avm's Journal: Visiting the big brown room!

Don't know how germaine to slashdot's general content this is, but it's my journal and I'll post what I like :-p

Somehow I managed to wrangle a half-day at work today, so I decided to go visit a new local motocross track. The founders had invited me to come take a spin and check it out. So, despite only having ridden on dirt roads before, I hopped on the CR250 and went to check it out.

There's a very tight, technical woods trail loop, that makes a circuit around the MX track, and would be tight for a mountain bike. And here I am on a CR250 with dropped gearing (good for 90mph on-road)...talk about clutch abuse. I didn't get out of first gear there at all. Did a couple laps of this, then waited till most of the people took a break from the MX track, and went out there. Wow, I still can't get out of first...damn street gearing! The jumps were cool...I've never jumped before, but I came out quite alright. I did skip the double...don't fancy coming up short and smacking into the second face! I have got to get new tires...my rear tire is worn to the point I have no grip with the bike upright, but when leaned over it grabs and shoots me in directions I'd rather not go.

Some things in the real world are better than anything I've ever done on a computer, and I think I've found another one. Wonder if I can still call myself a computer geek...I roadrace, ride motorcycles on and offroad, play soccer, volleyball, shoot things. Oh well, back to messing with outer joins in Postgresql....my arms are sore now.