorge, or south­ern route. Decid­ed on … 

Spent Wednes­day not trav­el­ling. Hung around with Flash. First task, after cof­fee of course, was to check the bal­ance on the wheels on the Giraffe. Took us about 45 min­utes; front one need­ed 1.5 ounces, the back was per­fect. Re-installed them, figured … 

Pick­ing up where I left off, imme­di­ate­ly after the thun­der­storm line blew through North Plat­te, there was a dra­mat­ic change. The air was 20 degrees cool­er, the humid­i­ty dropped by about 35 points, and there was this awe­some col­or and …