My friend Eric and I on the first few laps of the day
I am finally starting to carry speed through this turn. I like how you can see the heat coming out
of the exhaust (if you look closely).
In 5 years this is the only rear shot ever taken of me
An aerial view of Calabogie Motorsports Park
Recently I started venturing through some old digital photos that had been stored away. I came across a CD that contained images of me riding at Calabogie Motorsports Park in Ontario Canada. This trip happened in 2007 but I can still remember it like it was yesterday. It was an extremely long ride from Washington DC to Ontario but it was well worth it. I will say that it was a beautiful location, very quiet and the folks seemed pretty friendly.
On the morning of the track day, it was about 39 degrees when we left the house to head to the track. By the time we actually started riding it was in the mid 40’s and topped out in the upper 50’s.
Calabogie Motorsports Park sits on 275 acres and is a very technical track. The front straight is only 2000 feet. On a 1000 cc motorcycle like mine, that is nothing!!! It consists of 20 turns in which over half of them are blind turns meaning you can’t really see the turn until you are up on it. You just pray that it didn’t move since the last time you came around LOL. It was definitely a track I would return to but because of the distance, I would have to do at least 2 days at the track. When you are learning a new track, one day is just not long enough. By the time things start clicking and you mentally start connecting all of the turns, the day is pretty much over. It’s funny thinking back on that time because I had only had my bike for about 7 months (I had sold my Suzuki GSX-R 600 the year before). From then until now, I have gotten so much faster! It only leaves to the imagination of what I could do at that track now.
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