| Race Radar |
| Race radar is a new front page feature for <vintagemxracer.com> We set the radar distance as far as necessary to race every weekend. The mileages are figured using MapQuest or Google Earth from Downtown San Francisco to the race track. Double this, to figure round trip mileage. Every month we would like to Help the Race Promoters in the area keep LOCAL racing alive and well. So let's get out there and support them. If you can't race bring some friends and go spectate. The racing is tight and it's fun to watch. |
| June 2008. This month we're pretty lucky. If you can handle a Reno trip, you could hit 3 races in our area. On June 15th AVDRA has a Regional race at the E street track in Marysville on Fathers Day. I told my whole familly that is how I want to spend my Fathers Day and they all agreed to come cheer me on as my presents. June 22nd is a sunday and the AVDRA National near Fernley Nevada,just past Reno. This will be my first time racing there since 1993 on a borrowed CZ 400. That was an Old Timers race and the plaque is on my wall. I hope to see you there. The last race of the Month is an AHRMA Regional at Argyle Park . People call this track Dixon but really it's on Hwy 113 east of Travis Airbase. If you look at the map, Hwy 113 runs diagonally South out of Dixion then takes a sharp turn. Argyle is at that turn. From the south I think it's quicker to take Hwy 112 east out of Fairfield and catch Hwy 113 North than to backtrack South 113 off 80 through Dixon. |
| blip-blip -blip |
| Rick Tipton Has Tipton Body Shop 1169 Janet Ave. Marysville Calif. 95901 530-743-5217 His first bike was a 1970 Honda CL90 his DREAM BIKE was a 1974 Tm 400 Suzuki, finally ending up with one after 31 years and he loves his vintage+G.P. Maicos. If you've ever seen Dave Coupe's Vintage racing bike's paint jobs, you've seen Ricks work.He and partners will be promoting the AVDRA races picked up this month on the Race Radar. |
| Rob Poole, Has REDWOOD ENGINEERING Robert E. Poole 905 Tiburon Blvd Tiburon, CA 94920-1552, 415-435-0768 415-889-4059 fax CSL# 456790. Classification: A ... His first bike was a Honda 150 Dream, He bought it with the paper route he used it on. Good thing he did get the Honda with a 37mi. Tibouron Calif. paper route. When asked if he ever offroaded the little Dream, he said he did and it was a big Nightmare! It seams the Dream or at least his was nose heavy and "almost killed me" I think were his exact words. Rob moved on to Ducati singles. Now I see him on British bikes. More about Rob's bikes later. This month Rob,his wife Debbie and partners are promoting the AHRMA race at Argyle park. |
| Just who's throwing these races anyway? |
| Avdra Regional Schedule Recently we spoke to Rick Tipton, Avdra's Northwest Regional Director, about the Avdra races to finish out the year here in the San Francisco bay area. Rick said he's working on several events close by. Argyle-Dixon and Marysville were mentioned. The schedule according to Tipton will be all firmed up sometime shortly after the Avdra National at Fernley Nevada. So I'm thinking the first of July we should have the schedule up on Race Radar.. I Like the idea of the races being close, as the Ahrma schedule, after Argyle, is in Washington state for the next 3 races 7/13 Bellingham, 8/10 Chehalis, 9/17 Fairfield near Spokane. Then Ahrma is coming to Bodner Ore. near Klammath Falls on 9/28. Since the 7/13 and 9/17 races would be the financial equivalent of taking your kids to Disneyland, twice, it was going to be a racing dry spell for us here, so it's nice to think we'll have some racing that is within a commutable distance. Vintagemxracer will be at Chehalis and Bodner these are what we saved up for and are awesome natural terrain grass tracks. Chehalis is a very cool place with a steam train and comradely not found elswhere. "On Track" Helmetcam will be MUCH BETTER from now on I think I figured it out finally!! So Look for this and more in RaceRadar |
| Ric Tipton Avdra Northwest fills us in on the rest of the 2008 Mx season |