I had a great time at the AMA races at Road America. Thank you Suzuki for the tickets and the great lunch and tent with the live race coverage on big screen. You guys know how to make the customer a king. Much easier than begging for tickets from the unmotivated BMW personel at Daytona and I paid three times for that bike what I paid Suzuki for my 01 Gixer that has been an awsome bike on the track. Nick folks and a lot of fun.
	Left: The only girls from Green Bay, Wisconsin that were NOT over 250 lbs, not drunk on wine coolers at 11 am, not needing to go to buy menthol light cigarettes, or more wine coolers or chocolate covered cheese curds from Pick n' Save, AND able to find someone to drive them to the track without getting a DUI. They also confirmed that Brett Farve wears Depends.
I got a pass to the pits, and I as needed tires for a trackday that week, I asked the guys at the Dunlop tent if the would sell me some tires. Not only did they hook me up with tires I would have had to order and wait for anyplace else, they mounted and balanced the rear tire for free on raceday in about 20 minutes. The price was so low it made a grown man cry. So professional was the balancing, that they taped the weights with white tape to match the 01' GSXR rims. Mladin's or Spies tires could have been right next to mine on the Dunlop rack, do you think some of their skills rubbed off on it? No, not at all, as I demonstrated at the same track the following Wednesday, but them tires were as sticky as the floor of a movie theater after a Saturday show. Dunlop had two semi trailers and 20 guys to mount and balance tires for race teams.
	Future champion Ben Spies (left) talking strategy on Sunday with 80' motorcycle racing legend and champion Kevin Schwantz (right). These guys were fan friendly beyond what should be expected from guys in a sport where a mental error or lapse in concentration can kill or paralyze a rider. Mere hours before a race these guys are accessible and appreciative of their fans.
A coupla dudes I met in the pits lent me a 17mm wrench to get my tire off, I helped them lift up the backend of a Hayabusa to get the tire off so the guy could throw on a used up race tire. The previous evening, this guy took a new 'Busa and lit up a burnout so bad, there was rubber melted into the brake lens, many bits of rubber trailed up the back of his complementary and commemorative white 20th anniversary Suzuki shirt that his passed out in and was wearing the next morning, as he sweat out last night's booze. Shredded that tire so bad we pulled cords out of the rear sprocket. These guys showed me how to change the tire cause the Busa is just like my Gixer, and then LENT ME THEIR TOOLS to take back to my campsite and pull my own tire for the aforementioned Dunlop. I was supposed to meet them but I couldn't so I UPSed the tool back to the with a bottle of Skye vodka that I got from duty free in Canada. That's a lotta trust. Party on bros, thanks for the loan.