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Kawtipping

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About Me

I hate these things!! You don't want to know about me anyways. Someone figure something out for me, I don't want to think about it! Easily entertained, yet bored easily. Short on time, but good at wasting it. Work to much, yet do nothing really.

Sep 15th, crashed on the race track. Got intimately familiar with a tire wall and a plastic 55 gallon drum full of water. Left arm didn't much care for the "play date".

Sep 21st, Surgery to put a plate and six screws in my left arm. From now on I will try my best to keep it away from tires and barrels of water!

Sep 27th, Second surgery on arm due to possible nerve damage during surgery....turns out there was a little damage due to the surgery.

Ok, fast forward to Nov 2nd. After what has been a hellacious experience, the arm is getting better. Infections, a hand that doesn't work and many many trips to the doctor's office or hospital (not to mention the cost of this whole thing). And now, I have an ingrown toenail...again!!

More updates, and a few months later.Jan 26th. I have a new job, an arm that works for the most part, a house that is almost done, and a little girl on the way. Of course she is scheduled to pop out on Memorial day...right in the middle of track season. Maybe it is a sign to put the bikes away? No, that can't be it. As of right now her name is going to be Elise Marie...but that could change yet.


Well, it has been a few months..so I might as well do an update. We are now in April, with not all that long until I have a little one at home. She is supposed to pop out around May 31st. Hopefully she stays put until then!
As far as track riding goes, I have been out once this season. I took a road trip to Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. Beautiful weather, good friends and a new to me bike is what I had going for me. The only problem is that the new to me bike doesn't seem to like me much. After fighting set up issues all morning, I though I found something that was going to work. It did, until I screwed up a corner and rode off track. Long story short, to keep everyone else safe I laid the bike down in the grass. Ended up breaking a clutch lever (that no one had a spare for..even the local dealer), and cracking a rib. I tell you, Barber seems to not like me much! This season has also seen a change to the bikes I have. Previously I have had two Kawasaki's. They are/were great bikes. But over the winter I found a great deal on a Ducati 996. After purchasing that (and crashing it at Barber), I decided that 3 bikes are to many. I started looking at trading my Kawi's in on a new 1098 Ducati (or better yet an 848), but there just wasn't a smoking deal out there for me. I then happened across another 996. I ended up trading in my 2006 ZX10R for this very mint and low mile 2001 996. I then found someone who was interested in purchasing my 2007 ZX6R outright...and soon the last of my inline 4's were gone. I do miss the straightforwardness of a Japanese bike, as the Italians just do some things in a backwards way. But I now have two bikes that will not drop in value, and have a timeless style. I guess now I am going to have to think of a new screen name!

My Interests

Music, motorcycles, cars, computers, destruction (I am a guy, what do you expect?).

I'd like to meet:

All sorts of people! To bad some of the most interesting people have already been put underground. Oh well, grab your nearest WW2 vet and ask them to tell you a story about the war, or about growing up. Our elders are a great way to find out what real history is like!

Music:

To many bands to list. To many types to lump into one description...though I can say that R&B doesn't sit high on the list, and that it is lower than country (which in itself is awfully low). Local bands are always fun to check out. The Good Year Pimps and Lucky Boys Confusion out of Illinois are ones that I have in my collection. Along with some extinct Milwaukee area local bands. Like Little Blue Crunchy Things, Green Scene, and Two Room Honeymoon. So much good music, and so little time/money to hear it all!!

Movies:

I like funny stuff, what can I say. Space Balls, Super Troopers, Ace Ventura (both of them), and the list goes on and on. I also have a soft spot for cartoons made into movies like Scoobie Doo and Josie and the Pussy Cats (biggest product pitching movie ever!!). Oh, and movies based off of 60's tv shows...ie The Avengers.

Television:

MotoGP, Top Gear (look it up on BBC), Simpson's, Family Guy, the History ch., Speed ch (when it isn't Nascar).

Books:

Are those the things with words in them?I just can't find the time to read now. To many other things to do...like think of things to put on here.

Heroes:

My grand parents, to bad I am down to only one =(

My Blog

Bored

You Are 52% EvilYou are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.How Evil Are You?...
Posted by Kawtipping on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:50:00 PST