Motor Drones Racing Podcast
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Motor Drones Racing Podcast
(upbeat music) - What is up everybody? Welcome to another lot of Pindigash podcast on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. It's actually raining in hot air Virginia right now, which is the total opposite of what it's been doing. But ladies and gentlemen, it's an absolute honor today to sit down with these three gentlemen, Ryan, Kyle, and Roger from Moto Drones Racing. Today on the podcast, you guys know Shane Mags. He actually rides for them too, but we'll get into that. So I just wanna say thank you so much for next level financial, take total control of your financial future, get your complimentary financial analysis today. By Seth Starns and gentlemen, I tell everybody this, don't spend your hard earned money on an off the rack suit because it's not gonna fit you 100% correctly and you have a suit that does not fit you correctly, causes all kinds of issues when you're riding, right? My recommendation is bisontrack.com. I know Shane is in the X one X, right? One X, yeah, one X, look just to make sure it's right here on the collar. Listen, honestly, just get you a custom suit. You guys know I'm an ambassador and ambassador for Bison. So yes, I recommend bisontrack.com, but whatever brand you decide to go with, make sure it's custom. You deserve it. Yes, I'm talking to you guys, not you three, but everybody else, right? You guys deserve it. Love yourself, treat yourself, trust me. You will thank us later. But ladies and gentlemen, it's an absolute honor to sit down with MotorDrone Racing today. Gentlemen, what is up? - Clear. - All right, what's going on, Ryan, Kyle, Roger? - Yeah. - All not much, man, happy to sit down with you. - Yeah, trying to make it through the cover from the holidays. - Exactly, like my kids getting yelled at in the background probably. (laughing) - I love it, man, I love it, right? 'Cause you're a dad, you're a dad, and Ryan's a dad, we're all dads, right? Kids are the greatest gift we ever got in our life, right, besides motorcycles. My son, he's off the walls, running around all the time, hoping to holler and scream, and especially when his friends are playing Fortnite. Yeah, man, all that stuff. Listen, no worries, when this is over, I'll do my best to try to background mic it out with you to see if I can actually mute it a little bit, but gentlemen, let's get into this conversation. Each one of you guys, it's an honor again, to have you guys on the podcast. I'm going three of you guys, I'll start with Roger. Just to tell a brief, tell everybody who you are, brief description on where you started in the motorcycles, and it'll go to Kyle, and it'll go to Ryan, and it'll do the whole, how you guys met, and all that good stuff. So, Roger, how you doing, bro? Take it away. - I'm doing good. So, my parents, they were part of a thing called competition race control. It was a flagging communication staff, and they were always down at Nelson Ledges, which is about 45 minutes from where Ryan and I were at. And I kind of grew up at that track. It was four or five, six times a summer. We were at the track for sprint races, and then once a summer, there was Nelson Ledges used to do the 24 hours of the endurance race there. It was part of Weera, and we were down there for the big 24 hour every summer, and so I was always around it, and when I got old enough, I bought a CBR 600, and it was just street riding, and then I wanted to do a track day, so I did a couple of track days, and then I got into racing. And that was '94, and then I met Ryan a couple years after that, and we just kept going for a few years, and then I got away from it a little bit when my son was born, and I didn't have a bike for a few years, and then I ended up getting another street bike, which I still have. I have an R6 now. And yeah, I enjoy staying connected to it through Ryan and Kyle. - There he is. - Absolutely. There he is. - What is up, bud? - I just started the podcast. You just show everybody, so my son sees real big in the lego, 'cause he actually made this lego gun that actually shoots rubber bands, the slide cocks back and everything. - Nice. - Oh, hell yeah. - Yeah, dude, so we love guns. We're big in the guns. He's got his own AR-15. He knows how to take it apart. We do shoot and all that good stuff, so. - He likes to make, dude, lego that, and lego butterflies. So he's out there, dude. - Yeah, he's. - He's perfect. - So, warning to everybody, don't pull a knife out, 'cause he'll definitely show you how to use it. A hunter, Tim's saying. Especially if you got a butterfly knife. He's just, yeah, he looks like Bruce Lee with nunchugs with it. So, he's been working on this for a while. He actually stayed the night with my parents last night, 'cause they went out and adopted a new puppy yesterday, so. - Yeah, two. - Yeah, they know we look out one off. She was in here a few minutes ago, but she decided to take off, though. - Did a rubber band in there? - Yep. - Boom, there it is. - That's awesome. I love it. I love it. And so, Roger, you're a dad, so tell everybody how many kids you got? - I have two. My son's 22, my daughter's 19. Man, Tom's such a thief, right? It's the biggest thief there is. Kyle, introduce yourself to a brief story of how you got into racing and all that good stuff. - Oh, I got into motorcycles. When I got out of college, I moved down to Fairmont, West Virginia, down kind of towards the mountains, mountain this area, compared to where I grew up anyway. And bought a supermoto and then started riding around and then bought a sport bike. Got an R6 and then Jigsaw 1000. Then moved up to Pennsylvania and continued to ride around in the hills out here and wound it up, wound up basically on my Jigsaw 1000. Every time I take it out, I try to get the cops and chase me. And that's no good, 'cause I started doing track days and then did about two track days and I'm like, "All right, it's time to start racing." So I got my race license and started doing that and a couple of years after that, maybe two years after I got my race license, Ryan and I were racing the V8. Class had a heavy weight, I was on 600, he was on 750. But every time, basically whoever got the whole shot was gonna win the race. And then we would just chase each other around and I ended up low-siding in front of him. Fellow, I rode off the edge of the tire and my bike stood back up and was riding, ghost riding down the track. And Ryan luckily didn't hit me. Then he came over and started talking to me after the race and we became friends, went to the GNF together and then started doing the endurance thing. First year that we did the endurance racing, I had a $1,500 bike that I'm like, "We can cartwheel it for a while, I really don't care." So we did that and wound up second place in our class at the end of the year for the championship, second place. And after that, I think that's when Roger got involved and took the bike and rebuilt the bike and things kind of exploded from there way bigger than we ever thought it would ever be. - I love it. - It's really grown quickly. - I love it and so on that day, did you actually end up cartwheeling the bike? - No, I did not cartwheel the bike when I wrecked out. (laughing) - Andrew, did we take off, go ahead Ryan? - Coast didn't fell over, for sure. (laughing) - I started doing doodards on the track. (laughing) - I love it, I love it. Somebody go pick up the bike and yeah, man, yeah, man. - Yeah, man. - Yeah, we're quick touching on the super motor, man. I love super motors, I'm a huge fan of it. I found myself when I owned one on the street, which I want another one. Man, I stay in trouble because it provokes you. I don't care who you are. You're on a super motor on the street. I don't care if it's a DRZ 400 SN with 30 horsepower, it don't matter. You're gonna hool again at it, you're gonna ride on sidewalks and-- - Oh, yeah. - Do all kinds of stuff, right? - Yeah, 'cause you're doing a wheelie in the city. - Doing a wheelie in passing, this is the worst one, doing a wheelie passing a car that was going 25, the speed limit through town. I was on the sidewalk and I looked over and I was not familiar with the town, but I happened to be wheeling in front of the police station. There were a bunch of cops in the parking lot looking at me like I was a man, so. (laughing) - Oh my God, that's fucking hilarious out there. I've been in trouble many, many times before, well known with the law back in the day in high school, that way, right, so. All my letters cycle. And Kyle, how many kids do you have? - I have three-year-old twins, one boy, one girl. It's rough. - It's great, it's great, but it's rough, yeah. - At least you got a boy and a girl. I wanted a boy and a girl really ended up just having one, that's all we could do, but I'm very blessed that we have him too, you know. Absolutely amazing, keeps me on my toes and man, I've learned so much. I thought I kind of got the grasp on life and kind of knew something until Rossi comes, you know, born into this world and he showed me things that I never would have learned without having one. So they are part of our beautiful journey for sure. One of the main stories. The main story of our beautiful journey. Not taking nothing away from my wife 'cause I love her, she's my queen. But yeah, you guys know, you guys know how it is. And Ryan, man, such an honor to see you, bro. Kyle, let's introduce you, sir. - Good to meet you again. - Yeah, absolutely. Ryan Kraft, I guess, motorcycles in my DNA, I got pictures of family members back to where they're wearing leather helmets. Yeah, my family's always had bikes, been in the bikes. Never, I was the first one in the sport bike, so. I didn't really get into that until I was in the military and I got stationed down in Jacksonville, Florida and did my old varargos 750 that had worn, worn through the case of keeping up with my buddies on crotch rockets, I decided to time to upgrade and got a brand new FCR 600. And I don't know if you're familiar with Steven Breckenridge. - He's offered the name, but yeah. - Yeah, he was in the Navy too, and he was racing. And I actually, he talked me into taking that old Frank skin. Penzy's racing school, a roving road, and he let me borrow a set of leather, so I put the leathers on and grabbed some duct tape, rode it all the way from Jacksonville up to roving road, take over my class, took my race school for the weekend, rode it back home. It's kind of how it started. I got out of the Navy, came up here, and really wasn't sure about how the racing was going on in the North because it's totally different in the South. And I ran in a friend at New Rogers and said, "Hey, I got a buddy at the races, the name's Roger Laniger." So I hooked up with it, Roger, and we actually started, we were doing the old Fast Tracks Endurance series that a Bob Stanley was running. We ended up running my 600 in the heavyweight class. I think we took two championships in a row, I think. It was just me and him, a good friend of mine, Joe. He was always helping us in the pits. Joe, and I immediately fell in love with the endurance racing side with the whole aspect of working together, the total team effort. Back then, there was no transponders. You had to have somebody up the scoring tower marking every lap. And, you know, we did-- - We've done a lot of times. - Oh, God, and we forget about, you know, I'd look about it now, I'm like, my God, that was a dick move to send somebody up there, 'cause we'd forget about 'em. No water, no P, you know, we're three, four hours up there. It's like, look at that now, and I'm like, oh, my God. But, no AC. But, I ended up having an accident on a quad in 2002, I think. And, I was in a wheelchair for a year in how to racing. And, I was able to come back in 2018. And, I started racing the Weera. Met Kyle. I decided to go endurance racing yet, it's all kind of history. Didn't think we'd go this far, where they were get this big, we were just doing it for fun and track time. And, next thing you know, we got, we made something of it and some old machinery. And, I think that was kind of like our proudest thing, is putting the old dinosaur on the podium. Yeah, there was always a fight with it, but, yeah, we were able to do it, so. But, you know, that, yeah, and that's, you know, that's my, it changed, this year, this way, this time around in the racing's changed, you know, changed a whole lot of things for me. You know, the people I've met, you don't meet any people any better than you do in the racing community, you know. It's, and I see Cora gave us a shout out there, you know, Cora's a great person, love seeing what she's doing with the sport, you know, with the bikes, trying to hopefully mode America, let her in, you know, we're all rooting for her. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I love Cora Dez, she's been on with me twice. I've met her several times. She is an absolute angel to this earth. She is simply amazing, super fast, super talented, and she will go far. I hope she will be there, one day, she will be in mode of America, right? They got a letter A, and we have, listen, we have, we have another legend up in the house. Right here, Shane, what is up, Shane? He says, look at all you handsome fellas, especially you, Simco. Thanks, buddy. He said, just landed in San Francisco, coming home from visiting the family in Australia. Get home and see my Rachel's family right here. Love you guys and Roar. Where's my banana bread? We love you, too, Shane. Yeah, where's my banana bread? We've fed all of his banana bread to... I stunted everywhere, except for him now. -Yeah. -(LAUGHTER) We got another legend up. -Yeah, I'm scared. -Jack-A-Moe Manera. What is up, man? He said, "The boys." You, my friend, is a little jack-a-moe. Oh, Jack-A-Moe. -Awesome. -Yeah, that's a good read right there. Oh, yeah, absolutely amazing. He actually sent me a couple T-shirts and two beanie hats. Boom, there you go, Yak-A-Moe. Thank you so much for the merch. He was driving around delivering water and food to people up after the hurricane hit. Yeah, he's amazing. He really is. Another man, just... You meet so many beautiful people and souls in Murg racing, and it's an absolute honor to meet every one of you guys. And then we got Casey Davis, another legend in the house. He says, "Happy holidays, boys. Let's go racing." You already know. Let's go. Exactly. Yak-A-Moe says, "Love you guys." Yak-A-Moe, you already know. We love you, too. Very much. So, we have two more comments, but we'll get into those here in a few minutes. So, gentlemen, beautiful story of how everybody briefly got into the sport. It's something that when you start... I tell everybody this, man. When you find a true passion, whatever age it is, it changes. It changes the way you think, changes the way you feel, it changes the way you act or there's nothing like it in the world. And I try to tell everybody, two wheels is absolutely the way to go. It's the only thing that I found that feeds in my mind, puts a smile on my face no matter what I'm going through, whatever hardship you're going through, whatever you're dealing with. You throw your leg over two wheels. I don't care if it's a little 50, a 110, whatever it is. Man, you put that smile on your face, right? And everything else goes away, so... Absolutely. So, gentlemen, now that we heard your story, how did you three hook up, come up with the whole motor drone and that? So, Ryan and I had met through our mutual friend Joe, and I think the endurance thing just kind of started over a conversation one night, like, "Hey, we should try this at the next round. They're having an endurance race and, you know, give it a try and see what happens." And, like Ryan had mentioned, you know, we both loved it, you know, and it's that whole... The team effort that's behind the scenes to make it happen is the part that I love about it. You know, obviously, I like, like, you know, love being on the bike too, 90 more so much, but just the... Everything that we do to see the success at the end of it, you know, it's a lot of fun for me to see that. And... That's my favorite part about it too, Roger, is the everything behind the scenes that nobody sees. There is so much that goes on. When they're working on the bike, sourcing parts, trying to find money. It's... All that is, to me, is equal to what happens out on the track. You know, it's great to go out for the weekend and whatnot, but I really enjoy the behind-the-scenes stuff as well. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We're gonna bring Ryan back in. There he is! Hey, welcome back. Yeah, take a quick break, real cool. I think he's still frozen. Yeah, I don't know what that was about. Sorry. Yeah, I got to be honest. Oh. Yeah, and too many people in the house of it, but they got all on Wi-Fi. Dude, I feel you on that, man. Yeah. So, why don't you tell everybody the typical setup of what it takes to make an endurance race happen? Because we pretty much all know how to do a solo race, what it goes into. But what about the endurance side of it? I mean, you got to start from the bottom. I mean, it comes down. You got to look at it. I mean, we've been lucky. Our riders and the guys that have ridden for us have been, you know, they can work with each other. Sometimes we got to convince Shane too, but he's real good. He's real good about us throwing him something on something that we just put together and trusting us on it. And we kind of had to decide first, we had to decide what tires we were going to run because everybody has their choice, you know, preference on tires, but, you know, people's weight. When we started, it was Kyle and I, Delaney Richie and her father, Chris Mayer, that they run a fast line track. Great, great, great group of people, great track organization, but Delaney is about 110 pounds. Kyle, you know, Kyle's a big dude. I'm a big dude, you know, and Chris, you know, so you got the suspension to look at, you know, how the bike set up. I mean, you got to really got to start there. You look at your riders and what everybody prefers and how to meet in the middle. You know, then looking at logistics, you know, like I said, talking to you earlier, you know, it's. You got guys that are putting their lives in your guys and girls that are putting their lives in your hands. You want to make sure, you know, that that bike's not going to come to part on them. You know, you want to give them the tools to succeed. You know, you know, trust you, trust the bike. So they're not afraid to push themselves a little bit. You know, it takes a lot logistics, tools, spare parts, God knows. I mean, everybody, everybody that runs with us and races in that series. No, we got all kinds of spare parts. They're usually scattered across the paddock half. But you know, got to have them because, you know, Amanda, you know, if you're serious about it after we got serious about it, you got to have a backup bike ready to go and money. That's, that's the biggest thing. Sponsors that support you. That's, that's probably one of the big key things is, you know, will it? And I, or power sports. Yeah, I can't say enough of what he's done for us. You know, the motor, motor work he does for us. And he's been unbelievable. And we hooked up with him. I mistake. It was. But we need a cylinder headported or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he'd been building sprint car motors, you know, using the GSXRs and the Yamaha. You know, they run them in those micro sprints and he, uh, right away. He's like, I'm kind of, you know, it's getting to be old hat working with these micro sprint guys. And he was excited. I asked him if, you know, I'm there. You want to look into a sponsorship. He jumped right on it. And he's been with us ever since. You know, he's helping Shane out a whole ton. But yeah, we can talk about him later. We go a whole bunch of stories. We could tell you about what he's done and we have a very impressive motor builder. So. Absolutely. Can you hear me? There's a lot, a lot that goes into it other than, other than race day. Ryan is, uh, Ryan's basically a team mechanic. I'm the parts guy, money guy. And then Rogers, the sponsorship and PR guy. He does, does great with that. Um, but yeah, it's, it takes all three of us to make it happen. Yeah. I mean, you gotta have your, everybody who's with you. You gotta, you gotta have the right attitudes with each other. And you gotta meld really good, you know, because it makes a difference on how you, how you, how you approach problems, solve problems. You know, you don't, you don't want somebody. Oh, it's my turn. You know, call me when it's my turn to ride. You know, that, you know, they're, everybody's been there. Yeah. It's like Giacomo. He hasn't ran a race with us yet, but he's been there. If we needed him, he was ready to go. You know, feel bad. Can't wait to get him on a bike. You know, but. So it just, it takes a while. It takes a lot. And Ryan strips the bike down to bear a frame and rips the bearings out of it and redoes everything from the frame up every winter on, on at least two bikes, sometimes three. Um, yeah, Ryan, Ryan's keeping it going. Yeah. I love it. I love it. Do you guys use ceramic bearings in your bikes? No. That's, you know, that added cost to that. You know, we're not looking for that. Extra tenth of a second, you know, especially in the wheels. But, you know, like I tell, tell these guys, you know, we're, if we need that much time, we can skip the burger the night before, before you get on the bike, you know, it just. So you thought to be changing them out anyways, I don't, you know, it's better to change better for the peace of mind. You know, if you go through a season, you know, like we said, you know, like Kyle says, you know, one endurance race is pretty much a, a equal to one full sprint race season on a bike. You know, we're doing, you know, five, sometimes six of them. Uh, so I'd, I'd be changing them out anyway. And it's, they added cost to that is they're impressive, but it's not for us. It's, it's not. Yeah. I don't even know how many wheels and just be crazy to try to do that to all the wheels. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they are expensive for sure. A hundred percent. Um, yeah, you're right. There's so many variables and that's what I think I love about endurance racing. You know, there's so many. It's differences between solar racing and you already said it, right? Like setting up the bike for you three and then you show shame in the mix, which we'll get to here in a second. And it's like, you know, you got to make everybody happy. Not everybody's going to be happy, right? But I think that's what makes you a better racer when you ride an endurance bike, because it's not your particular settings that, that you're racing off. So you can figure out a way to go fast on those settings that's given to you. Then when you do get back on your solo bike, man, it's like, yeah, it makes a world of a difference whether you realize it, not at the top. It absolutely does. Huge fan of endurance race. And I think it's one of the best things ever created when as far as racing games, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. It's very important. It is. And you said it right on the head, man. It's so important to work with guys that you trust in that are like minded. The way you guys think, you know, what I'm saying versus somebody that's always trying to clash and butt heads. It's obviously not going to work. It makes it more difficult on everybody. The energy level goes down the, that the feeling. It's just when it's not driving, nobody's happy. They're for nobody's having fun. They're for nobody's going fast, right? So it's very much, um, I consider motor soccer racing. When you get with the team, it's almost like a marriage. So, so to speak, right? Because there's so much trust between the three, four, five of you guys. And you guys might only know each other one or two here or six months or whatever it is, right? It's, it's that immediate bond and that immediate trust. Again, that. That's why I love a beautiful circus, man. It's, you won't find, I'm not going to say you won't find people like that in the world because there is. But I feel like two wheels motorcycles, um, just has this natural ability to make people come together. Um, a lot more natural and a lot more quick than just meeting somebody somewhere else. Oh, this is my, you know, my buddy, blah, blah, blah. And he becomes friends that way. You know what I mean? Look who's back in. What you got? I'm going to your pop off. You got me? The pop off show up. My dad's wife. My dad's wife. My wife's dad too. My dad's wife. Sorry, mom. You're the only one listening. My mom's probably looking at my dad right now going, what did he just say? We got to talk after this. What did you get some silly potty? Yeah. There's like a little one that makes it all together. It makes it all together. Big blob. Look, you just got on the computer. Oh, right. My man. It does smell good. It has sense. It does. Smells kind of like lemon. The banana. I don't, man, don't like anything. I should have saved it. All right. My man. Give me high five. Give me high five. Oh, too slow. See that? You got 50 bucks? You guys know what that means when we get off these like that. I got to get some V bucks. Too smart. Too fine. I told you. We're not going to Best Buy. I'll take you down to the food line. They got V bucks there. All right. My man. Ladies and gentlemen. Hayden Rossi. What is up? I can't see nobody with a putty in the way, silly. Kids, again, you got to love him right there. The best thing to ever. I love it. So, listen, the story you guys just told in the journey of how every single one mess. Absolutely amazing. And how did, how did Shane come into this whole mix? When we were starting the team. I've reached out to Jamie Staras. When I was doing track days, he gave me some pointers and he was helpful and we connected. I reached out to him and said, "Hey, are you interested on being on the team?" They said, "No, I'm already riding for the top box." But there's this guy named Shane Maggs who is pretty fast. He rides a 1000 and he's new to the US. He's from Australia. Reach out to him. See if he might be interested. I'm like, "Oh, okay." So, we reached out to Shane and he's like, "Yeah, I used to ride." What is it? ASPK. Australian Superbike. On a Jigsaw 600. So, we're basically like, "Oh, man, this guy's going to be great." So, we had him jump on the team and start riding for us. The first, when we had that $1,500 bike, we didn't have money for a quick change. We just had stock set up. Yeah, one tire, the whole round for a hard tire on it was just let it go. The first time he was out of the bike, he's going down the straightaway. This is after a bunch of drama with Ryan and I. Ryan was having heat stroke and I couldn't get my boot off. I was having a panic attack. And Shane jumps on the bike and after we got ourselves situated, I'm like, "Man, every time he goes past, there's something sparking underneath the bike." We have something hanging like, "What's going on?" And he finally came in and he's like, "Man, that last turn before the straight, it doesn't matter how, if I don't even give it throttle, it's trying to step out on me. I don't know what's going on." Hey, we're looking at his tires, his cords wired, just hanging out. I was going to try and tell when I came in, you know, in hindsight too, you know, we're kind of lucky because Matt Pataco is riding with us at round two. And it started raining on his stint and, you know, he never rode in rain. And that's northern people. We love it in the rain. He's like, "What do I do?" I was like, "You'll be all right. It's not going to stick around." So just, you know, don't give it the gas until you're straight up and down. Only breaks straight up and down and don't do anything to upset the bike when you're bent over. Exaggerate. He's like, "What?" I was like, "Oh, you'll be fine." If it wasn't for that rain and the few flow laps he had, the tire probably wouldn't have made it. But I had gotten on it after Matt. And I was, I couldn't wait for them to pull me in. And we didn't even have an expanded tank. But I was, I mean, I was so sick. I wanted to tell them to say, "Hey, that tire was greasy. Every time you're leaned over on the right, it's sliding." But the only thing that came out of my mouth was gone as soon as I got on the bike. It was like, it was, it was broke. Like, it was, what, 130 degrees on the track surface. It went down something like that. It was wild. I'm sure the other guys are looking down like, "Oh, look at the new team." You know, Tom's growing up. He's trying to, he can't get undressed. [ Laughter ] I'm like, "Right, shut this boot off of my phone. I don't care. Get it off." [ Laughter ] That's hilarious. But again, that's, that's, that's when the, the whole, uh, friendship comes together when you guys push each other and, and always stay positive. And it's, it's, man, I, I love it. I, I've been in, I've never, well, I, I took it back. I've done several endurance race. I didn't endurance race. I remember the first one I did, my foot and my knee were slow long. I didn't realize I started off the bike, you know, and I went to step and I'm like, "What the," and I looked down, I could barely get my boot off. Bro, I couldn't, yeah, I could barely walk. I couldn't pull my boot off. I ended up, they had a pull there and it was cold water that I just jumped into and finally got the boot off and, and got the suit off and I was like, yeah, ice and all that good stuff. But that's, that's part of the journey. That's part of the beautiful journey. It, it, it helps you grow as an individual, but it brings you guys together closer and now you know what to do and what not to do next time. But racing is racing. You can never plan it out because it's going to go the way it's going to go. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, which is, which is awesome. Kevin Osborne, what is going on? He says, "Absolutely love hanging out with you guys at Daytona this year. Wish I didn't work so much because I would absolutely be at every race." Kevin, he's one of the guys that I started riding with. You know, like, I switched high schools halfway through this school year. I think I was a junior and went from city schools to, to, to one of the better schools in the system. I showed up there on a, on the rebel. I put together on a box, earrings, long hair and, you know, he was one of the, he was one of the first friend, new friends I made. He had a bike. I had a bike. He had a ninja. He didn't care what I looked like. I think I had spurs on my boots too at the time. The old dingo, soft leather boots. I wanted to be TJ Lane from Firehouse. So bad when I was 17, it wasn't funny. Oh, I love it. I love it. But yeah, he was one of the first friends I made there, and, you know, him and me and, you know, a bunch of us has rode for years. And I would go to a lot of this AMA super, actually he, he's the one, he's the one that actually got me into the racing. Our senior year, him and his stepdad took me to Mid-Ohio for Superbikes, you know, AMA Superbike. And after that, it was actually, it was the race that Dale quarterly won his first AMA race. And beating Kevin Chandler and I was hooked after that was like, that is what I want to do. So we can all thank him for that. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. It's a, I have a total of different images of Ryan now. Bro, do you still have the boots with the spurs on them? No, I wish I did, because people don't remember what the date, the old dingoes were. Bro, listen, listen, Daytona, because all three gentlemen are going to be a Daytona this year, right? You need to get some spurs on them. Bro, that's exactly what I was going to say. I'll be there too. Dude, you got to get some spurs on them, bro. We're going to get a picture with shade and legendary picture. Absolutely. Bro, even better. You got to have a G sound. Yeah, Mark says, so true, no better people than who you meet endurance racing. You guys did great this year. Yeah, he's a pop box. Yeah, one of our main competitors, boy. We run our race. I mean, we always have to have a plan for them. We constantly watching what they're doing, what changes they're making, because it's. Yeah, we're winning because we're trying to beat them and it's, you know, we're trying to win because we got to get ahead of them. It's our whole game plan usually involves. They think their program's good. Great, great set of riders that all of them guys are great. Yeah, I mean, I love them and trust and we go ahead and head. I love it. I love it. Speaking of differences too, also with the solos and endurance, you guys are allowed to have bigger fuel tanks, right? I've seen an image when you guys sent me in. Was that you, Ron, of actually building a fabricating a custom, bigger gas tank? Yeah. Yeah, I did the one of our sponsors, Fox Feathers. Clint Shafer, he designed the first Suzuki tank and it was massive. It was huge. It was almost. It was too big. So we cut that. He designed a second one and cut all these. They do. He's got a plasma cutter. There's a lot of engineering and he got together. I welded it up and then this last one, the Yamaha, I did that one totally myself, but it's, it's work. You know, it's like, you know, again, without like Clint being, you know, all the powder coating he does. And you know, one of those tanks is every bit. I think it's about 120 hours. You know, if you want to do it right, make it look halfway decent because it's constant fitting, putting it back on, making changes. You know, and it's, it's not, I don't run a big gun. I tig weld everything and that's, it'd be nice to be able to make it. But I'd rather have the cleaner and make sure I got no leaks by tig weld and then it did take some time. And a lot, like I said, a lot of time and effort, if you really want to go at it. Oh, for sure. And how much bigger you guys allowed to make the tank? Yeah, we're as, you know, I mean, I tell you what, I don't know what top box is. I think their tank runs into their damn tires because the first one we made was like 36 liters. And we're like, oh, they ain't out running us this year. But we kind of settled in at like, you know, 27 to 30 liters will give us. You know, we can go probably an hour and 20 on it, but it's, you know, again, it's, I don't like pushing our guys much more than an hour because then you got the mental aspect. And that's the thing that gets you, you know, the fatigue, you know, you just, you gotta do drip, drift off just one time. And next thing you know, you miss the apex. Your rear tires fade by then, too. Yeah, it's. You got a rear tire that's starting to fade after, you know, that hour mark, you know, we're, we're looking at tire wear at that point too. Yeah, for sure. So do you guys obviously you guys run quick change, just like the Daytona 200 race because it's, it's right quick change, quick change rear, which that alone costs money to get that whole setup. So on average, how many sets of tires do you guys go through and endurance race. Uh, if you, if you don't want that car, four years during the race, basically, is what we budget for and then one rate, one rear for practice. And we typically use the one from practice for qualifying unless some circumstance makes us want to use a fresh tire for qualifying. Yeah, four, four years, one front, we try to do the whole race on one front. We have the quick change front setup. We have two different quick change fronts. We have the quick change front that we have on a bike that. You can change the front, but not as quick as what you can on the B bike. We think it's kind of raining more on the B bike. It's got a wider triple tree. And then the rotors are spaced out from the wheel. See if I'm just pulled the front, the front wheel off without having to do anything with the radar or the calipers or anything. Just take the axle out front wheel falls right out. You can stick a new wheel in and zip the axle and it's real fast. The A bike is a little bit different. You got to do a little bit more. It's a little bit slower to change front. But yeah, we just try to use one front and about four years. Yeah. And then you always want to have a rain set mounted and ready to go. So you never know what you're going to get. Yeah. Five rear tires mounted when we start a race. So going back to your ceramic bearings, you put five sets of ceramic bearings. I don't know what that'll cause, but it's a ton of money. Probably four grand. No, no doubt. Yeah, they almost bought a set for my bike. And I was like, man, I can't just the father cost. I really can't. I just wanted to ask the question because it's cool if you have ceramic bearings. But yeah, it's absolutely. And so Jim Whitehead. What is up, Jim? Oops, what happened? Let me get back to the comments. I'm using my cell phone is different than my laptop. Jim says the limit guys go get it. Yeah, he's another he's he's right with me all the time. That's another guy that. He's a big guy six foot six five. He was he was abnormally fast on a on a sport bike. He's in the Harley's now, but kept I kept trying to get him to race. And he's like, no, no, I think he'd be. Yeah, he's like Aaron Yates size. Aaron Yates is a big man, you know, he was a little sicker. And it was always wheelie and the only was amazing on a sport bike. Well, we do it sounds like we need to get Jim in the super wheelie class. I know, right? Yeah, I brought that up to him this year. He's like, I love it. I love it. And then Kemper Simmons, the show, I miss you, brother, man. I miss you too, bro. Thanks for tuning in. And then Shane says, these guys are my best friends, but also my family. We've been through a lot in the last four years. This season was awesome to finally endure on the top few times. The effort everyone puts in is the reason why we were so successful this season. Thankful to be part of it all. We love you guys. You're absolutely right. We love you, too, bro. Oh, yeah. We couldn't do it without Shane. Shane's our anchor that we abuse time and time again. He's the guinea pig. Let's put him out there. Yeah, I love it. And then I love it. What is up? He says, love you guys. Happy holidays. Can't wait for us to begin again. Absolutely. We love you, too. And then Brad Burns says to the front, let's go. Oh, Brad. I love it. I love it. So all these ladies and gentlemen that are actually in here with those three, you guys race with them are against them. Yeah, now Brad, Brad's rides with us. Yeah, he rode with us last year. Yeah, Brad actually. Fuel tanks, I just sent you a text with a picture of Brad, high siding, and trying his damnedest to save our fuel tank. Yeah, that's about the only thing that wasn't destroyed on the bike when you. Bro, that looked like one hell of a ride on that one. You were completely sideways coming off. I don't think there was a single scratch on it. Everything else on the bike was pretty much destroyed, though. But yeah, Brad used to run. He was with Twisted Speed and running heavyweights for years. They gave some nasty fights with Army of Darkness in the heavyweight class. So I don't think Shane got ahold of him and talked to him and he just wanted to throw his luck in with us and Brad Brad's log got a lot of a ton of endurance racing knowledge, you know, he's. He's a good dude. I love it. Listen, gentlemen, tell us about your 2024 seat. Well, I'm not sure. I think we're going to be putting it on hold with the into and we're stuff that was going on. And they're not being any purses. It's hard to take the gamble to cartwheel a bike through a gravel trap if there's no money on the other end of it. Yeah, just makes it hard financially. I think we're going to put it on hold and see what 2025 has to has to offer. Yeah, we're, I think we decided we're going to go ahead and focus with Shane in Moto America. It's the mode America rounds last year is, you know, other than Daytona, it was just usually Shane and I and a couple hands. But it's a lot. You almost need three people with you there all the time. You know, and with, you know, Kyle having the twins at home doing the endurance and the motor America that but I mean I was gone almost every weekend. I felt like this summer, you know, doing both. And, you know, I think I, and we think it our time right now to shine it with the shape of the motor America given he's got opportunity. He did really good last year. You know, giving him some more support and more some more downtime while we're at the track. So he doesn't have to be there with me working on the bike or he can, you know, we can look at the data, you know, we got to have to update his bike with the electronic system this year. So now we're going to have, you know, live data at our hands to look help him, you know, get faster. Some things we might be missing with the suspension. So, you know, that way having more hands on deck for that things can be more beneficial for us as a, as a team and for him. And then hoping, you know, luckily we're was able to get up a four, four round schedule for endurance this year because it's very, it's important that that endurance series stays. And, you know, we'll be back, but we kind of want them to kind of restraint the things out here and see where things go. You know, it sucks because they actually put a round on a Nelson, which is in our backyard and, you know, it's, it's always a fun round for us. But everything else is just so far away. It's, you know, it's, we're looking at four grand just to get down there and race and there's nothing coming back this, you know, this year. So, it's kind of hard, kind of hard to justify and we got to keep Roger and dial married still. So, we got to make smart decisions. Listen, I get it. Trust me, I do. It's, it's a compromise everywhere. It really is. Right. Not only do you got to have the support between you three and Shane and the logistics and I mean, that alone is just the full time job doing all logistics and. sponsorship and money and funds and, you know, travel expenses and all that stuff. But it's also the home life too, right? Did you got to have, you know, your wife and your kids also got to help support you and show you their full commitment behind you too as well. Because they sacrifice time for not seeing you as well as you not seeing them, you know, that's one thing that my wife and my son's been telling me a whole lot this year because I've been going just straight. As hard as I can on this podcast four and five a week, you know, so this next year I'm going to do two weeks, maybe three at the most. So, I get it. It's a, it's a whole full circle compromise, right? One piece of that pie disrupts it. It's hard to stay focused in between the chapters and, you know, what I'm saying, make the positive outcomes. It's it's, it's, it's a full. Yeah. It was rough. It was rough. It was a, it wasn't an easy decision for us to make either, especially because we finally made a switch to a new platform on the Yamaha and. Yeah, the Suzuki was great. You couldn't, I mean, getting that bike on the podium and being classified as a vintage bike and we were always up there fighting for podium position on that bike was awesome, but it's just, you know, couldn't find. Replacing worn out parts with worn out parts off of eBay because you know, parts are getting hard and. Kyle was like, I'm just going to. You know, the first round of the land of this year. That was a straw that broke the back or Kyle's like, I woke up, we're on our way back from the land. And he's like, I just bought a Yamaha I'm flying out to Oregon to get it. I was so irritated with that Suzuki after it looked that I found a low mileage, 17 plus our six out in Portland, Oregon, and flew out on a Friday. Yeah, and I was unloaded at like nine o'clock at night, Sunday at Ryan's house in Ohio, rented a truck out there and drove it back. Yeah, I don't know you want to know what the what the charges for cleaning out that rental truck either. He got out of that truck and underwear and cowboy boots and I have like, with the spires on them. Yeah, I got the company discount on that. I think it was only like 200 bucks to drive it the whole way back as we use enterprise for our for work. So they gave me a pretty good discount. One thing I did meant to ask is, what do three you gentlemen actually do for a living Roger will start with you. I work at wise co piston. I do programming for most of their machines there, like the. So much on the piston side of it it's more on like right now my big focus is we have a big rod machine we're getting into making connecting rods for it's all automotive right now. Like the LS the honey, there's a couple of forwards that we do some rods for so that's been my main focus right now is programming that prior to that it was programming. All the clutch baskets that that wise co offers. And I have done some pistons for them just. It's not the production side of it more the. More the the billet builds I guess I do a lot of their billots for them. I love it. I love it. That's been there 21 years. Bro, congratulations. Absolutely. Kyle, what do you do for a living my friend. I work in the oil and gas industry. I'm a regional manager for a midstream company a QT was actually a production and midstream company but for a QT. I have. And $4 billion worth of assets that I take care of. So always on the phone night and day. You can ask these guys. Yeah, stop trying to keep stuff running. So, yeah. Man, you're extra busy with the phone constantly attached to you and twins and racing and. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. Ryan. What do you do to my friend. I work for Huntsman International. And we can be working their specialties division and maintenance tech welder fabricator. You know, build vessel or piping. Rebuild pumps with ever breaks. So luckily it's like five minutes from my house. So, you know, it doesn't interfere with what I got to do in the bikes too bad. I love it. I love it. And thank you gentlemen for your service in the military. I grew up in a Navy. My dad was a father pilot. So I'm used to the whole hurry up and wait. We got to move, come home. He's like, we got to move. I'm like, dude, we just got here orders. We got to go. You know, and it's, but I enjoyed that because that's what partly made me who I am. That's why I'm just so I can talk to anybody. Right. It's that whole movement from schools to schools and making new friends all the time. And I got tired of making new friends. I'm like, dude, I want the same friends. I don't want to make new friends. You know, and, but that was like, well, they're going to make you stronger and, you know, change your personality and all that. And he was absolutely right. Yeah. I know all about the military life, but thank you. It's absolutely amazing. It's people like you that we are able to do what we love to do racing and podcasting and all that without you. No matter what your job with infantry, changing all the trucks, cooking, it don't matter. You're still part of that beautiful journey and that beautiful circus. Right. Just like in road racing without the corner marshals, the ambulance and the air fence. Guess what we're not doing. Showing on the track at all. Right. So every role is very important. It's just as important as shame. Don't his leg over the biker or Kyle or Ryan in racing. It's absolutely imperative. So thank you. I just want to throw that in there. Yeah, but I'm bad. No, I got it. My son, I got he's getting going back to him. Am I in Orlando today? I got to get him to the airport. So I'm going to have to dip out of here. So, but all right. You're good. Don't let these guys run their mouths about me. I'm not really that slow on the track. I promise. That's all right, Ron. I will shoot you a text. We'll do a phone call and you will set up an individual podcast. All right, guys. You guys have a good time. All right. Thanks, bud. So 2024, what was your guys's best race? Had to have been Barbara or Roblin, right? Yeah, I would say. I'd say Barbara. We took a new platform. Yeah. Yeah, Barbara, I'd say was the best. We fought trash panda pretty hard for it. Yeah. I definitely say Barbara. What was the one team that pushed you guys the hardest this season? And what did you learn from that? I'd say probably trash panda pushed us the hardest this season. They were just relentless. If we let our guard down for a minute, they were right there. And they ended up winning the championship. But pretty much learned from them that. From them and from Brad, Brad was another an outside perspective coming in this year. That basically are. The time that we spend away from the trap, we need to make sure that we're being as productive as possible and making sure that we don't have stupid little problems like quick shifters failing and whatnot. Hold on, my headphone just died. Good. You are good, my friend. Yeah, make sure we don't have stupid problems like quick shifters failing and whatnot and. Like Brad said, you know, the most worn part on that bike should be the grips. If you've got foot pegs that are ground down or anything like that, replace them. There's no, you know, it costs a little bit more money, but if you want to win, that's what you got to do. Yeah, that's that's basically what we learned this year. I love it. So let me ask you two gentlemen this. What advice would you give for somebody looking to get into endurance racing. I'd go small bike. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, unless you've got a lot of sponsors, stay away from the 1000s. They're just, they cost a lot of money to keep going. The 600s are, they still cost a lot of money, but then on each profits and tires like a 1000 does. Like Roger said, the little bikes, like the SVs, the lightweight or the ultra lightweight would probably be the way to go if you're just getting into it. Get a 400 and do the two hour, you know, as a solo, I think you can, can't you? There might be a couple of minute break that you have to do, or like, you know, you're obviously for your fuel fuel and whatever, but I think one person can ride the two hour by themselves. And there's, there's nothing that's going to beat seat time out there. Yeah, it's, yeah, you want to, you want to progress as a racer. Stay on the seat, you know. Yeah, yeah, and if you have the opportunity start off, you know, a lot of the relay classes get a lot of flak, but if you start off in a relay class, you kind of get a feel for what it takes to actually do before hour. And one of the nine relay classes we were sharing a bite. That'd be, I'd say start off with the relay class and go from there. I love it. I love it. So, Roger and Kyle, you guys going to be with Shane in Moto America next year. I'm going to try to get you a couple rounds. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to try to, I'm so go ahead, Roger. Oh, just to say, I'm trying, you know, obviously the first round of the year's Daytona. I'd love to get down to that again. And I went down this past year with them. And I loved it. It was Daytona is something different than any track you'll ever go to. You know, it's, it's a pretty amazing place to go to for a race. So I'd like to do that and, uh, middle high again, since it's close to us. And then, uh, I don't see how my schedule this summer goes, you know, it's, it's usually pretty busy with. Between work and family, you know, we go on vacations and whatever, but I would like to get to a couple of rounds again. Yeah, yeah, I'm probably going to be running around with Shane quite a bit. I'd like to go to as many races as I'm able to make. I can't say for certain how many that'll be, but it'll be, you know, more than what we have endurance races. So probably at least half the season I'd like to be there for him. I love it good because I get opportunity to meet you gentlemen, right? That's one thing I love is having my friends on the podcast and then meeting you in real life. I always call it real life, right? Uh, kind of like we're in a cartoon right now, right? Uh, but, uh, it's, it's, and I'm a big hugger. So I'm not a big hot father. I've just come up behind you, give you a big hug. You look down, but who is this? Oh, my God, get away from me. Hey, we need some help over here. Get him out of here. I'll be at Daytona this year. I can't wait to go be my first time for the two honey race. I'm super proud of that. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I can't say hi. Oh, absolutely. I'll do that. Listen, it's already on the agenda. One hundred percent. Not only that, we're going to cook out. We're going to cook out. We're going to cook out. We're going to cook some good chicken or steaks or something on the grill. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I'm with it. I'm definitely going to be there and meet some food off of you. Come on. Come on. I'll grab a boat of your guys' camp and cook them at your spot. Yeah. For sure. And so I'm going to do that. I'm going to do road Atlanta, Jersey, Mid-Ohio, and VIR. I'm so excited about coming back to VIR. So, yeah, man. It's going to be a great season. I'm still looking forward to 2025. What did you guys, do you guys watch? Of course, Moto America. Do you gentlemen also watch BSB or the TT MotoGP or any of that? I watch the reruns of the TT and if it's, if I'm able to watch, it will have a watch a lot, but I don't watch it enough to follow it. Moto America, I watch pretty consistently, but BSB, not really at all now. I watch some of the BSB stuff, but it's mostly like reruns on, I don't know what, I guess YouTube or whatever, I catch them on. Yeah, thank you. Obviously, I try to catch all the Moto America stuff. Love the, the Isle of Man stuff. I try to catch that as much as I can. Oh, yeah, I'm a huge fan of it all. I watch it all, ASBK, BSB. You can watch BSB for free. And then it's britishsuperbikes.com, the website, as the season goes on and the weekends just scroll down and boom, click live. And there you go, you can always go to YouTube and rewatch them. So, I love that because it's free, right? You don't have to pay for a subscription or any of that, you know. I think that helps them grow tremendously too, because if we had a free platform, plus we do a lot of advertising out there where we don't advertise, or anything from Moto America, right? That's one thing that about our sport I see is severely lacking it. We need to show it on commercials and billboards and grocery stores and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? It's, you know, because every time you turn on the TV, you see what an ass collar and football and baseball and tennis and cricket and what's even cricket, right? But we don't see nothing about, you know, Moto America or two wheel racing, you know. Yeah, yeah, I love our sport. We've definitely gone in the right direction in 2025. It's absolutely amazing for everybody. I can't wait to meet you guys. I'm going to have a lot of fun for sure. Absolutely. I can't wait. The gentleman, we are an hour and five minutes into this podcast. Kyle, I know you got to go soon because you got two little ones running around. Roger, stay on with me, cost down with me here in a minute. We're going to go ahead and schedule your two individual podcasts and I'll just call Ryan later. Look, my father-in-law just text. Hey, I'm at your house. I know, and I'll be out there in a few minutes, buddy. Anthony, he says they are great guys, very knowledgeable and helpful. Anthony, thank you so much for continuing in, my friend. Oh, Anthony's great. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, this has been a lot of fun. We're all three going to get together and do this again, but this time we're going to add Shane into it too as well, get the whole team in together. Yeah, actually, we'll do that live. We'll do a live podcast at the end of the weekend. It's always hard. I always say that, but when the race weekend comes, I know how busy everybody is, right? And Sunday after the race, everybody's packing up because we've got to hit the road a lot because we've got jobs and families to get to. So maybe Friday evening after the first practice, you know, voila, blah, when chill, throw some steaks on a grill, I'll break out the cell phone and we'll do a lot of podcasts there from Daytona this year, be a lot of fun. Yeah, that'd be awesome, man. Well, we will do it. We will do it. And gentlemen, again, it's an absolute honor to be able to sit down with you gentlemen today. I've learned so much. I had so much fun and thank you so much for telling me your whole journey and how you guys come together with motor racing, looking forward to 2025 and I'm going to let you two gentlemen in the podcast before I do that. I just want to say thank you for everybody that watch this podcast. Thanks for everybody that likes to subscribe. If you have not yet, please go to all my platforms. Hit that like button that bell. You guys know the routine. It helps me out a lot. Thank you so much to Next Level Financial, BisonTrack.com, Chef Eats, Flying Eyes Optics, SFL Mini DP, RD Racing, Jake March, Matthew Track, 64 Degree Racing, ghetto Customs, the clothing Kings. STG Road Racing Fund. I need everybody to go to the road racing world. Go to their website. Go to the fun. Please donate. That is for our air fences. We absolutely need them. Thank you guys so much. Lawrence Performance, KYT, Mini SBK, RTR, Coleman Powersports here in Virginia, and Dripping Wet Graphics. Gentlemen, Roger, tell everybody where they can find you on social medias and all that good stuff. Kyle is going to get a gig a lot of this. I'm not on any social media really. It's one of those things that I've never gotten on to anything. I think I'm on that LinkedIn site. I signed up for that years ago through work, and I'm on that once in a while. But other than that, I'm not really on any social media. They can reach me at my email through Wiseco if they want. It's just my name with Wiseco.com on it. Or LinkedIn, because we're on LinkedIn. This podcast is actually live on LinkedIn right now too as well. I'm on LinkedIn too, man. They'll send me this thing. So and so, use your profile. Try this for free. I'm not paying for that. There's absolutely no way I'm paying for LinkedIn right now. For real, but Kyle, listen, absolute honor. Tell everybody where they can find you on socials. Where we're at, we're at MotorDrone Racing and on Facebook, if you look us up or look up my name on Facebook, that's, that's about the only thing that I'm on. I think Shane is running the, I think we have an Instagram page as well that Shane runs. I think it's MotorDrone Racing also on Instagram. This is just because of shirtless Shane. Hey man, dude, listen, he's a beat. Watch him close on his abs. This is for all the ladies. Thanks so much for 64 degree racing, right? Yeah. I love it. I love it. Shane's absolutely amazing, but you're right. Yeah, we love Shane, man. We do too. Absolutely. We do. Yes, that's how you can reach us if you need to get ahold of us. And man, all those companies that you were just mentioning, I know the owners of a lot of those companies, they're all fantastic companies. I second everything you say about them. Oh, yeah, they're, yeah, they're all my friends. You know, in KYT, my buddy Brandon cray through KYT Americas, you know, I throw this, you know, try to help him. And people buy KYT helmets, K-tex suspension, you know, Dakari and birch and Kindle, absolutely amazing chef eats. We're good friends with chef. I love his food and his products. I try to tell everybody. Oh, that's great. Dude, what are you doing? You guys are slacking sign up for chef eats. It's an amazing food, man. Yeah, flying eyes, optics, my buddy, he has a, he works for the company. They're actually made in the symbol in Austin, Texas. They're the light of sunglasses that I've ever put on my face. I forget that I'm wearing them. They're made to wear up underneath motorcycle helmets and if you're a pilot or a bicyclist or whatever, these are, listen, I bring them to the races. I have them there at Daytona. I'll let you guys try them. I'll run around for a couple hours in them. Yeah, I got a discount code for anybody who's interested in getting some. It's been a gas tin, safe 10%. But I had to hide them because between my wife and her friends and my friends too, I had to start hiding them because they ended up missing. Oh, I got your sunglasses. My way. I'm like, bro, I need my glasses back. I'm glad you enjoyed them. If you want a pair. Again, like I said, yeah, R D racing man is a buddies of mine out there and BSB and their son Jake Morris kill Walker. Man, there's a bunch of my friends that that race with that with them. Of course, Jim Whitman that you track right again. All these people that are named man, I'm really good friends with them. And I just want to see their business thrive and grow right and talking about them on the podcast and I think Jeff will with chef eats. I think he might be done. Daytona this year. I know he was down last year. Yeah, he came over and met up with us. Well, we're done. Yeah, he's a little care package man. Our intro box. Awesome. Yeah. Food was great. Yeah, I actually had the honor to meet Jeff for a brief minute at road Atlanta this year. He was walking through the paddock in. I've sent a herd, sent him code and I turn around and it's Jeff on his little scooter. He comes up. Oh, I'll get you together. And again, it's so busy on the weekends, man. I would love to be able to sit down and spend a lot of time with each and everyone. But it just, it goes by so quick. So many people are so busy. So I just run around, say how I get my hugs and constantly just do that. Right. But yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to meeting you gentlemen. It was an absolute honor to sit down. This episode will be uploaded. It'll be everywhere tomorrow. But Apple. So if you miss this, you go right back to my YouTube channel, my Facebook channel and watch it live. I mean, we watch it there again. But listen, I hope your Sunday is as proper mega is your guys of Sunday. I hope everybody's Sunday is absolutely amazing. I can't wait to see you guys again. And is there anything you guys want to say before I end the podcast? I think we've covered pretty much everything. Thanks to everybody that supported the team over the years. Yeah. Without them, it's been, you know, it would be a lot harder. It could be done definitely, but it's definitely easier when you get partners that help you out. You know, wise code's been, you know, I bug them all the time for, Hey, what do you guys think about this? And sooner or later, they're going to tell me to quit bugging them, but until they until they tell me that I'm going to keep bugging them. I would too, my friend. Absolutely. I would too. Well, gentlemen, just stay with me for a quick second. I'm going to go ahead and schedule a little podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, it was an absolute honor today. Sit down with motor drum racing. We will see you guys soon. Thanks for having us on. The honor was all my fellows believe me. It really was. All right, let me end this. Calling all two wheel enthusiasts, get ready to rev up your earbuds with pin the gas podcast, the ultimate motorcycle racing podcast hosted by Chris Simcoe, one of our very own excellent leaders here in run of Virginia. With expert analysis behind the scenes stories and exclusive writer interviews, pin the gas podcast delivers the adrenaline rush of the racetrack straight to your ears. Whether you're a diehard fan or a curious newcomer, you'll gain insights that will transform how you watch and understand motorcycle racing. Just on your favorite podcast app, join Simcoe as he takes you on a high speed journey through the world of motorcycle racing. 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