Talk about a can of worms

[Blazing MX]

Don Miller has been asking me to do a CC race for years and even though the Morgan GP is not a typical CrossCountry race, I thought I'd give it a try. I figured I'd better get the bike ready.

After 2 weekends of mud riding I spent 2 hours with a pressure washer Sunday. Looked down and noticed my chain had stretched about 4" since Friday. Even though the sprockets had a lot of wear left in them, the chain had already begun to damage them. Off to buy a new chain & sprockets from Chip, along with brake fluid to bleed my front brake. I come home and pull the airbox cover off and find about a cup of mud in there so I pull the sub-frame to clean everything good and figure I'll check my valves while I'm at it. Thankfully the valve adj are in good shape but beginning to tighten a little.

I installed a new front tire Friday but when I started replacing my rear sprocket is when I noticed a rather large bulge in my rear tire. Seems my rim lock has ripped the bead off my rear tire. Back to Chips to buy a new back tire. Get home and notice a rather large puddle of oil under my forks. Dang it am I ever gonna get this thing ready for this weekend?

Still got to mount the rear tire, attempt to clean fork seals and change the oil & filter in the engine and hopefully I'll be ready. Wait! There's more. Now I find out that Don not going. I hope this will be a good weekend cause it's sure costing me a bunch

[Timm Lucher]

Wait till you actually get to the race... $20.00 memember ship cost, $8.00 gate fee, $ 25.00 entry, $5.00 per bike charge, $ 100.00 deposit for transponder, cost of numbers and backgrounds if you do not already have there's.... over 300 people already sighned up for the sportsman class...

[F.O.G. Racing]

sorry jeff. due to rain outs and reschedules don and i have elected to go to the TORCS race in bastrop. its a points thing for don and i love powell ranch. gene is still going to morgan. i think sonny (no show) jones is going to morgan too. dont know about jimmy.
i know about the can of worms thing. i just spent over $1200 on my 2stroke rebuilding the whole motor and more, just to constantly have more small things pop up. i too now have new tires and tubes, chain and sprockets, pipe and silencer, crank seals and bearings, top end, cylinder, and more. still not happy with the way the bike is running. funny thing is that i loved the way the bike ran before the new work, it just used a little oil from a leaky crank seal. went to replace that and just ended up rebuilding the entire thing.
have fun at morgan. you may want to sign up for the O45 class. it will be smaller than sportsman and starts in front of the sportsman usually.

[worcs]

Jeff what class are you going to ride? the 0/52 am are in front of me 0/58 maybe see you on the starting line P.S.for your 20.00 you will get a pair of gloves and some grips .

[Blazing MX]

I'm planning on the over 45 am.

This is sure getting to be an expensive weekend.

[worcs]

Jeff noshowjeff noshowsonny

[McCourt Family Racing]

Morgan GP was pretty good today & had a good turn out! Got alot of insight about these races they don't tell you about on their forums. It wasn't gonna cost as much as I was told. Got to ride around town & not get in trouble by the cops, lol!!! Definitley gonna try that next year! Hey Gene, I got a pic of Tyler I'll post on Loop'd. The trail from the campgrounds to town was awesome, you can ride that all day. One more day of racing left, ya'll ought to try it!

[Blazing MX]

Nov 7, 2009 18:55:18 GMT -6 worcs said:

Jeff noshowjeff noshowsonny

I backed out at the last minute. I spent close to $300 on my bike this week and figuring the cost of Morgan decided it was not worth it to miss my water bill payment.
I figured at Morgan it was going to cost gate fee, bike fee, membership, race, numbers, transponder. Too much for this cheap skate!

[worcs]

Thanks nice he got 9th he fell three times

[F.O.G. Racing]

so the green mohawk didnt help?

[McCourt Family Racing]

Nov 8, 2009 20:56:48 GMT -6 worcs said:

Thanks nice he got 9th he fell three times

That's great he got 9th. There were alot of 50's running. I just love his green mohawk. Stevie's been wanting one of those since he first seen those. I heard the pee wee track was like like a swamp in some areas. Oh, I already can't wait til next year, we are so in!

[worcs]

it helped to keep up with him , he did work his way up to 4 but the mud was ###* he did good though how did you do at TORCS?

[F.O.G. Racing]

i got 9th in my class, Don got 6th.
that finished the series out for the year with TORCS for us. i finished in 6th place and Don finished in 3rd place for the year.
Congrats to Don Miller.
Next year Don and Mark will be battle each other in that same class, but both of them will be on identical KTM300's with E-starts. lets see who comes out on top.

[worcs]

are you going to race the 0/50 sun ? don hopes to have 5 to have a class