So there I am on the starting gate...

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Edited Date/Time 7/27/2014 2:33pm
and the 2 minute card is up. I pull in the clutch and put the bike in 2nd gear. I then see a guy on my left walk up to the open starting gate with a broom, and start sweeping all of the dirt in the gate.......right into my gate when the 2 minute board is getting ready to flip.

I look left, and throw my right hand up, and this is my face:













And the guy looks up at me like I was a ghost and wasn't even there - then sweeps all the dirt off my gate while the girl turns the board to 30 seconds.

Seriously though? I'm getting ready to launch my 250, and you don't think It'll roost the gate next to mine when I do?

All in all, I'm not too worried about it - I just have my starting ritual, and this guy threw me off.
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steve_97060 7/27/2014 9:59am
7/27/2014 9:59am
so you put your bike in gear when the 2 minute board is up..
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MX47 7/27/2014 10:11am
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Couple weeks ago while I was up in Minnesota my class, the 55+, was dropping second gate together with the 40B. I tapped the guy next to me on the shoulder (he was in 40b) at the 2 minute board and gave him a 5-5 signal with my hand telling him (I thought) that I was in the 55 class and no threat to his start. Gate drops later and he stalls...I come up later for the second moto and he tells me I messed up his concentration. I of course felt like an idiot and apologized.

The next week in Millville again he is on the same drop...I apologized again and started waaay on the other end of the gate from him.

I won't be doing that signal again.
TripleFive 7/27/2014 10:12am
7/27/2014 10:12am
That's an act of war.

I would be real hot.
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bvm111 7/27/2014 10:16am
7/27/2014 10:16am
steve_97060 wrote:
so you put your bike in gear when the 2 minute board is up..
That's what I thought too...

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Jordan421 7/27/2014 10:17am
7/27/2014 10:17am
steve_97060 wrote:
so you put your bike in gear when the 2 minute board is up..
I like to put my bike in gear when the rave before me is in their last lap. Who dosnt like to burn clutches up?
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Cashmore 7/27/2014 10:32am
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SEE ARE125 wrote:
I have never seen that!!!!
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JA946 7/27/2014 10:54am
7/27/2014 10:54am
steve_97060 wrote:
so you put your bike in gear when the 2 minute board is up..
bvm111 wrote:
That's what I thought too...
So a bike at idle in 2nd gear burns the clutch up?

Learn something new every day...
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Mx4life320 7/27/2014 12:50pm
7/27/2014 12:50pm Edited Date/Time 7/27/2014 12:52pm
steve_97060 wrote:
so you put your bike in gear when the 2 minute board is up..
bvm111 wrote:
That's what I thought too...
JA946 wrote:
So a bike at idle in 2nd gear burns the clutch up?

Learn something new every day...
I think you quoted the wrong post... But I see where your coming from
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Roscoe33 7/27/2014 1:03pm
7/27/2014 1:03pm
distraction control at it's best... unfair boob flash at Indy on the back @ 240

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JM485 7/27/2014 2:33pm
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MX47 wrote:
Couple weeks ago while I was up in Minnesota my class, the 55+, was dropping second gate together with the 40B. I tapped the guy next...
Couple weeks ago while I was up in Minnesota my class, the 55+, was dropping second gate together with the 40B. I tapped the guy next to me on the shoulder (he was in 40b) at the 2 minute board and gave him a 5-5 signal with my hand telling him (I thought) that I was in the 55 class and no threat to his start. Gate drops later and he stalls...I come up later for the second moto and he tells me I messed up his concentration. I of course felt like an idiot and apologized.

The next week in Millville again he is on the same drop...I apologized again and started waaay on the other end of the gate from him.

I won't be doing that signal again.
Lol messed up his concentration!Laughing If that messed up his concentration that dude has no business being on a dirtbike! Can you image how bad those damn guys revving their bikes next to him must distract him.Whistling

For the record, I would definately want someone to tell me if there were not going on the same gate drop, so I think you did the right thing.

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