Thunderhill
			   June 16-18, 2000

I had done an open track day on 5 June.

Friday practice: Hot and windy. 102 fahrenheit and 35-40 mph
winds. Got into the low 2:17s. A bunch of 250 production riders were
there, but it wasn't very crowded probably because of the heat.

Saturday practice: Hot and less windy. ~102 fahrenheit and 10-20 mph
winds. Got into the low 2:16s. Had a fun dice with Nick Tenbrink
(#809) in practice.

Sunday practice:

Sunday 250 superbike: Started from the last or next-to-last row with
Steve Chan (#808) and Nick. Nick got a great start, shooting into the
vacant grid spot ahead of me before I was even past my number, I
think. Had a great dice with Nick and Chris McGrail (#886). Both of
them went faster than me (with Chris doing a 2:14.4xx and Nick doing a
2:14.6xx), and I crossed the line between them (with a best of
2:14.9xx). None of us went as fast as Nick had done (2:14.3xx) in
October of 1999.

Sunday 250 production: On my best lap I went faster than I had in
superbike by the tiniest amount, doing a 2:14.880. Nick and Chris both
went slower. I guess in the superbike race we had been towing each
other or something; dices often slow all the riders down, but maybe
not in that case. Anyway, I got a decent start from the outside of the
front row, (decent meaning that no one from rows behind passed
me). Paul Somerville (#311) got a bad start for once and wheelied
big-time much like I did at the first race of this year. Frank got off
the line first, as usual. I don't remember where I passed the rest of
the front row, but I passed Frank for the lead going into turn three
on the first lap. I didn't see a wheel for the rest of the race, and
that was it -- I won. Nick took second, and Chris took third. I had
expected a lot of dicing and fighting for the lead considering how the
Superbike race had gone among the three of us, but apparently the
order never changed after the first lap. Apparently Chris had some
dicing with Frank Mazur (#8) who got fourth.

Fire outside turn 2 -- Adam's bike
	
RPM notes (stock [14/45] gearing, 120/80-16 K591 front mounted on
rear):

Where		Gear	Acceptable	Good
Turn 1 exit	6th	12k		12.5k
Turn 2 exit	5th	did 12.5k a few times; is 13k possible?