Great weekend

Man.. what a great weekend to get out and play. Cabin fever was about to kill me and then comes a weekend with no rain and temps in the 70s. Barry and I loaded up the bikes and went to Dickson for some much needed practice , but we didn't know that the ground would be thawing and the moisture would make the day quite challenging and entertaining.
There was plenty of leg flopping , tire sliding , ass busting to go around. Barry tries a slick root that handed everyone there ass all day. The next picture is PeeWee over the same root.

The only difference is...HEY...HEY..WHAT... THE...

He tries to take out the camera man.

So Sunday we decided to do something a little safer so we played golf. From left to right is Charles , Barry and Henry. Barry shot 97...I shot 99...Henry shot 106..and Charles shot 123. Not bad for the first time out this year.

The Beast even brought lunch.

From there we stopped by Jenny and Nate's for a visit. Barry and Ryan shot a few hoops and Jenny and I just talked. Natalie was very busy with a cartoon on tv. Can't wait to do it again.

Bowling balls

In my last Blog I mentioned that my bowling ball was in the shop and PeeWee had a good question. Why would you put a bowling ball in the shop ? Well it would be hard to answer in my comments so I'm going to tell ya in this blog.
Back a few years ago all of your bowling lanes were wood and the balls were plastic or rubber except for Fred and Barney and I'm not sure they were real. Now a lot of the bowling lanes are made of synthetic man made materials that are a lot harder ,but stay more consistent. The plastic balls don't grip to this surface very well so it makes it hard to get the ball to hook and with less grip the ball will slide through the pins with less pin reaction and lower scores. BOOOO!!
So to combat this problem they made the ball softer to get more grip on the lanes. More grip less deflection more pin action higher scores. YAAAAH!! Now for the second problem. Softer balls means that you have to do some maintenance on the balls every so often. My Red and Black ball has a reactive resin cover and the Blue ball has a urethane cover. Now since they are softer than the lanes the balls actually get flat spots in them and where the ball tracks it picks up oil and it soaks into the cover. This makes the ball act like a plastic ball siding through the pins with less pin reaction and lower scores. BOOOOO!! So you take it to the pro shop and they will resurface the ball to make it just like new again. OK all that being said it don't mean shit if the operater can't hit his mark , jerks the ball to the left , drops the damn thing, forgets to let go of the ball etc. etc. etc. So now everything should be clear as mud. So if anyone ask you can tell them no you can't tune a fish but you can tune a bowling ball. YOU HEARD ME!!

Getting ready

Getting ready for the up coming season the KT needed a little clutch work. So I took it apart Friday night for some surgery on Saturday. Doctor PeeWee was nice enough to take time out from putting his bike together to do a little work on the clutch plates. This will give me a smoother clutch and not so much herky jerky.

We did manage to get both bikes back together and running and Sunday we got Barry's bike back together and running with his new electronic ignition. Thanks to the easy to follow instructions from B&J Racing. I think we all have cabin fever pretty bad and can't wait for the season to start. April can't get here fast enough for me.

Oh ya , I had to put my bowling ball in the shop to.