Greetings From Irving!

Tell us a little about yourself and say hello to the gang. We would like to hear about who, what, and why you ride as well as how you found us.
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Greetings From Irving!

Post by duc » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:58 am

Hey, my name is GQ and I just found this club through a friend from college. I'm a first year rider (started riding last November) and so far have put in 6,000 miles in a span of 3 bikes.
I'm a professional photographer (http://www.duccao.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and got into riding through shooting an AMA event in Houston. I took the MSF course in November and that was where I learned how to ride. My very first bike was a 2008 Ninja 250 in which I've racked up 2,000 miles before I sold it in December.
I've then moved on to a YZF600R (aka Thundercat) which was a first for me on many levels (including a total engine swap in an apartment complex parking lot!). I've racked up about 3,000 miles on that bike before I sold it in February. Now I moved on to a 2003 R6 and couldn't be happier!
My main goals this riding season is to get my knees down and learn proper cornering techniques in time for my trip to Deal's Gap this summer.
I look forward to riding with you guys soon!

Here is a pic of my current girlfriend and my friend's Buell X1:
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Rhino » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:44 am

Welcome!

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by milesmiles » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:01 am

Welcome feel free to stop by on bike night, we would all like to meet you! Just looked at your website. Pretty good stuff, might have to have a photo shoot of bikes and babes here soon :D
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Firewa11 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:39 am

Welcome!
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Grinner » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:42 am

Welcome to the group.

I wouldnt worry too much about gettin your knee down. Focus mostly on improving your technique and the knee will happen when needed.
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by DarcShadow » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:05 pm

Yeah, if you spend all day at the track trying to touch your knee, you'll end up with some crappy form. If you work on good form and just getting smoother and faster you'll touch your knee and not even realize you're leaned over that far.
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by 2track » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:07 pm

Welcome !

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by duc » Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:48 pm

Thanks guys for the warm welcome. Is the bike night a FWMR exclusive thing or is it like a city wide kind of thing? I've attended a few bike nights in Dallas (at High 5 Cycles) and although they were pretty fun, the riding did tend to get reckless and dangerous. How do you guys ride? I'm looking for a group ride that is fast paced although not squiddishly dangerous-- like going a buck fifty down a crowded interstate!!

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by DemonDuck » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:05 pm

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Post by U-Turn » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:38 pm

duc wrote:Thanks guys for the warm welcome. Is the bike night a FWMR exclusive thing or is it like a city wide kind of thing? I've attended a few bike nights in Dallas (at High 5 Cycles) and although they were pretty fun, the riding did tend to get reckless and dangerous. How do you guys ride? I'm looking for a group ride that is fast paced although not squiddishly dangerous-- like going a buck fifty down a crowded interstate!!
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Post by DarcShadow » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:41 pm

Check out the home page for how we ride and what we do. http://www.fwmr.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by dufremle » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:54 pm

Welcome!
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Dragonfly » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:56 pm

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by duc » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:18 pm

Sounds good! I'm definitely down for the next bike night. (Not this week though since I'll be at SXSW!)

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Blizzard_1708 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:48 am

Well then maybe next month. Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. Ride or cage it to bike night, although with the nicer weather, more people will be riding. Or feel free to join us on any moderate ride posted.

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by WillK675 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:12 pm

Welcome! I spent a few years working in the photo industry here in DFW and still have alot of friends/contacts locally, will be interesting to see who all we've both worked with.
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Post by El Diabro » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:06 am

Welcome aboard and come on out!!!
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Post by PinkFiddy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:24 am

welcome! you'll really enjoy everyone! glad you found the group.

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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Striple » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:10 am

Welcome! Try to make it to bike night sometime!
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:39 pm

DarcShadow wrote:Yeah, if you spend all day at the track trying to touch your knee, you'll end up with some crappy form. If you work on good form and just getting smoother and faster you'll touch your knee and not even realize you're leaned over that far.
Twist of the wrist II DVD and go to youtube and lookup Ty Howard good stuff on body posistion.

I watched them and realized a bunch of crap I was doing wrong and have been slowly correcting, and I can also pick apart youtube videos of where people aren't getting the maximum out they could get when they have their knee down, all crossed up is the most common one, second one is twisting around the tank to get the knee on the pavement on purpose.

Guess thats the difference between someone dragging a knee and someone thats fast, someone said someplace it should be a result not a goal.
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by Dragonfly » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:21 pm

I like that "draggin knee should be a result, not a goal"!
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Post by Grinner » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:16 pm

Ditto!!!

That was my result from ridin at Barber!
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Re: Greetings From Irving!

Post by duc » Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:20 pm

I just watched the first half-ish of that video. Great stuff!

...although it got cheesy at times :D

I can't make it out to bike night tonight (MCAT review session) but I will soon!!!!