Well we ended up having to go back to Stewarts house on Thursday to do those interviews with him. However thanks to Red Bull we got out of “mighty whitey” (our motor home) and shacked up in a Holiday Inn (thanks a lot Jeremy though you did know we did it). It was nice to get out of the rig and get some real showers and not be all cramped up and fighting over workspace. We were told to arrive back at Stewarts place around 9 to do the interview’s so that is what we did, guess what? Yup, he wasn’t ready for us and wasn’t ready for quite some time; try two and half hours later. So we waited around until 11:30 and finally got things wrapped up around 1pm. We got a really late start to our expedition on up to Morgantown, West Virginia. Wes hit the road first, while I stayed up late the night before so I could take a nap and take the graveyard shift. So that is what I did, we were on the gas; Wes and Bulmer did a good job getting us on the way. It was time to eat and Wes had a craving for Wendy’s so we looked up the closest one on the iphone and pulled off her exit. We saw the sign for the Wendy’s but it was 1.3 miles off the highway so Wes and I Vetoed it while Bulmer wanted to take the short little detour and Rye Rye really had to hit the head so he needed to stop ASAP. Wes and I won and we pushed on to the next Wendy’s which was just a hop and a skip away. By this point Rye Rye is feeling it, he has to go. We roll into the parking lot to see the dinning room empty and the chars put on the table. We are 10 mins late and Sheck (Ryan) is stuck needing to do the deed. He manned up and kept err in while I jumped into the drivers seat to take “Mighty Whitey” through the drive through. We got our food and I felt ready to go the last 350 miles that we had left. Things were going strong until about 3:30am where I began hitting the rumble strips; I hit a wall and could not go any further. So what do I do? Wake up the one that has driven a told of maybe 3 hrs this whole trip, that’s right the Sheckler. He says he can go though “he just fell asleep”, though he had been sleeping in the passenger seat for the past 2 hrs. So he takes the wheel with about 90 miles left to go and I hit the passenger seat so he could easily wake me up if he needed anything. The kid pinned it and got us there, he woke me up to give him the final directions but he was a stud and finished up the gnarly drive we had.
2010 Answer photoshoot
"Too cool" James Stewart
This was taken with my iPhone after I was told to put my camera away because you have "schedule" a shoot with James. This was an amazing sight of Stewarts supercross track with the sun setting.
Wendy's closed!
Whats for dinner?
So we “hit the hey” around 5am and get up around 9am to get to the track. Everyone was a little tired but was excited to see the track. It was my first time there along with Rye Rye, so it was nice to once again see a “real” motocross track. Fridays pretty much suck for me because there is not really much I can do being that the rider’s bikes aren’t really out and there are only a select few that get to ride media day. So I pretty much just hangout and talk with my buddies and help Wes and the crew out with anything they need. They were about to go do the “stand ups” for the Racer X Preshow so I thought I would tag along and watch them do there thing. Andy Boyer filled in for Jason Weigandt because Jason was nowhere to be found. They had the GOAT (Ricky Carmichael) as the guest host. Here we are filming on top of the Monster Hospitality tower with RC and Boyer. I am not sure what it was (the red beard, just me being me, not sure) but we all thought Ricky had/has a man crush on me. Every time he would make a joke he would look right at me and shake his head. It was awesome everyone saw it and everyone was asking each other what the deal was? The best we came up with was he liked the fact that I have reddish hair and a red beard. That was the highlight of Friday at the track; we packed things up and headed over to the Racer X office to shower up and put the finishing touches on the Preshow. After we did that we headed over to the Racer X party at Davey’s restaurant/bar. Here we had the privilege of meeting rally car driver Ken Block, and we had just watched his new video (check it out at www.dcshoes.com) just a few days prier. That was a true treat; he is an awesome dude and really down to earth. It was a good time though we were out a little later then I would have liked, we had fun.
RC with his man crush
Bulmer and Travis with Ken Block (talking about man crushes; Trav is all about Ken Block)!Saturday morning rolled around quite fast! Wes rolled into the motor home around 6am to get to the track. Bulmer and I were still sleeping in the back room and Wes thought it would be fun to hit the rumble strip as much as possible. He wanted to show me what I hook them up with when I drive he said. But we got to the track all ready for some racing action; I was excited to take some photos at a new track that provides some beautiful backgrounds. The racing action in the 250 class was once again unreal, Christophe Pourcel once again took the win in the first moto (which made him 4 for 4 on moto 1 wins), Dungey hit the ground and had to fight his way forward and Canard battled his way into second. In the second moto Canard took the early lead and looked to be in control of the race; he did have pressure from Pourcel but it was Canards race. It looked like he was on his way to his first moto win along with his first overall, but things went south when he went off a jump and hit a kicker which threw him into a endow resulting in him hitting the ground hard. He was pretty banged up and ended up breaking his wrist, I send out my prayers and best wishes to Trey; he will be missed at the track until his return! With Canard going down CP 377, being “the crafty French Man” that he is he rode a “smooth” race to his first overall and his first win coming from the second moto. The 450 were quite exciting this weekend as well with Reed, Short, and IT9 all going at it for the lead. Reed ended up getting the best of the Honda boys, earning his first 1-1 in his 450-motocross career. In both classes there has been a points change and two new riders will be sporting the red number plate come Thunder Valley.
JG before he wadded
CP 377
Tommy Gun
High Point brings them all out!
Get well soon bud! You had this one in the bag, so close!
Local boy Double D
Reed and IT9 going at it in the second moto.
Shorty is almost there, going into his home town race at Thunder Valley should be a good one for the 29 bike.
IT looks to be back to him old self, it is good to see the red #9 bike out front!
With the race over we headed off to Cracker Barrel for some dinner around 10:15 lucky for us they didn’t close until 11 (not that the workers were to stoked about us coming in though). It was all good we were all pumped on the day and had a good time and ended up making friends with the waitress. After dinner we headed back to “the home front” (Racer X) to get to work. I was pretty tired so I decided to ditch out on the work grab a shower and head to bed.
Sunday morning rolled around but we all got some sleep and slept in until around 9. It was nice to not have to get up and rush back onward to the next race/destination (with an off week next week). We all got up and got to work right away, we all agreed that we were pretty hungry but didn’t want to go anywhere (being that we don’t have a car and can only drive Mighty Whitey around). So what did we do? Did the American thing and ordered some pizza from Pizza Hut. I am not going to lie, there was a lot of playing around and having some fun (check out the videos that Travis and Wes made for Steve Cox and Brent Stallo http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=90311503247&ref=mf and http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=90310243247&comments&ref=mf ) while “working” but we all did manage to get things done.
We wrapped things up around 8:30pm and the guys wanted to go and grab some dinner; I decided to sit this one out and watch some Deadliest Catch and do some ichatting. I wanted to stay up late so I could get some shut-eye on the plane so I waited until about 3am to take my shower and did not hit the sack until about 4:30am. Well my plan has not worked yet being that I am on my first flight from Pittsburg to Atlanta putting the finishing touches on this blog and not sleeping. This is a short flight so I hope by the time I get on the plane in Atlanta I am ready to crash out.
While wasting time I was looking around the Racer X off and went into there "photo room" where they have millions of photos archived and I went through some of them. It was awesome to see some of these amazing shots!
The Racer X office is filled with some awesome memorabilia stuff. I was so blessed by just being there. What an awesome place to work!
I am really looking forward to getting back home, however I will miss the guys and the times in Mighty Whitey. I have a lot to look forward to back at the home front and I can not wait to get there; but I look forward to the next journey in Mighty Whitey, just about a month away. I will be heading north to Mammoth next week, I look forward to this race all year long so I am stoked to be going. While Rye Rye and I are up shredding the mountain the rest of the crew will be out in Colorado at Thunder Valley. I will be rejoining the crew come Ponca, and I look forward to the adventures that lay ahead in Mighty Whitey!
