April 12, 2014 Day at the Races Event Report

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Opening day and it was Glorious - Praise God! Greetings and thanks are extended to everyone in attendance, with a special thanks to all our sponsors that helped make the start of our season a huge success. We also give thanks for the wonderful fellowship and blessings of protection experienced during our opening "Day @ the Races" event for 2014.

With our goal in 2014 to reach even more people for attendance and fellowship than 2013, we encouraged all our friends to come down and hangout with us at our new expanded "Hospitality Camp CSBA" tent. I'm happy (and proud to report) we saw both track riders and non-track riders come down as a show of strong support and love for our mission. Among our non-track riders that came to show their support were Deb H (AZ), Troy R (DC), Kathleen R, Mike H, Larry S (The XIII), Ron M (Immortal Riders), Jim M(J-Mac), and Ron W (Panda). Track riders in attendance where CSBA President Mark Hamm, CSBA Vice-President Bob Brown, CSBA Racing Team Leader and Chaplin Joe (Cowboy) Cotterino and his lovely wife and partner Denise, Sanal P (Immortal Riders), Back Roads Only Riders: Jason J (BROs), Bill R (BROs), Chuck K (BROs), Alan P (BROs), Martin G and yours truly (JLaSure-CSBA).

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October 26, 2013 NJMP Lightning

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Greetings all - As always, we send up our thanks for good fellowship and blessings of protection during what was to be our last "Day at the Races" event for 2013. Since this was our last event for the year, we encouraged all our friends to come down and hangout with us at our "Hospitality Camp CSBA" tent. In attendance was Mike H. and his lovely finance Christine. I had my partner in crime with me (Donna), and later in the day Kathleen R, her son Zaquery, and friends James W. and Josh R. rounded out our party. Ray from Moto-D stopped in for a visit and dropped off a set of new Moto-D tire warmers for me... (why oh why didn't I use them?) We also made two new friends in John and John with matching very cool vintage Norton racing bikes. This time Mike was riding and wasn't our photographer - so we all pitched in to gather some much needed footage for our upcoming CSBA Video (look for that to come out soon). Larry S. left me his "B" camera and I managed to capture some opening minutes of footage before we got started with our day.

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September 28th, 2013 at NJMP - Thunderbolt

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Greetings all - As always, we send up our thanks for good fellowship and blessings of protection during our "Day at the Races" event. As in our last event, I was very fortunate to have a subset of some our street fighters present from our BRO Team (Back Roads Only) bikers to help round out the day for fun at the track. I had 4 men strong again which were ready to help and serve: Alan P., Jason J. (Jonesy), Chuck K., and Mike H. along with yours truly (John L.). Mike served as our photographer since he was unable to ride due to late registration. The Lord placed his steps however, as he was carrying a professional grade camera and took some amazing shots. I believe he captured well over 800 high speed incredible visuals, which he will sort through and post up the highlights soon. Come back and visit this posting again for those pictures - they were amazing! Alan, Jonesy and Chuck were all elevated to the Red-N group, which meant I was in great company. We ventured out together on nearly all the ride segments and tore up the track as best we could. Riding the track is always fun, but doing it with all your friends together - priceless!

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September 16, 2013 NJMP Thunderbolt

Alan, Dylan and Zack suiting up

Greetings all - As always, we send up our thanks for good fellowship and blessings of protection during our "Day at the Races" event. I was very fortunate to have a subset of some our street fighters present from our BRO Team (Back Roads Only) bikers to help round out the day for fun at the track. 4 men strong and ready to rip were Alan P., Zack D., Dylan P., and Chuck K., along with present company. As you can see from the pictures - 3 were on their first track day experience wearing the red shirts, but not for long!

As it always seems with NJMP, rain was in the forecast - so this time I was prepared with a larger pop-up (12x12) to hold more people comfortably. I used the smaller one for bike staging. I arrive about 6:30a and immediately started setting up. Alan and crew arrived shortly thereafter. By 7:30a, our camp was setup and then we hurried off for tech inspection. Zach, Chuck and Dylan got their direction for their classes after the riders meeting and we were all off to our separate areas for the morning.

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August 31, 2013 NJMP Lightning

John and John at the track

Greetings all - We send up our thanks for blessings of good fellowship during our "Day at the Races" on this Labor Day weekend. We were in dual force this Saturday as I had the pleasure to spend time with John Dobson, Chaplin at Motor Racing Outreach and CCS racer from our CSBRacing Team.

John pitched his tent and setup camp the night before, so when we arrived first thing Saturday morning, we quickly found him and setup adjacent to his pit area. Soon there after our friend John O arrived, and set up his pit next to mine. Having the corner near the entry to the park, we were in a prime spot to be visually seen - and seen we were. We had visitors come over and chat with us in the morning, where we spread the word and shared some of our CSBA information materials. It was a real delight to finally get a chance to have fellowship with Brother John as he shared many stories and trench updates with us. His group is based in the Maryland area and they are quite busy with their outreach. Not only did John update us on the happenings, he also provided us with some 1:1 coaching (Thanks John) Today saw me step-up one rank to the RED group, which is considered intermediate ( White/Red Shirt=Introductory Beginner, White=Introductory, Red=Novice/Intermediate, Blue-Advanced, Black=Expert)

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June 2013 PACSBA Trackday at NJMP Lightning

bikes at the track

TheXIIIth and I managed to make a showing and represented the PA Chapter of the CSBA at NJMP Lightning Track. We set forth on our maiden voyage at about 3:30a Tuesday (6/11) morning, and managed to get to the track just as they were opening at 6:30a. We braved the weather, which was forecasted for 60% thunderstorms and rain that day. Our resolve was total commitment as we both had a strong desire to visit the track and get the experience. Needless to say, we were not let down.

We setup camp, got our gear organized, did our tech inspection and were ready to go by 7:20am. Good teamwork and plenty of help from the folks at Absolute made for a very eventful day. TheXIIIth was right there after each ride to help with my stand since my bike has no kickstand, and then off to classroom time we went. We did manage to snap a few pictures to capture the moments, and I believe TheXIIIth will be posting some of the actual GoPro track footage of our qualifying laps via his YouTube Channel soon.

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