Laguna Seca powerslide meet 2011

chopperman said:

One thing i forgot to mention. On saturday we are having some drinks and food. Jumkie introduces me to a bloke who attends about 7 races per year. Next thing Bonnie and i are being handed 2 credit card looking things. We look ast then and this bloke says " if you want to use them you better hurry". These are special By pit lane qualifying viewing tickets. ....... Wow, thatnks man we say and despite my sore feet we leg it down towards pit lane. We get to security but get turned away, i show him these passes but he directs us to a place near the media centre. We walk over and show the passes. The person there asks our names. We tell him and he starts looking through a list. .... i thought, this aint going to happen. I say "you wont find my name on that list mate" Oh he says "are you with motogp?" Yes i say and we get special wrist bands. Are you with motogp Who was this bloke that gave us these passes ???

Here are a few pics taken from by pit lane.

Sorry ive had to reduce the size but i still cant paste links cut from photobucket on this board. In fact i cant past anything, it like my right button doesn’t work here anymore.



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bonnielass said:

The guy who gave us these tix did say he would look us up on the forum, so if you are out there reading this, sign up, there's always room for one more on board!

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Jumkie said:

I keep in touch with him. I'll send you the email. Check your PMs.

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xx CURVE xx said:

ill post this here also..







say The La Guna Crew needs to Photobucket all their pics and send me the their links please.. i want all yalls pics

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chopperman said:

So after the shooting day out which we all enjoyed we headed back to jums place. Shortly after arriving jum with his charming teliphone voice phones the chap ive hired the RV from (Indian Freddy) and tells him where on our way. This Rv park is a good 45min drive from jums and he has a party arranged for his guests that evening. Times kicking on so me jum wilski and curve head out to Irvine .

I took curve with me because he was more familier with american road's and could tell me wtf the signs ment and who had right of way ect.

We get to the RV park and Indian Freddy opens the gate, we turn the corner and there it is, a ....... mansion on wheels. We all laugh and jum says ".... dude, your gona kill some muvafuka in that". Now its freddys job to show me how everything works in this badboy, i have zero experiance with RV's. I pay freddy the $2365 hire fee and he starts to show me the in's and outs. Within seconds jum shouts out " tell this dude to stfu we have the Taco lady coming. Freddy looks at me in disbelief and i say, "dont worry i'll work it out".

Willski and jum head back in their car while me and curve drive the monster out of the yard. I never driven on yank road's only ridden a bike and this ...... is left hand drive and 38ft long. Driving down the freeway was scary, more for the other road users i think. One difference with american road's compared to uk roads is their alloud to undertake as well as overtake. This with the fact im not used to left hand drive and about 8ft wide ment i kept stradling the right lane. This scared curve as he was sat that side and the big interstate trucks were flying past us on both sides but a bit too close for comfort his side

We stop at a gas station ( funny they call it that as they dont sell gas only diesel and petrol). Im queing for water and jerky, curve in the que wearing his trademark straw cowboy hat. Curve starts talking to some bloke who is infact another texan. They talk about guns and shooting peeps like true texans then the other bloke leaves. Im paying for my goods turn to see this beautiful girl talking to curve about his hat. Curve leaves and the girl starts talking to me. This girl is a real stunner and says to me "dont you love the humanity" in a real sexy smooth voice, I smile and say "yes i do". she says "i love human interaction" i said "so do i" feeling im starting to get a bonner and think impure thoughts i bid farewell and join the boys outside.

We heads back to jums. By the time we get there jums road looks like an RV park. There is jums RV, an RV jum has hired with a big camper trailer attached, loads of cars and me trying to find a place to park the mobile mansion. I park up and walk into jums rear garden and the place is packed with Friends i met in 2008 ,people i was now meeting for the first time and of course the many powersliders who made the pilgrimage.

We hung The St georges flag for the english, The stars and stripes for the american and the Scotts Solitare for our buddy basspete who we all wished was there but was to busy freezing his balls off in Orkney.

The booze started flowing, the food was sublime and the company was top draw. God knows what time we went to bed that night but we all knew we had an early start the next morning.

GUNA here we come.

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chopperman said:

So we are back at jumkie late tuesday evening and where not headed to Vegas until friday so have two days for some sight seeing around LA.

Jum says i will have trouble parking my big ... RV around LA. Jums misses then very kindly offers us the loan of her very nice car. They also have an old banger which i tell them id more more than happy to borrow that car rather than their new expensice GMC truck. Jums misses would not hear of it and insisted. I then tell them im worried that i may damage it but she replys "well thats what i pay insurance for". I then accept the very kind offer on the condition that they dont expect to borrow my Subaru if they come over

Thursday morning i plan a route to Hollywood on my gps, my family want to see the sights i saw on my last visit. We go bombing down the 101 at 140mph weaving in and out of traffic in jums flash motor like im a character in the game GTA

jk The satnav tells me to turn right when we get off the freeway, we drive about a mile and im thinking to myself that i dont recognise anything. I see a petrol station ahead and think i need a piss anyway so i will pull in and ask. As i pull up i see the restroom as the yanks call them so run in for a slash. As i come out the misses wants to go so while im waiting i walk up to the edge of the forecourt and look up. I see the Hollywood sign to my left. It was probably the best view of the sign id ever seen.

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Now i have my bearings as i now the sign can be seen straight accross from the Kodak centre (although not as good as the view from the shell station.

We should have turned left from the 101, so i back track and find exactly where we are looking for. park up then set out on foot to get set upon by the street performers ect all looking to get ya dollars off you for there .....

Now in 08 you may remember a rap singers trying to sell me his cd's chasing up the street shouting "look at his teeth, da gangsta". Well this time a Rap singer trying to see me his cd's said " come on man,you can afford it. Look at you, you have 500 dollar sunglasses and 50,000 dollar teeth"

We do the sights,do some shopping then head back to jums as we are all going out to the yardhouse at longbeach for a meal that evening.

Jum posted pics of the yardhouse in one of his posts. It was a great night and good to meet back up with one of jums friends i met back in 08. Jum had a great scam going at the yardhouse. He ate half his meal then called the waitress over and complained he didn't like it. He then gets a new meal without getting charged anything for the first (even thopugh he ate most of it). I will have to remember that scam.



The following day we head out to Universial studio's where i have a little scam of my own (more about that in a moment.

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chopperman said:

Thursday morning i get a call from calikid telling me he has managed to get 2 tickets for universial studio theme park and there mine if i want them. Great i thought now i only have to pay for 3 instead of five. We head out to Calis work place to pick them up as he works about a 15 min drive from Universial. Got the tickets arive at universial and park up.

Universial is great, once you get there you walk along a street before you pay to get into the theme park. This street is full of shops ,bars and restaurants. In the evening it turns into a night life spot. After our day in the park we all went for a meal at a Bubba Gump restaurant which was great.

We get to the park and que for tickets. This is where i am really grateful for the two free tickets as there $77 each. I buy the three other tickets and spot on the price list that for £158 each you can buy priority que tickets.

Now this is where my scam takes place. As you may recall my feet were really acheing at laguna with all the walking. Since then i have had to walk around Montery, hollywood and to the moon and back or so my feet felt. Unlike our forum black knight wilskji who kept quiet about his busted toe im letting every ...... know im pissed off with walking and my feet are red raw.

We walk into the park and i see a wheelchair rental place. I point it out and bonnie says "go for it, i dont want to listen to you all day moaning your feet hurt".

I go up to the bloke and enquire. Im expecting him to ask for some disiblity badge or something but he doesn't. He just says " its $35 for the day and you get $20 back when you return it". I swifty pay the dude and he gives me a special ticket. He says when you get into the que show this to a member of staff.

I go off sat in my wheel chair laughing at all the suckers tiried out looking for a spair seat. We get to the first ride and there is a big que. The sign says the wait time is 55mins. As im looking at this sign a member of staff asks to see my slip. What i think, then i remember what the dude told me. I produce the ticket i got with the chair. The member of staff then points me and my whole family to another que to the side. We go into this que and see we are now with the people who paid $158 each to be there. Result, we waited only 5 mins to get on the ride

This happened for every ride including the very packed out Blues Brothers performance where they had a special place right up front for me in my chair and my family who are with there poor disabled dad. ....... result as this scam only cost £12 for all five of us and i got to rest my feet.

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Buy the end of the day i had acted the disabled part so well i could have won an Oscar, in fact i almost believed it myself and felt quite at home barking orders at people to fetch and carry for me

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chopperman said:

Thursday morning i get a call from calikid telling me he has managed to get 2 tickets for universial studio theme park and there mine if i want them. Great i thought now i only have to pay for 3 instead of five. We head out to Calis work place to pick them up as he works about a 15 min drive from Universial. Got the tickets arive at universial and park up.

Universial is great, once you get there you walk along a street before you pay to get into the theme park. This street is full of shops ,bars and restaurants. In the evening it turns into a night life spot. After our day in the park we all went for a meal at a Bubba Gump restaurant which was great.

We get to the park and que for tickets. This is where i am really grateful for the two free tickets as there $77 each. I buy the three other tickets and spot on the price list that for £158 each you can buy priority que tickets.

Now this is where my scam takes place. As you may recall my feet were really acheing at laguna with all the walking. Since then i have had to walk around Montery, hollywood and to the moon and back or so my feet felt. Unlike our forum black knight wilskji who kept quiet about his busted toe im letting every ...... know im pissed off with walking and my feet are red raw.

We walk into the park and i see a wheelchair rental place. I point it out and bonnie says "go for it, i dont want to listen to you all day moaning your feet hurt".

I go up to the bloke and enquire. Im expecting him to ask for some disiblity badge or something but he doesn't. He just says " its $35 for the day and you get $20 back when you return it". I swifty pay the dude and he gives me a special ticket. He says when you get into the que show this to a member of staff.

I go off sat in my wheel chair laughing at all the suckers tiried out looking for a spair seat. We get to the first ride and there is a big que. The sign says the wait time is 55mins. As im looking at this sign a member of staff asks to see my slip. What i think, then i remember what the dude told me. I produce the ticket i got with the chair. The member of staff then points me and my whole family to another que to the side. We go into this que and see we are now with the people who paid $158 each to be there. Result, we waited only 5 mins to get on the ride

This happened for every ride including the very packed out Blues Brothers performance where they had a special place right up front for me in my chair and my family who are with there poor disabled dad. ....... result as this scam only cost £12 for all five of us and i got to rest my feet.

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Buy the end of the day i had acted the disabled part so well i could have won an Oscar, in fact i almost believed it myself and felt quite at home barking orders at people to fetch and carry for me

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Willski said:

You fckin' ..... Chops ! Hahahahah I didn't realise you dropped the old wheelchair scam outta the bag ! I can only commend you for using your initiative. Excellent work.

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chopperman said:

Gators turning his head away because of the pong

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