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This post hits in all the worst ways
Just turned 59 last month.
my work takes me away from home for 2 weeks at a time.
older kids now so that’s easy.my kids survived me working away from home for the same 2 week schedule.
wife rides too.makes it even easier.
we plan/order trips hotels ,parts while I’m at work so they arrive by the time I get home. My time at home is uninterrupted by work so I get week days to ride if a track is open or we will road trip so to ride during the week.
This Friday we are leaving for Kelowna bc to ride for the weekend.
Next month we got plans for airways mx and monsoon mx.
Make the most of it,don’t sweat the simple things. If riding that much makes you happy, it will reflect back to everyone else in your house.
All I can say is make the best of it.in life Every one is just trading their time for dollars .
I’m at the stage in life where it’s maximum pay for maximum time off.
I have a 8 month old and I work construction. Best thing I have done is set up my enclosed trailer to hold everything except my bike. When I decide to go ride, all I do is roll the bike in and go. I just started back riding once to twice a week a month ago. If my stuff is ready to go it's much easier to talk myself into going riding.
I did just buy a van so I have the option of going racing and getting a hotel.
Same here, I have a shitty construction job.
But I'm also taking the day off and going to JWTF.
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37. Happily married to a woman with a good job, 3 kids from 13 to 8, full time corporate job here. I had to buy 20 acres, build a house, and build a track and woods loop on it. If I weren't at the house it would be impossible.
My middle kid and I ride an average of 3 times a week. My youngest kid has me at the dance studio 3 to 4 days a week. The only way to have time for anything else is to not have TV. We put the kids to bed at 7-8PM and I spend time with the wife 5 nights of the week. Monday and Thursday night is online gaming nights with the buds.
A typical weekday ride is, work 6-3:30, home at 4. Make the kid do his chores (keep Mom happy), gear up and ride for 1.5 hours, eat dinner, do homework, send them to bed, chill with wife, then sleep. Weekends I may have a group and we can ride for half a day or so. We do a full maintenance on the bikes on the weekend. Weekday rides we just spray the bikes down and do chain care, check tires, bleed forks...
It helps residing in a low cost of living area too.
Don't live in the city.
I find that when I ride, I have more energy and better focus during the work week.
Not riding during the cold months results in a sluggish approach to everything.
Here is what I have done/ do.
1. Get some sort of camper for when/ if you stay at the track.
2. Create a schedule/ plan to succussed and not cook yourself:
Monday: bike maintenance/ off day+ meal prep
Tuesday: cardio+ stretch +additional maintenance and family time
Wednesday: ride or work out. One or the other not both.
Thursday: Work out or ride. One or the other not both. Whatever you didn't do on Wednesday.
Friday: Prep for the weekend, meal prep+ relax+ bike maintenance.
Saturday: practice at the track
Sunday: Race.
Jesus man. Yeah families totally suck 😂
So no career, no family ... got it!
Same here 😂 I changed careers drastically from being an electrician in construction to account management/sales in the corporate world. Complete 180 for me in every single aspect, but definitely was a game changer as far as helping me ride more. What do you currently do for work?
Im a ups driver with a son.
2 times a month gets me by.
Just don't have time.
I didn’t read all the posts so if this was said already, disregard. If you have enough room on your property for a figure 8 or oval track, you could spend twice a week doing drills and then track riding one weekend day. You’ll probably get more bang for improvement than just going to a track all the time. Plus no travel or post ride cleaning.
You just have to make the time if you really want to ride that much. I’m 40 with kids and a tiring physical job. My mate who I mainly ride with is 10 years younger and has no family and works 4 days a week. He rides 2-3 times a week every week. I’m lucky if I ride twice a month any more. I think that’s says it all! You want to ride all the time get an easy well paid job and don’t get married or have kids!
Fully on board with this. I'm sharper and crisper when I get to ride regularly. I get moody when I cant ride in thr winter. I'm in shape from going to the gym, too, so its not like riding wipes me out for work
To the OP, be your own boss so you can ride whenever you want. I want to ride tomorrow so I will 😂 😂
If your race rig is a van, you can keep all of your stuff in it and leave right from anywhere directly to the riding area and save a whole bunch of time.
I don't know that I understand this entire reply, but I agree. 🤣
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As crazy as it sounds, this is the best advice,
That sounds like a Jody’s Box column. 😆
Good one Prof 👍
I also try to do a lot with work and riding. I've found that your best bet is to try and make both the actual riding and maintenance as efficient as possible.
If you race, having one bike dedicated towards racing and one bike dedicated to practice.
Multiple wheel sets means you can have a different wheel/tire ready to go without changing one. This also gives you options for more terrain/weather as well.
Maxima disposable air filters. This is a great one, very little extra cost but far more convenient and less chemicals to keep in stock.
I also try to build small kits for common tasks(brake bleed, oil change etc) so that you can have one bucket, box or container with all the supplies and tooling in one spot.
Try to have as many of the parts, chemicals and spares in stock before you need them.
Try to keep your time out riding focused on actually riding. Save some time to goof off with your friends but, go with a goal on how and what your will practice
Have your gear, clothes and cooler packed up the night before.
Package your gear in go bags with a pair of pants, jersey and socks in a luggage cube ready to throw in your truck or gear bag.
With all that said it still hard to excel and be engaged in multiple parts of your life. It takes grit and consistency.
Sounds like you are doing things the right way. My job has been very busy 66+ hrs a week and sometimes instead of loading up and going to a track I go to an industrial port area and just do figure 8s and different drills. It's very safe and nearly free. I feel a lot safer when I do go to the track too since I'm losing everything when I can't get to the track for a while
This is probably unconventional for most as most people don't have this option. But I'm blue collar and although I'm working a dayshift schedule once again, my ability to ride not only 2-3 times, but 3-4 times per week was when I would work 3rd shift. My working hours were midnight to 7:00 am and work was about 40 minutes away from home. So I would be home at 7:40 am.
I have a track 25 miles from home that runs 9 am-1 pm usually 4 weekdays, (Full prep everyday, because it's a training facility and its newly designed every single day) in the summer and 10-2 in the winter, also 4 weekdays. Then I had my choice of so many tracks on the weekends. So I would do my bike prep on my possible off day of riding on the weekend or one of the weekdays. Then I would load my bike and gear and have everything ready to go in my pickup parked in my shop. When I arrived home at 7:40 am, I would fill my cooler with drinks, a light snack, go to my pickup, cinch the tiedowns down firm for travel, and head to the track. Be there by 8:15, and ready to ride the first session by 9 am. Ride until 1 pm or I was tired since it was open track the whole time. I could load back up, and be back home by 2:15 pm and unload when I got home, shower, eat, and be in bed by 3:45 to get enough sleep for my 3rd shift starting at midnight. I did this for years, while married. My son was older and in school, and then on his own, so no interference there.
This was some of the best years of my life with this schedule. I still had ample time for everything else in life as well. Now back on dayshift I only ride maybe twice per month, and have little time to get everything else done.
I'm 42, live in a major city, work 60 or more hours a week always, have 2 kids, and a wife and I make it all work.
My week is generally 2 days of riding per week at the track (sometimes I am working in between motos). If a race is coming up, I'll spend the weeks before it trying my hardest to get a 3rd day in, but if I can't, I'll just cycle.
I also get 2-3 hours in at the gym a week and a 2 hour cycle once a week.
My kids are 11 and almost 15 so they don't need as much as they did when younger. I did take years where I didn't ride as much, but for the past 5 years, I've averaged 2 days a week. That being said I am always busy. I wake up and go and I don't stop until bed.
Today, I woke up and worked from 6-8, went to the track and rode this AM from 930-1:30. Took work calls in between motos. I'm now back at home and working from 3-7, I'll take my wife to dinner and then come home and either hang with kids or if they don't want me around because they are teens, I'll do a little more work while I watch old races.
On weekday ride days, I get less work done, I generally offset that by working longer on rest days or the weekend.
You have to sacrifice somewhere and basically the only way to do it all is have a family that understands you'll be a miserable prick if you don't get to ride and you have to sacrifice your personal free time often. But I love it.
Oh and take your family on non-moto vacations at least 2x a year. Non-negotiable.
Holy shit. This is hall of fame worthy. I laughed my ass off in the middle of the gym.
I need this answered. So the electric poles in the background are probably at least 30 ft tall. The light poles (one looks like its bent and probably going to fall down) are probably at least 40 ft tall.
So what the hell is the black bolted together pole in the foreground?? It's massive, and must be holding a sign of some sort. But what is it, 250 feet tall?? Like WTF?
Pro saw the VP fuel sign while going through Arkansas and decided he needed to stop and give it a sniff.
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