Laguna Seca powerslide meet 2011

Great pics roger The one of simoncelli is fantastic, he is looking right at u and waving. Love it all

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It's a thing of beauty.

Austin said:

It's a thing of beauty.

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That pics for you buddy

a few more



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Cool pics man!

Nice pics Rog. I like the one of Nicky. Got any more?



(Or should i just check my computer...hehe)



Roger's feet were so bad he ended up like a handicap person.

Jumkie said:

Nice pics Rog. I like the one of Nicky. Got any more?



(Or should i just check my computer...hehe)



Roger's feet were so bad he ended up like a handicap person.

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You wont have these pics as they were taken with my Nikon and i made sure you didn't get anywhere near that SD card I will look to see if i have any more haystack pics but i think most are blured due to nick being too slow for my panning technique



as for the Handicap story , i will get to that shortly

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This is where those tickets we were given got us.



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After the AMA supersport race a gang of at least 25 all wearing Benito T-shirts stormed pit lane to watch Benny get his winners Trophy. The security guy tried to stop us but was swamped so gave up. After the specticle of so many Benito fans we were all asked to pose with benny for press photo's. Me thinks this lad will go far.

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I think i know what wrong with the Zook. The seat is too uncomfortable.



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That's for that big ... deductible.













A little posterizing fun.

"That's what happens when you win!" some words I had to say to put a little punk racer in line! So there was a group of about 15 of us on Friday morning walking around the paddock when we spot benny's pit. We walk over start introducing him to the group and have every one ask questions and what not, when out of nowhere up comes yamaha AMA Daytona sport bike rider Tommy Aquino and very rudly interrupts and decides to start asking questions about track conditions not giving a .... that we were in mid conversation with benny ourselves. This was very disrespectful in my opinion, so jumkie of all people try's to be nice about it and starts telling him "all these people came from all over like Texas Ny and England to watch Benny" in to which he didn't respond or acted like he cared so that's when I said "that's what happens when you win" after I said that it got a little silent and he just walked away! Unfortunately his hot ... mom didn't teach him any manners but I'm willing to be he's step dad and teach him some proper behavior nothing against the kid I actually do hope he eventually wins a race

The California Kid said:

"That's what happens when you win!" some words I had to say to put a little punk racer in line! So there was a group of about 15 of us on Friday morning walking around the paddock when we spot benny's pit. We walk over start introducing him to the group and have every one ask questions and what not, when out of nowhere up comes yamaha AMA Daytona sport bike rider Tommy Aquino and very rudly interrupts and decides to start asking questions about track conditions not giving a .... that we were in mid conversation with benny ourselves. This was very disrespectful in my opinion, so jumkie of all people try's to be nice about it and starts telling him "all these people came from all over like Texas Ny and England to watch Benny" in to which he didn't respond or acted like he cared so that's when I said "that's what happens when you win" after I said that it got a little silent and he just walked away! Unfortunately his hot ... mom didn't teach him any manners but I'm willing to be he's step dad and teach him some proper behavior

nothing against the kid I actually do hope he eventually wins a race

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Hahahaha Yeah, this was hilarious and got a lot of milage with CaliKid and I. The thing is, Aquino wanted to act a bit self important and thought it might be a good idea to interrupt CK (who can't stand him, and I'm not any more fond of the lad myself). He's had a top ride for a while and has done .... all with it. But that's beside the point, we both sensed that he came to see what all the fuss was about around Benny and disguised it by contrived shop talk. Maybe he thought we would all just simmer down or ask him for an autograph or something. I took the high rode, yes, but I was seething at his rude interruption. So I said, yeah, all these people are here to see Benny, and point to the mass of peeps with us. To which he didn't even acknowledge. By CK saying, "thats what happens when you win! was a massive dig at Aquino since he hasn't won ..... I swear I almost saw CK (a mild mannered chap who is so easy going it drives me nuts) stare down Aquino, like 'what MF'. I could have have busted out laughing in a mocking fashion, but I was in the presences of a real humble kid named Benny, and I didn't want to act the immature one...well at least not at that moment. hhehehe

Karma hunts down rude fuckers.......

The California Kid said:

"That's what happens when you win!" some words I had to say to put a little punk racer in line! So there was a group of about 15 of us on Friday morning walking around the paddock when we spot benny's pit. We walk over start introducing him to the group and have every one ask questions and what not, when out of nowhere up comes yamaha AMA Daytona sport bike rider Tommy Aquino and very rudly interrupts and decides to start asking questions about track conditions not giving a .... that we were in mid conversation with benny ourselves. This was very disrespectful in my opinion, so jumkie of all people try's to be nice about it and starts telling him "all these people came from all over like Texas Ny and England to watch Benny" in to which he didn't respond or acted like he cared so that's when I said "that's what happens when you win" after I said that it got a little silent and he just walked away! Unfortunately his hot ... mom didn't teach him any manners but I'm willing to be he's step dad and teach him some proper behavior

nothing against the kid I actually do hope he eventually wins a race

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Aquino was wounded. It destroyed him....He sloped away like a little boy who had his legs smacked. He did try to muscle in on the show, but no one even really bothered to acknowledge him !

Great story CK....love it.

i'm diggin what u did with that last shot kesh!

I guess I formed the advance party of the Brit invasion. My daughter had already arrived at LAX following a gruelling flight from Cairns via Auckland and took in excess of two hours to clear immigration. The very patient CK was on chauffeur from the outset and she was soon safely ensconced at Fort Jumkie. So leaving work I drove directly to my Heathrow hotel for my flight departing the next morning. Well not exactly directly - The Holiday Inn Heathrow is off Junction 4 of the M4 which is a strange intersection. You can see it, you come off and drive towards it but you hurtle past like a slingshot reminiscent of the Voyager probe - so tantalisingly close - but flung out into the outer reaches of the London Orbital. I knew this because it has happened before, and cursing my deficient memory corrected my course and prepared to try again. What you have to do is head in the opposite direction to the hotel upon exiting the motorway, the road then veers around underneath it and deposits you on a trajectory straight towards the hotel entrance. Checking in and satisfied by what passed for a thinly veiled but convivial atmosphere, I decided to reserve my flight seat online, but the internet was about as efficient as a late nineties dial up connection in downtown Khartoum. I asked for my credit back and instead they sat me behind the concierge desk to use the staff computer, which was great. For some reason - in spite of my attire, no one actually realised that I didn't work there, so in addition to giving newly arrived Japanese tourists directions to Madam Tussauds, erstwhile American Royal aficionados information on how best to reach Buckingham Palace by tube, and referring a complaint about the lack of towels in someones room I did manage to book my seat on the plane. Elementary error number one! I elected to, after years of David Blaine like endurance during a multitude of long haul flights, reserve at the rear of the aircraft in a spot I have previously reconnoitered whilst stretching my legs the last time I flew on a Jumbo. Although I greatly reduced the risk of DVT this nonetheless was to prove a pain in the arse upon arrival - I will shortly divulge as to why. Anyway spoke to Wills by phone who confirmed he was following me four days later.



Last year I waxed lyrical about the flight over, and the landscapes unfolding below; this year a photo of Iceland will suffice.



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Very straightforward flight - into LAX right on schedule, but this is LAX and it's a ....... to get through - particularly when you've been sat at the rear of a Boeing 747 and find yourself absolute dead last in the vast resultant queue to clear immigration. Coupled with the other passengers that had disgorged from my aircraft, there was also the entire human cargo of an Air New Zealand 777 which had simultaneously been herded sheep like into the same pen. We progressed about as convincingly as Toni Elias's 2011 season, and having watched the customs and immigration information video for the hundreth time it was only then I spotted in the section about Global clearance/entry much to my amusement an American girl who I'd dated in Oxford the previous month and I recalled was actually in Santa Monica at that very moment. She had been through a very harrowing divorce and took all manner of bizarre modelling jobs to make ends meet. I previously spotted her in one of the Sunday Supplements and I .... you not on a cereal packet! I also amused myself during this time watching my bag repeatedly come around the carousel until that too ground to a resounding halt! As usual I digress....after what seemed like a period of geological time I had advanced with glacial like slowness to the forefront of the queue and I was summoned to the booth and handed over my passport. Elementary error number 2, no matter how disgruntled you are - never cheek a US Immigration official. Firstly they are unlikely to understand English sarcasm, and secondly they have very pertinent powers which can prove to be quite a significant obstacle when you are attempting to enter their country should they take umbrage to your misplaced attempts at irreverent humour. "Can you get your hair out of yer eyes sir" he barked. "Well I had a military crew cut by the time I joined the queue - besides I think you'll find that passport's probably out of date by now" I mischievously quipped. "It doesn't say comedian on here sir...You can turn around and we'll send you straight home if you want.....any other material you wanna try out on me?" "Errrrrm...no sir, thank you sir" Exit Arrabb struggling to digest the sizeable slice of humble pie he'd just been served.

frosty58 said:

i'm diggin what u did with that last shot kesh!

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Thanx Man. Photoshop has great crazy options if one has the time to experiment.