this I found truthful.. thoughts from all?? honest

when I saw this really had to to process. but get it for sure!

 

I prefer the works of Jack Handey myself.

 

I have no fear until I lose the front end in T1 at Road Atlanta.

 

I don't want a pickle...

 

It was late last night the other day...

 

turn 9 big willow (willow springs)

 

Well that is not an accurate musing at all ... You totally live in the future while on a bike. I'm constantly predicting what dumb shit someone is going to do and what my reaction/escape path is going to be. On the track, thinking where and when in the future I'm going to pass or out break.

Hell, I think I am less in the present and more in the future while on 2 wheels ..... And all of that creates fear.

Who wrote that shit?! Clearly not someone who rides!

 

fixerated.

 

I always tought riding a motorcycle had many similarities with meditation. I remember discussing this with buddhist monks and fellow riders in Thaïland.

 

I have read alot of Kundera and I don't recall that one. Most of his writings have to do with love and sex (yes, some girl gave me the books). I don't think he's been racing before, but I do like that passage.

In one of the recent MotoAmerica video clips, they ask all the riders what their favorite pre race song is- Gagne says "the sound of my own breath"

The racing mental game coach who's CD's I bought 20 years ago talks about clearing your mind for the starting line, focus on your individual actions (letting out the clutch, for example) i.e. being present.

The sports performance coach I worked with a couple years back came up with a pre race routine to increase my focus. Alot of it centers on being present.

Michael Barnes went to a hypnotist early in his career and had a big breakthrough. It all had to do with focus. True story, ask him.

I'm no professional, but I say this: You take your motivation wherever you can find it- if those words help you, then read them before every race!

 

Turn 5 at Road A.

That's Road America for all you that don't know LOL

 

Any WOT dogleg really....

Fear & bliss are not mutually exclusive.

 

Turn 8 @ WSIR is the place that makes me “pucker”.
“As fast as it will go” coincides with the “the edge” there.

T9 is a brakeless back shift; turning in, looking for the line

 

"Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is the book you're looking for.