My first trikefest 2010

[KASEY]

OK , WHERE TO BEGIN? 2010 trikefest , started off an hour late getting to the airport., running like a chicken with our heads cut off to clear security. AHHHH relief ,,,the pilot knew we were going to trikefest so he waited!! well you should know,,,, helmets don't fit in the overhead without a large dang to snap them in,,, flight attendent was "WHAT WAS THAT?" OH JUST A HELMET !!! LOL. sat down to a 4 hour flight smooth right? lol NOT HARDLY the munchkin lady setting next to us got caught smoking in the bathroom!!! she denied it but smelled just like an old snuffed out butt!!! great. well off we get in Detroit gate 19 ,, 30 minute layover ahead of us... so we decied to walk to gate 65???? oh helll no, its a friggen 1/2 mile.. we climb the stairs to the shuttle, well mike practically throws his bag in to get the doors to open back up... we made it. well the short flight to Indianapolis was easy and uneventful ... SO CURTIS WAS RIGHT ON CUE TO PICK US UP!! AND OFF TO HASPIN WE GO.

the green was very cool as we have lost the vision of that living in the desert southwest. an hour and a half later we drop in on haspin acres! first glance, well it looks like trails and mud! cool for a couple of sand rats!! different but fun, so at this point i will say we are going to have some fun, i like trails and mud just haven't done it in a while. my plan to meet and greet all the peoiple i have talked with on the board for years,, putting a face to the name, since i have a good size group that have been to my side it was great to see the future sandrats again,, those people know who they are,,, so on to the highlights for me...


i had a chance to do a little work on the track,, i smoothed out a few jumps to make them more trike friendly , added a few corners to make it more fun,, thanks PETE ,, for letting me run the dozer it was a great time for me .

the races are fun even though we didn't have much damp material to work with,, . so i am watching and enjoying ,someone grabs me and needs me to cover for them in the senior race!!! , i said i wasn't going to do any racing,,, but what the hell!!! IT WAS GREAT,, THANKS RICK!!!

i found some real cool fossils they look like teeth,, and they are 3 inches long ,, totally petrified too.

the people: wow the people i can't name them all ,,, but as i said earlier they know who they are,, made my adventure a real blast,,

i hope my preaching of sand didn't get old,, but i am as excited to get more people to the sand as they were to get me to the mud, i think i figured i got about 16 hours of sleep from wednesday morning to sunday morning, lessthan 4 hours a day for sure, i would do it again tomorrow !!!!!

the flights home were pretty quiet we slept almost all the way ,, i did fall in love with the flight attendant from indy to phoenix though!!! wow fantastic lady! thanks SANDY ,, you made the flight home a pleasure!!!

P.S. CURTIS , thanks for everything this trip YOU ARE THE MAN!!!
JONATHAN, thanks , no more trash talking about that bent axle!!!
NATHAN , we will meet in the sand soon ,, great to meet you
LOUIS , see you in 8 months buddy! good luck with the new family .
RAFFA, ............................................... HMMMMM
JASON, great to finally meet the kids,
SHELLY, your smile and laughter is intoxicating!!
BILLY , GET A HAIRCUT!!!!
ROGER , the 350x was fantastic!! great work, see you soon,
JOSH, i can't wait to pick up my new trike!! thanks.
HOWDY, FINALLY AFTER 10 YEARS ,,, 2 thumbs up!!

[Bryan Raffa]

I know, I know... what HMMMMMMM.... mean's............. you kinda cock your head to the right when you do it.... love ya man..so glad you and Mr Clean came out!

two carry on's and a helmet,, hemet on your lap,or wear it, or under your seat..... found that out when I came to see you... there was no way my luggage or my helmet was leaveing me on my first flight .....

see ya soon... great job on the dozer,, your welcome to come back next year for track prep!

[KASEY]

actually a gave my helmet away.. didn't bring it home... its still in the triken family,,, bryan you know me well!! we look forward to seeing you again!! you know that .

[sandpuppi101]

Kasey it was deffinatly a pleasure seeing you and Mr Clean again and I was really happy too see you guy's made the trip out to Haspin,I hope you can make it out again.I wanna say a personal Thank You for helping out in the event's and particularlary the Drag's,I saw ya out there in the blistering heat picking thru the debris and rock's cleaning off the dragstrip and also doing the line judging,you were a deffinate asset and ya fit in with the rest of us just like a glove.I wish I had a little more time on my hand's where I coulda had a in depth BS session with ya on some of the 70 motor mod's that you've been working on that Jason was telling me about but I guess that will have to wait until the invasion 2011.I was a busy bee all week to say the least,LOL.. Being a novice Sandrat now I'm gonna tell the rest of ya's that with dune riding like these guy's doo all the time, it ain't just riding in sand infact it's alot more technical than you'd ever think and this guy is the one I wanna be behind when I'm climbing to the top of a Razor... See ya in march Buddy!! FYI the helmet's in my posseion and will be delivered safely as promised,and it was great to see ya again.

[atctim]

Richard and Mike: It was awesome to have you guys come out for Trikefest. I am glad you guys had a good time. You guys are the best - keep on Rockin'!

[ovhonda1]

Kasey and Mr. Clean- great hanging with you guys. I know that it is a pain to get here, but I hope that you decide to go through it again next year. I will always have an extra trike in the camp for you if you need it.

[3WW Star-Yamahondaman]

It was sure NICE Talking to one of the Biggest ICON'S in the 3-wheeler Community...Hope one day i can go to the Dunes to ride with Mike and kasey

[KASEY]

wow thanks guys!!!! i am really glad i was pushed into coming to trikefest!! you all can thank corey sprock. his efforts to shuttle people across the country to ride with us 2 years in a row,,, left me no excuses worth trying to make up,,,, thanks to all that made me feel at home!! now lets focus on the imperial invasion 2011!!!!

[Dammit!]

That's cool you and Mike got to go to TF. I had a great time in 2006. One of these years we should try to get a large group of westcoasters out there together.

[Billy Golightly]

Richard, was awesome having you and Mike both over here this year. I hope you both had a good time. Post some of those pictures you took for us, I know you got some good ones.

[Eric250R]

Only met you guys briefly but was cool none the less. Did you guys stick around and see what happened to the kid on the KFX near the showers ?...lol.

[KASEY]

gang related fight over a beer slinging female.. they beat him up pretty bad, all his teeth on the right side were in bad shape,, his legs were banged up pretty good too but not broke. i guess they smacked him with a helmet across the head too,,, the local cops waited for backup before heading out to pick them up,,, so we wandered back to camp.. the camps were kinda spread out so it was hard to see everyone ,, we did our best , i guess a central fire one night might be a good idea.. we did do the shoe tree everynight too...

[Kintore]

Kasey! dude it was GREAT meeting you, HAD a RIOT!!!!! cant wait till march!!!!

[Mr. Clean]

It was a blast to come and hang out with good friends and meet new people. BIG thanks to fla2stroke for the use of his 250r for the weekend and hospitality!!!!

It was so cool to see packs of trikes all weekend!!! I commented at one point that I have NEVER seen so many hard tail, un-suspended trikes and a few models I have never seen like the Polaris trikes.....and there wasn't just one there were MULTIPLES!!!

I also realized that this was the first time I had actually seen a MX trike race, i had flat tracked but NEVER MX. The best race for me was the ladies MX-mad props to the ladies and the style they raced the trikes!!!!!

Look forward to see folks from this crew at the Imperial Invasion in 2011.

Too many to thank so thanks to all of you for an unforgettable weekend!!!

Mike D.

[KASEY]

Kasey! dude it was GREAT meeting you, HAD a RIOT!!!!! cant wait till march!!!!

well thanks,, WHERES THE TRACKING NUMBER ON MY TRIKE? well i was extremely conservative since i was at someone elses house!!! just wait!! we will rock in march!!