DreamRyder Wins AMA's First Pro Street B Class Shootout against Ricky Gadson.

DreamRyder · 04-10-2009, 5:07 PM

April's AMA event at Atlanta Dragway had be plagued with problems such as: the Clutch, the airshifter solenoid, to blowing a head gasket... I was off on my usual times preventing me from qualifying in the top 16 of the field to race with the A Class. Thanks to AMA's New Pro Street B Class I was still able to race on Sunday however... would have been a huge dissapointing trip if they had not incorporated this new class this year.

With blowing the head gasket on Sat.. my Crew Chief - Nem and Eric from Rev'd Up Motorsports began tearing my motor down to pull it in preparation of replacing the Head Gasket.

thanks to the well supplied Orient Express they had everything I needed this weekend to keep me up and running.. and special thanks goes out to Joe who offered to help replace the Head Gasket and do all that's necessary to get it back together right so Nem and Eric could stay up till 2AM Sunday morning puttin my motor back in the bike. Thank you boyz I most def couldn't have done it without you! Especially Nem with all the driving he did and wrenchin...

After these three men busted their tooshed to get me runnin again I knew I needed to do my best on Sunday to have made it all worth their efforts.

With my qualifying times I got the bi in the first round.. it came down to Myself and Ricky Gadson in the finals.

We both cut the same tree and same sixty.. wasn't till mid track when my bike started to pull on his gaining just a tenth of a second...close to the end my bike acted like it had a boost leak and boged some. I couldnt' see him in my field of view but the folks from the side lines say it was anyones guess who was ahead till the Win light came on on my side after we crossed the traps.

As I let off the gas to slow down, his bike comes flying past me still going.. my first thought was oh **** did I let off too early? LOL as we both get to the same speed he raises his left hand and gives me the thumbs up.. at this time I still did not know who won.. I thought he might have just been tellin me "good run" or "good try".. it wasn't till I reached the turn off point where AMA's Mr Wade Clark has a grin from ear to ear and cheering me saying congratulations .. I swear my heart did a flip flop at that moment with the sudden realization that I won... :beechug:

On my way back to my pit area there were numerous folks clappin and givin me the thumbs up.. here I thought just because it was the "B" class no body would be watchin or would care.. but I guess I was wrong. Once back in the pit Nem comes to me and says Go see Ricky he said he'd sign your slip for ya.. so I quickly grabbed the camera and slip in hand to go see Ricky for this great honor!

We both agree however we plan to graduate from the B class iand be in the A class next time around :wink: BUT I'm very APPRECIATIVE for AMA creating this "B" class to give us a chance to get more track time in and get the experience one can only get at these type of events.. Mr Dunigan from Dunigan Racing was kind enough to put up $ 200 to the winner.. talk about icing on the cake! Where else can you have a weekend of racing with the best and take a lil back with you to help cover the expense. :wink: I surely hope they continue this "B" class.. I can see alot of new up and coming racers gaining from it and hopefully draw more entries for it.

Thanks goes out to all the fellow racers who gave me encouragement to continue to race this weekend even after all the problems ... I'll see ya'll in MEMPHIS!

E.

Pics to follow...

DreamRyder · 04-10-2009, 5:09 PM

Atlanta Dragway

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Orient Express with their magic bus filled with all sorts of parts you could possibly need at the track.. I swear I think if I had asked for a cup of sugar they'd have it LOL..

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Me and my new Paint Job by Mirror Look Customs out of Aura, IL area.

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Another view of the New Paint Job

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Me getting ready and Nem (my crew chief) in deep concentration...

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I'm ready to roll! Speaking of which THANK YOU Rev'd Up Motorsports for the new Wheel Bearings... HUGE IMPROVEMENT....

Red Rider · 04-11-2009, 11:53 AM

Nice job, E! Not many people can say they've beaten Ricky Gadson...and you did it!

DreamRyder · 04-12-2009, 2:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Rider

Nice job, E! Not many people can say they've beaten Ricky Gadson...and you did it!

this is true... and will most def be something I cherish.. but I hope i can progress enough to hopefully see a repeat result next time we line up again

finally got the video uploaded.. check it out. well darn can't imbed the video..
you'll have to go to my website to check it out on the 2009 video page.

DreamRyder Website

E.

setanta · 04-12-2009, 3:07 PM

Congratulations well done

ghbzorro · 04-13-2009, 2:07 AM

Congrats!

WyoJames · 04-13-2009, 3:44 AM

Congrats and awesome video!

DreamRyder · 04-19-2009, 6:37 PM

thanks... I wish I had had the same kind of luck this weekend..

I too did not fare well with my first event at Great Lakes Dragway in their new Pro Street Series ..

Discovered my clutch was all F'd Up in the pits as I was gettin ready to line up to make my first pass of the day...

I had a great Test and Tune Day last weekend and figured we'd keep the bike as is for Sat.. sooo.. something must of broke during my last pass.

After taking the clutch cover off and pulling the fibers and steels out we found some of the Ears/Tabs were broken clean away from the ring leaving a chunk missing. My shims and needles bearings and basket had damage to the extent that the shims were nothing but thin rippled wafers like aluminum foil... one set of bearings were slightly warped... after spending a couple hrs trying to locate new shims I lucked out with Red Line Cycles from Kenosha having something that would work temporarily till I could get new parts ordered...

We did what we could to try and get my clutch setup close with what we had.. I missed first qualifing run.. so I only had one chance before eliminations.

as if these problems weren't enough to deal with my clutch cover gasket started leaking and couldn't find anyone with a spare to sell at the track... but luckily I had some black goop to coat the old gasket with to get us through the day..

On my first pass the Bike would pull as I had the lever fully engage but I could hold the bike back well enough with my feet to allow me to make the pass... run was not the good.. extremely slow off the line.. but was enough to put me as 3rd qualifier..

Made a slight adjustment to the clutch for round 2 of eliminations in hopes this would help..

When lining up, my oponent took an excessive amount of time staging which put way too much heat in my clutch and allowed my bike to build way more boost at the line than my setup was tuned for... causing me to break the tire loose off the line and since we were runnin only 1/8 mile there was no way for me to make it up down track to take the win...

now it's time to order all new parts needed and get the bike ready for the next AMA event come May 2nd.

E.

HondaBull929 · 04-22-2009, 9:11 AM

Congrats on the win in Atlanta.

DreamRyder · 04-22-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by HondaBull929

Congrats on the win in Atlanta.

Thanks HB... If you're any where near my AMA race in NJ you should swing out and say hello

Check out my schedule and let me know... I love to meet fellow online friends.. especially those who love the 929 like I do

E.

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artimusgilmore · 05-11-2009, 11:38 PM

congrats, great achievement, hope to get out to atco in Sep., thanks for the post

DreamRyder · 07-15-2009, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by artimusgilmore

congrats, great achievement, hope to get out to atco in Sep., thanks for the post

thanks... sorry for long delay in reply.. not online much these days

I hope to make ATCO as well.. if I do you gotta swing by and say hello.. I love meetin those from teh boards.

E.