Bikes & Other Toys

That fall I left the dealer in search of year round employment (living in Canada a bike mechanic was not a necessity during our long cold winters, and ATV's popularity had not exploded as they have today).

Fast Forward to the year 1999 I was driving through the city that I had worked at the bike shop, and noticed my old shop bike.

I stopped in at the place where I saw it, a young kid had bought it and was using the bike as daily transportation.

I asked him if he ever decided to sell the bike to call me, and went to hand him my card.

I was met with the response that he wanted to sell it then, we agreed on a price and I went about loading the bike into the back of my truck

I Began racing the bike locally, and did so for a couple of years until I crashed pretty hard on it with some bruised ribs and other various pains which messed me up.

After the heart surgery in 2001 I have not dared to try and race it, but this past summer I did use it as a daily driver to get to school and back in an effort to save on fuel costs.

I really enjoyed driving it, and cant wait to get back into racing it after some new tires and some other updates.

Shortly after buying my YSR I hooked up another friend of mine with this bike.

This is me riding his bike at a Track a couple of hours away from home.

In the fall of 1999 A friend of mine asked me if I would race his one sled as he was vying for the points championship with his other sled.

This was a real eye opener, the hook you can achieve with these things is tremendous.

It was a great day of racing, and the first time my father ever spent a day at the track watching me, he loved snowmobiles and even mentioned that he would be interested in trying to race his sled at the track.

For the very first time having ever run a sled in the summer, I did pretty great meeting the owner of the sled I was racing in the finals, where he came out victorious.

I had never run so quick on/in anything in my life my best time was a 10.55 @ 118 Mph in the 1/4!