A great start for our new team.

[miles]

We took our new bike (that we've only had now for two weeks) to the races this last sunday.

The bike's first flying race lap ever, it set the new track record at Buttonwillow Raceway, which is a great start.

Later in the day, the first of the three race California Championship Series, our new BMW S1000RR took home the honors, beating the previous lap record on a number of laps in the process (even though we got the fork setting a bit wrong).

Here's a great shot of Jeremy Toye on the Locust/Lee's Cycle/SDBMW bike:


We've started a blog, but there isn't much there yet.  It's at SDBMWRacing

[DogBoy]

Very exciting Miles. Looks like the crest of the Lost Hills section though my memories of BW may be inaccurate after ten years. I hope to attend the CSC round at Infineon. Same weekend as the Calistoga 1/2 mile National Flat Track race and just a few miles away.  





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California State Championship

[miles]

Very exciting Miles. Looks like the crest of the Lost Hills section though my memories of BW may be inaccurate after ten years. I hope to attend the CSC round at Infineon. Same weekend as the Calistoga 1/2 mile National Flat Track race and just a few miles away.  

Nailed it- that is Lost Hill.  I'm not sure I'll be able to attend Infineon, but I hope I can.

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Fixed- thanks.

[Blunder]

Where's the baggy black leathers?  

Very cool, miles.  

[Rincewind]

Great start, miles.  Are you one of the riders, or what's your part?

[squeezer]

Oh, very cool. Nice to start at the top.  

[heinee]

That's sweet   Having Jeremy Toye as the rider doesn't hurt either  

Keep us posted.

[scottzilla]

Nice!

[Orson]

very cool  

[miles]

Great start, miles.  Are you one of the riders, or what's your part?

No, one of the team owners.  I'll be doing some testing riding, but no racing.  

[miles]

That's sweet   Having Jeremy Toye as the rider doesn't hurt either  

Getting him on board was a key element in this whole thing working out.  You know, until a track day two weeks earlier, he'd never ridden at Buttonwillow?  He's a real talent, and the expectation is that if we can get the bike up to snuff he should be able to go toe to toe with the factory guys.

[dagor6]

I think he's probably ridden buttonwillow but never raced it before. He's probably old enough to have raced Ontario at some point!  

okay, just kidding.

Can't believe we picked up the bikes just two weeks ago, we should start a thread on the whole thing and document the buy, the build and race.

Next up is 4 days of testing at miller and 2 days of racing....

[Mr Sunshine]

Next up is 4 days of testing at miller and 2 days of racing....

When are you going to be at Miller?

[dagor6]

21st through 23rd, leave the bike there, fly back and then the 29th-31st.

[photomd]

Wow...that's just cool!

[Tyrroneous]

That is cool!  




The bike needs an STN sticker for that extra little bit of go necessary to hang with the big boys.  

[squeezer]

When do you start selling t-shirts?

[miles]

That is cool!  




The bike needs an STN sticker for that extra little bit of go necessary to hang with the big boys.  

We're in discussion with UFO...  but at this point he's asking for a bit too much money.

[miles]

It looks as if we'll get our third bike early next week, along with a spare motor and some other tasty bits...

[Mr Sunshine]

21st through 23rd, leave the bike there, fly back and then the 29th-31st.

I'll be there too.  East Day Garage number 7 or 9.  Come look for me if you have a moment...I'll go looking for you guys on Saturday during the endurance race.