Thursday 03/01/07- Replaced rear tire on the bike, changed the oil, and replaced the sidecar windshield. Bike looked pretty nasty (green slime, dirt,etc.) so I got out the power washer and hit it good. Friday 03/02/07- Left the house at about 7:00am. Kinda cool out (high 40's/low 50's) so I dressed warm. Totally uneventful ride to Panama City, FL, where I spent the night at a friends house. Saturday 03/03/07- Left P.C. around 7:00am. Cool again so I dressed warm again. Stopped in Talahassee and visited with a friend. Headed out around noon. Bike was running pretty good, just weeping a little oil around the gaskets. Got to Ocala around 4:00pm. There were races at Volusia this evening but the weather looked like rain towards Daytona. I didn't know if I wanted to chance riding over there just to have the races cancelled and then have to ride down to Davenport at night. I decided to head down to Wallaby Ranch in Davenport, where my brothers live. It started raining at Wildwood and it rained until I arrived at Wallaby Ranch about dark. They were having a birthday party for one of the ranch employees and I arrived just in time to get a medium-rare steak hot off the grill, with all the fixins', including some pretty decent wine. Went to my brothers trailer after dinner, unloaded the bike, and caught up on what's been happening with them. They've both become hangliding bums! They both live at Wallaby, one in a tent on a platform, and the other in a camper trailer. They help around the place to defray the cost of their hangliding. Sunday 03/04/07- Got up at 7:00am and went hangliding. WHAT A RUSH!!!!!!!!! Around 10:00am my youngest brother and I headed out to Volusia Speedway for some flat track racing. The races Saturday HAD been cancelled due to rain and it was taking them longer to get the track prepped than they planned on. Racing started around 4:00pm, feature race finished at around 9:30. Temps had dropped into the low 40's, one of the guys from the ranch had a condo at Flagler Beach and told my brother he could use it anytime he wanted to, soooooooooo, we spent the night there instead of riding 80mi. back to Wallaby. Monday 03/05/07- Headed to the Speedway around 8:00am. Stopped at the Jam-On swap meet to get a mirror (mine fell off just South of Perry on the way down). Swap meet was smaller than in previous years. Spent the day watching the vintage races at the Speedway. Springsteen won the Formula 750 race by over 1/2mi. on an XR-750. That sucker sounded really sweet at speed. Headed back to Wallaby around 5:00.pm.
Orignal From: Daytona Trailer Week 2007
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