Race Blog - Doghouse Racing

An interesting weekend at Summit point to be sure. After a full day delay which caused us to miss an entire day of practice, Captain, Smallwood, and my self crammed our bikes and gear into Scott’s van and made the treck out the West VA wonderland. The weather was great, and we arrived in good spirits. After last minute adjustments/maintenence/repairs to the doghouse machines, we chilled aout and drank some beeeeahs in preparation of the next days raging two wheeled shred session. I for one did quite a bit of shredding……if by shredding you mean crashing!!! Two crashes in two practice sessions!…mild crashes I might add, but crashes nonetheless. The captain ripped it up, and Smallwood turned some blindingly fast lap times…SHAZAAAM!

The race….hmm, how did the Mantis do you ask…..oh……HE CRASHED!!!! THATS RIGHT! ANOTHER CRASH!!! As I tried to get a good drive out of one to set up for a pass in turn three, I quickly found myself careening across the pavement on my keester…..what a weekend!

The Captain did battle and came out looking tough as nails (ask him in person what that means). And Smallwood placed 5th.

125ers are a unique breed of people…super rad, super friendly, giving, fun folks who really will go out of their way to help a fellow racer. What a great scene…With out their help I would have never been able to go back out on track….(to crash for the THIRD time!!!!)

OK, time to go clean the 10 lbs of dirt out of my bike. I’ll see if I can keep myself under control at VIR!

See you at the track!

Mantis

High speed reverse racing with a short trailer on your car isn’t as fun as it sounds.

The Doghouse bike hauler now has a bit more “Doghouse style” i.e. smashed tail-light, quarter panel, and bumper. The pole I hit doesn’t look much better… win it or bin it.

Mantis

Well folks, I have lately been working on getting the website up and going. The look and feel of the main site is pretty much dialed, still need to work out the look of the blog and the media gallery. Check out the media gallery to see some pics from events so far this season.

We’re coming down to the wire on preparing for the Summit Point USGPRU round, I’m still waiting on a few parts to repair some crash damage from a practice day at Beaver Run.

See you at the races!

-Captain

Final race prep is underway for the upcoming weekend at Summit!!!! The Captain,  Smallwood, M-dog, and myself will be attending and it should be a super rad weekend. I am anxious to get on the track again after a minor “off” at Mid-ohio, and am excited to ty out my new “super stretch limo” setup (extreme extended seat subframe) to see if I can get my 6′3″ frame on this rocket a bit more comfortably.

Hope to see you there!!!

-Mantis

Captain and The Mantis are prepared to hit the 125 scene hard!