SIMPLY AMAZING !!!




I'm still grinning like the cat that ate the canary every moment I consider what all got accomplished last night ...

• all the washouts are filled
• all the straights are repaired and ready to be watered and rolled
• the first straight is almost totally re-constructed and was rolled smooth as a baby's bottom
• all the rock piles that we made throughout the night were swept up, scooped up and hauled away
• The corners were raked, washouts filled and with a bit more work, will be ready to roll
• Areas around the track were improved, cleaned and straightened up
• Weeds were cut

Basically, we pulled together, with the help of nearly 30 volunteers, our biggest single work event yet ... and the condition of the track reflects it. To us an analogy -- we didn't just get the car washed -- we absolutely tuned and detailed it while we were at it.

We dragged, tamped (thanks for the equipment lend, Chris Mitchell!) and had two major pieces of equipment (Skid Steer run by Mike Froh courtesy of Pro Electric & a John Deere 4wd tractor piloted by Mark Kluth) all running at once.

Huge thanks to all who's names I recall ... and, my sincere apologies to those I miss ... guess if so many of you continue to help, we're going to have to have some sort of sign-in sheet !!! Mike Froh, Bryan Dickerson, Chris Mitchell, Bill Wilson, the Kluth family, the Kohls family, the Braatz family, the Mittlestadt family, the Olson Family, the Brzenski family, Wipijewski family, and the Eckert family.

All in all, I count 17 busy bees in the photo above ... and every one of you deserves every accolade we can send your way. But, let's not miss the obvious ... thanks, as always, for your help.

For those of you rippers who come out to tomorrow night's practice or Saturday's first ever Kuwahara Klassic presented by Kuwahara Bicycles and enjoy our track ... you absolutely know who to thank for their efforts. Without them ... and the work effort they so generously put out last night ... we might not have been able to race this weekend. But, leave no doubt ... this thing is ON !!!






We weren't the only one's hit hard ...

Earlier this morning, I received an e-mail from my wife Denise, an Iowa native who has been watching with pensive interest, how our neighbors to the west are coping with their flooding. As I was flipping through the photos of Cedar Rapids attached to her e-mail ... I stopped and stared at this one for a long time. It's remarkable what something so simple as a window sticker can mean in a photograph ... but, here is quite obviously ... an unknown BMX family that probably lost most all of what they own. It's just devistating to even consider. On their website, Cedar Rapids BMX (also an ABA track) notes they are in shut down mode due to impending flooding. Let's hope that the track is on higher ground and spared so that some sense of normal life can go on in the community.